---
version: alpha
name: Creativeboom
description: Light design system extracted from www.creativeboom.com (DOM-true values, Emblematic extractor 0.2.0, 2026-11-12).
colors:
  background: "#FBF7EF"
  surface: "#FFFFFF"
  on-surface: "#000000"
  primary: "#FFC828"
typography:
  display-lg:
    fontFamily: Roobert
    fontSize: 60px
    fontWeight: 500
    lineHeight: 1.1
  title-md:
    fontFamily: Roobert
    fontSize: 30px
    fontWeight: 500
    lineHeight: 1.2
  body-md:
    fontFamily: Roobert
    fontSize: 24px
    fontWeight: 500
    lineHeight: 1.25
  body-sm:
    fontFamily: ABC Diatype
    fontSize: 16px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
  label-md:
    fontFamily: ABC Diatype
    fontSize: 12px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1
  mono-md:
    fontFamily: ABC Diatype
    fontSize: 11px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
rounded:
  full: 9999px
spacing:
  xxs: 2px
  xs: 4px
  sm: 6px
  md: 8px
  lg: 12px
  xl: 16px
  2xl: 20px
  3xl: 24px
  4xl: 28px
  5xl: 32px
  6xl: 36px
  7xl: 40px
  8xl: 80px
  base: 4px
  container: 1280px
components:
  button-secondary:
    textColor: "{colors.on-surface}"
    rounded: "{rounded.full}"
    padding: 8px
    height: 28px
    typography: "{typography.label-md}"
  input:
    rounded: 0px
    padding: 4px
    height: 42px
---

# Creativeboom

> Extracted from [https://www.creativeboom.com/](https://www.creativeboom.com/) on 2026-11-12 by Emblematic. Every value below was read from the rendered DOM (computed styles, `document.fonts`, and the fonts Chrome actually used to paint text), not estimated from pixels. When the YAML front matter and this prose disagree, the YAML wins. Copy values from this file exactly; don't transcribe them from memory. Don't copy logos, imagery, illustrations or marketing copy.

## Overview

Creativeboom uses a light canvas (#FBF7EF) with a palette led by #FFC828. Type is set in **Roobert** (display), **ABC Diatype**, with 24px body text. Layout: 1280px container, top-static navigation, 18 sections. Built with react, tailwind, cloudflare.

## Colors

Area-weighted from painted backgrounds, text and borders on the 1440px light capture. Roles are inferred from usage (largest background, most text, interactive fills). Every hex is an exact computed value; a role marked *unverified* is a best guess that has not passed review, so its canonical token (e.g. `primary`) is left out of the front matter.

| Token | Hex | OKLCH | Role | Share of paint | CSS variable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `background` | `#FBF7EF` | 0.977 0.011 84.6 | bg | 41.5% | `--color-cream-900` |
| `surface` | `#FFFFFF` | 1 0 0 | surface | 30.4% | `--color-white` |
| `on-surface` | `#000000` | 0 0 0 | text | 27.3% | `--color-black` |
| `primary` | `#FFC828` | 0.858 0.167 87.3 | accent | 0.37% | `--color-yellow-900` |

Sparse chromatic highlights (not accents): `#009B72`.

Contrast: text on background 19.65:1, accent 1.45:1.

The site does not change under `prefers-color-scheme: dark`.

## Typography

| Family | Role | Weights | Share of text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **Roobert** | display | 500 | 76.0% | webfont |
| **ABC Diatype** | body | 400, 700 | 24.0% | webfont |

Scale (px): 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 30, 40, 60. Effective ratio ≈ 1.357 (close to a perfect fourth). Body 24px at line-height 1.25; display 60px with tracking 0em. Headings are title case. On a 390px viewport the body is 24px and display 40px.

## Layout

Spacing follows a 4px base unit; the most used steps are 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 80px. Sections open with about 153px of space before their first line of text. Content sits in a 1280px container on a 4-column grid. Text density 0.116 (text area / page area).

Section order (desktop). Kinds below the review threshold are shown as *section*:

1. **nav** (76px, bg #FFFFFF)
2. **hero** (140px, bg #FFFFFF)
3. **section** — “What 50 years in business has taught Springetts about building brands that thriv” (935px, bg #FBF7EF)
4. **section** — “Motion North welcomes global design and animation talent to Manchester” (1188px, bg #FFFFFF)
5. **section** — “Inspiration” (236px, bg #F1F6F6)
6. **section** — “Tatiana Egoshina finds beauty in bad typography, Italian folklore and happy acci” (1304px, bg #F1F6F6)
7. **section** — “Explore by discipline” (538px, bg #000000)
8. **section** — “Trending” (1157px, bg #FFFFFF)
9. **section** — “Insight” (236px, bg #FBF7EF)
10. **section** — “SEA turns 30 with a new anniversary book celebrating design that lasts” (952px, bg #FBF7EF)
11. **section** — “Latest jobs” (1367px, bg #000000)
12. **section** — “Creative Boom IRL” (1079px, bg #FFFFFF)
13. **section** — “Upcoming events” (1504px, bg #000000)
14. **section** — “Join our community” (635px, bg #FFFFFF)
15. **section** — “Watch Creative Boom” (564px, bg #FBF7EF)
16. **section** — “The Spark: Malika Favre on Coffee, Dinner Party Dreams and a Cheeky Confession” (722px, bg #FFFFFF)
17. **section** (256px, bg #F1F6F6)
18. **footer** — “Social” (558px, bg #FFFFFF)

## Shapes

Dominant corner radius is a full pill; radii in use: pill. Borders: hairline (1px).

## Components

- **button-secondary**: textColor `#000000`, rounded `9999px`, padding `8px 12px`, height `28px`, fontFamily `ABC Diatype`, fontSize `12px`, fontWeight `700`, border `1px solid #000000` (e.g. “Graphic Design”)
- **input**: rounded `0px`, height `42px`, padding `4px 0px`

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do reserve `#FFC828` for primary actions and highlights; it covers only 0.37% of the painted page.
- Do set body copy in ABC Diatype at 24px / 1.25.
- Do use Roobert only for display sizes, not for body text.
- Don't introduce font weights beyond 400, 500, 700.
- Don't add drop shadows; depth comes from tone and borders.
- Do keep corners at pill for most controls.
- Do snap spacing to multiples of 4px.
- Don't copy this site's logos, illustrations, photography or copy; use the system, not the brand assets.

## Provenance

Spec v2, extractor 0.2.0. Render quality: **ok**. Vision pass: not run. Fields below confidence 0.7 are hedged or left out above: `color.accent_strategy`, `components`, `layout.columns`, `layout.hero`, `layout.section_count`, `sections[].kind`, `space.section_padding_px`. Full per-field provenance is in `spec.json`.