- fg
#FFFFFF- bg
#000000- APCA Lc
- -108
- Use
- background on foreground
Neon
Section-zoned developer-database landing that turns its brand colour into the design statement. Petrol-green #2c6d4c drenches entire sections as ground (not accent), Geist Mono carries code-voice authority, Inter handles marketing copy. Wide 1856px canvas, zero shadow system — depth lives in section colour contrast.

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A typed, paste-ready design system brief - philosophy, tokens, rules, techniques, and fitness checks. Drop it into Claude, Cursor, v0 or any coding agent and it builds in Neon’s language, not just a screenshot.
Section-zoned developer-database canvas. White #ffffff text dominates because brand-green #2c6d4c is the primary section ground (not accent), with #000000 as the alternate section ground. Slate descender scale (#94979e / #797d86 / #c9cbcf) for de-emphasis. Geist Mono carries code-voice technical credibility (16px tables and code), Inter handles marketing reading layer (13-18px UI/body). Wide 1600-1856px canvas — section width is the design move. Expressive motion via Framer Motion. Single gradient catalogued — atmospheric only.
Use this capture as a design language transfer brief for my project. Adopt the palette (section-zoned with petrol-green #2c6d4c as primary section ground + #000000 as alternate section ground + #ffffff primary text + slate descender scale for de-emphasis — the brand colour is the ground, never an accent or button fill), typographic duet (Geist Mono for code-voice 16px tables and technical labels + Inter for marketing reading 13-18px UI/body), 4px-base spacing scale heavy at 4/6/8/10/12/14, wide 1600-1856px canvas with section zoning by brand colour, expressive Framer Motion vocabulary, custom breakpoint ladder. Treat this as my project's constitution. Apply the language, not the source brand. When I ask you to build a page or component, enforce these rules by default and call out any deviation.
- Layout
- Section-zoned wide canvas — petrol-green and #000 sections alternate as the design rhythm, each holding a full content block.
- Content width
- 960-1600px content rail inside 1856px hero canvas; sections break to full width.
- Framing
- Developer-database broadsheet — wide, brand-coloured, technically confident.
- Grid strength
- Strong 12-column grid at desktop, section-coloured backgrounds carry the rhythm.
Petrol-green #2c6d4c + #000000 alternate as section grounds; #ffffff primary text + slate descender scale; brand colour is the ground, never an accent.
- #2c6d4c petrol-green: primary section ground (drenched, not accent)
- #000000: alternate section ground for contrast
- #ffffff for primary text on green/black sections
- #94979e secondary text, #797d86 metadata, #c9cbcf disabled
- #61646b border colour on cards
- Never use petrol-green as accent or button fill — it is ground only
Gradients (paste-ready)
1 gradient catalogued — atmospheric only, never as section background or button fill
- Geist Mono for technical labels, code blocks, data tables (16px)
- Inter for all UI, body, marketing copy (13-18px)
- Weights: Inter 400/500/600, Geist Mono 400
- Line-height 1.4-1.5 body, 1.1-1.2 display
- Letter-spacing 0
- 4px base unit, heaviest use at 4/6/8/10/12/14px
- Section vertical rhythm: 80-160px between major sections
- Card internal padding: 24-32px
- CTA padding: 12-14px vertical / 22-28px horizontal
- Zero shadow variants — depth lives in section colour
- Hover state: brightness shift on hover, no lift
- Focus rings: white 2px + 2px offset on green ground
Techniques
Brand-zoned section
Full-width section with #2c6d4c background, #ffffff text, 80-160px vertical padding — the brand colour does the work.
Hairline-only card
1px #61646b border + transparent background; depth from section colour contrast, not shadow.
- Buttons: 6-8px radius
- Cards: 8-12px radius
- Section bands: no rounded corners — full bleed always
Primary CTA on green section- background
- #ffffff
- textColor
- #2c6d4c
- fontFamily
- Inter
- fontWeight
- 500
- fontSize
- 15px
- padding
- 12px 22px
- borderRadius
- 8px
- shadow
- none
- hover
- background shifts to #f2f2f2
Tailwind
inline-flex items-center gap-2 rounded-lg bg-white px-5 py-3 text-[15px] font-medium text-[#2c6d4c] transition hover:bg-[#f2f2f2]
Brand-zoned section- background
- #2c6d4c
- textColor
- #ffffff
- padding
- 80px 0 120px
- borderRadius
- 0
Tailwind
w-full bg-[#2c6d4c] px-0 pb-32 pt-20 text-white
Easings
cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1)cubic-bezier(0.16, 1, 0.3, 1)Scroll patterns
- Framer Motion-animated section reveals on viewport entry
- Sticky nav appears after 100px scroll
- Fade-in + 16px translate per content block
- Motion supports section transitions
- Respect prefers-reduced-motion: opacity-only fades
- Hover brightens elements without lift (depth lives in section colour)
- Focus rings: white 2px + 2px offset on brand sections, black 2px on white sections
- Active state: button bg shifts darker by 8%
Custom enterprise ladder (320/960/1600/1856) — wide canvas as the design statement.
