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material-indigo theme
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Yolo Material Indigo
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A sample deck that walks through the colors, typefaces and components of the Yolo Material Indigo theme.
// agenda
What’s inside
01
Color
A light and a dark ground, a heading voice and one accent color.
02
Type
Montserrat headings, Space Mono body and Source Code Pro for code.
03
Components
Pills, tabs, cards, code blocks, tables and blockquotes.
04
Modes
Every color token has a light and a dark value.
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// foundations · color
One accent.
Hot pink.
It carries the marks: list markers, the dashed rule, the blockquote edge, link color and every hover fill.
// foundations · color
Color tokens
Light
bg
#E8EAF6
surface
#ffffff
border
#C5CAE9
text
#1A237E
heading
#283593
primary
#3F51B5
Dark
bg
#1A237E
surface
#283593
border
#303F9F
text
#E8EAF6
heading
#C5CAE9
primary
#7986CB
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// foundations · type
Three typefaces
Aa
Montserrat
Headings, pills, tabs, table headers and blockquotes. 400 / 700.
Aa
Space Mono
Body copy, lists and table cells at 1rem with 1.5 line height.
Aa
Source Code Pro
Inline code and pre blocks at 0.8rem on the surface color.
Scale h1 3rem · h2 2.5rem · h3 2rem · h4 1.5rem · h5 1.25rem · h6 1rem
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// foundations · scale
The system at a glance
12
Source colors
Grounds, text, heading, accent and five syntax hues.
3
Typefaces
Montserrat, Space Mono and Source Code Pro.
6
Spacing steps
From 0.25rem (xs) up to 3rem (2xl).
4
Corner radii
sm, md, lg and pill, from 0.25rem to 3rem.
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// components
Controls and containers
Tag pills
branding
photos
hover
Tabs
Posts
Pages
Tags
Utility fills
neutral
error
warn
info
hub card · lifted
Function codes
Type / in any search box to turn it into a command line.
search
docs
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// components
Code blocks
Source Code Pro on the surface color, with five syntax hues.
keyword · #8C9EFF
string · #C5CAE9
function · #5C6BC0
variable · #7986CB
comment · #304FFE
theme.json
// material-indigo · dark mode
{
"bg": "#1A237E",
"heading": "#C5CAE9",
"primary": "#7986CB"
}
$ npm run serve
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// components
Function codes
Typing / in any search box turns it into a command line.
Command
What it does
/tag photos
Show posts tagged “photos”
/page 2
Jump to the second page
/sort old
List the oldest posts first
Enter · Esc
Run the command · back to searching
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// light
Light mode
Loveable single pages
The site default. Text on the light ground, with links in the heading color inside containers.
branding
hover
bg #E8EAF6 · text #1A237E
// dark
Dark mode
Loveable single pages
Toggled with dark_mode. Every token clears 4.5:1, with links in the heading color inside containers.
branding
hover
bg #1A237E · text #E8EAF6
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