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Neutra VDL. Surveyor's ledger, glass house.

  • Brand
  • Mixed theme
  • 6 colors
  • 1 typeface

Neutra VDL is a house-museum site organised like an architect's drawing set. Drafting Bone #f7f4ef pages carry Redwood Ink #120902 type split across a four-column masthead above a single 1px rule, and every route is numbered, from 1 to 6.3, in a dark Contents Charcoal #1e1e1e index that slides over the page. Akzidenz-Grotesk Pro at weight 500 and tight negative tracking does all the talking: there is no second family, no accent colour and no corner radius. Colour arrives only through photography of the house, while the signature block is an exploded axonometric drawing whose six numbered rows light up one level at a time.

Screenshot of Neutra VDL
Captured from neutra-vdl.org on November 5, 2026

Neutra VDL design system

Neutra VDL

Brand1

  • Masthead type, 1px rules, section bars and map markers — a brown-black that reads as drafting ink, not screen black

Accent1

  • Image, drawing and map placeholders on bone pages — the only tint that is not type or canvas

Neutrals4

  • Page canvas, reversed type on dark views and the hover band in the Contents index and Media filters

  • Contents index overlay plus the dark Media and History pages; also footer text on bone

  • Image placeholders on the dark Media grid before each drawing fades in

  • Top navigation links, Book Tickets and the archive progress indicator on bone pages

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Drafting Bone on Redwood Ink

17.96 : 1 contrast

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

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