- <960: 16px gutter, single column, sections retain brand colour
- 960-1600: 960px content rail, basic 2-col grid
- ≥1600: full 1600 rail + 1856 hero break-outs, full 12-col data tables
- WCAG AA on white text on petrol-green (#ffffff on #2c6d4c is 7.4:1)
- WCAG AAA on white text on black (#ffffff on #000 is 21:1)
- Data tables use proper th/td semantics + caption
Brand-coloured section zoning + typography + product UI screenshots are the visual identity.
- Geist Mono and Inter loaded as woff2 with font-display: swap
- Framer Motion section reveals scoped to scroll-triggered
- Brand-coloured sections as CSS background-color, never images
- Use petrol-green as section ground — drenched, full-width, the design statement
- Use Geist Mono for code-voice technical labels, Inter for everything else
- Keep the canvas wide (1600+) — confidence is the design move
- Use section colour to zone, not shadows or borders
- Don't use petrol-green as accent or button fill — it is ground only
- Don't add box-shadows to cards — depth lives in section colour contrast
- Don't shrink the canvas below 1600 on desktop — the wide layout is the brand
- Don't introduce a third type family
- Section-zoned (green ↔ black) — no pure light or pure dark mode
- Geist Mono + Inter only
- Petrol-green is ground only, never accent
- Zero shadow system — depth from section colour
- Font-family grep: only `Geist Mono` and `Inter` appear
- Background colour grep: `#2c6d4c` for primary sections, `#000000` for alternate
- Accent colour usage: petrol-green appears only as background-color, never as color/border/fill
- Shadow variants total: 0 (zero) — verify no box-shadow declarations
- Section width: max-w never below 1600px at desktop
Design tokens
Observed token system
Color, type, spacing, gradients, and stacking order captured from the live page and rendered here as living, paste-ready previews.
Inspector
Observable layers
Structure, breakpoints, motion, fonts, and images captured from the live page and kept paste-ready alongside the tokens.
Depth-first walk of the meaningful sections. 13 nodes across 6 levels, shallow to deep by color.
- body2
- a
- div (×2)3
- Header1
- div1
- div1
- Nav
- Main3
- Section
- div1
- Section (×5)
- Section (×3)
- Footer
Accessibility
Contrast matrix
192 combinations - 76 pass AA - 44 pass AAA. Each pair is previewed with its real foreground on background; APCA Lc sits alongside the WCAG 2.1 ratio for draft WCAG 3 awareness.
- fg
#000000- bg
#FFFFFF- APCA Lc
- +106
- Use
- foreground on background
- fg
#000000- bg
#E4F1EB- APCA Lc
- +96
- Use
- foreground on background
- fg
#E4F1EB- bg
#000000- APCA Lc
- -97
- Use
- background on foreground
- fg
#FFFFFF- bg
#18191B- APCA Lc
- -107
- Use
- background on foreground
- fg
#18191B- bg
#FFFFFF- APCA Lc
- +104
- Use
- foreground on background
- fg
#000000- bg
#E4E5E7- APCA Lc
- +91
- Use
- foreground on foreground
- fg
#E4E5E7- bg
#000000- APCA Lc
- -91
- Use
- foreground on foreground
- fg
#18191B- bg
#E4F1EB- APCA Lc
- +94
- Use
- foreground on background
Images
Image strategy
Observable image posture - total count, lazy-loading ratio, and format mix. The hero image is measured above the fold.
- svg21 · 55%
- unknown17 · 45%
Hero image
https://neon.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.neonapi.io%2Fpublic%2Fpages%2Fhome%2Fhero%2Fposter.jpg&w=1920&q=100- Format
- UNKNOWN
- Dimensions
- 1920x832
- Loading
- lazy
- srcset
- yes
- Industry
- developer-tools
- Industry
- saas
- Industry
- ai
- Theme
- Dark
- Added
- 2026-05-15
FAQ
Questions people ask about Neon
3questionsAnswers are pulled from the curator verdict and design brief - the same text your AI agent sees when it paste-reads this page.
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