---
version: alpha
name: Plaid
description: Dark design system extracted from plaid.com (DOM-true values, Emblematic extractor 0.2.0, 2026-11-12).
colors:
  background: "#00172E"
  on-surface: "#FFFFFF"
  surface: "#0C1116"
  primary: "#02294B"
  on-surface-variant: "#5C7695"
  color-6: "#F5F5FF"
  color-7: "#E5FCFF"
  color-8: "#42F0CD"
  color-9: "#07578C"
  color-10: "#0E94D8"
  color-11: "#CCF8FF"
  color-12: "#EADDFD"
  color-13: "#E6E6FF"
  color-14: "#E5EFFE"
  color-15: "#FFFFFFB3"
  black900: "#383838"
typography:
  display-lg:
    fontFamily: Plaid Sans
    fontSize: 76px
    fontWeight: 500
    lineHeight: 1.12
    letterSpacing: -0.045em
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: Plaid Sans
    fontSize: 70px
    fontWeight: 500
    lineHeight: 1.08
    letterSpacing: -0.029em
  title-md:
    fontFamily: Plaid Sans
    fontSize: 26px
    fontWeight: 500
    lineHeight: 1.4
    letterSpacing: -0.019em
  body-md:
    fontFamily: Cern
    fontSize: 24px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
  body-sm:
    fontFamily: Cern
    fontSize: 20px
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.5
    letterSpacing: -0.037em
  label-md:
    fontFamily: Cern
    fontSize: 16px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
rounded:
  xs: 8px
  sm: 16px
  md: 24px
  lg: 27px
  xl: 35px
  2xl: 40px
  3xl: 50px
  full: 9999px
spacing:
  xxs: 3px
  xs: 4px
  sm: 6px
  md: 8px
  lg: 10px
  xl: 12px
  2xl: 13.5px
  3xl: 16px
  4xl: 17px
  5xl: 24px
  6xl: 27px
  7xl: 29px
  8xl: 30px
  9xl: 32px
  container: 1245px
components:
  input:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.on-surface}"
    rounded: "{rounded.xs}"
    padding: 8px
    height: 48px
---

# Plaid

> Extracted from [https://plaid.com/](https://plaid.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

Plaid uses a dark canvas (#00172E) with a palette led by #02294B. Type is set in **Plaid Sans** (display), **Cern**, with 24px body text. Layout: 1245px container, top-fixed+transparent navigation, 8 sections. Built with next.js, contentful, segment, cloudfront.

## 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` | `#00172E` | 0.201 0.056 249.2 | bg | 24.1% | — |
| `on-surface` | `#FFFFFF` | 1 0 0 | text | 26.5% | `--tooltip-dark-text` |
| `surface` | `#0C1116` | 0.175 0.013 248.6 | surface | 4.5% | — |
| `primary` | `#02294B` | 0.276 0.075 250 | accent | 3.5% | — |
| `on-surface-variant` | `#5C7695` | 0.558 0.057 253.2 | muted | 0.84% | — |
| `color-6` | `#F5F5FF` | 0.973 0.013 286.2 | other | 10.4% | — |
| `color-7` | `#E5FCFF` | 0.975 0.024 206.2 | other | 10.4% | — |
| `color-8` | `#42F0CD` | 0.86 0.147 175.8 | other | 2.8% | — |
| `color-9` | `#07578C` | 0.443 0.111 246 | other | 2.8% | — |
| `color-10` | `#0E94D8` | 0.636 0.143 240.1 | other | 2.8% | — |
| `color-11` | `#CCF8FF` | 0.951 0.046 208.2 | other | 1.9% | — |
| `color-12` | `#EADDFD` | 0.918 0.045 303.9 | other | 1.8% | — |
| `color-13` | `#E6E6FF` | 0.932 0.034 285.7 | other | 1.5% | — |
| `color-14` | `#E5EFFE` | 0.949 0.023 258.4 | other | 1.5% | — |
| `color-15` | `#FFFFFFB3` (on bg `#B3B9C0`) | 1 0 0 | other | 0.99% | — |
| `black900` | `#383838` | 0.341 0 0 | other | 0.74% | `--black900` |

Contrast: text on background 18.07:1, muted text 3.86:1, accent 1.22:1.

Gradients in use: `linear-gradient(to left bottom, rgb(245, 245, 255) 0%, rgb(247, 250, 255) 50%, rgb(229, 252, 255) 100%)`; `linear-gradient(46deg, rgb(230, 230, 255) 2.73%, rgb(229, 239, 254) 47.11%, rgb(204, 248, 255) 100%)`.

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

## Typography

| Family | Role | Weights | Share of text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **Plaid Sans** | display | 400, 500, 600 | 67.9% | webfont |
| **Cern** | body | 400, 500, 600, 700 | 22.4% | webfont |
| **Inconsolata** | other | 400 | 7.0% | webfont |
| **Bowery Street** | other | 300 | 2.6% | webfont |

Declared in `@font-face` but not used to paint text on this page: Bowery Lane, Monaspace Neon. Don't treat these as the page's fonts.

Scale (px): 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26, 27, 30, 50, 58, 70, 76. Effective ratio ≈ 1.179 (close to a minor third). Body 24px at line-height 1.5; display 76px with tracking -0.045em. Headings are sentence case. On a 390px viewport the body is 18px and display 32px.

## Layout

Spacing has no reliable single base unit; the most used steps are 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13.5, 16, 17, 24, 27, 29, 30, 32px. Sections open with about 130px of space before their first line of text. Content sits in a 1245px container on a 5-column grid. Text density 0.122 (text area / page area).

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

1. **nav** (95px, bg #FFFFFF)
2. **hero** — “Turn data into revolutionary financial products” (929px, bg #FFFFFF)
3. **section** — “Powered by the largest financial network. Built for every financial need.” (1653px, bg #FFFFFF)
4. **logos** — “The AI infrastructure behind smarter financial products” (2895px, bg #FFFFFF)
5. **section** — “Want access to 12K banks? We've got the API keys.” (800px, bg #0D0D3F)
6. **logos** — “See what's possible with Plaid” (1063px, bg #FFFFFF)
7. **section** — “Start building better financial products” (986px, bg #FFFFFF)
8. **footer** — “For financial institutions” (1115px, bg #00172E)

## Elevation & Depth

Style: layered. Most used shadows:

- `rgba(125, 125, 125, 0.01) 0px 55.209px 22.227px 0px, rgba(125, 125, 125, 0.05) 0px 30.831px 18.642px 0px, rgba(125, 125, 125, 0.09) 0px 13.623px 13.623px 0px, rgba(125, 125, 125, 0.1) 0px 3.585px 7.887px 0px`
- `rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 5px 0px`
- `rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 0px 1px 5px 0px`

## Shapes

Dominant corner radius is a full pill; radii in use: 8px, 16px, 24px, 27px, 35px, 40px, 50px, pill. Borders: hairline (1px).

## Components

- **input**: rounded `8px`, height `48px`, padding `8px 8px`, backgroundColor `#FFFFFF`, border `1px solid #02294B`

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do reserve `#02294B` for primary actions and highlights; it covers only 3.5% of the painted page.
- Do set body copy in Cern at 24px / 1.5.
- Do use Plaid Sans only for display sizes, not for body text.
- Do tighten large headlines (-0.045em at 76px).
- Don't introduce font weights beyond 300, 400, 500, 600, 700.
- Do keep corners at pill for most controls, and use the larger radii only for cards and media.
- 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`, `space.base`, `space.section_padding_px`. Full per-field provenance is in `spec.json`.