# Sublime Text design system

> Sublime Text design system measured from sublimetext.com: Lato font, #3C78B4 primary on #EEEEEE, 14 color hex codes, type scale, spacing and a free DESIGN.md.

Canonical page: https://sitepeel.dev/design-md/sublimetext.com/

Sublime Text’s website (sublimetext.com) uses the Lato font and #3C78B4 as its main color on a #EEEEEE background. Measured by Sitepeel on November 4, 2026.

## What font does Sublime Text use?

Sublime Text uses Lato (weights 400 and 700) on sublimetext.com. Page titles are 48px at weight 400 (30px on phones) and body text is 16px. Measured on November 4, 2026.

- Lato (weights 400, 700)

## Sublime Text colors: palette and hex codes

Sublime Text’s main colors are #EEEEEE (mist) for the background, #555555 (slate) for text and #3C78B4 (blue) as the main accent, with #157BBC (blue) and #4075BF (blue) as other accents. Measured on November 4, 2026.

- #EEEEEE: mist
- #555555: slate
- #666666: slate
- #777777: slate
- #FFFFFF: white
- #CCCCCC: silver
- #3C78B4: blue
- #888888: gray

## What is Sublime Text built with?

Sublime Text’s website (sublimetext.com) is built with Nginx. Measured on November 4, 2026.

- Server: Nginx

## Questions and answers

### What font does Sublime Text use?

Sublime Text’s website uses Lato (weights 400 and 700). Page titles are 48px at weight 400 (30px on phones) and body text is 16px. Measured on November 4, 2026.

### What are the Sublime Text colors and hex codes?

On sublimetext.com: #EEEEEE (mist) for the background, #555555 (slate) for text and #3C78B4 (blue) as the main accent, with #157BBC (blue) and #4075BF (blue) as other accents. The color palette above lists all 14 colors with their hex codes and where each one is used.

### What is the Sublime Text design system?

The design system on this page is sublimetext.com’s, as measured on November 4, 2026: Lato type, #3C78B4 as the main color and 3px corners, written down as a DESIGN.md. It is not Sublime Text’s own documentation.

### What is Sublime Text built with?

Sublime Text’s website (sublimetext.com) is built with Nginx. Measured on November 4, 2026.

### What is the Sublime Text DESIGN.md?

A plain-text file with Sublime Text’s measured colors, type, spacing, corners and components as tokens, plus short rules, in the DESIGN.md format Google published with Stitch. Your AI coding agent reads it and builds in this style. More about DESIGN.md.

### How do I use it with Claude Code or Cursor?

Download the file and put it in your project’s root folder, then ask your agent to follow DESIGN.md. Step-by-step guides: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot.

### Is this Sublime Text’s official design system?

No. Sitepeel measured it from sublimetext.com’s public page on November 4, 2026. It is an independent analysis, not made or approved by Sublime Text.

### Can I use Sublime Text’s style in my own product?

Use it to learn, prototype and compare. For a real product, make the style your own, and never copy Sublime Text’s logo, name, pictures or text.

### How accurate are the values?

Each value was measured on the rendered page after it fully loaded, on desktop and mobile: colors where they appear, type with tracking, spacing, corners, shadows and hover states. Sites change, so check the date at the top.

## Files

- [DESIGN.md](https://sitepeel.dev/design-md/sublimetext.com/DESIGN.md): the plain file to put in your project.
- [All brand DESIGN.md files](https://sitepeel.dev/design-md/examples/index.md)

Independent analysis by Sitepeel (sitepeel.dev), not affiliated with Sublime Text.

