Design System

The Human Crafted design system. Tokens, components, and patterns I use across humancrafted.co, sub-brand tools, and client deliverables. Built to stay coherent as the work expands — and small enough to drop into a Claude skill or a fresh project as a single source of truth.

Color

paper#FAF7F2
paper-warm#ECE3CE
ink#2A2824
ink-muted#736356
border#948F87
accent#E8C84A

Sub-brand palette — one hue pair per sub-brand or project identity.

yellow#E8C84A
yellow-deep#C9A832
gold#C78A2E
gold-deep#9A6720
olive#8A8030
olive-deep#736B1E
slate#3B4B59
slate-deep#2C3A47

Typography

hero / 48 / Reg A product design studio.
title / 30 / Bol human / crafted
eyebrow / 18 / M The Archive ↓
body / 16 / Reg around the house · 3d printing · kitchen
caption / 14 / R © 2025 Human Crafted LLC.

Spacing

space-11rem · 16px
space-22rem · 32px
space-44rem · 64px
space-55rem · 80px
space-66rem · 96px

Layout

The project archive is a responsive grid; long-form Notes use a fixed two-column rhythm. A scrollbar-gutter: stable gutter reserves space for the scrollbar so short and long pages center identically.

archive · desktop5 columns · gap 4rem/2rem
archive · ≤1024px3 columns
archive · ≤768px2 columns
Notes · two-column180px label · 1fr body

Links & underlines

Links never borrow the accent color — emphasis comes from a hand-drawn wavy underline on hover, paired with a step up to medium weight. Hover each specimen to see the transition.

on hover → wavy underline, medium weight

Iconography

Interface icons — Lucide (the maintained fork of Feather Icons). A 24×24 grid with 2px strokes and round caps. They inherit currentColor, so they recolor for dark mode with no second asset.

menu co/re nav
sun theme · light
moon theme · dark
arrow-right co/lab CTA

Illustration

Every project is cataloged with a single-color SVG thumbnail — a CAD or illustration artifact of the object design with a specific visual style.

Tissue dispenser — single-color isometric line illustration used as a project thumbnail
  • One color, no shading — a vector illustration, not a render or image
  • 1000 × 1000 viewBox, centered with generous margin
  • Vector SVG: crisp at any size
  • Dark mode inverts the ink with a CSS filter — no second asset

Wordmark

The header wordmark is a live breadcrumb built on the .co domain and doubles as back-navigation when visiting core and sub-pages. Dim segments link to home or up a level; the bright segment is the current page. Hover a dim segment to see it light up.

home human/crafted
core page humancrafted.co/lab
sub-page humancrafted.co/re/Design System

On load, breadcrumb pages wipe in only the newest segment; home reassembles to human / crafted when you arrive from an internal page. Skipped for reduced-motion or backgrounded tabs. Real URLs stay flat — the nesting is visual only, no SEO migration.

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