Graphite Elevate: Design System for Evidence
The foundations of the Evidence brand - color, type, space, shape, and the components built from them. Use the switches above to compare today's brand against the Elevate direction, one aspect at a time; each switch's info icon explains exactly what it changes.
One accent on a neutral foundation
A single accent color carries every primary action and highlight. A neutral ramp does the structural work - text, surfaces, lines - and a small semantic set signals success, warning, and error. Nothing decorative competes with the content.
Every bright has its dark
Each bright surface has one named dark companion. These are the colour rules; the cards below demonstrate them.
- Only used in pairs. A bright is never used alone or as text, and a dark is never used without its bright. Content on a bright surface takes its dark companion; bright content sits on the dark companion. Never Slate or translucent on a pairing surface.
- Dark lime on bright green. Titles and text on a bright-green surface use Dark lime
#002E11- the signature pairing. - Slate 900 everywhere else. All other text is Slate 900
#0F172Aby default; never light grey unless the author intends it.
Hierarchy through scale and weight
A display treatment carries headlines and big numbers; a workhorse face handles body, labels, and data. Size and weight set the hierarchy, and tabular figures keep numbers aligned.
Three levels of action
One clear primary action per view, a quieter secondary, and a minimal tertiary. Buttons are interactive controls - they never carry status.
Badges label state, they don't act
Badges and tags mark state - active, healthy, warning, critical. They are not interactive and are never styled as buttons. Different purpose, different shape.
Surfaces that group content
Cards gather related content onto their own surface, set apart from the page by a border or a fill. The container frames; the content leads.
Proof, not noise
Every finding ships with evidence of real-world financial impact - not a CVSS guess.
Insurer-grade
Detections derive from actuarial loss data. If it never caused a payout, it's not a FIRE.
Fix what's real
Less than 1% of vulnerabilities actually matter. We find the ones that do.
| Asset | Status | FIREs | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| api.acme.com | Healthy | 0 | 12 |
| portal.acme.com | Warning | 2 | 48 |
| mail.acme.com | Critical | 5 | 94 |
Fields that read as fields
Form inputs are clearly bounded and comfortably sized, paired with a verb-first action and a visible focus state.
Built for breathing room
A small, fixed set of spacing tokens creates rhythm and breathing room. Reusing the same steps everywhere keeps every gap deliberate.
One radius scale
Corners follow a single radius scale, applied consistently from small chrome up to cards and full pills.
A simple, familiar icon language
Lucide icons - one geometric style at a consistent stroke. Two sizes: 24px for standard UI, 16px for dense layouts.
The signature move: a generous, bold glyph in a soft chip - 32px chip, 28px icon at a heavy stroke (2.6), 12px radius. Lime green / Dark lime is the default; the identical chip works in all five secondary pairings (soft surface + dark-companion glyph) to carry categorical meaning. On a coloured surface it flips to translucent white; on dark, a lime glyph.
A signature moment
An inverted band - the accent on the darkest neutral - reserved for the loudest moments. Used sparingly, it carries weight.
See what's real
A content band that inverts the palette: Evidence green on near-black ink, used sparingly for the biggest moments.
Three breakpoints, one rhythm
| Breakpoint | Width | Key changes |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile | < 768px | Hero stacks; grids 1-up |
| Tablet | 768-1023px | Grids 2-up |
| Desktop | ≥ 1024px | Hero split; full grids |
Pricing tiers
A standard pricing layout; the featured tier is lifted onto the darkest surface to draw the eye.
- External perimeter scan
- FIRE report
- Email alerts
- Everything in Starter
- Recurring scans
- Role-based access
- REST API
- Everything in Team
- Financial impact report
- $1M warranty
Specific, editorial, numbers-first
- Statements, not marketing. "Fix what's real."
- Sentence case for everything human-readable. No all-caps for body or headings.
- Numbers are first-class - tabular, exact, unrounded as a credibility signal.
- No emoji, no hype, no decorative punctuation. Precise, consistent product terms.
The Evidence mark
The full wordmark and the standalone graphic mark, on light and dark surfaces.
Local preview · brand guidelines · selections persist and encode in the URL for sharing.
Web
rootevidence.com homepage
Built from DESIGN.md - the node-surface hero, Products/Resources mega-menus, and Forest footer. Scroll inside the frame, or open it full screen.
App
Dashboard stat widgets, three on-brand iterations - light, borderless fills, Satoshi numbers, and a smart lime accent. Reusable as website decorations.
Iteration 1: Soft Slate
Iteration 2: Lime accent
Iteration 3: Bold
Presentations
Evidence pitch deck
Built from DESIGN.md - light-first, dark used as punctuation (2 of 12 slides), with the sequential reveal and count-up motion. Scroll inside the frame, or open it full screen.