About Pitch DESIGN.md
Curated by Dov AzencotUpdated Source pitch.com
- Productivity & SaaS
- Design & Creative Tools
Pitch's marketing site does what almost no productivity SaaS brand does at this saturation: it gives the brand voltage the entire above-fold canvas. The hero is a flat block of indigo-purple — bright, warm, halfway between violet and ultramarine — with an 80px Mark Pro display headline ("Don't just present. Pitch.") in white at weight 800, tightly tracked at -1.6px, and a single white CTA button beneath. Where Notion holds its near-black ink on cream and Figma keeps its hero on white, Pitch paints the page in the brand color and trusts a four-word editorial sentence to do the work. The display weight is 800 — not 500 like Cloudflare or 400 like Linear — and the page reads as confident, almost magazine-cover loud.
The DESIGN.md file packages the system into a machine-readable spec for React tooling. Inside: 10 color tokens covering the indigo-purple voltage, a secondary brand purple (`#8d49f7`), a mustard-yellow secondary accent (`#ffd02c`), a charcoal ink tier, and the standard white / gray structural scale. Eleven typography tokens span Mark Pro at 27-80px in weight 800 with negative letter-spacing across every display tier, and Eina01 at 14-18px in weights 400-700 for body, button, nav, and metadata. Eight radius tokens centered on 6-8px with circular avatars at 50%; eight spacing tokens; and 14 component definitions covering the purple hero, the slide-preview hero card, the editorial section heads, and the yellow-chip "How Pitch works" callout.
Feed this file to Claude or Cursor and the agent will reproduce Pitch's specific moves: single saturated purple hero canvas, 80px display weight 800 with tight negative tracking, Mark Pro + Eina01 pairing, mustard-yellow as the one allowed competing voltage, and small-step rounding everywhere except the avatar circles. The one move worth borrowing only if you have a brand color this saturated is the full-bleed hero canvas — most teams will need to dilute the voltage to a tinted gradient or a held-in-reserve CTA fill.
What makes it distinct
- Indigo-purple as canvas#6b53ff fills the entire above-fold hero, the inverse of the dev-tool convention that holds the brand color for accents
- 80px Mark Pro 800 displaythe heaviest display moment in the directory, paired with -1.6px tight tracking on the hero h1
- Mark Pro + Eina01 pairinga heavy editorial sans for every display and a geometric humanist sans for every body label, no third family in the system
- Mustard-yellow secondary voltage#ffd02c appears as a single chip-fill accent below the fold, the only color allowed to compete with the brand purple
- Small-step radius scale3px on inputs (25 occurrences), 6px on cards (17), 8px on buttons (14), no middle tier between 8px and 50% circles
Live at pitch.com
A snapshot of the brand in production. Hover the frame to scroll the page; click to visit.
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Pick what you want to see — mockups, colors, typography, layout, or the full component list.
Brand & Accent
Sparing, CTA-only voltage.
Surface
Page and card backgrounds.
Text
Headlines, body, captions, muted.
Borders & Hairlines
Dividers, outlines, structural rules.
Other
Specialty colors.
Pitch design system FAQ
Common questions about Pitch's tokens, components, and how to use this DESIGN.md in your project.
Related reading
Specs, directories, and component libraries that pair with this design system.
Browse all design systems
The full directory of DESIGN.md files on shadcn.io, with live mockups for each.
Pitch — official site
Pitch's public marketing site — the source of truth for the live tokens captured in this file.
The DESIGN.md specification
Google Labs' open spec for machine-readable design system files — the format this page is built on.