Emblematic
Perplexity homepage, desktop
Perplexity homepage in dark mode
Dark mode (follows system setting)
Perplexity homepage, mobile
Mobile, 390px

Typography

scale ratio 1.294
  • Pplx Sanscss: pplxSansbody400 500100%
stylefamilysizeweightlinetracking
displayPplx Sans26px4001.5-0.005em
bodyPplx Sans12px4001.3750em
Type scale
Aa11Aa12Aa14Aa16Aa26
Body size
12px / 1.333
Display size
26px
Display tracking
-0.005em
Case
mixed

Color

light scheme
Palette by painted area
Text on bg
14.86:1
Muted on bg
6.74:1
Accent on bg
14.81:1
Dark mode
follows system
Declared accent tokens
  • --accent-bg-strong#016A71painted
  • --action-solid-accent-bg-idle#016A71painted

Space, shape & depth

Spacing scale (base 4px)
  • 2
  • 4
  • 6
  • 8
  • 10
  • 12
  • 13.5
  • 16
  • 32
Corner radii
81220pill
Shadows (2)
Borders
hairline, 1px
Section padding
n/a

Components

exact computed values
button-primary
Continue with Google
backgroundColor
#252525
textColor
#FBFBFB
rounded
8px
padding
0px 16px
height
40px
fontFamily
Pplx Sans
fontSize
16px
fontWeight
500
button-secondary
View plans
textColor
#0B2833
rounded
9999px
padding
0px 8px
height
24px
fontFamily
Pplx Sans
fontSize
12px
fontWeight
500
border
1px solid #0B283326
input
rounded
8px
height
38px
padding
8px 16px
backgroundColor
#FFFFFF
border
1px solid #0B283326

Layout & motion

Container
n/a
Grid columns
2
Hero
unknown
Navigation
side
Page height
900px
Easing
ease
Durations
150ms 164ms 250ms 300ms
Transitions
46
Keyframes
1
Stack
react, tailwind, radix-ui, cloudflare

Page sections (1)

  1. Perplexity hero section
    01heroWhat do you want to know?

How Perplexity compares

Body text
12px: smaller than 96% of indexed sites (median 16px).
Largest heading
26px: smaller than 90% of indexed sites (median 60px).
Type scale
1.29×: steeper than 53% of indexed sites (median 1.28×).
Text contrast
14.9:1: lower than 76% of indexed sites (median 17.6:1).
Page length
900px: shorter than 93% of indexed sites (median 8,217px).
Corner radius
Mostly 8px, shared by 21 of 274 indexed sites (8%).
Pplx Sans
The only site in the index that loads Pplx Sans.
Color scheme
Light by default, like 75% of indexed sites. It is one of 49 sites (18%) that switch with the system dark mode setting.

In short

What font does Perplexity use?

Perplexity uses Pplx Sans (loaded as "pplxSans") for body text.

What are Perplexity's brand colors?

Perplexity's website uses a light scheme: background #FBFBFB, surface #1C1C1C12, text #0B2833, muted text #0B2833BF and borders #0B283326.

How is Perplexity's website laid out?

The most common corner radius is 8px, body text is 12px with 1.333 line height, and the page container is nullpx wide.

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