v1.0Released in production
A small, opinionated design system for products that try to be useful.
This is the system that ships the izaias personal website and the cognitive-distance study. It is intentionally narrow, principled, and built to be read by other designers and engineers. Every page here is a working artifact — the same code that runs in production, documented in place.
Color, type, space, motion, and the rest of the language.
The primitives. Every component is built from these tokens, every page is laid out with these scales. Start here to understand the decisions behind the system.
Explore foundationsComponentsButtons, inputs, callouts, figures, navigation, and more.
Each component is a real artifact from the production codebase, documented with its variants, states, accessibility behavior, and the code that ships.
Explore componentsPatternsHow the components come together into case studies, articles, and pages.
Page-level recipes and editorial patterns. These are the layouts that show up over and over across the portfolio. Copy the structure, then make the content specific.
Explore patternsHow the system came to be
The first version of this site used a shadcn template, a neutral gray palette, and a half-dozen font sizes lifted from a Figma library. It looked fine. It said nothing.
I rebuilt it. I chose a single warm-neutral palette, a serif-sans pair, and a single motion curve. I read every component file and asked the same question: why is this decision here, and would I bet on it three years from now?
Most of the system is hand-rolled. That is a deliberate choice, not a failure of taste. Hand-rolling means the constraints are visible, the tradeoffs are arguable, and the next contributor can see the line where my taste ends and the next taste begins.
This site is the documentation. The system ships in three products and is the only way I know how to keep work coherent. It is not for everyone. It is not trying to be.