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---
name: Warp
description:
  Warm dark terminal with campfire vibes — earthy near-black canvas, parchment
  cream text, Matter Regular throughout, monochromatic warm grays, pill CTAs.
originalFonts:
  primary: "Matter Regular"
  mono: "Matter Mono Regular"
  fallbacks:
    - "Matter Regular Placeholder"
    - "system sans-serif"
colors:
  background: "#1A1A19"
  surface: "#353534"
  ink: "#FAF9F6"
  accent: "#353534"
  warm-parchment: "#FAF9F6"
  earth-gray: "#353534"
  stone-gray: "#868584"
  ash-gray: "#AFAEAC"
  purple-tint-gray: "#666469"
  dark-charcoal: "#454545"
  muted-purple: "#666469"
  border: "rgba(226, 226, 226, 0.35)"
typography:
  h1:
    family: "Inter"
    size: "5rem"
    weight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.0
  body:
    family: "Inter"
    size: "1.125rem"
    weight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.3
  code:
    family: "JetBrains Mono"
    size: "1rem"
    weight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.0
spacing:
  xs: "0.25rem"
  sm: "0.5rem"
  md: "1rem"
  lg: "1.5rem"
  xl: "2.25rem"
rounded:
  sm: "4px"
  md: "8px"
  lg: "12px"
  xl: "50px"
shadows:
  sm: "none"
  md: "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 5px 15px"
components:
  button-primary:
    background: "{colors.earth-gray}"
    color: "{colors.ash-gray}"
    border: "1px solid {colors.earth-gray}"
    radius: "{rounded.xl}"
    padding: "0.625rem 1.25rem"
  button-secondary:
    background: "transparent"
    color: "{colors.warm-parchment}"
    border: "1px solid {colors.border}"
    radius: "{rounded.xl}"
    padding: "0.625rem 1.25rem"
  card:
    background: "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.04)"
    border: "1px solid {colors.border}"
    radius: "{rounded.lg}"
    padding: "1.5rem"
  input:
    background: "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.04)"
    color: "{colors.warm-parchment}"
    border: "1px solid {colors.border}"
    radius: "{rounded.md}"
    padding: "0.5rem 0.75rem"
---

<!-- source: VoltAgent/awesome-design-md @ 80bbbc2 (MIT) — see ATTRIBUTION.md -->

# Design System Inspiration of Warp

## 1. Visual Theme & Atmosphere

Warp's website feels like sitting at a campfire in a deep forest — warm, dark,
and alive with quiet confidence. Unlike the cold, blue-tinted blacks favored by
most developer tools, Warp wraps everything in a warm near-black that feels like
charred wood or dark earth. The text isn't pure white either — it's Warm
Parchment (`#faf9f6`), a barely-perceptible cream that softens every headline
and makes the dark canvas feel inviting rather than austere.

The typography is the secret weapon: Matter, a geometric sans-serif with
distinctive character, deployed at Regular weight across virtually all text. The
font choice is unusual for a developer tool — Matter has a softness and humanity
that signals "this terminal is for everyone, not just greybeards." Combined with
tight line-heights and controlled negative letter-spacing on headlines, the
effect is refined and approachable simultaneously. Nature photography is woven
between terminal screenshots, creating a visual language that says: this tool
brings you closer to flow, to calm productivity.

The overall design philosophy is restraint through warmth. Minimal color (almost
monochromatic warm grays), minimal ornamentation, and a focus on product
showcases set against cinematic dark landscapes. It's a terminal company that
markets like a lifestyle brand.

