---
version: alpha
name: Rippling
description: Light design system extracted from www.rippling.com (DOM-true values, Emblematic extractor 0.2.0, 2026-11-12).
colors:
  background: "#FFFFFF"
  surface: "#F2EEEB"
  on-surface: "#000000"
  on-surface-variant: "#000000B3"
  primary: "#FFA81D"
  outline: "#CEC1B8"
  color-7: "#1C1C1C"
  color-8: "#4A0039"
  color-9: "#FFFFFFB3"
  color-10: "#383838"
  color-11: "#E1D8D2"
  on-primary: "#000000"
typography:
  display-lg:
    fontFamily: Basel
    fontSize: 48px
    fontWeight: 500
    lineHeight: 1.083
    letterSpacing: -0.015em
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: Basel
    fontSize: 42px
    fontWeight: 500
    lineHeight: 1.143
    letterSpacing: -0.036em
  body-md:
    fontFamily: Basel
    fontSize: 18px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.444
    letterSpacing: 0.014em
  label-md:
    fontFamily: Basel
    fontSize: 15px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.467
    letterSpacing: 0.017em
rounded:
  xs: 4px
  sm: 5px
  md: 8px
  lg: 12px
  xl: 48px
spacing:
  xxs: 2px
  xs: 4px
  sm: 8px
  md: 12px
  lg: 16px
  xl: 24px
  2xl: 32px
  3xl: 48px
  4xl: 60px
  5xl: 64px
  6xl: 80px
  base: 8px
  container: 1320px
components:
  button-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
    textColor: "{colors.on-surface}"
    rounded: "{rounded.xs}"
    padding: 16px
    height: 54px
    typography: "{typography.label-md}"
  button-secondary:
    textColor: "{colors.on-surface-variant}"
    rounded: 0px
    padding: 0px
    height: 40px
    typography: "{typography.label-md}"
  card:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
    rounded: "{rounded.lg}"
    padding: 0px
---

# Rippling

> Extracted from [https://www.rippling.com/en-GB](https://www.rippling.com/en-GB) 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

Rippling uses a light canvas (#FFFFFF) with a palette led by #FFA81D. Type is set in **Basel** (display + body), with 18px body text. Layout: 1320px container, none-detected navigation, 7 sections. Built with next.js, tailwind, contentful, google-tag-manager, vercel.

## 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` | `#FFFFFF` | 1 0 0 | bg | 35.7% | `--tw-ring-offset-color` |
| `surface` | `#F2EEEB` | 0.951 0.006 59.6 | surface | 21.1% | — |
| `on-surface` | `#000000` | 0 0 0 | text | 8.6% | — |
| `on-surface-variant` | `#000000B3` (on bg `#4D4D4D`) | 0 0 0 | muted | 3.0% | — |
| `primary` | `#FFA81D` | 0.799 0.166 70.9 | accent | 0.44% | — |
| `outline` | `#CEC1B8` | 0.819 0.019 57.2 | border | 0.02% | — |
| `color-7` | `#1C1C1C` | 0.226 0 0 | other | 22.1% | — |
| `color-8` | `#4A0039` | 0.276 0.119 340.6 | other | 6.4% | — |
| `color-9` | `#FFFFFFB3` (on bg `#FFFFFF`) | 1 0 0 | other | 2.2% | — |
| `color-10` | `#383838` | 0.341 0 0 | other | 0.11% | — |
| `color-11` | `#E1D8D2` | 0.888 0.013 56.2 | other | 0.07% | — |

Sparse chromatic highlights (not accents): `#7A005D`, `#F58120`.

Contrast: text on background 21:1, muted text 8.52:1, accent 1.93:1.

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

## Typography

| Family | Role | Weights | Share of text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **Basel** (CSS: `__basel_e55247`) | display, body | 400, 500 | 100.0% | webfont |

Declared in `@font-face` but not used to paint text on this page: Styrene A. Don't treat these as the page's fonts.

Scale (px): 12, 15, 16, 18, 24, 30, 42, 48. Effective ratio ≈ 1.278 (close to a major third). Body 18px at line-height 1.444; display 48px with tracking -0.015em. Headings are sentence case. On a 390px viewport the body is 16px and display 36px.

## Layout

Spacing follows a 8px base unit; the most used steps are 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 60, 64, 80px. Sections open with about 120px of space before their first line of text. Content sits in a 1320px container on a 2-column grid. Text density 0.098 (text area / page area).

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

1. **hero** — “Manage your entire workforce on one system” (822px, bg #4A0039)
2. **section** — “Start with the apps you need, or run them all together” (912px, bg #F2EEEB)
3. **section** — “Rippling is the operating system for your entire workforce” (1665px, bg #FFFFFF)
4. **section** — “When everything runs on one system, work moves faster” (1533px, bg #FFFFFF)
5. **section** — “What’s new at Rippling” (1091px, bg #FFFFFF)
6. **section** — “Get a demo—live or on demand” (1536px, bg #4A0039)
7. **logos** — “Request a demo to see Rippling in action” (508px, bg #1C1C1C)

## Shapes

Dominant corner radius 4px; radii in use: 4px, 5px, 8px, 12px, 48px. Borders: hairline (1px).

## Components

- **button-primary**: backgroundColor `#FFA81D`, textColor `#000000`, rounded `4px`, padding `16px 24px`, height `54px`, fontFamily `Basel`, fontSize `15px`, fontWeight `500` (e.g. “See Rippling”)
- **button-secondary**: textColor `#000000B3`, rounded `0px`, padding `0px 0px`, height `40px`, fontFamily `Basel`, fontSize `15px`, fontWeight `500`, border `1px solid #E5E7EB` (e.g. “Log in”)
- **card**: rounded `12px`, padding `0px`, backgroundColor `#F2EEEB`

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do reserve `#FFA81D` for primary actions and highlights; it covers only 0.44% of the painted page.
- Do set body copy in Basel at 18px / 1.444.
- Do tighten large headlines (-0.015em at 48px).
- Don't introduce font weights beyond 400, 500.
- Don't add drop shadows; depth comes from tone and borders.
- Do keep corners at 4px for most controls, and use the larger radii only for cards and media.
- Do snap spacing to multiples of 8px.
- 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`, `layout.columns`, `layout.hero`, `layout.section_count`, `sections[].kind`, `space.section_padding_px`. Full per-field provenance is in `spec.json`.