Codex design specAI Products

Pure-black cinema screen: violet aurora video hero, OpenAI Sans at a single 500 weight, white pill CTAs, and luminous periwinkle gradient panels holding light-mode screenshots.

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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: chatgpt.com/codex (live DOM, computed styles), 2026-07-08, desktop 1512px. Coverage: full landing page (hero → chapters → pricing → footer). Product app: not captured. Responsive: not captured. Prices shown localized (A$).

Visual Theme & Atmosphere

A pure-black cinema screen for one product: the hero is a full-bleed looping ambient video (aurora periwinkle-violet over a dark earth) with a frosted app icon, a huge thin-tracked "Codex" wordmark, and a single white pill CTA. Below, the page alternates quiet black chapters — small-to-medium white headings, soft gray body — with luminous violet gradient media panels carrying floating light-mode product screenshots. Everything is set in OpenAI Sans at a single 500 weight; chrome is grayscale, and all color belongs to the ambient video and the violet panels. Feels: cinematic, minimal, luminous, assured.

Color Palette & Roles

Canvas & surfaces

TokenHexRole / usage
bg#000000Page canvas
ink#0d0d0dDark pill fill, text on light pills
footer#212121Footer band, dark chips
chip#303030 (@.50–.75 tiers)Small dark UI chips
card borderrgba(255,255,255,.05)Pricing card hairlines
glass pillrgba(0,0,0,.04)Secondary pill on light regions
panel gradientperiwinkle→violet (ambient video / baked imagery)Chapter media panels, hero

Text

TokenHexRole / usage
white#ffffffDisplay, headings, plan names, footer links
body#cdcdcdChapter body copy
pill-bg#f9f9f9Primary CTA fill (text #0d0d0d)
mutedrgba(255,255,255,.44–.60)Fine print, "From", meta

Rule: chrome is strictly grayscale; all color lives in the hero video and the violet media panels. No accent hue exists as a UI token.

Typography Rules

RoleSize/LineWeightTracking
Hero wordmark ("Codex")64 / 64500-1.92px (-3%), centered
Pricing display48 / 55.7500-1.44px (-3%), centered
Chapter heading30 / 39.6500-0.3px
Plan name (h3)30 / 39.6500-0.3px
Price48500— (A$30 + 14px / month muted)
Hero subhead22 / 27.75000
Section eyebrow (h2)17 / 28500-0.17px
Card title (h3)16 / 20510-0.3px
Body copy16 / 244000, #cdcdcd
UI / buttons / nav14400–5000

Patterns: single-weight system — everything is 500 except 400 body; tracking tightens -3% on display sizes; hero and pricing center, chapters left-align.

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.