**Key Characteristics:**

- Warm dark background — not cold black, but earthy near-black with warm gray
  undertones
- Warm Parchment (`#faf9f6`) text instead of pure white — subtle cream warmth
- Matter font family (Regular weight) — geometric but approachable, not the
  typical developer-tool typeface
- Nature photography interleaved with product screenshots — lifestyle meets
  developer tool
- Almost monochromatic warm gray palette — no bold accent colors
- Uppercase labels with wide letter-spacing (2.4px) for categorization —
  editorial signaling
- Pill-shaped dark buttons (`#353534`, 50px radius) — restrained, muted CTAs

## 2. Color Palette & Roles

### Primary

- **Warm Parchment** (`#faf9f6`): Primary text color — a barely-cream off-white
  that softens every surface
- **Earth Gray** (`#353534`): Button backgrounds, dark interactive surfaces —
  warm, not cold
- **Deep Void** (near-black, page background): The warm dark canvas derived from
  the body background

### Secondary & Accent

- **Stone Gray** (`#868584`): Secondary text, muted descriptions — warm mid-gray
- **Ash Gray** (`#afaeac`): Body text, button text — the workhorse reading color
- **Purple-Tint Gray** (`#666469`): Link text with subtle purple undertone —
  underlined links in content

### Surface & Background

- **Frosted Veil** (`rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.04)`): Ultra-subtle white overlay for
  surface differentiation
- **Mist Border** (`rgba(226, 226, 226, 0.35)` / `rgba(227, 227, 227, 0.337)`):
  Semi-transparent borders for card containment
- **Translucent Parchment** (`rgba(250, 249, 246, 0.9)`): Slightly transparent
  primary surface, allowing depth

### Neutrals & Text

- **Warm Parchment** (`#faf9f6`): Headlines, high-emphasis text
- **Ash Gray** (`#afaeac`): Body paragraphs, descriptions
- **Stone Gray** (`#868584`): Secondary labels, subdued information
- **Muted Purple** (`#666469`): Underlined links, tertiary content
- **Dark Charcoal** (`#454545` / `#353534`): Borders, button backgrounds

### Semantic & Accent

- Warp operates as an almost monochromatic system — no bold accent colors
- Interactive states are communicated through opacity changes and underline
  decorations rather than color shifts
- Any accent color would break the warm, restrained palette

### Gradient System

- No explicit gradients on the marketing site
- Depth is created through layered semi-transparent surfaces and photography
  rather than color gradients

## 3. Typography Rules

### Font Family

- **Display & Body**: `Matter Regular` — geometric sans-serif with soft
  character. Fallbacks: `Matter Regular Placeholder`, system sans-serif
- **Medium**: `Matter Medium` — weight 500 variant for emphasis. Fallbacks:
  `Matter Medium Placeholder`
- **Square**: `Matter SQ Regular` — squared variant for select display contexts.
  Fallbacks: `Matter SQ Regular Placeholder`
- **UI Supplement**: `Inter` — used for specific UI elements. Fallbacks:
  `Inter Placeholder`
- **Monospace Display**: `Geist Mono` — for code/terminal display headings
- **Monospace Body**: `Matter Mono Regular` — custom mono companion. Fallbacks:
  `Matter Mono Regular Placeholder`

