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canva.com vs figma.com

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

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

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.

figma.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.

canva.com

No named roles measured.

13 more, no measured role

figma.com

No named roles measured.

4 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.

canva.com

h1

24px · 600

h2

15px · 700

body

14px · 400

button

14px · 600

h3

12px · 700

list-item

10px · 400

figma.com

h1

56px · 400 · shown smaller

body

18px · 330

h3

16px · 400

h2

14px · 400

span

0px · 400

Corners

Drawn at the measured radii.

canva.com

12px

48px

10px

20px

figma.com

8px

pill

Spacing

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

canva.com

4
8
12
16
24
32
48
64

figma.com

4
8
12
16
24
28
32
36

Depth

Shadows cast on each side's own ground.

canva.com

sm

md

figma.com

sm

Buttons

Rendered from the measured computed styles.

canva.com

default

figma.com

default

The measured values behind the panels above.

canva.comfigma.com

At a glance

Corners — these differRoundedPill
Display size — these differ24px56px
Spacing base4px4px
Accent colours — these differ102
Type families22
Components44

Full palette

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

All colours — these differ#9E9EFF#0F1015#101219#394660#A370FC#404F6D#151E82#8B3DFF#000000#FFFFFF#F3F4F7#DB142C#B61629#FFB3B3#972121#000000#FFFFFF
Semantic — these differError/Danger #DB142CError/Danger #B61629—

Typography

Families — these differCanva SansTimes New RomanfigmaSansfigmaMono
h1 — these differ24px · 600 · 32px · Canva Sans56px · 400 · 56px · figmaSans
h2 — these differ15px · 700 · normal · Times New Roman14px · 400 · 18.2px · figmaMono
body — these differ14px · 400 · 22px · Canva Sans18px · 330 · 25.2px · figmaSans
button14px · 600 · 22px · Canva Sans—
h3 — these differ11.7px · 700 · normal · Times New Roman16px · 400 · 22.4px · figmaSans
list-item10px · 400 · normal · Times New Roman—
span—0px · 400 · 0px · figmaSans

Shape and rhythm

Radius — these differ10px12px20px48px8px9999px
Spacing — these differ4px8px12px16px24px32px48px64px168px4px8px12px16px24px28px32px36px40px48px52px56px
Border widths——

Depth

Strategy——
Shadows — these differrgba(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 insetoklch(0 0 none / 0.16) 0px 1px 0px 0px
Gradients——
Opacity — these differ0.070.040.03—
Z-index — these differbase 1base 2base 5sticky 100base 1dropdown 20dropdown 25dropdown 30dropdown 40

Components

Sharedbuttonnavigationlinkbuttonnavigationlink
Only here — these differinputcard
Signature——

How this was measured

Differences here are ours, not the brands'.

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

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