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Glyphs. A letterpress workshop under neon light.

  • Design tools
  • Light theme
  • 14 colors
  • 1 typeface

Glyphs combines a white editorial canvas with oversized, high-contrast serif lettering and exposed type-design mechanics: Bézier handles, giant translucent glyphs, and application canvases remain visible rather than being hidden behind product mockups. The palette works in loud rectangular blocks—acid lime, cyan, orange, mustard, and deep cherry—while the surrounding page stays predominantly white and quietly spaced. One custom typeface spans every role, making navigation, editorial display copy, and UI annotations feel like outputs from the same font-making environment.

Screenshot of Glyphs
Captured from glyphsapp.com on October 11, 2026

Glyphs design system

Glyphs

Brand3

  • Deep plum feature-panel surface, large editorial headings, borders, and orange-on-cherry controls

  • Default editorial text, navigation text, logo mark, and linework over the white canvas

  • Purchase and conversion surfaces, highlighted end-cap sections, and active outlined-action borders — the fluorescent green punctuates otherwise paper-and-ink layouts

Accent6

  • Secondary feature panels, tutorial links, oversized decorative glyphs, and circular action controls against Cherry Ink

  • Warm feature-card surface and colored editorial emphasis

  • Feature-card surface, product-canvas outlines, and vector-tool overlays; its technical blue makes the editor imagery read as live workspace material

  • Text and small labels on lime and cyan feature surfaces

  • Text and borders on mustard feature surfaces

  • Dark technical text within cyan-oriented editor and list content

Neutrals5

  • Black utility text, compact headings, and neutral controls

  • Neutral utility-control backgrounds

  • Soft green-tinted list and skip-link surface

  • Pale tinted card surface and soft alternate content band

  • Page canvas, navigation surface, product-canvas interiors, and reversed text on dark feature panels

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Paper on Cherry Ink

13.78 : 1 contrast

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

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