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canva.com vs railway.app

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
railway.app
railway.app· 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.

railway.app

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

railway.app

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

railway.app

h1

56px · 500 · shown smaller

h1

54px · 500 · shown smaller

h2

40px · 500 · shown smaller

h2

36px · 400

h2

24px · 500

body

20px · 400

h3

20px · 600

Corners

Drawn at the measured radii.

canva.com

12px

48px

10px

20px

railway.app

6px

pill

8px

Spacing

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

canva.com

4
8
12
16
24
32
48
64

railway.app

4
8
12
16
24
32
40
48

Depth

Shadows cast on each side's own ground.

canva.com

sm

md

railway.app

sm

md

lg

xl

Buttons

Rendered from the measured computed styles.

canva.com

default

railway.app

default

The measured values behind the panels above.

canva.comrailway.app

At a glance

Corners — these differRoundedPill
Display size — these differ24px56px
Spacing base4px4px
Accent colours — these differ102
Type families — these differ24
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#33323E#0000#13111C#6C6B7B#08070C#FFF0#545260#272530#FFFFFF#F7F7F8#000000#A1A0AB#DCDCE0#EBEBEB#E5E7EB#E7E5E3
Semantic — these differError/Danger #DB142CError/Danger #B61629—

Typography

Families — these differCanva SansTimes New RomanHelveticaInterIBM Plex Serifui-monospace
h1 — these differ24px · 600 · 32px · Canva Sans56px · 500 · 70px · IBM Plex Serif
span—16px · 400 · 16px · Helvetica
link—16px · 400 · 26px · Inter
h2 — these differ15px · 700 · normal · Times New Roman40px · 500 · 50px · Inter
body — these differ14px · 400 · 22px · Canva Sans20px · 400 · 28px · Inter
button14px · 600 · 22px · Canva Sans—
label—14px · 500 · 20px · Inter
h3 — these differ11.7px · 700 · normal · Times New Roman20px · 600 · 27.5px · Inter
list-item10px · 400 · normal · Times New Roman—

Shape and rhythm

Radius — these differ10px12px20px48px6px8px9999px
Spacing — these differ4px8px12px16px24px32px48px64px168px4px8px12px16px24px32px40px48px52px64px108px128px
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(255, 255, 255, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px 1.5px insetrgba(65, 78, 166, 0.1) 0px -12px 127px 0px, rgba(65, 78, 166, 0.07) 0px -4.38px 46.357px 0px, rgba(65, 78, 166, 0.06) 0px -2.127px 22.506px 0px, rgba(65, 78, 166, 0.04) 0px -1.042px 11.033px 0px, rgba(65, 78, 166, 0.03) 0px -0.412px 4.362px 0pxrgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(62, 45, 45, 0.24) 0px 100px 191px 0px, rgba(62, 45, 45, 0.165) 0px 36.5016px 69.7181px 0px, rgba(62, 45, 45, 0.133) 0px 17.7209px 33.8469px 0px, rgba(62, 45, 45, 0.106) 0px 8.6871px 16.5924px 0px, rgba(62, 45, 45, 0.075) 0px 3.43489px 6.56065px 0pxrgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset
Gradients——
Opacity — these differ0.070.040.030.500.200.600.300.750.90
Z-index — these differbase 1base 2base 5sticky 100dropdown 10dropdown 20dropdown 50sticky 999modal 9999toast 2147483636toast 2147483638

Components

Sharedbuttoninputnavigationlinkbuttoninputnavigationlink
Only here——
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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