Squarespace design system

What font does Squarespace use?

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

Squarespace colour palette

Squarespace’s home page is dark (#000000 background, #FFFFFF text) and uses #2F2F2F for its main actions. Its palette: #000000, #FFFFFF, #2F2F2F, #898989, #E7E7E7, #1E4C41.

• #000000
  77.6% · backgrounds
• #FFFFFF
  19.7% · backgrounds
• #2F2F2F
  2.2% · backgrounds
• #898989
  0.4% · text
• #E7E7E7
  Border
• #1E4C41
  Positive
• #200603
  Negative

Type scale

Each size the page sets text in, with its weight and line height. Squarespace’s largest type is 64px at weight 300.

Spacing and shape

Spacing sits on a 4px grid: 4px, 8px, 12px, 16px, 20px, 24px, 28px, 32px, 40px, 48px, 56px, 64px.

Corner radii: 3px, 4px, 8px, 16px, 30px, pill. 2 shadow levels measured.

What makes Squarespace look like Squarespace

Almost entirely neutral: 100% of the page is painted in #000000 and #FFFFFF.

The largest type (64px Clarkson) is light, not bold (300), tracked to -0.06em.

Very airy: text covers 5% of the page.

Squarespace 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 Squarespace’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 Squarespace’s product, so use your own name, words and images.

Download Squarespace 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; Squarespace’s name, logo, words and images are theirs.

@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Figtree:wght@300;400;500;700&display=swap");
@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Source+Serif+4:wght@300;400&display=swap");

:root {
  --color-background: #000000; /* Background */
  --color-text: #FFFFFF; /* Text */
  --color-text-muted: #898989; /* Text muted */
  --color-border: #E7E7E7; /* Border */
  --color-action: #2F2F2F; /* Action */
  --color-on-action: #FFFFFF; /* On action */
  --color-positive: #1E4C41; /* Positive */
  --color-negative: #200603; /* Negative */
  --font-body: "Clarkson", "Figtree", sans-serif; /* Clarkson on the site; Figtree renders */
  --font-interface: "Clarkson Serif", "Source Serif 4", serif; /* Clarkson Serif on the site; Source Serif 4 renders */
  --type-display-large: 64px; /* Display Large, weight 300 */
  --type-display-large-leading: 66.5601px;
  --type-display-large-tracking: -0.06em;
  --type-display-medium: 56px; /* Display Medium, weight 300 */
  --type-display-medium-leading: 60.48px;
  --type-display-medium-tracking: -0.04em;
  --type-display-small: 40px; /* Display Small, weight 400 */
  --type-display-small-leading: 43.2px;
  --type-display-small-tracking: -0.04em;
  --type-headline: 26px; /* Headline, weight 400 */
  --type-headline-leading: 28.08px;
  --type-headline-tracking: -0.02em;
  --type-title: 20px; /* Title, weight 500 */
  --type-title-leading: 24px;
  --type-title-tracking: -0.01em;
  --type-body-large: 15px; /* Body Large, weight 400 */
  --type-body-large-leading: 21px;
  --type-body-large-tracking: -0.001em;
  --type-body-small: 14px; /* Body Small, weight 500 */
  --type-body-small-leading: 14px;
  --type-label-large: 13px; /* Label Large, weight 400 */
  --type-label-large-leading: normal;
  --type-label-small: 12px; /* Label Small, weight 400 */
  --type-label-small-leading: 16.8px;
  --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-10: 40px;
  --space-12: 48px;
  --space-14: 56px;
  --space-16: 64px;
  --space-20: 80px;
  --space-30: 120px;
  --radius-sm: 3px;
  --radius-md: 4px;
  --radius-lg: 8px;
  --radius-xl: 16px;
  --radius-3xl: 30px;
  --radius-full: 9999px;
}

How this was measured

PikSpec’s scanner read the squarespace.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.

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