Sketch design system

What font does Sketch use?

Sketch’s website uses Reckless for headings and Inter for body text. Reckless is not on Google Fonts; the closest free match is Figtree; Inter is free on Google Fonts.

Sketch colour palette

Sketch’s home page is light (#F5F5F5 background, #212123 text) and uses #151515 for its main actions. Its palette: #F5F5F5, #FFFFFF, #000000, #212123, #5C5C5C, #151515.

• #F5F5F5
  86.2% · backgrounds
• #FFFFFF
  7.3% · backgrounds
• #000000
  2.9% · backgrounds, text
• #212123
  2.8% · text
• #5C5C5C
  0.4% · text
• #151515
  0.3% · backgrounds
• #F9F9F9
  0.1% · backgrounds
• #FF0000
  Negative

Type scale

Each size the page sets text in, with its weight and line height. Sketch’s largest type is 76px at weight 500.

Spacing and shape

Spacing sits on a 4px grid: 4px, 8px, 12px, 16px, 20px, 24px, 28px, 32px, 36px, 40px, 52px, 56px.

Corner radii: 3px, 8px, 12px, 16px, 20px, 24px, pill. 8 shadow levels measured.

What makes Sketch look like Sketch

Almost entirely neutral: 99% of the page is painted in #F5F5F5 and #FFFFFF.

#555DFF is an accent: under 0.1% of the page, as small fills such as buttons and badges. Keep it to small areas.

The largest type (76px Reckless) is medium weight, not bold (500), tracked to -0.02em.

Open: text covers 9% of the page.

Sketch DESIGN.md for Claude Code, Cursor and Lovable

A DESIGN.md is the brief an AI coding tool reads before it writes UI. This one carries everything on this page as rules a model follows: the allowed colours and what each is for, the fonts with free stand-ins, the type scale, spacing, corners, and the things Sketch’s design never does.

Put it in your project root and ask your tool to follow it: “Read DESIGN.md and build [your product] in this design language.” It describes a style, not Sketch’s product, so use your own name, words and images.

Download Sketch DESIGN.md · View it as text

As CSS variables

The measured values as CSS custom properties, with free fonts standing in for licensed ones. Use them to learn from or to start a project in a similar style; Sketch’s name, logo, words and images are theirs.

@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@300;400;500;600&display=swap");
@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Figtree:wght@500&display=swap");

:root {
  --color-background: #F5F5F5; /* Background */
  --color-surface: #FFFFFF; /* Surface */
  --color-text: #212123; /* Text */
  --color-text-muted: #5C5C5C; /* Text muted */
  --color-action: #151515; /* Action */
  --color-on-action: #FFFFFF; /* On action */
  --color-negative: #FF0000; /* Negative */
  --color-000000: #000000; /* 2.9% of the page, as fills */
  --font-body: "InterVariable", "Inter", sans-serif; /* InterVariable on the site; Inter renders */
  --font-display: "Reckless", "Figtree", sans-serif; /* Reckless on the site; Figtree renders */
  --type-display-large: 76px; /* Display Large, weight 500 */
  --type-display-large-leading: 76px;
  --type-display-large-tracking: -0.02em;
  --type-display-small: 44px; /* Display Small, weight 500 */
  --type-display-small-leading: 48px;
  --type-display-small-tracking: -0.023em;
  --type-headline: 24px; /* Headline, weight 400 */
  --type-headline-leading: 32px;
  --type-title-large: 22px; /* Title Large, weight 600 */
  --type-title-large-leading: 24px;
  --type-title-small: 20px; /* Title Small, weight 400 */
  --type-title-small-leading: 28px;
  --type-body-1: 17px; /* Body 1, weight 600 */
  --type-body-1-leading: 24px;
  --type-body-2: 16px; /* Body 2, weight 400 */
  --type-body-2-leading: 24px;
  --type-body-3: 15px; /* Body 3, weight 400 */
  --type-body-3-leading: 24px;
  --type-body-4: 14px; /* Body 4, weight 400 */
  --type-body-4-leading: 21px;
  --type-label: 12px; /* Label, weight 600 */
  --type-label-leading: 14px;
  --space-1: 4px;
  --space-2: 8px;
  --space-3: 12px;
  --space-4: 16px;
  --space-5: 20px;
  --space-6: 24px;
  --space-7: 28px;
  --space-8: 32px;
  --space-9: 36px;
  --space-10: 40px;
  --space-13: 52px;
  --space-14: 56px;
  --space-15: 60px;
  --space-16: 64px;
  --space-19: 76px;
  --space-20: 80px;
  --space-22: 88px;
  --space-24: 96px;
  --space-25: 100px;
  --space-32: 128px;
  --space-33: 132px;
  --radius-sm: 3px;
  --radius-md: 8px;
  --radius-lg: 12px;
  --radius-xl: 16px;
  --radius-2xl: 20px;
  --radius-3xl: 24px;

How this was measured

PikSpec’s scanner read the sketch.com home page in Chrome at 1440px wide on 15 October 2026: the computed styles of its elements, the fonts that rendered and how much of the page each colour covers. Websites change; capture the page yourself with PikSpec for today’s values, any page, and exports in five formats.

Sketch is a trademark of its owner. This page is an independent measurement and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sketch.

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