---
version: alpha
name: Stripe Press
description: Dark design system extracted from press.stripe.com (DOM-true values, Emblematic extractor 0.2.0, 2026-11-12).
colors:
  background: "#201819"
  on-surface: "#000000"
  color: "#FFFFFF"
  color-4: "#00000011"
  color-5: "#222222"
typography:
  display-lg:
    fontFamily: Ivar Headline
    fontSize: 17.6px
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: 0.018em
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: Ivar Headline
    fontSize: 16px
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.3
    letterSpacing: 0.02em
  label-md:
    fontFamily: Ivar Text
    fontSize: 14px
    fontWeight: 500
    lineHeight: 1.4
    letterSpacing: 0.023em
rounded:
  md: 2px
spacing:
  xxs: 2px
  xs: 4px
  sm: 6px
  md: 8px
  lg: 12px
  xl: 14px
  2xl: 20px
  3xl: 23.5px
  4xl: 24.5px
  5xl: 30px
  6xl: 36px
  7xl: 40px
  8xl: 67.5px
  9xl: 80px
  container: 1037px
components:
  input:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.color-4}"
    rounded: 0px
    padding: 1px
    height: 49px
---

# Stripe Press

> Extracted from [https://press.stripe.com/](https://press.stripe.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

Stripe Press uses a dark canvas (#201819) with a monochrome palette. Type is set in **Ivar Text**, **Ivar Headline** (display), with ?px body text. Layout: 1037px container, top-static+transparent navigation, 3 sections. Built with wordpress.

## 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` | `#201819` | 0.219 0.013 9.7 | bg | 79.6% | `--backgroundColor` |
| `on-surface` | `#000000` | 0 0 0 | text | 2.2% | — |
| `color` | `#FFFFFF` | 1 0 0 | other | 17.9% | `--color` |
| `color-4` | `#00000011` (on bg `#1E1617`) | 0 0 0 | other | 0.25% | — |
| `color-5` | `#222222` | 0.252 0 0 | other | 0.07% | — |

Contrast: text on background 1.21:1.

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

## Typography

| Family | Role | Weights | Share of text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **Ivar Text** | body | 500 | 97.3% | webfont |
| **Ivar Headline** | display | 600 | 2.7% | webfont |

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

Scale (px): 14, 16, 17, 17.5, 18, 25.  Body ?px at line-height normal; display 17.6px with tracking 0.018em. Headings are sentence case. On a 390px viewport the body is ?px and display 17.6px.

## Layout

Spacing has no reliable single base unit; the most used steps are 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, 20, 23.5, 24.5, 30, 36, 40, 67.5, 80px. Content sits in a 1037px container. Text density 0.02 (text area / page area).

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

1. **nav** (44px, bg #201819)
2. **hero** — “Stripe Press” (5869px, bg #201819)
3. **newsletter** (1120px, bg #FFFFFF)

## Shapes

Dominant corner radius 0px; radii in use: 2px. Borders: hairline (1px).

## Components

- **input**: rounded `0px`, height `49px`, padding `1px 2px`, backgroundColor `#00000011`

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do keep the palette monochrome; there is no chromatic brand accent on the page.
- Do set body copy in Ivar Text at ?px.
- Do use Ivar Headline only for display sizes, not for body text.
- Don't introduce font weights beyond 500, 600.
- Don't add drop shadows; depth comes from tone and borders.
- Do keep corners at 0px for most controls.
- 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: `components`, `layout.columns`, `layout.hero`, `layout.section_count`, `space.base`, `space.section_padding_px`, `type.ratio`. Full per-field provenance is in `spec.json`.