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.

Neutra VDL design system
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
- Body textPasses AA 4.5
- Large textPasses AA 3
- StrictPasses AAA 7











