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anthropic.com vs canva.com

Two design systems side by side, measured from the live sites — colour, type, shape, depth, components, states and responsive behaviour.

anthropic.com
anthropic.com· read 2026-08-09
canva.com
canva.com· read 2026-08-09

Worth knowing

  • Neither side has named colour roles, so both predate role-based extraction. Re-generating either one fills in the palette comparison.
  • Interaction states are missing on at least one side — that site's stylesheets were cross-origin and could not be read.

Ground and ink

Each side painted in its own measured canvas, ink, muted and primary roles.

anthropic.com

No colour roles measured on this side, so there is no ground to paint. The palette below is still real; re-extracting the site fills this in.

canva.com

No colour roles measured on this side, so there is no ground to paint. The palette below is still real; re-extracting the site fills this in.

Palette

Named roles first, then every colour measured without one.

anthropic.com

No named roles measured.

16 more, no measured role

canva.com

No named roles measured.

13 more, no measured role

Type scale

Set at the measured size, weight, tracking and leading. Brand typefaces are not loaded, so the metrics are real and the letterforms are not.

anthropic.com

h1

104px · 300 · shown smaller

h1

61px · 700 · shown smaller

h2

61px · 400 · shown smaller

h3

24px · 600

body

24px · 400

list-item

20px · 400

link

18px · 600

canva.com

h1

24px · 600

h2

15px · 700

body

14px · 400

button

14px · 600

h3

12px · 700

list-item

10px · 400

Corners

Drawn at the measured radii.

anthropic.com

8px

8px

0px

canva.com

12px

48px

10px

20px

Spacing

One shared scale across both sides, so the bars are directly comparable.

anthropic.com

4
8
12
16
20
24
32
48

canva.com

4
8
12
16
24
32
48
64

Depth

Shadows cast on each side's own ground.

anthropic.com

sm

canva.com

sm

md

Buttons

Rendered from the measured computed styles.

anthropic.com

default

canva.com

default

The measured values behind the panels above.

anthropic.comcanva.com

At a glance

Corners — these differSoftRounded
Display size — these differ104px24px
Spacing base4px4px
Accent colours — these differ510
Type families — these differ42
Components — these differ34

Full palette

Every colour each extraction kept, including the ones with no measured role.

All colours — these differ#D97757#E3DACC#C6613F#788C5D#BCD1CA#6A9BCC#C46686#EBCECE#141413#FAF9F5#B0AEA5#000000#C6C4BA#87867F#0F0F0E#73726C#9E9EFF#0F1015#101219#394660#A370FC#404F6D#151E82#8B3DFF#000000#FFFFFF#F3F4F7#DB142C#B61629
Semantic — these differ—Error/Danger #DB142CError/Danger #B61629

Typography

Families — these differAnthropic SansAnthropic SerifanthropicSerifanthropicSansCanva SansTimes New Roman
h1 — these differ60.8653px · 700 · 66.9518px · Anthropic Sans24px · 600 · 32px · Canva Sans
h2 — these differ60.8653px · 400 · 66.9518px · Anthropic Serif15px · 700 · normal · Times New Roman
h3 — these differ24px · 600 · 31.2px · Anthropic Sans11.7px · 700 · normal · Times New Roman
body — these differ24px · 400 · 33.6px · Anthropic Serif14px · 400 · 22px · Canva Sans
list-item — these differ20px · 400 · 28px · Anthropic Serif10px · 400 · normal · Times New Roman
link18px · 600 · 25.2px · Anthropic Serif—
span16px · 400 · 16px · Anthropic Sans—
button—14px · 600 · 22px · Canva Sans
h612px · 500 · 15px · Anthropic Sans—
label12px · 400 · 15px · Anthropic Sans—
small12px · 400 · 16.8px · anthropicSans—

Shape and rhythm

Radius — these differ0px 8px 8px 0px8px 0px 0px 8px8px10px12px20px48px
Spacing — these differ4px8px12px16px20px24px32px48px60px64px76px180px4px8px12px16px24px32px48px64px168px
Border widths — these differ1px—

Depth

Strategy——
Shadows — these differrgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 2px 2px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.02) 0px 4px 4px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04) 0px 16px 24px 0pxrgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px insetrgba(255, 255, 255, 0.08) 0px 24px 24px -18px inset, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25) 0px 1px 0.5px 0px inset, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25) 0px -1px 0.5px 0px inset, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14) 0px 1px 2px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.07) 0px 3px 4px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px inset
Gradients——
Opacity — these differ0.010.340.500.070.040.03
Z-index — these differbase 1base 2base 3base 5dropdown 10sticky 101modal 1000modal 9999base 1base 2base 5sticky 100

Components

Sharedbuttonnavigationlinkbuttonnavigationlink
Only here — these differ—input
Signature——

How this was measured

Differences here are ours, not the brands'.

Pages read2—
Extracted2026-08-092026-08-09
Stylesheets——
Roles unassigned——

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