Brex design specFintech

Software-native fintech on a bright white canvas (not the dark look the category expects): one Inter family capped at weight 500 with negative tracking at every size, a left-aligned 72/72 hero, distinctive blue-tinted hairlines paired with a five-step multi-layer shadow scale, rounded-rectangle controls rather than pills, and exactly one orange accent on the primary button and play link.

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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: brex.com (live DOM, computed styles; vanilla-extract hashed token vars), 2026-07-18. Coverage: home / product landing. Logged-in finance app not captured (needs login). Note: the marketing surface is light/white, not dark — the black band is the announcement bar and footer only.

Visual Theme & Atmosphere

Brex reads as software-first fintech: a bright white canvas, a single Inter family at a restrained weight 500, and a hero headline set left-aligned at 72/72 with a hard -1.44px track — no serif, no illustration, no gradient. Hierarchy is built almost entirely from size and a cool blue-gray text ladder (#15191e → #60646c → #8b8d98), which keeps the page feeling like a product surface rather than a brochure. Exactly one accent, Brex orange #ff5900, appears on the primary button, the play-link and nothing else. The distinguishing detail is the border colour: hairlines are rgba(67,87,141,.15) — a blue-tinted rule, not a neutral gray — paired with a five-step near-invisible shadow scale that gives cards a soft physical lift. Feels: precise, modern, restrained, software-native.

Color Palette & Roles

Text

TokenHexRole / usage
ink#15191eHeadlines, primary UI text
text-2#60646cSub-headlines, supporting copy
muted#8b8d98Meta / tertiary copy (the most common text colour on the page)
muted-2#6f737bSecondary muted
on-dark#fcfcfdText on the black announcement bar
on-dark-2#b9bbc6Muted text on dark
white#ffffffText on the orange button

Surfaces & borders

TokenHexRole / usage
canvas#ffffffPage background, cards
surface#f3f3f7Section band, circular carousel controls
surface-2#f9f9fbPalest inset, inactive carousel control
black#000710Announcement bar + footer (a blue-black, not pure black)
black-2#15191eDeep ink surface
borderrgba(67,87,141,.15)THE hairline — a blue-tinted rule, used on cards, fields and buttons

Accent

TokenHexRole / usage
brex-orange#ff5900The only accent: primary button fill, play-link text/icon

Rules. One accent only. Orange is a fill and a link colour — it is never a background band, never a text colour in body copy, and there is no secondary or semantic palette on the marketing surface. Borders are blue-tinted rgba(67,87,141,.15), never neutral gray.

Typography Rules

RoleSize/LineWeightTracking
Hero h172/72500-1.44px
Section h248/48500-0.96px
Card / article h324/29500-0.48px
Sub-headline (h2/h3 role)20/24500-0.4px (#60646c)
Body16/24400-0.32px
Nav dropdown label14/21400-0.28px
Nav link14/20600-0.14px
Small label / h414/21500-0.28px (#60646c)
Button label14400normal
Announcement bar12/18400-0.24px

Patterns: the weight ceiling is 500 — nothing on the page is bold except a 600 nav link. Tracking is negative at *every* size, scaling roughly with type size (-1.44px at 72px, -0.96px at 48px, -0.48px at 24px, -0.32px at 16px); line-height is set to exactly 1.0 for both display roles. All sentence case.

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.