---
version: alpha
name: Geist
description: "Vercel’s Geist design system, Light theme (the Dark theme is documented at /design.dark.md)."
colors:
primary: "#171717"
secondary: "#4d4d4d"
tertiary: "#006bff"
neutral: "#f2f2f2"
background-100: "#ffffff"
background-200: "#fafafa"
gray-100: "#f2f2f2"
gray-200: "#ebebeb"
gray-300: "#e6e6e6"
gray-400: "#eaeaea"
gray-500: "#c9c9c9"
gray-600: "#a8a8a8"
gray-700: "#8f8f8f"
gray-800: "#7d7d7d"
gray-900: "#4d4d4d"
gray-1000: "#171717"
gray-alpha-100: "#0000000d"
gray-alpha-200: "#00000015"
gray-alpha-300: "#0000001a"
gray-alpha-400: "#00000014"
gray-alpha-500: "#00000036"
gray-alpha-600: "#0000003d"
gray-alpha-700: "#00000070"
gray-alpha-800: "#00000082"
gray-alpha-900: "#000000b3"
gray-alpha-1000: "#000000e8"
blue-100: "#f0f7ff"
blue-200: "#e9f4ff"
blue-300: "#dfefff"
blue-400: "#cae7ff"
blue-500: "#94ccff"
blue-600: "#48aeff"
blue-700: "#006bff"
blue-800: "#0059ec"
blue-900: "#005ff2"
blue-1000: "#002359"
red-100: "#ffeeef"
red-200: "#ffe8ea"
red-300: "#ffe3e4"
red-400: "#ffd7d6"
red-500: "#ffb1b3"
red-600: "#ff676d"
red-700: "#fc0035"
red-800: "#ea001d"
red-900: "#d8001b"
red-1000: "#47000c"
amber-100: "#fff6de"
amber-200: "#fff4cf"
amber-300: "#fff1c1"
amber-400: "#ffdc73"
amber-500: "#ffc543"
amber-600: "#ffa600"
amber-700: "#ffae00"
amber-800: "#ff9300"
amber-900: "#aa4d00"
amber-1000: "#561900"
green-100: "#ecfdec"
green-200: "#e5fce7"
green-300: "#d3fad1"
green-400: "#b9f5bc"
green-500: "#82eb8d"
green-600: "#4ce15e"
green-700: "#28a948"
green-800: "#279141"
green-900: "#107d32"
green-1000: "#003a00"
teal-100: "#defffb"
teal-200: "#ddfef6"
teal-300: "#ccf9f1"
teal-400: "#b1f7ec"
teal-500: "#52f0db"
teal-600: "#00e3c4"
teal-700: "#00ac96"
teal-800: "#00927f"
teal-900: "#007f70"
teal-1000: "#003f34"
purple-100: "#faf0ff"
purple-200: "#f9f0ff"
purple-300: "#f6e8ff"
purple-400: "#f2d9ff"
purple-500: "#dfa7ff"
purple-600: "#c979ff"
purple-700: "#a000f8"
purple-800: "#8500d1"
purple-900: "#7d00cc"
purple-1000: "#2f004e"
pink-100: "#ffe8f6"
pink-200: "#ffe8f3"
pink-300: "#ffdfeb"
pink-400: "#ffd3e1"
pink-500: "#fdb3cc"
pink-600: "#f97ea7"
pink-700: "#f22782"
pink-800: "#e4106e"
pink-900: "#c41562"
pink-1000: "#460523"
# Wide-gamut accent variants in oklch for P3 displays (sRGB hex above is the fallback)
blue-100-p3: "oklch(97.32% 0.0141 251.56)"
blue-200-p3: "oklch(96.29% 0.0195 250.59)"
blue-300-p3: "oklch(94.58% 0.0293 249.84870859673202)"
blue-400-p3: "oklch(91.58% 0.0473 245.11621922481282)"
blue-500-p3: "oklch(82.75% 0.0979 248.48)"
blue-600-p3: "oklch(73.08% 0.1583 248.133320980386)"
blue-700-p3: "oklch(57.61% 0.2508 258.23)"
blue-800-p3: "oklch(51.51% 0.2399 257.85)"
blue-900-p3: "oklch(53.18% 0.2399 256.9900584162342)"
blue-1000-p3: "oklch(26.67% 0.1099 254.34)"
red-100-p3: "oklch(96.5% 0.0223 13.09)"
red-200-p3: "oklch(95.41% 0.0299 14.252646656611997)"
red-300-p3: "oklch(94.33% 0.0369 15.011509923860523)"
red-400-p3: "oklch(91.51% 0.0471 19.8)"
red-500-p3: "oklch(84.47% 0.1018 17.71)"
red-600-p3: "oklch(71.12% 0.1881 21.22)"
red-700-p3: "oklch(62.56% 0.2524 23.03)"
red-800-p3: "oklch(58.19% 0.2482 25.15)"
red-900-p3: "oklch(54.99% 0.232 25.29)"
red-1000-p3: "oklch(24.8% 0.1041 18.86)"
amber-100-p3: "oklch(97.48% 0.0331 85.79)"
amber-200-p3: "oklch(96.81% 0.0495 90.24227879900472)"
amber-300-p3: "oklch(95.93% 0.0636 90.52)"
amber-400-p3: "oklch(91.02% 0.1322 88.25)"
amber-500-p3: "oklch(86.55% 0.1583 79.63)"
amber-600-p3: "oklch(80.25% 0.1953 73.59)"
amber-700-p3: "oklch(81.87% 0.1969 76.46)"
amber-800-p3: "oklch(77.21% 0.1991 64.28)"
amber-900-p3: "oklch(52.79% 0.1496 54.65)"
amber-1000-p3: "oklch(30.83% 0.099 45.48)"
green-100-p3: "oklch(97.59% 0.0289 145.42)"
green-200-p3: "oklch(96.92% 0.037 147.15)"
green-300-p3: "oklch(94.6% 0.0674 144.23)"
green-400-p3: "oklch(91.49% 0.0976 146.24)"
green-500-p3: "oklch(85.45% 0.1627 146.3)"
green-600-p3: "oklch(80.25% 0.214 145.18)"
green-700-p3: "oklch(64.58% 0.1746 147.27)"
green-800-p3: "oklch(57.81% 0.1507 147.5)"
green-900-p3: "oklch(51.75% 0.1453 147.65)"
green-1000-p3: "oklch(29.15% 0.1197 147.38)"
teal-100-p3: "oklch(97.72% 0.0359 186.7)"
teal-200-p3: "oklch(97.06% 0.0347 180.66)"
teal-300-p3: "oklch(94.92% 0.0478 182.07)"
teal-400-p3: "oklch(92.76% 0.0718 183.78)"
