Zapier design specSaaS

Warm editorial automation brand that reads as paper and ink rather than screen: an off-white canvas with warm near-brown ink and no cool gray anywhere, structured by a visible 1px vertical rail grid kept in view through every section instead of card shadows, with Degular Display headlines held at a single weight 500 and pushed to 80/72 with sub-1.0 line-height, and one Zapier orange reserved for the CTA fill, the logo rule and the focus glow.

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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: zapier.com (live DOM, computed styles), 2026-07-19. Coverage: home / product landing. Logged-in editor not captured (needs login). Note: no CSS custom properties are published — every value below is read from computed styles.

Visual Theme & Atmosphere

Zapier is warm-neutral rather than white: the canvas is an off-white #fffefb and every "black" is a warm near-brown #201515, so the page reads as paper and ink rather than screen. Structure comes from a visible 1px #eceae3 grid of vertical rails that bracket the 1280px container and run the full height of the page — an unusual, almost editorial-layout device that most SaaS sites hide. Display type is Degular Display, a warm geometric face, set at a single weight 500 and pushed to a very large 80/72 for section headlines, while all body and UI copy drops to Inter. The Zapier orange #ff4f00 is used sparingly and specifically: the sign-up button, the logo rule, and one hairline. Inverted #201515 sections break the rhythm without introducing new colour. Feels: warm, editorial, structured, plainspoken.

Color Palette & Roles

Text

TokenHexRole / usage
ink#201515Headlines, nav links, primary text (warm near-black)
body#36342eBody copy (the most common text colour)
body-alphargba(54,53,46,.70)De-emphasised body
muted#605d52Eyebrow labels
faint#939084Meta / caption
on-dark#eceae3Body text on inverted sections
on-dark-strong#fffefbHeadings / labels on inverted sections
on-dark-muted#c5c0b1Muted text on dark

Surfaces & borders

TokenHexRole / usage
canvas#fffefbPage background (warm off-white)
cream#f8f4f0Section band, inverted-section headline colour
cream-2#eceae3Card fill, tab rest state, and the vertical rail hairline
dark#201515Inverted full-bleed sections, filled buttons, dark tabs
border#c5c0b1Control borders on cream surfaces
border-rail#eceae31px vertical rails + nav bottom border
plum#381933Skip-to-content chip
scrimrgba(53,52,45,.75) / rgba(0,0,0,.70)Media overlays

Accent

TokenHexRole / usage
zapier-orange#ff4f00THE accent: sign-up + primary CTA fill, logo rule, one hairline, focus glow

Rules. One accent. Orange is a button fill and a rule — never a text colour in body copy, never a section background. There is no semantic (success/warning/error) palette on the marketing surface. Every neutral is warmed toward brown; there is no cool gray anywhere.

Typography Rules

RoleFamilySize/LineWeightTracking
Section h2 (large)Degular Display80/72500normal
Feature h3Degular Display56/61.6500normal
Section h2 (medium)Degular Display48/48500normal
Hero h1Degular Display40/36500normal
EyebrowDegular Display14500+1px, uppercase (#605d52)
Kicker h2Inter12500normal, uppercase
Card h3Inter20/25600-0.5px
Hero subInter18/21.6400normal
Nav linkInter16400normal
Button label (large)Inter18600normal
Button label (nav)Inter14600normal
Tab labelInter24600normal

Patterns: Degular for display, Inter for everything else, and Degular never leaves weight 500 — size alone carries hierarchy, which is why headlines run to 80px. Line-height goes *below* 1.0 on the display roles (80/72, 40/36), giving the tight stacked-headline look. Tracking is normal everywhere except the eyebrow, which is the one uppercase, positively-tracked role (+1px). Inter carries the only bold weights (600).

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.