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canva.com vs huggingface.co

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
huggingface.co
huggingface.co· 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.

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.

canva.com

No named roles measured.

13 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.

canva.com

h1

24px · 600

h2

15px · 700

body

14px · 400

button

14px · 600

h3

12px · 700

list-item

10px · 400

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.

canva.com

12px

48px

10px

20px

huggingface.co

8px

pill

16px

2px

4px

6px

Spacing

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

canva.com

4
8
12
16
24
32
48
64

huggingface.co

4
8
12
16
20
24
32
40

Depth

Shadows cast on each side's own ground.

canva.com

sm

md

huggingface.co

sm

md

lg

xl

Buttons

Rendered from the measured computed styles.

canva.com

default

huggingface.co

default

The measured values behind the panels above.

canva.comhuggingface.co

At a glance

Corners — these differRoundedPill
Display size — these differ24px72px
Spacing base4px4px
Accent colours — these differ101
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#0B0F19#000000#FFFFFF
Semantic — these differError/Danger #DB142CError/Danger #B61629—

Typography

Families — these differCanva SansTimes New RomanSource Sans ProIBM Plex Mono
h1 — these differ24px · 600 · 32px · Canva Sans48px · 700 · 48px · Source Sans Pro
span—18px · 700 · 28px · Source Sans Pro
link—16px · 400 · 24px · Source Sans Pro
h2 — these differ15px · 700 · normal · Times New Roman18px · 600 · 28px · Source Sans Pro
body — these differ14px · 400 · 22px · Canva Sans18px · 400 · 28px · Source Sans Pro
button14px · 600 · 22px · Canva Sans—
h4—14px · 400 · 20px · IBM Plex Mono
h3 — these differ11.7px · 700 · normal · Times New Roman20px · 600 · 28px · Source Sans Pro
list-item10px · 400 · normal · Times New Roman—

Shape and rhythm

Radius — these differ10px12px20px48px2px4px6px8px16px9999px
Spacing — these differ4px8px12px16px24px32px48px64px168px4px8px12px16px20px24px32px40px48px56px64px80px
Border widths — these differ—1px

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(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 differ0.070.040.030.500.250.600.900.400.75
Z-index — these differbase 1base 2base 5sticky 100base 1base 2base 5dropdown 10dropdown 20dropdown 40

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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