Mistral design specAI Products

Warm editorial-brutalist frontier-AI lab: a warm off-white canvas with near-black navy ink, custom ALTMistral display set at 500, Space Mono uppercase labels, sharp square geometry with flat black CTAs, and a signature pixel-tile flame mosaic in an amber-to-brick ramp holding all the colour.

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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: mistral.ai (live DOM, computed styles), 2026-07-15 (desktop 1512px). Coverage: homepage (nav, split hero, pixel-mosaic flame, featured-news card, CTAs). Console/La Plateforme: behind login (needs-dashboard). Responsive: breakpoints not captured (desktop only).

Visual Theme & Atmosphere

Warm, editorial and quietly brutalist — a frontier-AI lab that dresses its homepage like a printed broadsheet built on a strict tile grid. The canvas is a warm off-white (#fbfbf8); ink is a near-black navy (#00001e), never pure black. The whole page is organised on a hard grid with sharp square corners, hairline rules and monospace (Space Mono) labels set in caps, giving an infra/terminal register. All the colour is concentrated in the signature element: a full-height pixel-mosaic of Mistral's flame rendered as square tiles in an amber→orange→brick-red ramp. Display type is the custom ALTMistral face at a medium 500 weight; body/UI is Inter. Buttons are flat black rectangles. It feels like a serious research house that expresses warmth through one incandescent gradient rather than decoration. Feels: warm, editorial, gridded, brutalist.

Color Palette & Roles

Surfaces (light)

TokenHexRole / usage
canvas#fbfbf8Page background
surface#f5f4efSections, panels, right rail
surface-2#ebe9e0Insets, hover fills
white#ffffffCards, popovers

Text

TokenHexRole / usage
ink#00001ePrimary text, headings, black buttons
ink-90#151524Secondary heading ink
muted#07070b @ .55Secondary body / captions
faint#07070b @ .05Subtle button fills / hover

Accent — the flame ramp (mosaic only)

TokenHexRole / usage
amber#ffaf01Ramp top (hottest)
orange#ff8204Ramp upper-mid
orange-red#ff5229Ramp mid, primary brand orange
red#d0021bRamp lower
brick#a52318Ramp base (coolest)

Secondary (product mosaics)

TokenHexRole
blue#0082e6Alt mosaic (product tiles)
blue-light#55b3fbAlt mosaic tint
blue-pale#b9daffAlt mosaic wash

Rule: chrome stays warm-white + ink + hairlines. Colour lives almost entirely inside the tile mosaic; the flame ramp (amber→brick) is the primary identity, blue appears only in product-specific mosaics.

Typography Rules

RoleSize/LineWeightTracking
Hero / display32–56 / 40–1.05500normal
Section (h2)32 / 40500normal
Nav item32 (nav pill) / 16 UI500 / 400normal
Eyebrow (mono)12–14400normal, UPPERCASE, ink
Body16 / 24400normal
Button / UI14–16400normal
Caption / mono12400UPPERCASE

Patterns: ALTMistral stays at 500 — no heavy bold. Space Mono carries every label/eyebrow in caps. Tracking is left at normal; the grid, not letter-spacing, does the structuring.

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.