teal-500-p3: "oklch(86.88% 0.1344 182.42)"
teal-600-p3: "oklch(81.5% 0.161 178.96)"
teal-700-p3: "oklch(64.92% 0.1572 181.95)"
teal-800-p3: "oklch(57.53% 0.1392 181.66)"
teal-900-p3: "oklch(52.08% 0.1251 182.93)"
teal-1000-p3: "oklch(32.11% 0.0788 179.82)"
purple-100-p3: "oklch(96.65% 0.0244 312.1890119359961)"
purple-200-p3: "oklch(96.73% 0.0228 309.8)"
purple-300-p3: "oklch(94.85% 0.0364 310.15)"
purple-400-p3: "oklch(91.77% 0.0614 312.82)"
purple-500-p3: "oklch(81.26% 0.1409 310.8)"
purple-600-p3: "oklch(72.07% 0.2083 308.19)"
purple-700-p3: "oklch(55.5% 0.3008 306.12)"
purple-800-p3: "oklch(48.58% 0.2638 305.73)"
purple-900-p3: "oklch(47.18% 0.2579 304)"
purple-1000-p3: "oklch(23.96% 0.13 305.66)"
pink-100-p3: "oklch(95.69% 0.0359 344.6218910697224)"
pink-200-p3: "oklch(95.71% 0.0321 353.14)"
pink-300-p3: "oklch(93.83% 0.0451 356.29)"
pink-400-p3: "oklch(91.12% 0.0573 358.82)"
pink-500-p3: "oklch(84.28% 0.0915 356.99)"
pink-600-p3: "oklch(74.33% 0.1547 0.24)"
pink-700-p3: "oklch(63.52% 0.238 1.01)"
pink-800-p3: "oklch(59.51% 0.2339 4.21)"
pink-900-p3: "oklch(53.5% 0.2058 2.84)"
pink-1000-p3: "oklch(26% 0.0977 359)"
typography:
heading-72:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 72px
fontWeight: 600
lineHeight: 72px
letterSpacing: -4.32px
heading-64:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 64px
fontWeight: 600
lineHeight: 64px
letterSpacing: -3.84px
heading-56:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 56px
fontWeight: 600
lineHeight: 56px
letterSpacing: -3.36px
heading-48:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 48px
fontWeight: 600
lineHeight: 56px
letterSpacing: -2.88px
heading-40:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 40px
fontWeight: 600
lineHeight: 48px
letterSpacing: -2.4px
heading-32:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 32px
fontWeight: 600
lineHeight: 40px
letterSpacing: -1.28px
heading-24:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 24px
fontWeight: 600
lineHeight: 32px
letterSpacing: -0.96px
heading-20:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 20px
fontWeight: 600
lineHeight: 26px
letterSpacing: -0.4px
heading-16:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 16px
fontWeight: 600
lineHeight: 24px
letterSpacing: -0.32px
heading-14:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 14px
fontWeight: 600
lineHeight: 20px
letterSpacing: -0.28px
button-16:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 16px
fontWeight: 500
lineHeight: 20px
button-14:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 14px
fontWeight: 500
lineHeight: 20px
button-12:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 12px
fontWeight: 500
lineHeight: 16px
label-20:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 20px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 32px
label-18:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 18px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 20px
label-16:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 16px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 20px
label-14:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 14px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 20px
label-14-mono:
fontFamily: Geist Mono
fontSize: 14px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 20px
label-13:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 13px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 16px
label-13-mono:
fontFamily: Geist Mono
fontSize: 13px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 20px
label-12:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 12px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 16px
label-12-mono:
fontFamily: Geist Mono
fontSize: 12px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 16px
copy-24:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 24px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 36px
copy-20:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 20px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 36px
copy-18:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 18px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 28px
copy-16:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 16px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 24px
