Design System · v2 · Kintsugi
Brass & Indigo
by candlelight.
A reference catalog of the Secure Pride visual language. Kintsugi — the practice of repairing what's broken with gold — runs through brand, color, type, and component decisions.
01 Brand
Logos, motifs, material studies, and pattern foundations.
Logos →
Primary lockup, monograms, and brand mark treatments across surfaces.
Kintsugi Motif →
The fracture-and-gold visual signature — generative variants and usage rules.
Material Motif →
Surface texture studies — brass, indigo, and the bridges between.
Patterns →
Repeating geometric and organic patterns derived from the kintsugi grammar.
02 Color
The brass-and-indigo duet, gem tones, status states, and surface ramps.
Brand Palette →
Primary kintsugi spectrum: brass, indigo, fire opal, and gem tone accents.
Surfaces →
Background, surface, and elevated layer ramps for dark-first UI.
Status →
Protected, warning, info, and danger semantic colors.
Gem Tones →
Citrine, Emerald, Sapphire, Amethyst, Tourmaline — jewel-bright accents, not neons.
03 Typography
Rajdhani for headings, Inter for prose, JetBrains Mono for code and metadata.
04 Spacing & Layout
The 4-px-base spacing system, radius scale, and elevation shadows.
05 Components
Production-ready building blocks with kintsugi tokens applied.
06 System & Source
Token sources, identity assets, and reference docs.
Favicon System →
Browser, device, and PWA icons across sizes and contexts.
colors_and_type.css →
Authoritative CSS custom properties — the token source of truth.
design-system-v2.jsx →
The T object — JS-side token definitions for React consumers.
README →
Project overview, conventions, and integration notes.
iTerm2 Theme ↓
Terminal theme drawing from the kintsugi palette — fire opal cursor, brass highlights, gem-tone ANSI.