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ClickUp™. Hardworking dashboard on white marble.

  • Productivity
  • Light theme
  • 20 colors
  • 4 typefaces

ClickUp speaks in a sharp, high-contrast productivity dialect: a white canvas where oversized bold headlines (52-80px, weight 650-800, tracking pulled to -0.04em) collide with compact 14px button labels and a black filled CTA. The signature move is the 9999px pill — chips, tags, nav items, and badges all share one relentless full-radius curve, giving the interface a soft, rounded personality against otherwise hard typographic weight. Color is used surgically: a single vivid purple (#6647f0) stamps brand identity, blue (#0091ff) handles interactive links, and the rest of the system is pure grayscale. Rotating conic-gradient borders animate around hero elements, the only moment the page lets its hair down. The product UI screenshot on the right of the hero anchors the brand: real, dense, working software — not abstract gradients or stock illustration.

Screenshot of ClickUp™
Captured from clickup.com on October 11, 2026

ClickUp™ design system

ClickUp™

Brand3

  • Violet state accent for badges, validation surfaces, and short status labels.

  • Animated conic-gradient border rotating around hero CTAs and Brain² element — the brand's most expressive moment

  • Cyan-to-magenta linear gradient for premium brand moments, 83deg angle — the system gradient for hero text and premium badges

Accent3

  • Blue accent for outlined action borders, linked labels, and lightweight interactive emphasis. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color

  • Green text accent for links, tags, and emphasized short phrases

  • Green outline accent for tags, dividers, and focused UI edges

Neutrals13

  • Headlines at maximum scale (48-80px display) — the deepest near-black with a barely perceptible cool tint

  • Section-level dark gradient from charcoal to true black — used on dark feature panels

  • Primary action fills, headline text, filled CTA buttons — near-black at 12.9:1 on white for confident authority without pure #000 harshness

  • Card borders, button text on light fills, section dividers — the workhorse dark neutral for structural elements

  • Body text secondary, link text, nav labels, icon fills — carries the 153-occurrence body copy load

  • Tertiary text, muted nav, meta labels, disabled states — recedes into the background hierarchy

  • Card borders at low contrast, subtle dividers, placeholder accents — the lightest border that still reads on white

  • Hairline borders, dashed dividers, input outlines — appears 49× as borderColor

  • Default border color (88× in buttons), the most-used border tone in the system

  • Body section background band — appears 500×, the large neutral that breaks white sections

  • Badge text, card accents, neutral chip backgrounds — soft contrast for non-interactive surfaces

  • Light neutral action fill for buttons on dark surfaces.

  • Page background, card surfaces, button fills — the default canvas against which every other color is placed

semantic1

  • Teal state accent for badges, validation surfaces, and short status labels.

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Signal White on Brand Violet

5.64 : 1 contrast

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

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