RIMOWA design specConsumer

An austere luxury-editorial travel Maison that lets full-bleed photography and video of its grooved-aluminium cases carry the page. The chrome is monochrome — white with a warm near-black ink #0d0900 over aluminium greys #efefef/#eae8e9 — and the entire site is set in ONE light grotesque, RimowaGroteskLight (stand-in Inter light), used at a single weight 400 and distinguished by unusually WIDE positive letter-spacing: 3.84px on the 64px display, ~2.16px on uppercase labels and buttons, 0.5px on body. There are no bold weights. Buttons are 4px-radius rectangles, 48px tall at 0 24px, UPPERCASE at 2.16px tracking — primary fills #0d0900 with white text, a light variant inverts for use over photography, and a ghost variant is a 1px #0d0900 outline; text links underline and darken to #6f6f6f. All colour lives in campaign imagery (currently an "Original Ink blue" #0c67e7), never in chrome, buttons or borders. Surfaces are flat with restrained layered shadows on floating UI; the site suppresses the mouse focus outline but keeps a keyboard focus-visible ring at 3px offset. Feels precise, editorial and aluminium-cool.

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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: rimowa.com/us/en/home (live DOM, computed styles), 2026-07-25. Coverage: home. Salesforce Commerce Cloud site — no brand colour tokens in :root (layout vars only); palette read from computed fills/text. Button :hover matched only the OneTrust consent banner; link hover + focus read from the loose set. The blue #0c67e7 / #27455c is the current "Original Ink blue" campaign shown in photography, not permanent chrome. Reality check: matches the hint — precise editorial, aluminium palette, wide type. Confirms the signature is WIDE letter-spacing on a single LIGHT grotesque (RimowaGroteskLight at weight 400, 3.84px tracking at the 64px display).

Visual Theme & Atmosphere

An austere luxury-editorial travel brand that lets full-bleed photography and video of its grooved-aluminium cases carry the page. The chrome is monochrome — white with a warm near-black ink — and the whole site is set in one light grotesque at a single weight, distinguished by unusually wide letter-spacing that gives every headline and label a spacious, engraved, precise feel. Surfaces are flat with restrained shadows on floating UI; colour enters only through imagery and seasonal campaigns (currently a deep "Ink blue"). Feels: precise, editorial, spacious, aluminium-cool.

Color Palette & Roles

TokenHexRole / usage
ink#0d0900primary text (warm near-black)
ink-alt#0f1115alt dark text
grey#424242secondary text, 2px border
muted#6f6f6fmuted text, link hover
faint#696969tertiary text
white#ffffffcanvas, text over photography, light button
surface#efefefaluminium light-grey surface
surface-2#f6f6f6off-white panel
surface-3#f7f7f7section fill
warm-grey#eae8e9warm light grey
border#dadadahairline border
border-2#ecececfaint divider

Campaign / photographic tones (not permanent chrome):

TokenHexRole / usage
ink-blue#0c67e7"Original Ink blue" campaign accent
deep-blue#27455ccampaign photography tone
eco-green#346e4aRe-Crafted / sustainability badge

Rule: keep chrome monochrome (near-black ink on white/aluminium greys); let colour live in campaign photography, not in buttons or borders.

Typography Rules

One custom face does everything: RimowaGroteskLight, a light neo-grotesque, used at weight 400 throughout (an icon font handles glyphs; Nunito Sans is a minor fallback). The defining trait is wide positive letter-spacing — 3.84px on the 64px display, ~2.16px on uppercase labels, 0.5px on body. Labels, nav and buttons are UPPERCASE; headlines are sentence case. No bold weights.

Specimen substitution: previews load Inter at weights 300/400 as the
closest open stand-in; the site ships the licensed RimowaGroteskLight. The wide
tracking (not the exact face) carries the character.
RoleFamilySize/LineWeightTracking
Display (h1)RimowaGroteskLight64/804003.84px
Section (h2)RimowaGroteskLight20/244000.5px
Label (h3)RimowaGroteskLight12/184002.16px, UPPERCASE
BodyRimowaGroteskLight14/204000.5px
NavRimowaGroteskLight14/204000.5px
ButtonRimowaGroteskLight124002.16px, UPPERCASE

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.