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High-voltage cobalt with digital cyan

A technical UI theme pairing electric cobalt blue and cyan accents over clean slate and ice blue backgrounds. Uses Fira Code for structured tabular data, metrics, and developer tools.

Technical & Dev Tools SaaS & Enterprise Minimal & Brutalist

Accent roles

Each accent has a specific role in the design language. Click any swatch below to copy its hex value.

Cobalt Blue
#2563EB
Primary accent, rules, CTAs
Sky Cyan
#38BDF8
Secondary highlights, hover states
Royal Cobalt
#1D4ED8
Link highlight, alert badges
Soft Ice
#93C5FD
Decorative accents, code block

Color palette

Click any swatch to copy its hex value. Accent colors are shared across modes; surface tokens update when you switch between light and dark.

Accent — shared
Surfaces — dark mode

CSS variables

Drop this block into your project's global stylesheet. Includes shared accents plus light and dark surface tokens — toggle data-theme on <html> to switch.


                        

Type scale

Aa
Space Grotesk + Fira Code
Space Grotesk creates modern wide geometric headings. Fira Code adds tech monospace details to small labels, stats, and metadata.
DisplaySpace Grotesk Display
Cobalt Tech
Heading 1Space Grotesk H1
Section title
Heading 2Space Grotesk H2
Subsection label
BodySpace Grotesk Regular
Use the text token for primary copy and text-mid for supporting paragraphs. Keep line height around 1.7–1.8 for readability in both light and dark modes.
LabelFira Code Medium
Eyebrow · Metadata · Captions

UI patterns

Common building blocks using the palette. Uppercase labels and heavy weight are part of the theme voice.

Buttons

Tags

Accent Neutral Filled

Navigation

Section header

Feature spotlight

Supporting copy sits in text-mid with a short accent rule underneath the headline.

Cards

New 01
Card title

Elevated panel with ember shadow fill and crimson badge accent.

Draft 02
Card title

Hover lifts the card slightly — keep motion on transform only.

Live 03
Card title

Forge background on the card header creates depth without extra imagery.

Design theory

Mathematical color relationships and accessibility validation. Checks compliance against W3C WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios.

Theme Metrics

8
Core colors
4.5:1
Min contrast target

WCAG Contrast Validation

Aa
Primary Text on Bg
Target: ≥ 7:1 (AAA)
Pass AAA
Aa
Body Copy on Bg
Target: ≥ 4.5:1 (AA)
Pass AA
Aa
White Copy on Accent
Target: ≥ 3:1 (UI Component)
Pass AA

Accent Color Spectrum

Visual segments detailing color pairing distribution across accents.

Generates high-contrast analogous and monochromatic relationships to ensure active components are highly visible.

Layout System

Proportional spacing scale guidelines. Built on a modular unit grid to govern container padding, margins, and layout gutters.

Proportional Spacing Scale

--sp-1
4px
--sp-2
8px
--sp-3
12px
--sp-4
16px
--sp-5
24px
--sp-6
32px

Layout Symmetrical Grid

Visual representation of wide-margin gutters and core content boundaries.

Gutter
Max Content Width (1240px)
Gutter
Leverages a symmetrical layout grid to structure blocks. Wide margins ensure high-fidelity reading focus across viewport transitions.

Design principles

Core behavioral guidelines to preserve the design language's integrity when scaling templates.

01
Technical grid

Keep cards flat or wrap them in thin blue borders to align elements strictly like code containers.

02
Electric cyan

Utilize neon cyan highlights for hovered button borders and interactive links.

03
Structured data

Fira Code provides tabular alignment; utilize monospace numerals for metrics tables.