yaron
The design system

A site that answers back.

The rules this site is drawn by — tokens, type, components and motion for a personal site that behaves like an intelligent system, not a brochure. Black base, purple glow, nodes and edges. No CMS anywhere: Claude reads these rules and generates the pages.

01 — Color

Palette

Base
#060409
Surface 1
#0c0816
Surface 2
#141021
Ink
#f4effb
Dim
#b9aedb
Faint
#6c5f93
Purple
#a855f7
Violet
#7c3aed
Glow
#c084fc
Magenta
#e879f9

Hairlines & gradients

Borders are always purple-tinted, never gray — rgba(168,85,247,.18) at rest, rgba(192,132,252,.55) when active.

Headline fill
180° · #fff → purple → violet
Accent
90° · glow → magenta
Glow surface
0 0 44px rgba(168,85,247,.5)
02 — Type

Typography

Three families, each with one job — Space Grotesk for UI & display, Newsreader for reading, Space Mono for labels & metadata.

Display / 700
Answers back
Heading / 600
Talk to the site
Body UI / 400
Ask anything and the site answers on Yaron's behalf.
Reading / serif
For thirty years, shipping to the web meant assembling a stack. This site is the argument that you no longer need one.
Label / mono
spam-screened · static-first · crawlable
03 — Scales

Spacing, radius & breakpoints

Spacing · 4px base

4
8
16
24
32
48
64
96

Radius

10
14
20
28
pill

Breakpoints

Mobile≤ 720
Tablet721 – 1024
Desktop≥ 1025
04 — Components

Chat surface

Bubbles & typing
Hi — I'm Yaron's site. Ask me anything about his work.
What has he built recently?
Suggested replies
Input bar
Ask the site anything…

Cards & nodes

Work and writing render as cards — inside the chat and as real crawlable pages. Repeating structures become glowing nodes.

Work2025 — present

Repositioning Reprise for the agent era

A case study card, exactly as the chat hands it back.

View the work
Node chips
AI agents MCP Analytics SEO Automation Martech

Even Yaron is drawn as a node in his own graph — the favicon is a head built from nodes, edges and glasses-as-ports.

05 — Motion

Parallax, entrance & glow

Motion is core, not decoration. Background orbs drift at depth on scroll; content rises in; accents breathe.

Parallax depths
Ambient orbs0.07 – 0.24
Hero layers0.06 – 0.25
Content1.0 (locked)
Keyframes
rise.4s ease, +12px
typing1.3s stagger .18s
glowpulse / breathe4 – 4.5s loop
Timing & easing
Micro (hover)120ms
UI transition220ms
Ease.22,.61,.36,1
06 — Rules

Do / don't

Always
  • Purple-tinted hairlines on every border
  • A mono eyebrow before every heading
  • Three fonts, each doing its one job
  • Glow with every shadow — light is structure
  • Repeating structures drawn as nodes & edges
Never
  • Gray borders or flat drop shadows
  • New accent hues outside the purple ramp
  • Inter, Roboto, Arial
  • Corporate brochure energy
  • Reading pages glowing as hard as app pages
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