Basic.Space. Curated gallery on white marble.
- Commerce
- Light theme
- 7 colors
- 1 typeface
Basic.Space is a curated gallery-commerce platform built on near-total achromatic restraint. White gallery walls, 2px-sharp product frames, and one electric blue (#0700ff) that appears only on the top announcement strip — a single chromatic interruption in an otherwise monochrome world. Typography is a custom geometric humanist (FTBasicSpace) used in three restrained weights, with tight negative letter-spacing that gives headlines a quietly confident voice. Components are gallery-light: pill-shaped controls, hairline #ebebeb dividers, no shadows, no rounded card corners. Layout is full-bleed horizontally-scrolling rails of product cards, evoking the experience of walking through a design museum where the objects are the heroes and the interface disappears.

Basic.Space design system
Brand1
Violet wash for highlight backgrounds, decorative bands, and soft emphasis behind content. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color
Neutrals6
Primary text, product titles, prices, navigation links, icon strokes, and dominant fill on collection overlay labels
Muted helper text, disabled icon fills, and secondary metadata
Secondary surface for elevated sections and secondary borders, providing one subtle step above the dominant #ebebeb
Primary border color, page canvas background, card dividers, list separators, input field backgrounds — the dominant structural neutral
Soft background wash for alternating sections and subtle card lift without shadows
Card surfaces, product image backgrounds, and inverse text on dark imagery and the cobalt announcement bar
Try a pairing
Pick any two colors from the palette to check whether text stays readable on top.
Aa
Paper White on Electric Cobalt
8.56 : 1 contrast
- Body textPasses AA 4.5
- Large textPasses AA 3
- StrictPasses AAA 7











