Brain-centered and dark-native — a palette sampled from the hand-vectored gear-brain, with teal as the only living color. The gear-brain itself is a frozen signature surface; this spec documents it and never restyles it.
Every value here is read from the site’s own source when the site is built, so the page and the code never disagree.
Principles
RULE ZERO: the palette is EXTRACTED from the brain SVG, not invented.
The teal is the ONLY living color; it comes from attention, not the metal. … "The mind is silver; attention makes it glow."
Motion: exactly three named eases. Use NOTHING else.
The brain is pristine hand-vectored art … Adaptation layer only. Never simplify or regenerate the SVG.
The visual language of this site is BRAIN-CENTERED, not the sibling site's ocean motif
Anuja leads every creative decision; engineering waits on the artist.
Brand and voice
Mode
Dark-native — the mind floats in space. No light mode; the palette itself is the decision.
Accent
Synapse teal #14b8a6 — attention only, never chrome decoration.
Type
Hanken Grotesk for display and body (weight carries hierarchy); JetBrains Mono for mono caps; Noto Sans Devanagari.
Glass
Banned — one waiver: the glass-pill Button borrowed from the portfolio for kinship.
Edges
Commit to a defined edge OR soft elevation — never a hairline plus a wide shadow.
Motion
settle (signature) · enter · drift — at 240 / 640 / 1500ms, the gears’ harmony beat.
Foundations
Color
Every swatch paints with the live token. The notes are the token file’s own words; the source is the hand-vectored brain below.
Shown as a still. The brain itself lives, untouched, at the center of the mind.
Surfaces
--space#010204the dark the brain floats on
--graphite#26282bSVG dark cluster (#242424/#2d2d2d), normalized
Text
--white#ffffffpure white — room placard title + description (her call)
--silver#e2e8f0light metal (45 shapes) — primary text
--slate#94a3b8most-used metal (47 shapes)
--steel#64748bdeep gear-metal gradient stop
Borders
--synapse-line#475569
Accent
--synapse#14b8a6the lit teal — the one living color
--teal-link#078B9Cher portfolio's accent teal — legible on white; used for clickable links on light surfaces
Semantic
None by design. Rule Zero admits only colors sampled from the brain, so state is carried by the one teal, by weight and by words.
Charts
None. This world holds artwork, not data.
Roles
Role
Maps to
Used for
--bg
--space
--ink
--silver
primary text on space
--ink-quiet
--slate
secondary text / metadata
--ink-faint
--steel
tertiary / disabled
--edge
--graphite
dividers, hairlines
--glow
--synapse
attention only — never chrome decoration
Typography
Hanken Grotesk
300400500600700
--font-display · --font-bodyDisplay and body; weight carries the hierarchy.
JetBrains Mono
Live demo · Read the story
--font-monoThe button voice and technical labels, the thread to anujaharsha.com.
तुम हो तो मैं हूँ
--font-devanagariNoto Sans Devanagari, for the Hindi poems.
A mind you can walk through--text-3xl2.9rem · 46.4px
A mind you can walk through--text-2xl2.1rem · 33.6px
A mind you can walk through--text-xl1.6rem · 25.6px
A mind you can walk through--text-lg1.25rem · 20px
A mind you can walk through--text-base1rem · 16px
A mind you can walk through--text-sm0.875rem · 14px
Reading measure: --measure68ch.
Spacing
A rhythm, never one uniform value: tight inside a group, generous between.
--space-2xs0.25rem · 4px
--space-xs0.5rem · 8px
--space-sm0.75rem · 12px
--space-md1.25rem · 20px
--space-lg2rem · 32px
--space-xl3.25rem · 52px
--space-2xl5.25rem · 84px
--space-3xl8.5rem · 136px
Radius
--radius12pxcards top out here (anti-slop); pills are for tags/buttons only
999pxThe full pill, for buttons and chips only.
Elevation
Flat by design. Depth comes from the stage’s own light and from space between things; the one soft shadow belongs to the glass Button, which floats over imagery.
Glass and scrim
Glass appears in exactly one place, the Button, by a logged waiver. The theater view lays a dark gradient scrim behind a placard’s words. Neither is used as decoration.
Motion
The eases share the 1500ms beat, so only the curve differs; the durations share --ease-settle.
aria-hidden and focusable="false": purely decorative, never announced.
One turn every 26 seconds, linear; under prefers-reduced-motion it stands still.
Never the only carrier of meaning: a placeholder always has a title and a note beside it.
Placard link
The call to action on a room placard, the 30 of every 70/30 spotlight. The placard runs in museum order: title + subtext right. No eyebrows, anywhere, ever.
Use when
The one next step a spotlight offers (a live demo, a visit)
// in a room's data file, on any spotlight
{
kind: "single",
title: "A placard title",
sub: "One or two lines beneath it.",
cta: { label: "Live demo", href: "https://example.com", external: true },
}
// RoomShell renders it under a film spotlight when the next spotlight is an essay
{ kind: "film", src, alt, title },
{ kind: "text", variant: "essay", lines, title }