## The DESIGN.md file

```markdown
---
version: alpha
name: Sublime Text
description: "Light interface measured from sublimetext.com: Lato type, blue accents, tonal surfaces and 3px corners."
colors:
  background: "#EEEEEE"
  surface: "#EEEEEE"
  on-surface: "#555555"
  on-background: "#555555"
  on-surface-variant: "#666666"
  on-surface-muted: "#777777"
  surface-container-low: "#FFFFFF"
  surface-container: "#CCCCCC"
  overlay: "#EEEEEECC"
  overlay-strong: "#CCCCCCCC"
  outline: "#CCCCCC"
  primary: "#3C78B4"
  on-primary: "#FFFFFF"
  inverse-surface: "#888888"
  secondary: "#157BBC"
  link: "#4075BF"
typography:
  headline-display:
    fontFamily: Lato
    fontSize: 48px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.6
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: Lato
    fontSize: 32px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.6
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: Lato
    fontSize: 24px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.6
    letterSpacing: 0.021em
  body-md:
    fontFamily: Lato
    fontSize: 16px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.6
  body-sm:
    fontFamily: Lato
    fontSize: 14.5px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.6
  caption:
    fontFamily: Lato
    fontSize: 13px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.6
  headline-display-mobile:
    fontFamily: Lato
    fontSize: 30px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.53
rounded:
  md: 3px
spacing:
  xs: 2px
  sm: 8px
  md: 9.6px
  lg: 20px
  xl: 40px
  container: 1200px
components:
  button-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
    textColor: "{colors.on-primary}"
    typography: "{typography.body-md}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    padding: 8px 15px
    height: 42px
  button-primary-hover:
    backgroundColor: "#336699"
  button-ghost:
    textColor: "#999999"
    typography: "{typography.body-sm}"
    rounded: 0px
    padding: 2px 4px
  card:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface-container-low}"
    textColor: "{colors.on-surface}"
    typography: "{typography.body-md}"
    rounded: 4px
    padding: 16px
  link:
    textColor: "{colors.link}"
---

# Sublime Text Design System

## Overview

Sublime Text describes itself as: “Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.” The interface is light, built on **Mist (#EEEEEE)** with **Slate (#555555)** text, and **Blue (#3C78B4)** as the main accent.

Type is set in **Lato**. Headlines run large; body text is 16px. Depth comes from soft drop shadows. Corners are mostly 3px.

Measured from [sublimetext.com](https://www.sublimetext.com/) on November 4, 2026 at 1440×900 and 390×844 from 87 rendered elements. Values are computed styles from the live page, not the original source files.

## Colors

The palette has 14 roles.

- **Mist (#EEEEEE):** Page background, seen 1 time. Token `background`.
- **Slate (#555555):** Primary text and headings, seen 13 times. Token `on-surface`.
- **Slate (#666666):** Secondary text, seen 5 times. Token `on-surface-variant`.
- **Slate (#777777):** Muted text and metadata, seen 10 times. Token `on-surface-muted`.
- **White (#FFFFFF):** Raised areas one step from the page, seen 5 times. Token `surface-container-low`.
- **Silver (#CCCCCC):** Cards and panels, seen 3 times. Token `surface-container`.
- **Mist 80% (#EEEEEECC):** Translucent fill for cards and controls, seen 3 times. Token `overlay`.
- **Silver 80% (#CCCCCCCC):** Stronger translucent fill, seen 2 times. Token `overlay-strong`.
- **Silver (#CCCCCC):** Borders and dividers, seen 5 times. Token `outline`.
- **Blue (#3C78B4):** Primary buttons and calls to action, seen 4 times. Token `primary`.
- **White (#FFFFFF):** Text and icons on primary. Token `on-primary`.
- **Gray (#888888):** High-contrast fills, seen 1 time. Token `inverse-surface`.
- **Blue (#157BBC):** Accent, seen 1 time. Token `secondary`.
- **Blue (#4075BF):** Inline links, seen 2 times. Token `link`.

## Typography

**Lato** carries the whole interface. Fallback stack: `Lato, Arial, sans-serif`.

- **headline-display:** Lato 48px at weight 400, line height 1.6 (30px on mobile). Page title (h1).
- **headline-lg:** Lato 32px at weight 700, line height 1.6. Section headings (h2).
- **headline-md:** Lato 24px at weight 400, line height 1.6, tracking 0.021em, uppercase. Sub-section headings.
- **body-md:** Lato 16px at weight 400, line height 1.6. Body text.
- **body-sm:** Lato 14.5px at weight 400, line height 1.6. Secondary and small text.
- **caption:** Lato 13px at weight 400, line height 1.6. Captions and fine print.

## Layout

Spacing does not follow a strict grid: 50% of measured values are multiples of 4px, so match the measured steps rather than rounding to a grid.

- **Scale:** xs 2px, sm 8px, md 9.6px, lg 20px, xl 40px.
- **Container:** content is capped at 1200px.
- **Breakpoints:** 550px, 640px, 700px, 820px, 1000px, 1024px, 1100px, 1140px, 1160px, 1200px, 1240px.

## Elevation & Depth

Raised elements use soft drop shadows. The most used recipes:

- `rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 0px 0px 20px 0px`
- `rgba(58, 58, 58, 0.3) 1px 1px 5px 0px`

## Shapes

Most elements use 3px corners. Measured radii, most used first:

- **md (3px):** 72 elements.

## Components

Measured from the rendered page. Token values reference the tokens above.

- **button-primary (“INSTALL FOR LINUX”):** #3C78B4 fill, #FFFFFF text, 16px/400, 3px radius, padding 8px 15px.
- **button-primary-hover:** background #336699, text #FFFFFF on hover.
- **button-ghost (“Pause”):** transparent fill, #999999 text, 14.4px/400, padding 2px 4px.
- **card:** #FFFFFF fill, #555555 text, 16px/400, 4px radius, padding 16px, shadow `rgba(58, 58, 58, 0.3) 1px 1px 5px 0px`.
- **link:** transparent fill, #4075BF text, padding 0px.

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do use #EEEEEE for the page and lift surfaces in small steps: #FFFFFF, #CCCCCC.
- Do keep text in 3 levels: #555555, #666666, #777777.
- Do reserve #3C78B4 for primary actions and key highlights.
- Do reuse the measured spacing steps (8px, 9.6px, 20px).
- Do use 3px corners on most elements.
- Don't use #777777 for body text; it reaches 3.86:1 on #EEEEEE. Keep it for large text or metadata.
- Don't introduce new font families beyond Lato.
- Don't use #3C78B4 for large backgrounds or body text.
- Don't make interface transitions slower than 0.15s.

## Motion

Interface transitions are quick: 0.15s.

- **Easing:** `ease-in-out`.

Generated by [Sitepeel](https://sitepeel.dev/design-md/sublimetext.com/), the free DESIGN.md generator (engine 2026.10.29+b828a475ee10).

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