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SAPGOODENERGY. Marathon finish line in a cleanroom.

  • Commerce
  • Light theme
  • 8 colors
  • 3 typefaces

SAP Good Energy operates on a brutalist split personality: a full-bleed race-day video hero crashes into a clinical white product stage where a single silver packet floats alone in negative space. The palette is essentially monochrome — warm white canvas, near-black ink, and one vivid orange that appears only as functional punctuation (a vertical side tab, isolated CTA fills). Typography pairs a compressed neo-grotesque display face with aggressive negative tracking for headlines against a precise utility sans for body and navigation copy, both set tight and never shouting. Components are almost invisible — the product IS the hero on white screens, the race atmosphere IS the hero above the fold, and almost everything in between is empty air with hairline rules.

Screenshot of SAPGOODENERGY
Captured from sapgoodenergy.com on October 11, 2026

SAPGOODENERGY design system

SAPGOODENERGY

Brand1

  • Side tab accent, occasional filled action — a single warm orange against clinical white acts as the only chromatic signal in an otherwise achromatic system, reading as urgency without aggression

Neutrals7

  • Primary text, filled CTA buttons, strongest borders — the hard stop in a system that otherwise lives in warm grays

  • Dominant text color, card and nav borders, icon strokes — softer than pure black for sustained reading while still reading as ink

  • Muted helper text, secondary headings, subdued borders

  • Quiet dividers, decorative heading borders

  • Card surfaces, soft fills, decorative icon backgrounds — the step between canvas and card

  • Page canvas, the slightly warm white that makes the product photograph read as clinical rather than sterile

  • Card surfaces, button fills, highlighted text — the cleanest tone, used where maximum contrast against graphite is needed

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Ink Black on Fuel Orange

8.01 : 1 contrast

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

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