Design System — v2

A quieter system for louder intelligence.

Fueld v2 takes its cues from premium dark-UI elevation, editorial typography, and the discipline of a single signal colour. Surfaces stay still so the data can move. The brand stays restrained so the insight feels earned.

Active canvas

Obsidian

Near-black canvas, hue-neutral, maximum contrast. Pick this for product surfaces where data is the hero.

01 — Foundations

The three rules everything else descends from.

Before a colour, a control, or an animation, the system asks: does this earn its place in the hierarchy, the signal economy, and the voice?

Elevation, not decoration.

Surfaces gain hierarchy through translucent overlays — never shadow alone, never gradient flourish. Depth is structural.

One signal colour.

Voltage green appears only when something is interactive, recommended, or affirmed. Everything else stays in the canvas.

Editorial gravity.

A serif headline does the lifting; a tight humanist sans carries the body. Health intelligence should read like a longform essay, not a dashboard.

02 — Elevation

Surfaces lighten as they rise.

Adapted from the Material dark-elevation principle: as a surface gains importance, it adds a translucent white overlay on the canvas. Shadow alone is dishonest in dark UI — overlays preserve hue and read at every contrast level.

z00

Page canvas

+0% white

z01

Quiet card

+5% white

z02

Card / module

+7% white

z04

Raised card

+9% white

z08

Menu / popover

+11% white

z16

Modal / sheet

+14% white

z24

Floating tooltip

+16% white

Practical mapping

Page canvas: z00. Standard cards and modules: z02. Hover or selected state: rise to z04. Menus, popovers and selects: z08. Modals and sheets: z16. Tooltips that float above everything else: z24. Never skip more than two steps in a single component or the hierarchy collapses visually.

03 — Signal palette

Colour is meaning. Use it like currency.

Voltage is the only saturated colour the user should encounter. Everything else either sits in the canvas or carries a specific semantic load. If a colour cannot answer 'what does this mean?' it does not appear.

Voltage

Primary signal — actions, success, focus rings. The only colour that earns full saturation.

Voltage 200

On-canvas tint for badges and progress fills

Ember

Accent only — promotional, single-CTA emphasis

Warning

Caution states, low-severity alerts

Alarm

Destructive, high-severity, blocking

Dimensional palette

Six axes of health, one identifier each.

Used in charts, modules, and badges to keep each axis of the health web instantly recognisable. Each colour has a single canonical use — do not borrow them for unrelated UI emphasis.

Nutrition

Activity

Sleep

Stress

Blood

Genetics

04 — Typography

A serif for the idea. A sans for the work.

Instrument Serif carries the editorial voice — italic where the language earns it. Inter Tight handles every functional surface, with JetBrains Mono reserved for data, codes, and metric units.

Instrument Serif

Display

Display 1

Health, intelligently.

Display 2

A quieter signal.

Headline

Recovery, in context.

Subhead

Sleep is a function of the day before.

Inter Tight

Body

Lede

Fueld treats your body as a system, not a scoreboard. Every metric is connected to a behaviour, and every behaviour to an outcome you can act on tomorrow morning.

Body

Tight humanist sans-serif keeps long passages readable on dense product surfaces. Width has been pulled in from Inter to Inter Tight to match the editorial pace of the serif headlines.

Caption

Used for metric labels, attribution, footnotes, and timestamps. Sentence case unless it represents a brand name or proper noun.

JetBrains Mono — data

HRV +12.4 ms

Display tracking

−0.02em

Pulls letters into a single editorial line

Body tracking

−0.005em

Inter Tight reads naturally at this width

Line height

1.05 / 1.65

Display tight; body generous

05 — Components

Controls that disappear into the canvas.

The system favours flat, tactile controls with a 1px structural border and a single hover lift. Voltage appears on focus, on primary actions, and on affirmation — never as background decoration.

Buttons

One primary, one secondary, one quiet, one destructive.

Inputs

Calm at rest, voltage on focus.

Badges

Status, dimension, and attribution.

RecommendedCautionCriticalBetaNutritionActivitySleepStressBloodGenetics

Metric module

The atomic unit of the product.

Recovery

78 %

+4 vs 7d

Sleep score

6.4 /10

−0.3 vs 7d

HRV

64 ms

+12 vs 7d

06 — Motion

Movement is a quality signal.

Animation in v2 is purposeful and rare. Framer Motion is the only tool. If removing the animation loses no meaning, it should not be there. The vocabulary below is the entire grammar.

Insight earns a quiet entrance.

y: 24 → 0, opacity 0 → 1, 550ms, custom cubic-bezier

Section entry

fade up — y:24→0, opacity 0→1

550ms

Stagger list

children delay 80ms, fade up

per item 450ms

Path draw

pathLength 0 → 1

1.0–1.4s

Hover lift

translateY −2px

180ms ease-out

Signal pulse

ring scale 0.4 → 1.6, opacity 0.8 → 0

2.4s loop

Modal entry

scale 0.96 → 1, opacity 0 → 1

220ms

Next

See how the system becomes the brand.

The brand guidelines page applies the new system to logo, voice, photography, mascot, and the product surfaces a customer actually encounters.