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canva.com vs stripe.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
stripe.com
stripe.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.

stripe.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

stripe.com

No named roles measured.

14 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

stripe.com

h1

48px · 300 · shown smaller

h1

32px · 700

h2

32px · 300

h2

26px · 500

h3

26px · 300

h2

18px · 500

list-item

16px · 300

Corners

Drawn at the measured radii.

canva.com

12px

48px

10px

20px

stripe.com

4px

8px

6px

17px

5px

2px

Spacing

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

canva.com

4
8
12
16
24
32
48
64

stripe.com

4
8
12
16
20
24
32
36

Depth

Shadows cast on each side's own ground.

canva.com

sm

md

stripe.com

sm

md

lg

xl

Buttons

Rendered from the measured computed styles.

canva.com

default

stripe.com

default

The measured values behind the panels above.

canva.comstripe.com

At a glance

CornersRoundedRounded
Display size — these differ24px48px
Spacing base4px4px
Accent colours — these differ109
Type families — these differ21
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#533AFD#425466#0A2540#3C4F69#061B31#0073E6#64748D#0000EE#000000#FFFFFF#F6F9FC#E5EDF5#F8FAFD#15BE53
Semantic — these differError/Danger #DB142CError/Danger #B61629Success #15BE53

Typography

Families — these differCanva SansTimes New Romansohne-var
h1 — these differ24px · 600 · 32px · Canva Sans32px · 700 · normal · sohne-var
h4—16px · 400 · 22.4px · sohne-var
h2 — these differ15px · 700 · normal · Times New Roman26px · 500 · 36px · sohne-var
body — these differ14px · 400 · 22px · Canva Sans14px · 300 · 19.6px · sohne-var
button — these differ14px · 600 · 22px · Canva Sans14px · 400 · 14px · sohne-var
h3 — these differ11.7px · 700 · normal · Times New Roman26px · 300 · 29.12px · sohne-var
list-item — these differ10px · 400 · normal · Times New Roman16px · 300 · normal · sohne-var

Shape and rhythm

Radius — these differ10px12px20px48px2px4px5px6px8px16.5px
Spacing — these differ4px8px12px16px24px32px48px64px168px4px8px12px16px20px24px32px36px40px48px72px164px
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(50, 50, 93, 0.25) 0px 50px 100px -20px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 30px 60px -30pxrgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 18px 36px -18px, rgba(50, 50, 93, 0.25) 0px 30px 45px -30pxrgba(50, 50, 93, 0.25) 0px 13px 27px -5px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 8px 16px -8pxrgba(50, 50, 93, 0.25) 0px 30px 60px -12px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 18px 36px -18px
Gradients——
Opacity — these differ0.070.040.030.150.500.200.850.100.40
Z-index — these differbase 1base 2base 5sticky 100base 1base 2base 3dropdown 99sticky 100sticky 999toast 999999

Components

Sharedbuttonnavigationlinkbuttonnavigationlink
Only here — these differinputcard
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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