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Aker. White walls, warm terracotta spotlights, everything else recedes.

  • Brand
  • Light theme
  • 16 colors
  • 2 typefaces

Aker speaks in the visual vocabulary of a premium real-estate developer: dramatic full-bleed photography anchoring each section, a single warm terracotta accent cutting through near-monochrome layouts, and typography that oscillates between whisper-light and monumental. The interface trusts white space and dark imagery to do the heavy lifting — chrome is minimal, borders are hairlines, and interactive elements are reduced to text-and-arrow pairs or subtly filled dark pills. The single most distinctive choice is the contrast between the 168px Proxima Nova at weight 300 for the brand mark and the 15–18px body copy at the same family — the same typeface carries both the shouting and the whispering, which makes the voice feel unified rather than hybrid.

Screenshot of Aker
Captured from akercompanies.com on October 11, 2026

Aker design system

Aker

Brand3

  • Link text, brand accent, warm highlight on muted cards — single chromatic accent that warms an otherwise neutral system

  • Dark green surface for feature cards and link backgrounds on light

  • Deep teal-dark surface for link and card backgrounds, complements Pine in the cool brand register

Accent3

  • Decorative stroke and fill for illustrations and icon-line work, soft cool gray with depth

  • Warm brown card surface, earth-toned card variant

  • Warm-pink card surface, used as an occasional warm-tinted card variant

Neutrals10

  • Primary text, hairline borders, icon strokes, link text on light surfaces

  • Deepest surface for dark feature cards and modal backgrounds

  • Dark surface panels, navigation pill background, elevated dark cards

  • Mid-dark panel surface, secondary dark backgrounds behind photography

  • Cool-tinted dark surface, used for subtle contrast against warmer darks

  • Neutral button treatment for secondary actions and selected controls. Use as the primary filled action background

  • Secondary body text, body-emphasis borders

  • Muted helper text, secondary borders, inactive metadata

  • Light card surfaces, hairline borders on white, image overlay tints

  • Page canvas, card surfaces, text on dark photography and dark surfaces

Try a pairing

Pick any two colors from the palette to check whether text stays readable on top.

Aa

Paper on Ember

4.69 : 1 contrast

Background
Text
  • Body textPasses AA 4.5
  • Large textPasses AA 3
  • StrictFails AAA 7

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