### Hierarchy

| Role              | Font                | Size | Weight | Line Height | Letter Spacing     | Notes                                         |
| ----------------- | ------------------- | ---- | ------ | ----------- | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------- |
| Display Hero      | Matter Regular      | 80px | 400    | 1.00        | -2.4px             | Maximum compression, hero impact              |
| Section Display   | Matter Regular      | 56px | 400    | 1.20        | -0.56px            | Feature section headings                      |
| Section Heading   | Matter Regular      | 48px | 400    | 1.20        | -0.48px to -0.96px | Alternate heading weight                      |
| Feature Heading   | Matter Regular      | 40px | 400    | 1.10        | -0.4px             | Feature block titles                          |
| Sub-heading Large | Matter Regular      | 36px | 400    | 1.15        | -0.72px            | Sub-section headers                           |
| Card Display      | Matter SQ Regular   | 42px | 400    | 1.00        | 0px                | Squared variant for special display           |
| Sub-heading       | Matter Regular      | 32px | 400    | 1.19        | 0px                | Content sub-headings                          |
| Body Heading      | Matter Regular      | 24px | 400    | 1.20        | -0.72px to 0px     | Bold content intros                           |
| Card Title        | Matter Medium       | 22px | 500    | 1.14        | 0px                | Emphasized card headers                       |
| Body Large        | Matter Regular      | 20px | 400    | 1.40        | -0.2px             | Primary body text, relaxed                    |
| Body              | Matter Regular      | 18px | 400    | 1.30        | -0.18px            | Standard body paragraphs                      |
| Nav/UI            | Matter Regular      | 16px | 400    | 1.20        | 0px                | Navigation links, UI text                     |
| Button Text       | Matter Medium       | 16px | 500    | 1.20        | 0px                | Button labels                                 |
| Caption           | Matter Regular      | 14px | 400    | 1.00        | 1.4px              | Uppercase labels (transform: uppercase)       |
| Small Label       | Matter Regular      | 12px | 400    | 1.35        | 2.4px              | Uppercase micro-labels (transform: uppercase) |
| Micro             | Matter Regular      | 11px | 400    | 1.20        | 0px                | Smallest text elements                        |
| Code UI           | Geist Mono          | 16px | 400    | 1.00        | 0px                | Terminal/code display                         |
| Code Body         | Matter Mono Regular | 16px | 400    | 1.00        | -0.2px             | Code content                                  |
| UI Supplement     | Inter               | 16px | 500    | 1.00        | -0.2px             | Specific UI elements                          |

### Principles

- **Regular weight dominance**: Nearly all text uses weight 400 (Regular) — even
  headlines. Matter Medium (500) appears only for emphasis moments like card
  titles and buttons. This creates a remarkably even, calm typographic texture
- **Uppercase as editorial signal**: Small labels and categories use uppercase
  transform with wide letter-spacing (1.4px–2.4px), creating a
  magazine-editorial categorization system
- **Warm legibility**: The combination of Matter's geometric softness + warm
  text colors (#faf9f6) + controlled negative tracking creates text that reads
  as effortlessly human on dark surfaces
- **No bold display**: Zero use of bold (700+) weight anywhere — restraint is
  the philosophy

## 4. Component Stylings

### Buttons

- **Dark Pill**: `#353534` background, Ash Gray (`#afaeac`) text, pill shape
  (50px radius), `10px` padding. The primary CTA — warm, muted, understated
- **Frosted Tag**: `rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.16)` background, black text
  (`rgb(0, 0, 0)`), rectangular (6px radius), `1px 6px` padding. Small inline
  tag-like buttons
- **Ghost**: No visible background, text-only with underline decoration on hover
- **Hover**: Subtle opacity or brightness shift — no dramatic color changes

### Cards & Containers

- **Photography Cards**: Full-bleed nature imagery with overlay text, 8px–12px
  border-radius
- **Terminal Screenshot Cards**: Product UI embedded in dark containers with
  rounded corners (8px–12px)
- **Bordered Cards**: Semi-transparent border (`rgba(226, 226, 226, 0.35)`) for
  containment, 12px–14px radius
- **Hover**: Minimal — content cards don't dramatically change on hover,
  maintaining the calm aesthetic

### Inputs & Forms

- Minimal form presence on the marketing site
- Dark background inputs with warm gray text
- Focus: Border brightness increase, no colored rings (consistent with the
  monochromatic palette)

### Navigation

- **Top nav**: Dark background, warm parchment brand text, Matter Regular at
  16px for links
- **Link color**: Stone Gray (`#868584`) for muted nav, Warm Parchment for
  active/hover
- **CTA button**: Dark pill (#353534) at nav end — restrained, not
  attention-grabbing
- **Mobile**: Collapses to simplified navigation
- **Sticky**: Nav stays fixed on scroll