copy-14:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 14px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 20px
copy-14-mono:
fontFamily: Geist Mono
fontSize: 14px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 20px
copy-13:
fontFamily: Geist Sans
fontSize: 13px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 18px
copy-13-mono:
fontFamily: Geist Mono
fontSize: 13px
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 18px
spacing:
1: 4px
2: 8px
3: 12px
4: 16px
6: 24px
8: 32px
10: 40px
16: 64px
24: 96px
base: 4px
rounded:
sm: 6px
md: 12px
lg: 16px
full: 9999px
components:
button-primary:
backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
textColor: "{colors.background-100}"
typography: "{typography.button-14}"
rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
padding: "0 10px"
height: 40px
button-secondary:
backgroundColor: "{colors.background-100}"
textColor: "{colors.primary}"
typography: "{typography.button-14}"
rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
padding: "0 10px"
height: 40px
button-tertiary:
textColor: "{colors.primary}"
typography: "{typography.button-14}"
rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
padding: "0 10px"
height: 40px
button-error:
backgroundColor: "{colors.red-800}"
textColor: "#ffffff"
typography: "{typography.button-14}"
rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
padding: "0 10px"
height: 40px
button-small:
typography: "{typography.button-14}"
rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
padding: "0 6px"
height: 32px
button-large:
typography: "{typography.button-16}"
rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
padding: "0 14px"
height: 48px
input:
backgroundColor: "{colors.background-100}"
textColor: "{colors.primary}"
typography: "{typography.label-14}"
rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
padding: "0 12px"
height: 40px
input-small:
typography: "{typography.label-14}"
rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
padding: "0 12px"
height: 32px
input-large:
typography: "{typography.label-16}"
rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
padding: "0 12px"
height: 48px
---
# Geist
## Overview
Geist is Vercel’s design system for building consistent, developer-focused interfaces. The aesthetic is minimal and high-contrast: plenty of whitespace, restrained color, and content set on near-neutral surfaces. Prioritize readability and accessibility, and use color to signal state or hierarchy rather than decoration.
This is the Light theme. The Dark theme uses the same token names with different values and lives at `/design.dark.md`. Colors are sRGB hex with Display P3 equivalents.
## Colors
Each non-background scale runs 10 steps (`100`–`1000`), and the step encodes intent, not just lightness:
- `100` default background
- `200` hover background
- `300` active background
- `400` default border
- `500` hover border
- `600` active border
- `700` solid fill, high contrast
- `800` solid fill, hover
- `900` secondary text and icons
- `1000` primary text and icons
`background-100` is the primary page and card surface; `background-200` is a secondary surface for subtle separation. The `gray-alpha-*` tokens are translucent, so they layer over any background; use them for borders, dividers, overlays, and hover states. Solid `gray-*` holds its contrast on any surface, so use it for text and opaque fills. Accent scales carry meaning: `blue` for success, links, and focus; `red` for errors; `amber` for warnings; plus `green`, `teal`, `purple`, and `pink`. Use the hex tokens everywhere; each accent scale also ships a `*-p3` wide-gamut value in `oklch()` for Display P3 screens. The Dark theme redefines the same names at `/design.dark.md`.
## Typography
Geist Sans sets UI and prose; Geist Mono sets code, data, and tabular figures. Both are open-source. The `typography` tokens above carry concrete `fontFamily`, `fontSize`, `fontWeight`, `lineHeight`, and `letterSpacing`:
- Headings, `heading-72` through `heading-14`, title pages and sections; `letterSpacing` tightens as the size grows.
- Labels, `label-20` through `label-12`, carry single-line, scannable text: navigation, form labels, table headers, metadata.
