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anthropic.com vs huggingface.co

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

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.

huggingface.co

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

huggingface.co

No named roles measured.

3 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

huggingface.co

h1

72px · 700 · shown smaller

h1

48px · 700 · shown smaller

h2

36px · 700

h1

30px · 700

body

24px · 400

h1

24px · 600

h3

20px · 600

Corners

Drawn at the measured radii.

anthropic.com

8px

8px

0px

huggingface.co

8px

pill

16px

2px

4px

6px

Spacing

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

anthropic.com

4
8
12
16
20
24
32
48

huggingface.co

4
8
12
16
20
24
32
40

Depth

Shadows cast on each side's own ground.

anthropic.com

sm

huggingface.co

sm

md

lg

xl

Buttons

Rendered from the measured computed styles.

anthropic.com

default

huggingface.co

default

The measured values behind the panels above.

anthropic.comhuggingface.co

At a glance

Corners — these differSoftPill
Display size — these differ104px72px
Spacing base4px4px
Accent colours — these differ51
Type families — these differ42
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#0B0F19#000000#FFFFFF
Semantic

Typography

Families — these differAnthropic SansAnthropic SerifanthropicSerifanthropicSansSource Sans ProIBM Plex Mono
h1 — these differ60.8653px · 700 · 66.9518px · Anthropic Sans48px · 700 · 48px · Source Sans Pro
h2 — these differ60.8653px · 400 · 66.9518px · Anthropic Serif18px · 600 · 28px · Source Sans Pro
h3 — these differ24px · 600 · 31.2px · Anthropic Sans20px · 600 · 28px · Source Sans Pro
body — these differ24px · 400 · 33.6px · Anthropic Serif18px · 400 · 28px · Source Sans Pro
list-item20px · 400 · 28px · Anthropic Serif
link — these differ18px · 600 · 25.2px · Anthropic Serif16px · 400 · 24px · Source Sans Pro
span — these differ16px · 400 · 16px · Anthropic Sans18px · 700 · 28px · Source Sans Pro
h414px · 400 · 20px · IBM Plex Mono
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 8px8px2px4px6px8px16px9999px
Spacing — these differ4px8px12px16px20px24px32px48px60px64px76px180px4px8px12px16px20px24px32px40px48px56px64px80px
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(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05) 0px 2px 4px 0px insetrgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05) 0px 1px 2px 0pxrgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 1px 3px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 1px 2px -1pxrgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04) 0px 10px 20px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04) 0px 2px 6px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04) 0px 0px 1px 0px
Gradients
Opacity — these differ0.010.340.500.500.250.600.900.400.75
Z-index — these differbase 1base 2base 3base 5dropdown 10sticky 101modal 1000modal 9999base 1base 2base 5dropdown 10dropdown 20dropdown 40

Components

Sharedbuttonnavigationlinkbuttonnavigationlink
Only here — these differinputcard
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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