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canva.com vs github.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
github.com
github.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.

github.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

github.com

No named roles measured.

16 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

github.com

h1

64px · 425 · shown smaller

h1

64px · 800 · shown smaller

h1

56px · 440 · shown smaller

h3

40px · 460 · shown smaller

body

28px · 480

h2

24px · 600

h3

22px · 480

Corners

Drawn at the measured radii.

canva.com

12px

48px

10px

20px

github.com

6px

8px

12px

60px

16px

16px

Spacing

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

canva.com

4
8
12
16
24
32
48
64

github.com

4
8
12
16
20
24
32
40

Depth

Shadows cast on each side's own ground.

canva.com

sm

md

github.com

sm

md

lg

xl

Buttons

Rendered from the measured computed styles.

canva.com

default

github.com

default

The measured values behind the panels above.

canva.comgithub.com

At a glance

CornersRoundedRounded
Display size — these differ24px64px
Spacing base4px4px
Accent colours — these differ103
Type families22
Components — these differ45

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#0000#010409#58635B#1F2328#FFF0#25292E#59636E#656C76#000000#FFFFFF#F0F6FC#D1D9E0#9198A1#D2D9D4#CF222E#D29922
Semantic — these differError/Danger #DB142CError/Danger #B61629Error/Danger #CF222EWarning #D29922

Typography

Families — these differCanva SansTimes New RomanMona Sans VFMona Sans
h1 — these differ24px · 600 · 32px · Canva Sans56px · 440 · 61.6px · Mona Sans
label—16px · 400 · 24px · Mona Sans
h2 — these differ15px · 700 · normal · Times New Roman24px · 600 · 36px · Mona Sans VF
body — these differ14px · 400 · 22px · Canva Sans18px · 400 · 27px · Mona Sans
button — these differ14px · 600 · 22px · Canva Sans16px · 400 · 24px · Mona Sans VF
span—14px · 400 · 21px · Mona Sans VF
h4—14px · 600 · 21px · Mona Sans
h3 — these differ11.7px · 700 · normal · Times New Roman22px · 480 · 30.8px · Mona Sans
list-item10px · 400 · normal · Times New Roman—

Shape and rhythm

Radius — these differ10px12px20px48px6px8px12px16px 0px 0px16px60px
Spacing — these differ4px8px12px16px24px32px48px64px168px4px8px12px16px20px24px32px40px48px64px80px128px
Border widths — these differ—1px2px

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 insetrgba(209, 217, 224, 0.25) 0px 0px 0px 1px, rgba(37, 41, 46, 0.04) 0px 6px 12px -3px, rgba(37, 41, 46, 0.12) 0px 6px 18px 0pxrgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 100px 80px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.02) 0px 41px 33px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.02) 0px 22px 17px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03) 0px 12px 10px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04) 0px 6px 5px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.07) 0px 2px 2px 0pxrgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 0px 0px 0px 1px insetrgba(209, 217, 224, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px, rgba(37, 41, 46, 0.32) 0px 56px 112px 0px
Gradients——
Opacity — these differ0.070.040.030.500.600.080.300.570.58
Z-index — these differbase 1base 2base 5sticky 100base 1base 2base 3dropdown 32dropdown 91dropdown 92dropdown 98dropdown 99

Components

Sharedbuttoninputnavigationlinkbuttoninputnavigationlink
Only here — these differ—card
Signature——

How this was measured

Differences here are ours, not the brands'.

Pages read—6
Extracted2026-08-092026-08-09
Stylesheets——
Roles unassigned——

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