Foundations

Colors

The token law: every color is a CSS variable in colors.css, mapped into a Tailwind utility. No ad-hoc hex. Dark theme only.

Gray ramp

Semantic

Surfaces & states

Foundations

Typography

One typeface: Satoshi (variable, weights 300–900). A modular scale on a Minor Third (1.2) ratio throughout, with a fluid body of 17px (mobile) → 18px (desktop): the scale grows off the 17px base on mobile and an 18px base at md/lg. Headings scale fluidly with clamp() — resize the window to watch them move between the two bounds below.

Nominal @theme tokens

Note: these named tokens are defined but the shipped headings actually render at the resolved clamp() sizes below.

Shipped heading scale — mobile → desktop

Live specimens

Weight ramp — Satoshi-Variable

Text component classes

Foundations

Spacing, radii & states

No custom scale — Tailwind's default rem steps. Layout rhythm is a container of max-w-7xl px-6 lg:px-10 with section padding stepping py-12 → py-16 → py-24.

Spacing scale

Radii

Elevation

Layout rhythm

• Container — mx-auto max-w-7xl px-6 lg:px-10
• Section padding — py-12 → py-16 → py-24 (with lg: bumps)
• Sticky offset — top-28 (7rem)
• Anchor offset — scroll-margin-top: 7rem on h2[id]

Foundations

Breakpoints

Only two custom breakpoints on top of the mobile base. The live badge below reports the active range — resize to watch it change.

Assets

Icons

Inline SVGs from one partial — partials/icons with a name and class. They inherit currentColor.

Primitives

Buttons & form fields

Buttons

Circle buttons

Form fields

Tags & pills

Components

Cards & modules

The one card partial, its entry-mapper wrappers (fed a real entry each), and the standalone modules.

Card variants

Jul 20, 2026 Category

Card with thumbnail

Square-cornered surface, flush 4:3 image, padded meta. Title turns brand pink on hover.

No image

Card without a thumbnail

When thumb is omitted the card renders the flush 4:3 placeholder panel instead of an image.

fontshare.com Reference

External card with pill

external adds the arrow-up-right glyph and opens in a new tab; meta2_pill renders the category as a bordered pill.

Entry-mapper cards

Jul 17, 2026

Teammate or Tool Call? A Decision Rule for Personifying Agents

Personification is a design decision with real implications. A four-question decision tree that routes every agent surface to its lowest sufficient posture.

Designing for AI

Bret Victor Articles

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

An exceptionally furious, clarifying argument that our glass rectangles waste the human hand and body. Read it before you call anything intuitive.

2025 systems

Reimagining the Design System for an AI-First Platform

Rebuilding a five-year-old design system around agentic interaction patterns, consolidating a sprawl of confirmation flows into a single trustable model.

Article list-item row

Jul 17, 2026

Designing for AI

Teammate or Tool Call? A Decision Rule for Personifying Agents

Personification is a design decision with real implications. A four-question decision tree that routes every agent surface to its lowest sufficient posture.

Jul 10, 2026

Leadership

Leveling and Hiring Calibration When Everyone Has a Copilot

AI narrows the gap between your strongest and weakest performers. Your leveling heuristics and interview bar need to recalibrate around critical thinking and judgment, lest you encounter lava.

Section heading

Page header

The secondary-page title band (this page's own header uses the same partial). It normally carries a compact maze, suppressed here via hide_header_maze.

Contact CTA

Components

Page-builder blocks

The seven content_blocks set types, driven by dummy data in this page's front matter. Each is labelled with its type; markup mirrors the blocks/index dispatcher.

text_block

Text block

A narrative section rendered from a markdown field through the prose-article class. Body copy runs at the fluid 17→18px base with a 1.6 line-height, links pick up the blue underline, and vertical rhythm comes from the * + * rule.

A blockquote gets the brand-pink left rule.

Inline code gets a gray-6 chip, and every text node still passes through the typographic modifier.

quote

“

The care isn’t up for discussion; the tools just let it travel further.

code_block

export function greet(name) {
  return `Hello, ${name}`
}

image_full

image_grid

video_embed

stat_band

By the numbers

54

Resources curated

3×

Faster to ship

1

Loud color

Components

Runtime components

These need a live paginator or a JS-built table of contents. Here they run against real data so they actually render.

Pager

Driven by a real paginated articles query (3/page); links point at /articles.

Scroller nav

The sticky right-column table of contents (visible at lg), built by JS from the h2s in the left column.

Chrome

Header, nav & footer

These render live at the top and bottom of this very page (via the layout), so there's no specimen to duplicate:

• partials/header — sticky logo bar (glass surface)
• partials/main-nav — desktop links + mobile slide-down (menu icon)
• partials/maze-settings — the sliders widget in the header that tunes the maze backdrop
• partials/footer — social links + colophon link (bottom of page)
• .maze-curtain — page-transition curtain mounted once in the layout

Identity

Maze presets

The living maze mounts on any [data-maze] element. It is documented here rather than rendered — this page keeps a plain background so components read clearly. Three presets ship:

• page — full-page fixed backdrop; lively top band, static below.
• compact — denser, calmer; used in the secondary-page header band.
• hero — larger cells, longer runs.

Behaviour

Motion

Interactions are subtle and fast — 150–350ms ease-out, scale ≤ 1.05. Every section on this page uses the .reveal entrance. All of it collapses to instant under prefers-reduced-motion.