MAKR. Museum vitrine for crafted leather.
- Commerce
- Light theme
- 4 colors
- 2 typefaces
MAKR is an editorial e-commerce gallery for crafted leather objects, built on an almost completely achromatic palette where photography is the protagonist. A single near-gray banner tone (with a barely-there sage cast) punctuates the top announcement strip, while everything else — surfaces, text, dividers, links — lives in deep warm-black ink on paper-white. Typography is the Sohne neo-grotesque at its most restrained: small sizes, generous line-height, and positive tracking on uppercase labels read as gallery-wall text, not web UI copy. The layout is image-dominant, asymmetric, and museum-sparse: product objects are photographed on hands, in landscapes, in natural light, with tiny caption links beneath. Components are nearly invisible — underlined text links, ghost inputs, no shadows, no rounded buttons — letting the leather and the photography carry the brand weight.

MAKR design system
Neutrals4
Primary text, all text links, body copy, headings, icon strokes, hairline borders across the entire UI. This is the load-bearing color — 17.7:1 on white, used for 5,000+ instances. Its very slight warm cast (not pure black) gives the entire interface a printed-catalog feel rather than a screen feel
Top announcement banner background, muted section washes, tertiary border. Reads as near-gray in isolation but carries a barely-perceptible sage cast when used full-width — a single chromatic breath in an otherwise monochrome system
Secondary surface for alternating sections, subtle panel backgrounds, and inline borders/separators. Creates the faintest warm-gray tier between paper-white and the sage announcement band
Hairline borders, dividers, input outlines, and card edges on light surfaces. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color
Try a pairing
Pick any two colors from the palette to check whether text stays readable on top.
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Paper on Obsidian Ink
17.73 : 1 contrast
- Body textPasses AA 4.5
- Large textPasses AA 3
- StrictPasses AAA 7











