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Pure-black serverless-Postgres brand: Inter headlines at tight -4% tracking, a single mint #34d59a accent and a signature orange-to-green halftone dot gradient, full-radius white pill buttons, GeistMono labels and sharp 4px cards over hairline borders.

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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: neon.com (live DOM, computed styles), 2026-07-13 (desktop 1512px). Coverage: homepage (hero, nav, top banner, CTAs). Dashboard/console: behind login (needs-dashboard). Responsive: breakpoints not captured (desktop only).

Visual Theme & Atmosphere

Pure-black, engineered, and quiet — a serverless-Postgres brand that lets a single emerald-mint accent and a signature halftone-dot gradient do all the talking. The canvas is true black; text is white on a precise neutral-gray ladder, with Inter set at a light weight and unusually tight negative tracking so big headlines feel sharp and modern. Chrome is monochrome except for the mint #34d59a accent and the orange-to-green dotted gradient band that reads like a database/compute visualization. GeistMono labels add an infra-tool signal. Buttons are clean full-radius pills. It feels like a serious platform that is confident enough to stay mostly black and white. Feels: dark, precise, engineered, modern.

Color Palette & Roles

Surfaces (dark)

TokenHexRole / usage
black#000000Page canvas, hero
surface#111315Raised panels / cards
surface-2#18191bSecondary panels, code blocks
surface-3#303236Insets, hover fills

Text

TokenHexRole / usage
white#ffffffPrimary text, headings
gray-300#c9cbcfEyebrow / bright secondary
gray-400#94979eSecondary text
gray-500#797d86Tertiary text, captions
gray-600#61646bButton/control borders
gray-700#242628Hairline dividers

Accent (green)

TokenHexRole / usage
mint#34d59aPrimary brand accent, highlights, logo
green-deep#39a57dGradient stop / darker mint
green-900#285d49Deep green tint blocks
green-tint#e4f1eb / #cae6d9Very light green wash (light contexts)

Semantic / brand

TokenHexRole
databricks-red#ff3621"A Databricks Company" mark only

Rule: chrome is black + white + gray; the mint #34d59a and the halftone gradient are the only color. Red appears solely in the Databricks parent-company mark.

Typography Rules

RoleSize/LineWeightTracking
Display (h1)72 / 79400-2.88px (-4%)
Section (h2)~40–48400–500-2%
Eyebrow (mono)12500normal, UPPERCASE, #c9cbcf
Body16–18400-0.32px
Button / UI14–16500-0.28 to -0.32px
Nav15400–5000

Patterns: display is large with strong negative tracking (-4% at 72px) and light weight (400). Mono is reserved for uppercase eyebrows and code. Slight negative tracking even on body/buttons.

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.