/* ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── * design-systems/intercom/tokens.css * * Structured token bindings for "Design System Inspired by Intercom". * Editorial customer-service warmth: warm cream canvas, off-black text, * a single Fin Orange signal, and aggressively sharp 4px geometry. * * Key brand decisions encoded here: * - Warm Cream (#faf9f6) canvas — never pure white, but white pops above it * - Fin Orange (#ff5600) — the SINGULAR accent, named after Intercom's AI agent * - Off Black (#111111) — warmer than #000, primary text + dark buttons * - Oat (#dedbd6) borders — warm-tinted, never cool gray * - Saans display: 80px at line-height 1.0 with -2.4px (≈ -0.03em) tracking * - Sharp 4px radius — near-rectangular buttons are the geometric identity * * The "vivid purple/blue" hint sometimes associated with Intercom is the * legacy Messenger SDK palette. The current intercom.com identity is * warm-neutral + Fin Orange (see DESIGN.md §1, §2, §9), and that is what * this token set encodes. * ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */ :root { /* ─── Surface ───────────────────────────────────────────────────── * Warm cream is the foundation — Intercom's website never uses pure * white as the page background. Pure white IS used for the "lifted" * surface tier so cards and panels punch above the warm canvas. * --surface-warm holds the warm-cream value for any component that * wants the warm tier explicitly (cards-on-warm-canvas pattern). */ --bg: #faf9f6; /* Warm Cream — the editorial canvas */ --surface: #ffffff; /* Pure White — lifted card / panel tier */ --surface-warm: #faf9f6; /* Warm Cream — DESIGN.md §4 warm-card pattern */ /* ─── Foreground ────────────────────────────────────────────────── * Off Black is warmer than #000 — pure black would read harsh against * the warm canvas. DESIGN.md describes a single off-black heading * weight; --fg-2 aliases --fg because the brand expresses hierarchy * through size and tracking, not through tonal text variation. */ --fg: #111111; /* Off Black — primary text, dark buttons */ --fg-2: var(--fg); /* alias — single heading color throughout */ --muted: #7b7b78; /* Black 50 — warm muted text */ --meta: #9c9fa5; /* Content Tertiary — captions, metadata */ /* ─── Border ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── * Oat is THE Intercom border — warm-tinted, never cool gray. The * DESIGN.md "don't" list explicitly forbids cool grays. --border-soft * is a lighter oat for inner row separators that must not compete * with the primary card edge. */ --border: #dedbd6; /* Oat — warm card edge */ --border-soft: #ebe9e4; /* Lighter oat — inner row separators */ /* ─── Accent ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── * Fin Orange — named after Intercom's AI agent, the SINGLE chromatic * move against the warm-neutral palette. DESIGN.md §7 forbids * decorative use: reserve for primary CTAs and AI/brand moments. */ --accent: #ff5600; /* Fin Orange */ --accent-on: #ffffff; --accent-hover: color-mix(in oklab, var(--accent), black 8%); --accent-active: color-mix(in oklab, var(--accent), black 14%); /* ─── Semantic ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── * Pulled from DESIGN.md §2 "Report Palette" so semantic states land * inside the brand vocabulary (green, red), with the schema warn * default for amber. */ --success: #00da00; /* Green from report palette */ --warn: #eab308; --danger: #c41c1c; /* Report Red */ /* ─── Typography ────────────────────────────────────────────────── * Saans is Intercom's custom geometric sans — falls back through * Saans Fallback and then through the system ui-sans-serif chain so * artifacts render legibly even when Saans is not loaded. SaansMono * for code and uppercase technical labels (DESIGN.md §3). */ --font-display: "Saans", "Saans Fallback", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; --font-body: "Saans", "Saans Fallback", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; --font-mono: "SaansMono", "SaansMono Fallback", ui-monospace, "SF Mono", "JetBrains Mono", Menlo, Consolas, monospace; /* Type scale — DESIGN.md §3 hierarchy: 80 / 54 / 40 / 32 / 24 / 20 * down to 14 / 12. The 80px display with -2.4px tracking and 1.00 * line-height is the billboard identity. */ --text-xs: 12px; /* Mono labels, eyebrows */ --text-sm: 14px; /* Body Light, button small */ --text-base: 16px; /* Body, button */ --text-lg: 20px; /* Body Emphasis */ --text-xl: 24px; /* Feature Title */ --text-2xl: 32px; /* Card Title */ --text-3xl: 54px; /* Section Heading */ --text-4xl: 80px; /* Display Hero — billboard scale */ --leading-body: 1.5; --leading-tight: 1.0; /* 1.00 across all heading sizes — ultra-compressed */ --tracking-display: -0.03em; /* ≈ -2.4px at 80px — aggressive negative tracking */ /* ─── Spacing ───────────────────────────────────────────────────── * 4px-grid base scale. DESIGN.md §5 lists 8/10/12/14/16/20/24/32/ * 40/48/60/64/80/96; the intermediate 10/14/40/60 tiers are * component-internal and not part of the shared schema. */ --space-1: 4px; --space-2: 8px; --space-3: 12px; --space-4: 16px; --space-5: 20px; --space-6: 24px; --space-8: 32px; --space-12: 48px; /* Section rhythm — DESIGN.md §5 documents 80–96px between sections * desktop. Generous editorial whitespace is part of the magazine- * like reading experience. */ --section-y-desktop: 96px; --section-y-tablet: 64px; --section-y-phone: 48px; /* ─── Radius ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── * Sharp geometry is the identity. DESIGN.md §7 "Don't" list: * "Don't round buttons beyond 4px". The radius scale tops out at * 8px for cards. No softness. */ --radius-sm: 4px; /* Buttons — near-rectangular */ --radius-md: 6px; /* Nav items */ --radius-lg: 8px; /* Cards, containers */ --radius-pill: 9999px; /* Badges, status dots */ /* ─── Elevation ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── * Minimal shadows (DESIGN.md §6). Depth comes from warm borders and * surface tints. The raised tier is a near-invisible whisper using * the warm fg as the shadow color so it tints rather than greys. */ --elev-flat: none; --elev-ring: 0 0 0 1px var(--border); --elev-raised: 0 2px 8px color-mix(in oklab, var(--fg), transparent 94%); /* ─── Focus ring ────────────────────────────────────────────────── * Orange-tinted to match the Fin accent — keeps keyboard focus * inside the brand voice rather than borrowing browser blue. */ --focus-ring: 0 0 0 3px color-mix(in oklab, var(--accent), transparent 70%); /* ─── Motion ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── * Schema defaults — Intercom's signature interaction is scale(1.1) * hover, which lives in components (button :hover transform), not * in the motion duration tokens. */ --motion-fast: 150ms; --motion-base: 200ms; --ease-standard: cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1); /* ─── Layout ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── * 1280px container — comfortable editorial width that accommodates * the 80px display headlines without crowding. */ --container-max: 1280px; --container-gutter-desktop: 24px; --container-gutter-tablet: 16px; --container-gutter-phone: 12px; }