André Cândido. Editorial serif on cream paper with one yellow highlighter mark.
- Brand
- Light theme
- 9 colors
- 2 typefaces
André Cândido's portfolio operates as an editorial design studio: a near-monochrome canvas of off-white paper and near-black ink, with one warm yellow accent that breaks the page like a highlighter mark. The signature is the pairing of PP Mori — a geometric sans — with Editorial New, a high-contrast didone serif used at extreme display sizes (up to 160px) for headlines that behave like magazine covers. Components are quiet and lightweight: hairline borders, pill-shaped buttons (24-50px radius), capsule-shaped images (800px radius), and no shadows. The footer inverts into a deep #111118 panel where the yellow reappears, creating a single dramatic dark moment in an otherwise airy light page. The visual system is dense with personality despite being 97% achromatic — circular text badges, playful geometric project cards, and asymmetric editorial grids give it character without color.

André Cândido design system
Accent1
Yellow wash for highlight backgrounds, decorative bands, and soft emphasis behind content. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color
Neutrals8
Hard border accent in lists and structural dividers where maximum contrast is needed
Primary text, nav text, dark footer surface, filled button background, badge fills — near-black with a barely-perceptible cool tint reads as warmer than pure #000 in print contexts
Navigation-specific borders and text — a cool desaturated charcoal distinct from the warm Ink Black
Link text and link borders in body context — slight lift from pure ink
Helper text, de-emphasized body copy, subtle metadata
List dividers, body-level borders, tertiary structural lines
Muted borders, image placeholder backgrounds, secondary dividers
Page canvas, card surfaces, button text on dark fills, inverted button text — the dominant ground
Try a pairing
Pick any two colors from the palette to check whether text stays readable on top.
Aa
True Black on Highlighter Yellow
18.26 : 1 contrast
- Body textPasses AA 4.5
- Large textPasses AA 3
- StrictPasses AAA 7











