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figma.com vs perplexity.ai

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

figma.com
figma.com· read 2026-08-09
perplexity.ai
perplexity.ai· 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.

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.

perplexity.ai

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.

figma.com

No named roles measured.

4 more, no measured role

perplexity.ai

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.

figma.com

h1

56px · 400 · shown smaller

body

18px · 330

h3

16px · 400

h2

14px · 400

span

0px · 400

perplexity.ai

body

16px · 400

Corners

Drawn at the measured radii.

figma.com

8px

pill

perplexity.ai

pill

6px

11px

8px

12px

4px

Spacing

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

figma.com

4
8
12
16
24
28
32
36

perplexity.ai

4
8
12
16
32
92

Depth

Shadows cast on each side's own ground.

figma.com

sm

perplexity.ai

sm

md

lg

Buttons

Rendered from the measured computed styles.

figma.com

default

perplexity.ai

default

The measured values behind the panels above.

figma.comperplexity.ai

At a glance

CornersPillPill
Display size — these differ56px16px
Spacing base4px4px
Accent colours — these differ27
Type families — these differ21
Components44

Full palette

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

All colours — these differ#FFB3B3#972121#000000#FFFFFF#271A00#0000#27251E#FFF0#016A71#A23544#DC6973#97431A#000000#D6D5D4#FDFBFA#FFFFFF#539E55#E10600
Semantic — these differ—Success #539E55Error/Danger #E10600

Typography

Families — these differfigmaSansfigmaMonopplxSans
h156px · 400 · 56px · figmaSans—
body — these differ18px · 330 · 25.2px · figmaSans16px · 400 · 24px · pplxSans
h316px · 400 · 22.4px · figmaSans—
h214px · 400 · 18.2px · figmaMono—
span0px · 400 · 0px · figmaSans—

Shape and rhythm

Radius — these differ8px9999px4px6px8px11px12px9999px
Spacing — these differ4px8px12px16px24px28px32px36px40px48px52px56px4px8px12px16px32px92px
Border widths — these differ—1px

Depth

Strategy——
Shadows — these differoklch(0 0 none / 0.16) 0px 1px 0px 0pxrgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 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, 0.05) 0px 0px 0px 1pxoklch(0.5525 0.085 207.66 / 0) 0px 0px 36px 4px
Gradients——
Opacity — these differ—0.700.20
Z-index — these differbase 1dropdown 20dropdown 25dropdown 30dropdown 40base 1dropdown 10dropdown 20dropdown 30sticky 500

Components

Sharedbuttoncardnavigationlinkbuttoncardnavigationlink
Only here——
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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