Visual identity

How Appcues looks and moves.

Logo, color, type, graphics, icons, and photography. The building blocks behind everything we make.

02 · Color

Clarity within complexity.

Four color families. Jewel tones do the heavy lifting, and energy colors show up sparingly. Click any swatch to copy its hex.

Jewel & pastel Background or text onlyShadow Soft shadows on jewel or pastelEnergy Small accents, never a floodAmp CTAs and in-product only
Text color
Do

Pair colors within one family and let restraint do the work.

Text color
Don’t

Flood a background with an accent color. It gets loud and looks like every other SaaS brand.

Text color
Don’t

Mix color families in one piece, like Aubergine next to Raspberry with Tidal type.

Accessibility

Check your pairings.

We aim for ADA-friendly type. AA Large is OK for big headlines but not for body copy at 16pt or smaller. Ratios are calculated live.

Product colors

The product uses an indicator palette that complements the brand palette but stays different enough from it.

03 · Typography

A serif that leads.

Martina Plantijn leads, with italics to show movement. GT Standard supports, and Basel Grotesk Mono handles tags.

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AaLeader · Klim Type

Martina Plantijn

Headlines, subheads, and buttons. Regular, Medium, and Italics.

Fallback: Crimson Pro

AaSupport · Grilli Type

GT Standard

Captions, navigation, and longer copy. Regular, SemiBold, and Italics.

Fallback: IBM Plex Sans

AaMono · Optimo

Basel Grotesk Mono

Eyebrows, tags, and monospace in the product. Regular.

Fallback: IBM Plex Mono

Build experiences that move people.

04 · Graphic system

Shapes that shapeshift.

Organic blobs, delicate lines, texture, and solid color, all taken from the logo.

Building blocks

Organic blob shapes, delicate lines, texture, and solid color.

Texture

An inner glow, not an aura. Life and power at the core.

Interactions

Trajectory but smooth. Breaking out of containers with a continuous path.

Motion · Reaching

Faster and expanding. Shapes morph like they’re alive.

Motion · Rolling

Slow and ambient. Use it behind product so it never distracts.

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Flows

Move from dark mode to light mode. Never put two jewel tones side by side. Off-white and Butter are neutral and can touch anything.

Product illustrations should complement the system, not compete with it. Use white backgrounds, rounded corners, and tonal pops of color.

05 · Iconography

Simple and organic.

Our icons echo the blob logo in an illustrative way.

  • Blob shape behind every icon
  • Rounded points and caps
  • Uniform lines, the same thickness at every scale
  • In the product, use the Phosphor library. The agent chat button uses the logo glyph.
06 · Photography

Real people, real moments.

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Source

Candid people with optimistic or smiling expressions. A little blur and depth that captures a present moment.

Avoid

Overly staged photography.

Be mindful

Reinforce reality through human diversity, with variety in gender, age, and more.

Image treatments. Crop photos into blobs from the building blocks for an organic, flexible frame. Blobs can be simplified into calmer frames.