---
version: alpha
name: teenage engineering
description: Dark design system extracted from teenage.engineering (DOM-true values, Emblematic extractor 0.2.0, 2026-11-12).
colors:
  on-surface: "#F1F2F2"
  background: "#000000"
  theme-fct: "#E5E5E5"
  success: "#006837"
typography:
  display-lg:
    fontFamily: Techno Type
    fontSize: 39.67px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.111
    letterSpacing: -0.022em
rounded: {}
spacing:
  xxs: 14.5px
  xs: 22px
  sm: 33px
  md: 66px
  container: 1308px
omitted:
  - section: rounded
    reason: no rounded corners on painted elements
---

# teenage engineering

> Extracted from [https://teenage.engineering/](https://teenage.engineering/) 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

teenage engineering uses a dark canvas (#000000) with a monochrome palette. Type is set in **Techno Type** (display), **te-20**, with ?px body text. Layout: 1308px container, top-static+transparent navigation, 4 sections. Built with 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `on-surface` | `#F1F2F2` | 0.96 0.001 197.1 | text | 53.3% | `--theme-mc` |
| `background` | `#000000` | 0 0 0 | bg | 43.1% | `--theme-body-bc` |
| `theme-fct` | `#E5E5E5` | 0.922 0 0 | other | 3.3% | `--theme-fct` |
| `success` | `#006837` | 0.454 0.115 153.9 | other | 0.24% | `--success` |

Contrast: text on background 18.72:1.

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

## Typography

| Family | Role | Weights | Share of text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **Techno Type** (CSS: `TechnoType`) | display | 400, 700 | 82.1% | webfont |
| **te-20** | body | 100, 300 | 17.9% | webfont |

Declared in `@font-face` but not used to paint text on this page: Ttregular, Franxurter, Riddim, Riddimscript, Swingus, te-40. Don't treat these as the page's fonts.

Scale (px): 9, 19, 19.5, 39.5.  Body ?px at line-height normal; display 39.67px with tracking -0.022em. Headings are mixed case. On a 390px viewport the body is 21.5px and display 21.49px.

## Layout

Spacing has no reliable single base unit; the most used steps are 14.5, 22, 33, 66px. Sections open with about 37px of space before their first line of text. Content sits in a 1308px container on a 12-column grid. Text density 0.03 (text area / page area).

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

1. **nav** (118px, bg #000000)
2. **hero** (5000px, bg #000000)
3. **section** (1440px, bg #000000)
4. **footer** (96px, bg #000000)

## Shapes

Dominant corner radius 0px; radii in use: none. Borders: none.

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do keep the palette monochrome; there is no chromatic brand accent on the page.
- Do set body copy in te-20 at ?px.
- Do use Techno Type only for display sizes, not for body text.
- Do tighten large headlines (-0.022em at 39.67px).
- Don't introduce font weights beyond 100, 300, 400, 700.
- 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`.