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Dark teal edge-database brand: a blue-black #0d1318 canvas where one high-voltage mint-teal #4ff7d1 paints heavy Inter-800 headlines and the logo, bold teal pill CTAs with black text, an electric-magenta CLI chip, and dotted-grid framing with #283945 hairline borders instead of shadows.

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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: turso.tech (live DOM, computed styles), 2026-07-16 (desktop 1568px). Coverage: marketing home. Dashboard/console: pending login (needs-dashboard). Responsive: breakpoints not fully verified.

Visual Theme & Atmosphere

Dark, technical database brand built on a deep blue-black canvas with a single high-voltage mint-teal as the hero color. The headline is set huge and heavy in Inter (800 weight) and painted entirely in Turso teal, so the type itself is the brand's light source; body copy drops to a cool gray. Structure comes from faint dotted-grid backgrounds and thin blue-gray hairline borders rather than shadows — the page reads like a schematic. Chrome is quiet white-on-black; color is rationed to the teal (and a rare electric-magenta on command/CLI chips). A full-width teal announcement bar caps the page, and the primary CTA is a bold teal pill with black text. Feels: dark, high-contrast, engineered, energetic.

Color Palette & Roles

Text

TokenHexRole / usage
white#ffffffPrimary text, headings on dark, nav
gray-300#c5caceBody / secondary text
gray-400#9ca3afMuted / tertiary text

Surfaces & borders

TokenHexRole / usage
canvas#0d1318Page background (blue-black)
surface#162129Cards, panels, language chips
surface-2#293945Insets, hover fills
border#283945Hairline borders / dividers (most-used)
black#000000Text on teal, deepest insets

Accent & semantic

TokenHexRole / usage
teal#4ff7d1Signature Turso mint-teal: headlines, logo, primary CTA, announcement bar
teal-2#4ff8d2Heading teal variant
magenta#d946efElectric-magenta accent on CLI / command pills (rare)
green#34d399 / #10b981Semantic success

Rule: teal #4ff7d1 is the brand — headlines, logo, the primary CTA and the top bar. Magenta appears only on CLI/command chips. Chrome text is white/gray.

Typography Rules

RoleSize/LineWeightTracking
Display (h1)72 / 72800-1.8px
Section (h2)36 / 40700normal
Subhead (h3)48 / 48600-1.2px
Body16–204000
Nav / UI16400–6000
Button166000
Badge / eyebrow14400–5000

Patterns: display is heavy (800) with tight negative tracking, all in teal; section heads 700; everything set in Inter — no second display family.

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.