the swiss family

Swiss

Grid-first, uncompromisingly typographic — type and whitespace doing the work.

Swiss is the grid-first, editorial, uncompromisingly typographic family. Where Kinetic is loud and chunky with hard black shadows, Swiss is silent and precise — nothing but type and whitespace doing the work. Elevation is carried by weight and size, never by shadow, glow, or floating chrome. The interface looks like it was drawn, not rendered.

The references are museum catalogues, Müller-Brockmann posters, annual reports typeset by someone who argues about hairline rules, and design-system style guides that look like print. System fonts only — no Google Fonts, zero layout shift, zero web-font weight. Hard corners everywhere, gray (not slate) hairlines, and the headline typography carrying eighty percent of every composition.

Reach for Swiss for design-system documentation, editorial longform that wants to feel typeset, gallery and architectural portfolios, financial or legal reports where seriousness outranks warmth, and any surface where the headline must lead.

Default palette · Zinc · 6 recommended palettes below

Best for

Design-system documentation
Editorial longform and essays
Gallery and architectural portfolios
Financial and legal reports
Craft-focused product marketing

Character

systematic
typographic
silent
rigorous
printed

TypeSystem Sans · System Sans · System Mono

How it differs

Monolith is the architect's loud cousin — same hard corners and shadow-less chrome, but Monolith allows colored CTAs where Swiss routes brand through grayscale.

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01 - Typography

The voice of swiss.

Hero title - Archivo Black

Made with intention.

Hero subtitle - Inter

A supporting lead carries the second voice without competing.

Section title - Archivo Black

Section heading at the second tier

Section subtitle - Inter

Supporting copy holds context next to the title without competing for attention.

Card title - Archivo Black

Card title at the third tier

Body - Inter

The body face carries paragraphs, captions, and inline labels - anywhere prose reads at length. It is tuned for legibility at small sizes and reads naturally next to the display face above.

Caption

Smaller supporting copy, used for metadata and inline notes.

Meta - JetBrains Mono

01 - 02 - 03 - v1.0 - 99.9% - $29 - 240ms

02 - Palette

Resolved palette.

The same family-aware mapping the product runtime applies. Each token has been resolved against the active palette and theme.

Backgroundcolor-mix(in srgb, rgb(113 113 122) 10%, white)

Surfacecolor-mix(in srgb, rgb(113 113 122) 4%, white)

Bordercolor-mix(in srgb, rgb(109 40 217) 12%, white)

Ink#0f172a

Brandrgb(113 113 122)

Brand · strongrgb(161 161 170)

Accentrgb(109 40 217)

On brandrgb(255 255 255)

03 · Primitives

The building blocks.

Each control below is the real component the runtime renders. The same buttons, badges, inputs, and chips appear in every generated site that picks this family.

Buttons

Badges

DefaultAccentOutlineInk

How content sits.

Five archetypes - feature, pricing, profile, stat, and testimonial. They use server-rendered family type and palette tokens so this section keeps first-paint SSR parity.

Feature

Generated families, real engineering

Every family ships as manifest data. The server render resolves the same typography, composition, and palette tokens the product uses.

ManifestTokens

Pricing

Recommended

Studio

$29/ month

Unlimited generations
Custom domains
Priority models

Profile

Mara ChenProduct design lead

Twelve years leading design at high-growth SaaS. Available for fractional engagements this quarter.

AvailableFractional

Stat

99.9%

Uptime across all rendered sites this quarterLast 90 days

Testimonial

"The shared semantic tokens made the new family feel consistent from the first pass."

Jules ParkStaff designer, Patagonia Digital

05 - Motion

How it moves.

Hover or focus either surface. The transition uses CSS variables and respects reduced motion without requiring a hydrated showcase.

Card - hover

Lift on hover, hairline tightens

Move your pointer over this card. The surface rises a few pixels and the border tightens to the brand color.

Button - focus

Tab into the button below. The focus ring uses the family's brand color and transitions at this family's curve.

06 · Recommended palettes

Try a different chord.

Each palette below pairs with this family. The cards link straight to a fresh render of this page in that palette — share the URL, it's crawlable.

06 · Compositions

A few of the section topologies.

Compositions are family-agnostic — every family can render every topology. Combined with card layouts and collection layouts, the engine produces dozens of section presentations per section type. Diagrams show the shape; the family supplies the skin.

banner

Banner

Content stacks above a wide image rail.

sidebar

Sidebar

Text column paired with a media column.

bands

Bands

Alternating horizontal bands of copy and media.

breakout

Breakout

A featured module breaks the grid edge.

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07 · See it live

See a full page.

A complete site rendered in Swiss. Open the example to walk through every section in the family's voice.

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