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Control. Editorial Swiss grid meets creative tool.

  • Design tools
  • Light theme
  • 14 colors
  • 3 typefaces

Control operates as an editorial design tool: white canvas, hard black borders, and a near-monochrome palette punctured by vivid green, orange, and yellow accents that feel like editorial highlighter marks. The signature is a brutalist typographic contrast — massive Melange display type (71–146px) at near-zero tracking set against tiny uppercase Favorit Mono labels (9–10px) with tight negative letter-spacing. Every surface is flat; depth comes from black border outlines (1–2px), not shadows. The aesthetic reads like a Swiss editorial spread rebuilt for software: grid-anchored, unapologetically geometric, and confident in its asymmetry.

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Screenshot of Control
Captured from cntrl.site on October 11, 2026

Control design system

Control

Brand1

  • Primary action buttons, active states, and live UI feedback — saturated green on black-and-white canvas reads as switched-on electricity

Accent2

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

  • Decorative borders, selection marks, and editorial accent strokes — never used as fill

Neutrals11

  • Primary text, structural borders, and outline contours that define all surface edges

  • Secondary text and muted UI elements

  • Deemphasized body text and metadata

  • Disabled button surfaces

  • Tertiary captions and disabled states

  • Faint outlines and placeholder chrome

  • Hairline borders and tertiary dividers

  • Mid-tier borders and inactive form strokes

  • Subtle dividers and light borders on secondary surfaces

  • Card surfaces and elevated panel backgrounds — one shade off white

  • Page canvas, inverted text on dark surfaces, and button labels on green fills

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Obsidian on Voltage Green

12.84 : 1 contrast

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

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