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Cluely. A premium product emerging from atmospheric gradient into crisp white workspace.

  • AI
  • Light theme
  • 17 colors
  • 3 typefaces

Cluely presents an atmospheric SaaS aesthetic anchored by a dramatic sky-to-mountain blue gradient hero that sets a premium, almost cinematic tone. The signature move is the pairing of a large editorial serif display headline (EB Garamond at 80px) with a precise modern sans-serif (Geist) for everything functional — this serif-meets-tech contrast is the visual identity. A single vivid blue accent (#3c83f6) powers the primary CTA, while the rest of the interface stays achromatic with soft cool-gray neutrals. Components lean compact and lightweight: 4px-radius buttons, 12-24px-radius cards, hairline borders in #e4e4e7, and no decorative shadows. The product screenshots are presented as floating, slightly tilted laptop frames — the app is the hero, not abstractions.

Screenshot of Cluely
Captured from cluely.com on October 11, 2026

Cluely design system

Cluely

Brand4

  • Blue action color for filled buttons, selected navigation states, and focused conversion moments.

  • Gradient terminal stop, button shadow depth — dark indigo that anchors the primary blue toward night

  • Supporting palette color for small decorative accents when the core palette needs contrast. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color

  • Blue supporting accent for decorative details and low-frequency emphasis. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color

Accent2

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

  • Subtle highlight wash, code-block tints, decorative gradient stop — cool cyan as atmospheric detail

Neutrals11

  • Maximum-emphasis text, logo wordmark, icon fills — true black for highest hierarchy

  • Primary body and heading text — near-black with slight warmth, softer than pure black for long reading

  • Navigation text, icon strokes, secondary headings — dark cool gray for nav and structural elements

  • Muted body text, helper text — medium gray for supporting copy

  • Tertiary text, captions, disabled states — lighter gray for de-emphasized content

  • Icon strokes (most frequent use at 56 stroke instances), placeholder icons, secondary strokes — the workhorse cool-gray for line work

  • Secondary borders, separator lines — slightly darker than Bone for tiered dividers

  • Hairline borders (2500+ instances), dividers, input borders, icon borders — the dominant structural line color

  • Card surface tint, body background alternates, subtle elevation base — cool off-white for layered surfaces

  • Tinted card background, hero-adjacent surfaces — barely-blue white that whispers atmospheric color

  • Primary card surface, page background, button text — pure white for max-brightness layers

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Ink Black on Signal Blue

5.77 : 1 contrast

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

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