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Turso. The mint LED on a rack of dark steel.

  • Developer tools
  • Dark theme
  • 13 colors
  • 1 typeface

Turso operates in a deep-space developer console aesthetic: near-black canvas with subtle teal undertones, a single vivid mint accent that acts as the system's 'powered on' signal, and a secondary electric magenta for beta/experimental framing. The interface stays quiet and typographic — white text on dark surfaces carries the content — while color appears only as functional punctuation for headings, badges, primary actions, and the thin colored borders that define product cards. Components feel light and terminal-like: pill buttons, thin outlined cards with a one-pixel gradient edge, monospace-flecked code snippets, and flat surfaces without drop-shadow elevation. The result reads as an infrastructure product designed by people who think in terminals — restrained, confident, and unmistakably dark.

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Screenshot of Turso
Captured from turso.tech on October 11, 2026

Turso design system

Turso

Brand1

  • Teal supporting accent for decorative details and low-frequency emphasis. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color

Accent3

  • Muted teal surface for announcement banner, subtle teal-tinted backgrounds

  • Secondary accent — beta badges, inline code highlights, experimental product card, code snippet button

  • Chromatic card border for the open-source / self-hosted product variant

Neutrals9

  • Page background, deepest canvas layer, link-on-light contrast

  • Hero and large content surface, slightly lifted from canvas

  • Card surface, button hover backgrounds, elevated containers

  • Subtle borders, dividers, muted panel borders, ghost button surfaces

  • Muted paragraph text, de-emphasized descriptions

  • Disabled or low-emphasis body text

  • Tertiary text, nav helper labels, subtle metadata

  • Secondary text, link default state, muted body

  • Primary text, icon strokes, button text, nav labels

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Deep Space on Mint Signal

13.85 : 1 contrast

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

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