Issue 00 / Token preview

The Collective

Design tokens from DESIGN.md §2.1 rendered through Tailwind v4. If the palette swatches and type scale below look right, the tokens are wired correctly.

Palette

ink

#0A0A0A

paper

#141414

paper-2

#1F1F1F

bone

#F4F1EA

ash

#9A968D

gold

#C9A96E

signal

#E07856

verdant

#6B8E7F

Type scale

Display — Playfair, 48 / 72

The space between letters

H1 — Playfair, 32 / 48

A creative talent network

H2 — Playfair, 24 / 32

Featured creative

H3 — Syne, uppercase, 18 / 22

Recently added

Body — Inter, 15 / 16

The Collective should feel like a design publication that happens to be functional, not a SaaS product that happens to look nice.

Mono — DM Mono, 12 / 13

Berlin · Available · Type designer

shadcn/ui — themed

Buttons and inputs from shadcn/ui, mapped to the design tokens. Primary uses gold; muted uses paper-2; borders are hairline paper-2; focus ring is gold.

Accent test — gold is rationed: view profile →