### Image Treatment

- **Nature photography**: Landscapes, forests, golden-hour scenes — completely
  unique for a developer tool
- **Terminal screenshots**: Product UI shown in realistic terminal window frames
- **Mixed composition**: Nature images and terminal screenshots are interleaved,
  creating a lifestyle-meets-tool narrative
- **Full-bleed**: Images often span full container width with 8px radius
- **Video**: Video elements present with 10px border-radius

### Testimonial Section

- Social proof area ("Don't take our word for it") with quotes
- Muted styling consistent with overall restraint

## 5. Layout Principles

### Spacing System

- **Base unit**: 8px
- **Scale**: 1px, 4px, 5px, 8px, 10px, 12px, 14px, 15px, 16px, 18px, 24px, 26px,
  30px, 32px, 36px
- **Section padding**: 80px–120px vertical between major sections
- **Card padding**: 16px–32px internal spacing
- **Component gaps**: 8px–16px between related elements

### Grid & Container

- **Max width**: ~1500px container (breakpoint at 1500px), centered
- **Column patterns**: Full-width hero, 2-column feature sections with
  photography, single-column testimonials
- **Cinematic layout**: Wide containers that let photography breathe

### Whitespace Philosophy

- **Vast and warm**: Generous spacing between sections — the dark background
  creates a warm void that feels contemplative rather than empty
- **Photography as whitespace**: Nature images serve as visual breathing room
  between dense product information
- **Editorial pacing**: The layout reads like a magazine — each section is a
  deliberate page-turn moment

### Border Radius Scale

- **4px**: Small interactive elements — buttons, tags
- **5px–6px**: Standard components — links, small containers
- **8px**: Images, video containers, standard cards
- **10px**: Video elements, medium containers
- **12px**: Feature cards, large images
- **14px**: Large containers, prominent cards
- **40px**: Large rounded sections
- **50px**: Pill buttons — primary CTAs
- **200px**: Progress bars — full pill shape

## 6. Depth & Elevation

| Level             | Treatment                                                | Use                                  |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ |
| Level 0 (Flat)    | No shadow, dark background                               | Page canvas, most surfaces           |
| Level 1 (Veil)    | `rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.04)` overlay                      | Subtle surface differentiation       |
| Level 2 (Border)  | `rgba(226, 226, 226, 0.35) 1px` border                   | Card containment, section separation |
| Level 3 (Ambient) | `rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 5px 15px` (inferred from design) | Image containers, floating elements  |

### Shadow Philosophy

Warp's elevation system is remarkably flat — almost zero shadow usage on the
marketing site. Depth is communicated through:

- **Semi-transparent borders** instead of shadows — borders at 35% opacity
  create a ghostly containment
- **Photography layering** — images create natural depth without artificial
  shadows
- **Surface opacity shifts** — `rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.04)` overlays create
  barely-perceptible layer differences
- The effect is calm and grounded — nothing floats, everything rests

### Decorative Depth

- **Photography as depth**: Nature images create atmospheric depth that shadows
  cannot
- **No glass or blur effects**: The design avoids trendy glassmorphism entirely
- **Warm ambient**: Any glow comes from the photography's natural lighting, not
  artificial CSS

## 7. Do's and Don'ts

### Do

- Use warm off-white (`#faf9f6`) for text instead of pure white — the cream
  undertone is essential
- Keep buttons restrained and muted — dark fill (#353534) with muted text
  (#afaeac), no bright CTAs
- Apply Matter Regular (weight 400) for nearly everything — even headlines.
  Reserve Medium (500) for emphasis only
- Use uppercase labels with wide letter-spacing (1.4px–2.4px) for categorization
- Interleave nature photography with product screenshots — this is core to the
  brand identity
- Maintain the almost monochromatic warm gray palette — no bold accent colors
- Use semi-transparent borders (`rgba(226, 226, 226, 0.35)`) for card
  containment instead of shadows
- Keep negative letter-spacing on headlines (-0.4px to -2.4px) for Matter's
  compressed display treatment

