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Minimal Product Design Cheatsheet
Quick typography, color palette, and iconography reference for clean product interfaces.
A compact reference of practical design tokens distilled from polished software interfaces. It provides specific font choices, type scales, and hex palettes for both light and dark modes to help build neutral SaaS or AI product UIs.
How it works
- Font: SF Pro, regular and medium
- Font size: 12px, 13px (base size), 14px, 16px, 18px, and 24px (the biggest)
- Colors: subtle (7F7F7F), default (5D5D5D), strong (292929), bg-selected (F5F5F5), border (F2F2F2)
- Icon: @nucleoicons with 1px width
What it's for
- Style a clean web app interface without designing tokens from scratch
- Establish consistent typography hierarchy for dashboard and tool layouts
- Select neutral hex values for borders, text, and active states in dark or light mode
Key points
- Recommended typography using SF Pro in regular and medium weights
- Compact type scale from 12px to 24px with a 13px base size
- Light-mode neutral palette for subtle, default, strong text, and borders
- Dark-mode neutral palette with matching surface and border specs
- Recommended icon pairing using Nucleo icons with a 1px stroke
Pricing
Free
Details
- Type
- Tip
- Category
- Design
- Topic
- Design Systems
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- other
- For
- Product designers, indie hackers, and frontend developers building web tools.
- Tags
- design, ui, typography, colors, tokens, cheatsheet
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