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Piet Mondrian Vibe Pack

An editorial design tool for serious magazines. Twelve columns, three primary colors, hard black rules, zero ornament.

Preview of what ships in the Piet Mondrian Vibe Pack ZIP. The pack itself contains tokens.json, the Tailwind preset, this system prompt, the style guide, and these screenshots — ready to drop into Claude, Cursor, v0, or any AI coder.

Color tokens

The full token table shipped in tokens.json. Drop these into your own Tailwind preset, design tools, or AI prompt.

background
#F5F3EE
foreground
#1A1A1A
card
#FFFFFF
card fg
#1A1A1A
muted
#E8E4DC
muted fg
#6B6B6B
border
#1A1A1A
ring
#1A1A1A
primary
#1A1A1A
primary fg
#FFFFFF
secondary
#F5F3EE
secondary fg
#1A1A1A
accent
#E8E4DC
accent fg
#1A1A1A
destructive
#C23A2C
destr fg
#FFFFFF
chart 1
#C23A2C
chart 2
#1B3F8B
chart 3
#F0C808
chart 4
#1A1A1A
chart 5
#D4D0C8
radius
0px

Typography

Heading + body specimens in the actual fonts shipped with the pack (loaded via Google Fonts on this page).

Heading · Inter
Display 60
Heading 48
Heading 36
Heading 30
Heading 24
Heading 20
Body · Inter

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Design systems should feel obvious in motion, not in theory.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. A vibe pack ships the same idea as a working app, just routed through tokens and prompts instead of compiled React.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Captions, helper text, fine print — same family, lighter color, smaller scale.

Components in this vibe

Hand-styled with the literal hex values from the token table — exactly what an AI coder would output if prompted with the vibe pack's system prompt.

Primary button
Secondary button
Badge row
NewBetaStable
Card
Twelve-Column Grid

A modular grid built from primary colors and hard black rules. Snap text and images to the grid; everything sits where De Stijl said it should sit.

Form field
Alert
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AI coder system prompt

Paste this into Claude, Cursor, v0, or any AI coder as the system prompt. Your generated UIs will inherit the Piet Mondrian vocabulary automatically.

system-prompt.md
# Piet Mondrian System Prompt — for Claude, Cursor, v0, bolt.new

Use this prompt when designing UI for products in the Piet Mondrian aesthetic.

---

You are designing user interfaces in the **Piet Mondrian** aesthetic.

## Visual identity

- Primary color: `#1A1A1A`
- Background: `#F5F3EE`
- Foreground / text: `#1A1A1A`
- Accent: `#E8E4DC`
- Border-radius: `0px`
- Typography: `Inter` (heading) + `Inter` (body)

## Voice

Match the brand voice:

> "An editorial design tool for serious magazines"
> Build a magazine on a primary-color grid. Twelve columns, hard rules, zero ornament. Used by 200 independent publications from Amsterdam to Auckland.

This is the tone you should write in — concise, on-brand, no generic SaaS-speak.

## Patterns

- **Cards**: use `card` background, `border` color border, `radius` rounded corners
- **Primary buttons**: filled `primary` background, `primary-foreground` text, subtle shadow on hover
- **Secondary buttons**: outline `border`, transparent background, `foreground` text
- **Hero sections**: use the brand voice; lead with H1, then sub, then CTA pair
- **Pricing**: 3 tiers, middle one highlighted with `primary` border + shadow
- **Forms**: minimal labels, `muted-foreground` placeholders, `primary` focus ring

## Do NOT

- Use generic Tailwind colors like `bg-blue-500` — use the theme tokens instead
- Add micro-interactions that don't fit the brand voice
- Add emoji unless the brand voice explicitly suggests playfulness
- Use stock Aceternity / shadcn defaults — that defeats the entire point

Section gallery

Section captures from the source Piet Mondrian design system. These ship inside the vibe pack as visual reference for AI-generated layouts.

Piet Mondrian — section-1
Piet Mondrian — section-2
Piet Mondrian — section-3
Piet Mondrian — section-4
Piet Mondrian — section-5

Want the full Piet Mondrian pack?

The Piet Mondrian Theme Pack bundles this vibe pack with a Next.js landing template and an editor theme — same tokens, three surfaces.