### Don't

- Use pure white (#ffffff) for text — it's always warm parchment (#faf9f6)
- Add bold accent colors (blue, red, green) — the system is deliberately
  monochromatic warm grays
- Apply bold weight (700+) to any text — Warp never goes above Medium (500)
- Use heavy drop shadows — depth comes from borders, photography, and opacity
  shifts
- Create cold or blue-tinted dark backgrounds — the warmth is essential
- Add decorative gradients or glow effects — the photography provides all visual
  interest
- Use tight, compressed layouts — the editorial spacing is generous and
  contemplative
- Mix in additional typefaces beyond the Matter family + Inter supplement

## 8. Responsive Behavior

### Breakpoints

| Name    | Width        | Key Changes                                                                |
| ------- | ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Mobile  | <810px       | Single column, stacked sections, hero text reduces to ~48px, hamburger nav |
| Tablet  | 810px–1500px | 2-column features begin, photography scales, nav links partially visible   |
| Desktop | >1500px      | Full cinematic layout, 80px hero display, side-by-side photography + text  |

### Touch Targets

- Pill buttons: 50px radius with 10px padding — comfortable touch targets
- Nav links: 16px text with surrounding padding for accessibility
- Mobile CTAs: Full-width pills on mobile for easy thumb reach

### Collapsing Strategy

- **Navigation**: Full horizontal nav → simplified mobile navigation
- **Hero text**: 80px display → 56px → 48px across breakpoints
- **Feature sections**: Side-by-side photography + text → stacked vertically
- **Photography**: Scales within containers, maintains cinematic aspect ratios
- **Section spacing**: Reduces proportionally — generous desktop → compact
  mobile

### Image Behavior

- Nature photography scales responsively, maintaining wide cinematic ratios
- Terminal screenshots maintain aspect ratios within responsive containers
- Video elements scale with 10px radius maintained
- No art direction changes — same compositions across breakpoints

## 9. Agent Prompt Guide

### Quick Color Reference

- Primary Text: Warm Parchment (`#faf9f6`)
- Secondary Text: Ash Gray (`#afaeac`)
- Tertiary Text: Stone Gray (`#868584`)
- Button Background: Earth Gray (`#353534`)
- Border: Mist Border (`rgba(226, 226, 226, 0.35)`)
- Background: Deep warm near-black (page background)

### Example Component Prompts

- "Create a hero section on warm dark background with 80px Matter Regular
  heading in warm parchment (#faf9f6), line-height 1.0, letter-spacing -2.4px,
  and a dark pill button (#353534, 50px radius, #afaeac text)"
- "Design a feature card with semi-transparent border (rgba(226,226,226,0.35)),
  12px radius, warm dark background, Matter Regular heading at 24px, and ash
  gray (#afaeac) body text at 18px"
- "Build a category label using Matter Regular at 12px, uppercase transform,
  letter-spacing 2.4px, stone gray (#868584) color — editorial magazine style"
- "Create a testimonial section with warm parchment quotes in Matter Regular
  24px, attributed in stone gray (#868584), on dark background with minimal
  ornamentation"
- "Design a navigation bar with warm dark background, Matter Regular links at
  16px in stone gray (#868584), hover to warm parchment (#faf9f6), and a dark
  pill CTA button (#353534) at the right"

### Iteration Guide

When refining existing screens generated with this design system:

1. Verify text color is warm parchment (#faf9f6) not pure white — the warmth is
   subtle but essential
2. Ensure all buttons use the restrained dark palette (#353534) — no bright or
   colorful CTAs
3. Check that Matter Regular (400) is the default weight — Medium (500) only for
   emphasis
4. Confirm uppercase labels have wide letter-spacing (1.4px–2.4px) — tight
   uppercase feels wrong here
5. The overall tone should feel warm and calm, like a well-designed magazine —
   not aggressive or tech-flashy