Abridge design specAI Products

Warm editorial healthcare-AI that reads like a design-forward magazine rather than a clinical dashboard: the signature move is a giant near-black rounded panel (#141312, radius 20px) dropped onto a warm off-white canvas (#fbf9f6 / #f5f3eb) carrying an oversized Avantt headline at 72px, weight 500, very tight -4% (-2.88px) negative tracking, with body set unusually heavy at 20px/500. ONE type family (Avantt, 1728 uses, Space Grotesk stand-in) does all the work, so hierarchy comes from scale and case, never a second face; eyebrows flip to uppercase warm-gray #6d645a. Colour is rationed hard — the whole surface is warm-neutral (cream, ink #141312, taupe #a7988a) broken by a single burnt-orange #ea2c00 (published token --enduring-orange #fc5d2b) that owns every primary CTA (hover #c02907), the live-news dot and the focus ring (2px #f95522, +2px offset). Buttons are radius 4px at 40px tall with 0 32px padding: orange-filled primary or a 1px-ink outline that inverts to a solid ink fill on hover. Depth is refused as drop shadows — structure is 1px inset rings (#eee5dd light, #242220 dark) and warm hairlines (#d5cbc0, #f7f2ed) — with backdrop-filter blur(20–40px) on floating glass. Motion is quiet 0.2–0.25s ease micro-transitions (house transition background-color 0.25s ease) plus GSAP + Lottie driving the audio-waveform / letterform brand animations; only a spin loader lives in CSS. One anti-pattern recorded: no prefers-reduced-motion block despite the GSAP/Lottie loops. Webflow default breakpoint ladder (479/767/991), light-only. Avantt is licensed, so the preview specimen stands in with Space Grotesk.

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Captured from the live site's computed styles into a prompt-ready DESIGN.md you can paste into Cursor, v0, Lovable, Bolt or Claude Code. Below is a summary of each captured surface.

Marketing site

Source: abridge.com (live DOM, computed styles via scripts/extract.js), 2026-08-05 (desktop 1514px). sheetsBlocked: 0 — full stylesheet coverage. Coverage: marketing home. Dashboard behind login (needs-dashboard). No text inputs on the home hero, so §4 input state is from Webflow loose-match rules (noted). Reality check: hint said "letterforms morphing into waveforms, super-graphics brand voice." Half right. It IS expressive and distinctive, but the chrome is a confident editorial system: giant near-black rounded hero panels carrying huge tight Avantt display type, one burnt-orange accent, on a warm-cream canvas. The waveform/letterform morph lives inside Lottie + GSAP animations, not the static chrome. Genuinely distinct from near-black AI-infra (this is warm cream + orange, editorial not terminal) and from Tia (coral photography clinic) / Oura (dark premium wearable).

Visual Theme & Atmosphere

Warm, editorial, and confident — a healthcare-AI brand that reads like a design-forward magazine, not a clinical SaaS dashboard. The signature move is a giant near-black rounded panel (#141312, radius 20px) dropped onto a warm off-white canvas (#fbf9f6 / #f5f3eb), carrying an oversized Avantt headline set at heavy negative tracking. Colour is rationed hard: the whole surface is warm-neutral (cream, ink, taupe) broken by a single burnt-orange (#ea2c00) that owns every primary CTA, the live-news dot, and the focus ring. One type family (Avantt) does all the work, so hierarchy comes from scale and case, never from a second face. Motion is quiet CSS micro-transitions plus GSAP/Lottie brand animations (the audio-waveform morph). Feels: warm, editorial, assured, human.

Color Palette & Roles

Text

TokenHexRole / usage
ink#141312Primary text, headings, dark hero panel fill
near-ink#222222Stat figures, dense body
warm-gray#6d645aEyebrows, secondary text
taupe#a7988aTertiary text, muted labels
on-dark#ffffffText on the black panels

Surfaces

TokenHexRole / usage
canvas#ffffffPage background
cream#fbf9f6Warm section tint
cream-deep#f7f2edInset panels, hover fills
warm-canvas#f5f3ebPublished canvas token (--canvas)
carbon#1c1c1cPublished dark token (--carbon)
slate#393633Secondary dark surface
near-black#242220Deepest panel / ring border
maroon-black#440c00Warm-black accent section

Borders

TokenHexRole / usage
sand-border#d5cbc0Card / input hairlines
ring#eee5ddInset focus ring (0 0 0 1px)

Accent & semantic

TokenHexRole / usage
orange#ea2c00Primary CTA fill, live-news dot (computed brand)
enduring-orange#fc5d2bPublished brand token (--enduring-orange)
orange-hover#c02907CTA hover fill
focus-orange#f95522Focus-visible outline colour
sky#76a8f4Minor illustration / chart accent
ink-navy#22253fPublished --ink token (deep-navy accent)

Rule: chrome stays warm-neutral; orange is the ONLY saturated colour on chrome, reserved for primary CTAs, the news dot and focus. Rule: the giant black panel is the hero signature, not a section divider.

Typography Rules

RoleSize/LineWeightTracking
Display (h1)72 / 68.4500-2.88px (-4%)
Section (h2)40 / 40400normal
Sub (h3)20 / 26600normal
Body20 / 26500normal
Button16 / 24500normal
Eyebrow16 / 12.8500normal, UPPERCASE, #6d645a

Patterns: very tight negative tracking on the display (-4% at 72px); body is set at weight 500 not 400; eyebrows are uppercase warm-gray. Weight ceiling 600.

Also documented in the full DESIGN.md: Component Stylings, Layout Principles, Depth & Elevation, Motion, Backgrounds, Effects & WebGL, Do's and Don'ts, Responsive Behavior, Agent Prompt Guide.