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anthropic.com vs dribbble.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
dribbble.com
dribbble.com· read 2026-08-09

Worth knowing

  • Extraction depth differs: 2 pages against 6. The deeper read will usually show more tokens.
  • 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.

dribbble.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

dribbble.com

No named roles measured.

17 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

dribbble.com

h1

52px · 600 · shown smaller

h1

32px · 400

h1

24px · 700

link

16px · 400

label

16px · 500

h3

16px · 700

button

16px · 700

Corners

Drawn at the measured radii.

anthropic.com

8px

8px

0px

dribbble.com

50px

pill

6px

4px

8px

12px

Spacing

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

anthropic.com

4
8
12
16
20
24
32
48

dribbble.com

4
8
12
16
20
24
28
32

Depth

Shadows cast on each side's own ground.

anthropic.com

sm

dribbble.com

sm

md

lg

Buttons

Rendered from the measured computed styles.

anthropic.com

default

dribbble.com

default

The measured values behind the panels above.

anthropic.comdribbble.com

At a glance

Corners — these differSoftPill
Display size — these differ104px52px
Spacing base4px4px
Accent colours — these differ56
Type families — these differ43
Components — these differ35

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#0D0C22#060318#E62D75#3A3546#655C7A#524B63#EA4C89#3E34D3#000000#FFFFFF#D1CEDA#E7E7E9#262627#DBDBDE#ECEBF0#DBDADE#FF9902
Semantic — these differ—Warning #FF9902

Typography

Families — these differAnthropic SansAnthropic SerifanthropicSerifanthropicSansMona SansArialAmazon Ember
h1 — these differ60.8653px · 700 · 66.9518px · Anthropic Sans24px · 700 · 29px · Mona Sans
h260.8653px · 400 · 66.9518px · Anthropic Serif—
h3 — these differ24px · 600 · 31.2px · Anthropic Sans16px · 700 · 20px · Mona Sans
body — these differ24px · 400 · 33.6px · Anthropic Serif14px · 500 · 19.6px · Mona Sans
list-item20px · 400 · 28px · Anthropic Serif—
link — these differ18px · 600 · 25.2px · Anthropic Serif16px · 400 · 28px · Mona Sans
span — these differ16px · 400 · 16px · Anthropic Sans13.3333px · 400 · normal · Arial
button—16px · 700 · normal · Amazon Ember
h4—15px · 700 · 17px · Mona Sans
input—14px · 400 · 28px · Mona Sans
h612px · 500 · 15px · Anthropic Sans—
label — these differ12px · 400 · 15px · Anthropic Sans16px · 500 · 22px · Mona Sans
small12px · 400 · 16.8px · anthropicSans—

Shape and rhythm

Radius — these differ0px 8px 8px 0px8px 0px 0px 8px8px4px6px8px12px50%9999px
Spacing — these differ4px8px12px16px20px24px32px48px60px64px76px180px4px8px12px16px20px24px28px32px36px40px52px72px
Border widths1px1px

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(18, 22, 25, 0.02) 0px 1px 10px 0pxrgba(6, 3, 24, 0.01) 0px 4px 4px 0pxrgba(6, 3, 24, 0.1) 0px 2px 4px 0px
Gradients——
Opacity — these differ0.010.340.500.000.601.000.28
Z-index — these differbase 1base 2base 3base 5dropdown 10sticky 101modal 1000modal 9999base 1base 2base 5sticky 999modal 9995modal 9996modal 9997toast 10000

Components

Sharedbuttonnavigationlinkbuttonnavigationlink
Only here — these differ—inputcard
Signature——

How this was measured

Differences here are ours, not the brands'.

Pages read — these differ26
Extracted2026-08-092026-08-09
Stylesheets——
Roles unassigned——

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