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A near-black surface that separates everything with a single 1px hairline instead of fills or shadows: an #080808 canvas over the tightest grey ladder in the library, with WF Visual Sans capped at weight 600 and a deliberately gapped scale that drops from an 80px hero straight to 24px with nothing in between. One electric blue carries the only CTA, green and orange stay locked inside product artwork, and the whole hero is framed inside a rendering of the Webflow Designer itself — icon rail, Publish button, visible canvas edge. The hover detail is a box-shadow whose inset spread animates, so button fills sweep in from the edges.

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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: webflow.com (live DOM, computed styles), 2026-07-19. Coverage: home. Responsive: breakpoints not captured. The Designer chrome framing the hero is rendered as artwork, not DOM — described observationally, no token values claimed.

Visual Theme & Atmosphere

Near-black and matter-of-fact. Webflow's canvas is #080808 — not a navy or a warm charcoal — and the surfaces above it step through the tightest possible grey ladder (#171717, #1a1a1a, #222222, #292929), separated by a single 1px #363636 hairline rather than any fill contrast. The typographic voice is one variable family, WF Visual Sans, and the hero pushes it to 80px at weight 600 with -0.8px tracking — heavy, tightly leaded, centred. Below that the scale collapses hard: h2 is only 24px and nearly everything else is 16px, so hierarchy comes from the one big headline and then a flat field of small text.

The signature move is self-reference: the entire hero is wrapped in a rendering of the Webflow Designer — a left icon rail, a top toolbar with a Design chip, breadcrumb, collaborator avatars and a Publish button, and the canvas edge visible at the right — so the marketing page is presented as if it were open inside the product. Colour is rationed to one electric blue #146ef5; a green #60ed76 and an orange #ffa666 appear only inside product artwork. It avoids gradients, glow, glass and grain entirely.

Feels: dark, engineered, product-first, unsentimental.

Color Palette & Roles

TokenHexRole / usage
text#ffffffHeadings, body, nav — the dominant text colour
muted#abababCard descriptions, secondary copy
link-blue#3b89ffInline links
link-blue-soft#6ca7ffSofter link / hover variant
ink (on light)#080808Text on the rare light surface
TokenHexRole / usage
canvas#080808Page background
surface-1#171717Cards, panels
surface-2#1a1a1aAlternate panel step
surface-3#222222Raised chrome
surface-4#292929Highest chrome step
black#000000Sticky nav bar
navy#020b19Deep blue-black product/section ground
hairline#363636The 1px border used almost everywhere
border-strong#5a5a5aEmphasised 1px border
rule-inverse#ffffff (2px)Underline on active/emphasis links
TokenHexRole / usage
blue#146ef5The accent — primary CTA, top banner, logo
green#60ed76Product/artwork only (status, code)
orange#ffa666Product/artwork only

Rules: #146ef5 is the only accent in chrome. Green and orange never leave product screenshots and inline code. Surfaces are separated by a #363636 hairline, not by a fill step alone.

Typography Rules

RoleSize/LineWeightTracking
Hero h180/83.2 px600-0.8px
Section h224/31.2 px500normal
Card h320/28 px600normal
Body16/25.6 px400normal
Nav link / CTA16/19.2 px500-0.16px
Small / banner14/22.4 px500normal
Label, uppercase12/12 px500+0.6px

Patterns: negative tracking only at 80px (-0.8px) and on 16px UI text (-0.16px) — everything in between is normal. Weight tops out at 600; there is no 700 or 800. The 12px label is the only role with positive tracking, and the only one set uppercase. The type scale is deliberately gapped: 80px → 24px, with nothing between.

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.