Foundry, the design system for the suite, rendered from its own tokens. The brand layer is monochrome steel and white, the Horizon Foundry palette. Color is reserved: severity and verdict hues live in the reports and in a short, named list of framed places (the specimens on this page are one), nowhere else, and amber is the forge glow, used on the invoke and run layer (the commands you fire) and on the heading of each /skills entry tile, never for decoration.
Neutral ramp: ink to bone
Severity ramp: the only severity ink
Critical red, high orange, medium amber-yellow, low steel, informational gray. The three verdict colors reuse the same hues so a reader learns one language.
Verdict stamps
Release recommendation
Safe to ship
Release recommendation
Ready to ship, risks noted
Release recommendation
Do not ship
Typography: the foundry and the instrument
Archivo Black
The brand voice · wordmark · display headings
IBM Plex Sans
Body and UI voice
IBM Plex Mono
The instrument voice · IDs · severities · verdicts · metadata
IBM Plex Serif
Long-form rendered documentation only
Motion: named for the job, never a range
A value is matched to a token by what the motion does, never by the nearest number, and a duration whose job matches no token is left alone. Three easings: ease-entrance carries overshoot and belongs to entrances, ease-exit has none, and ease-draw is the entrance whose end point is fixed, where overshoot would read as a bounce. A close runs faster and quieter than an open. Under reduced motion the spatial half drops and the state change stays: a press still confirms, in colour rather than in movement.
The mark: two cuts, chosen by rendered width
Canonical · 48px wide and up
Small cut · below 48px wide
The parent brand’s mark, taken from the Horizon Foundry design kit. The small cut widens the channels and thickens the echo ridge so they survive rasterizing: the canonical cut holds at 48px wide and above, and closes up as it gets smaller. The rule is the rendered width, not the class, and the mark is about half again as wide as it is tall.
The command accent: amber
command #D99A2E
The forge glow. Reserved for the invoke and run layer, the commands you fire, like /production-audit or make install, and for the heading of each entry tile on /skills. Nothing else.