Shopify design specCommerce

Bold dark commerce: black-to-deep-green canvas, bright mint #36f4a4 accent, huge Neue Haas display, white pill CTAs, and the Polaris green admin.

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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: shopify.com (live DOM, computed styles + color census), 2026-07-06; motion + backgrounds re-captured 2026-07-07. Coverage: marketing site (current dark theme). Product (Admin / Polaris): needs-dashboard (login required). Responsive: not captured (stylesheets cross-origin).

Visual Theme & Atmosphere

Bold, editorial, confident commerce — the merchant platform presented as a fashion campaign. The canvas runs black to deep green, lit by a single bright mint accent that appears as a highlighted word, a mark, or a link. Type carries the design: huge Neue Haas Grotesk display set at regular/light weights, poster-scale and Swiss in character. Controls stay quiet — crisp white pill CTAs and translucent secondary chips — so the accent and the display type do the talking. Feels: ambitious, sleek, credible.

Color Palette & Roles

Surfaces (near-black → deep green)

TokenHexRole / usage
black#000000Base canvas
ink-900#02090aDeepest panel
green-950#061a1cDeep teal-green section
green-900#041e18Deep green block
green-800#102620Raised green surface
navy-950#000a1eDeep blue-green variant

Borders

TokenHexRole / usage
borderrgba(255,255,255,.1)Hairline dividers on dark

Text

TokenHexRole / usage
white#ffffffPrimary text
gray-400#a1a1aaSecondary text
gray-green#9dabadMuted text on green surfaces
black#000000Text on the white pill button

Accent

TokenHexRole / usage
mint#36f4a4Signature bright accent — highlights, marks, links on dark
polaris-green#008060Classic Shopify Admin (Polaris) green — product/admin UI only

Rule: the marketing canvas is black + deep-green with white text; the bright mint #36f4a4 is the single loud accent (a highlighted word, a mark, a link). Buttons are white, not mint. The classic #008060 belongs to the Admin product surface.

Typography Rules

RoleSize/LineWeightTracking
Hero (h1)96 / 96400~0 (some lines +2.4px)
Section (h2)55330–4000
Subhead20–244000
Body16 / 244000
UI / button16–185500
Caption13–144000

Pattern: enormous Swiss display at regular/light weight (poster feel), neutral tracking; buttons carry a slightly heavier 550. Type is the hero, not decoration.

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.