Design systems.

A design system for dense, demanding product surfaces: long lists, branching wizards, dashboards that surface signal rather than noise. Hand-authored HTML and CSS with no framework, so every component page is also its reference implementation.

Ten components and three compositions, each shown live with its usage and its code beside it, and six principles the whole thing is held to. Tokens are set in OKLCH; light, dim, dark, and high-contrast modes and six accents compose independently, checked against WCAG AA.

This site's own system, named for how the site is set: a print specimen with one spot ink. Every recurring piece of the portfolio is a named part in a registry, with the file it lives in, the pages it appears on, its props, and the rules it keeps.

The book renders from that registry, so the documentation cannot drift from the site. Each part page shows the live part beside its code, in the same three-column reading layout as the Enterprise Design System: parts at the left, the page in the middle, the example at the right.

The system behind Magicians United, a private binder where a Magic: the Gathering pod keeps its cards. It comes out of one sentence: the site had to read like a printed reference, not a dashboard. Dark stock, one metal, a serif that leans, and hairlines doing the work that boxes and drop shadows do elsewhere.

Fifteen parts, from brand and colour through chips, fields and panels to the voice the interface writes in, and ten laws that decide when it has stopped being this system. Every specimen on the page is drawn by the stylesheet the product ships, because a design system whose examples are approximations lies.