- Copy, `copy-24` through `copy-13`, set multi-line body text with a taller `lineHeight`.
- Buttons, `button-16` through `button-12`, are medium-weight labels for buttons and compact controls.
`copy-14` and `label-14` cover most text. The `-mono` tokens pair Geist Mono with the same metrics; prefer tabular figures when numbers need to align.
## Layout
Spacing follows a 4px scale: 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, 64, 96px. Keep a three-step rhythm: 8px inside a group, 16px between groups, 32–40px between sections. Cards use 24px padding, 16px when compact and 32px for hero areas. Center content in a 1200px column with side padding that grows at wider breakpoints, and make every layout work on mobile and desktop. Breakpoints are `sm` 401px, `md` 601px, `lg` 961px, `xl` 1200px, and `2xl` 1400px.
## Elevation & Depth
Hierarchy comes from tonal surfaces and borders first, so shadows stay subtle. Apply these `box-shadow` values for the light theme:
- Raised cards: `0 2px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04)`
- Popovers and menus: `0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.02), 0 4px 8px -4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04), 0 16px 24px -8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.06)`
- Modals and dialogs: `0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.02), 0 8px 16px -4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04), 0 24px 32px -8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.06)`
Tooltips take the lightest of these. Pair each elevation with the matching radius below.
## Motion
Use motion only when it clarifies a change, never for decoration. Most interactions should feel instant: a duration of `0ms` is often the snappiest and best choice, and the call is context-dependent. When motion genuinely helps, such as revealing or moving an element, keep it short and physical with the easing `cubic-bezier(0.175, 0.885, 0.32, 1.1)`: roughly 150ms for state changes, 200ms for popovers and tooltips, and 300ms for overlays and modals. Avoid long, looping, or attention-grabbing animation, and honor `prefers-reduced-motion` by dropping nonessential motion.
## Shapes
Radii stay tight: 6px for everyday surfaces and controls, 12px for menus and modals, 16px for fullscreen surfaces. Reserve 9999px for pills, avatars, and circular controls. Keep one radius family per view rather than mixing rounded and sharp corners.
## Components
The `components` tokens above give ready-to-use values per element (`backgroundColor`, `textColor`, `rounded`, `height`) drawn from this theme:
- Primary button: solid `gray-1000` fill with a `background-100` label, for the single most important action on a view.
- Secondary button: `background-100` fill with a translucent `gray-alpha-400` border.
- Tertiary button: transparent fill with `gray-1000` text for low-emphasis actions; it tints with `gray-alpha` on hover.
- Error button: solid `red-800` fill with white text, for destructive actions.
- Input: `background-100` fill, translucent border, 6px radius.
The variant tokens are the default medium (40px) size. Use the `button-small`/`input-small` (32px) and `button-large`/`input-large` (48px) tokens for the other sizes; large buttons step up to `button-16`. Hover and active states step up the scale: a `100` fill becomes `200` on hover and `300` on active, and borders move from `400` to `500` to `600`. Disabled uses a `gray-100` fill, `gray-700` text, and a not-allowed cursor. Focus shows a two-layer ring (`box-shadow: 0 0 0 2px #ffffff, 0 0 0 4px #006bff`): a 2px gap in the surface color, then a 2px `blue-700` ring.
## Voice & Content
Copy is part of the design; keep it precise and free of filler.
- Use Title Case for labels, buttons, titles, and tabs; sentence case for body, helper text, and toasts.
- Name actions with a verb and a noun (`Deploy Project`, `Delete Member`), never `Confirm`, `OK`, or a bare verb.
- Write errors as what happened plus what to do next: `Build failed. Bundle exceeds 50 MB. Reduce it or raise the limit.`
- Toasts name the specific thing that changed, drop the trailing period, and never say `successfully`: `Project deleted`, not `Successfully deleted the project.`
- Empty states point to the first action: `No deployments yet. Push to your Git repository to create one.`
- Use the present participle with an ellipsis for in-progress states: `Deploying…`, `Saving…`.
- Use numerals (`3 projects`), curly quotes, and the ellipsis character; skip `please` and marketing superlatives.
## Do's and Don'ts
- Use the gray scale to rank information: `1000` for primary text, `900` for secondary, `700` for disabled.
- Keep solid accent color for state and the single most important action on a view.
- Hold WCAG AA contrast (4.5:1 for body text).
- Show the focus ring on every interactive element at `:focus-visible`, and never remove an outline without a visible replacement.
- Apply the typography tokens instead of setting font size, line height, or weight by hand.
- Don’t signal state with color alone; pair it with an icon or text label.
- Don’t use `background-200` as a general fill; it is for subtle separation only.
- Don’t mix rounded and sharp corners, or more than two font weights, in one view.
- Don’t swap `gray-*` for `background-*`; they are separate scales.
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