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Lithic. Confident, earthy, deliberate.

  • Finance
  • Light theme
  • 13 colors
  • 1 typeface

Lithic operates as a warm briefing room for card-issuing architects: cream marble surfaces, a single confident sans-serif, and three deliberate accent colors that each carry distinct semantic weight. The page alternates a deep black hero — a vault-like stage for physical card imagery and concentric arc patterns — with generously spaced warm-neutral sections where orange, violet, and green act as functional punctuation rather than decoration. Components feel editorial: thin hairline borders, 24px rounded corners, deep floating shadows on elevated cards, and cream-tinted surfaces that stack into a quiet hierarchy. Density is comfortable, rhythm is built from 8px and 24px increments, and the single Monument Grotesk family at weights 400/500 is allowed to carry every tonal shift from whisper to emphasis through size and tracking alone.

Screenshot of Lithic
Captured from lithic.com on October 11, 2026

Lithic design system

Lithic

Brand2

  • Primary action fill on CTA buttons, contact links, and key navigation entry points — warm saturated orange against cream and black grounds commands without feeling aggressive

  • Decorative stroke and border accent for feature panels, concentric arc illustrations, and iconography — deep saturated violet that frames content without competing with orange CTAs

Accent4

  • Green outline accent for tags, dividers, and focused UI edges. Use as a supporting accent, not as a status color

  • Muted warm stroke and illustration tone used in decorative arc patterns, card imagery borders, and secondary outline accents

  • Darker warm tone for card-surface strokes, secondary illustration fills, and text-adjacent decorative borders

  • Lighter warm fill for icon strokes and card accent borders — sits between the muted sandstone and the cream surfaces

Neutrals7

  • Primary text, hero canvas, deep card-image borders, ghost-button outlines — the structural anchor color

  • Secondary body text, muted link borders, and disabled-state iconography

  • Hairline border on light neutral buttons and tertiary dividers

  • Primary warm card and panel surface — the default elevated neutral for feature blocks and content containers

  • Cool-tinted feature panel surface used to break rhythm on alternating sections — pairs with the violet accent

  • Primary page canvas and white card surfaces

  • Page canvas, card surfaces, primary text on dark grounds, button text on orange fills

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Obsidian on Ember Orange

7.15 : 1 contrast

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

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