Outsource Consultants. Architectural broadsheet on bone paper.
- Studio
- Light theme
- 5 colors
- 3 typefaces
Outsource Consultants operates on a stark editorial-architectural system: a warm bone-gray canvas, a single vivid indigo that detonates across full-bleed sections, and typography that swings between a grotesque sans at 160px and a mono micro-label at 10px. The aesthetic borrows from Swiss broadsides and architecture plates — large type does the heavy lifting while information is compressed into monospaced metadata. Layouts are asymmetric and generous, with sections alternating between bone and indigo rather than stacking on white. Components are borderless, almost flat, relying on scale and the indigo-on-bone contrast to create hierarchy rather than elevation, shadows, or fills. The system feels less like a SaaS dashboard and more like a printed monograph for a technical practice.

Outsource Consultants design system
Brand2
Brand mark, full-bleed section backgrounds, large headlines, icon strokes, nav borders — the singular chromatic voice of the system, used as a sudden tonal shift rather than a decorative accent
Logo and brand-mark fill — a near-black violet that grounds the wordmark against the brighter Indigo Strike used in UI contexts
Neutrals3
Body copy, small labels, standard text — used for dense information layers that must stay recessive against the bone canvas
Page canvas and card surface — a warm off-white that reads as paper rather than screen, providing the neutral ground against which indigo gains force
Light supporting surface for subtle backgrounds and section separation. 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 Indigo Strike
11.13 : 1 contrast
- Body textPasses AA 4.5
- Large textPasses AA 3
- StrictPasses AAA 7











