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mercury.com vs netlify.com

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

mercury.com
mercury.com· read 2026-08-09
netlify.com
netlify.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.

mercury.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.

netlify.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.

mercury.com

No named roles measured.

12 more, no measured role

netlify.com

No named roles measured.

17 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.

mercury.com

h1

49px · 480 · shown smaller

h2

42px · 480 · shown smaller

body

21px · 480

h3

16px · 400

button

16px · 420

small

12px · 480

netlify.com

h1

72px · 800 · shown smaller

h1

64px · 800 · shown smaller

h1

64px · 800 · shown smaller

h2

49px · 800 · shown smaller

code

16px · 400

label

16px · 400

button

14px · 600

Corners

Drawn at the measured radii.

mercury.com

4px

pill

40px

32px

32px

netlify.com

4px

6px

50px

12px

360px

2px

Spacing

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

mercury.com

4
8
12
16
24
32
40
72

netlify.com

4
8
12
16
20
24
32
36

Depth

Shadows cast on each side's own ground.

mercury.com

sm

md

lg

netlify.com

sm

md

lg

Buttons

Rendered from the measured computed styles.

mercury.com

default

netlify.com

default

The measured values behind the panels above.

mercury.comnetlify.com

At a glance

Corners — these differPillRounded
Display size — these differ49px72px
Spacing base4px4px
Accent colours — these differ45
Type families — these differ23
Components55

Full palette

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

All colours — these differ#AFB2CE#9CB4E8#171721#272735#5266EB#0000#000000#EDEDF3#C3C3CC#FFFFFF#EBEBEB#F5F5F5#181A1C#545A61#2E51ED#0000#ACCE#0D1818#0C2A2A#0E7FE1#000000#FFFFFF#757575#F0F0F0#808080#E9EBED#E5E5E5#F5F5F5#DD0000
Semantic — these differ—Error/Danger #DD0000

Typography

Families — these differarcadiaDisplayarcadiaFigtreeMartian MonoInstrument Sans
h1 — these differ49.3472px · 480 · 54.2819px · arcadiaDisplay64px · 800 · 70.4px · Figtree
h2 — these differ42px · 480 · 48.3px · arcadiaDisplay48.64px · 800 · 53.504px · Figtree
body — these differ21.008px · 480 · 25.2096px · arcadiaDisplay14px · 600 · 21px · Instrument Sans
h3 — these differ16px · 400 · 24px · arcadia12px · 500 · 13.2px · Martian Mono
button — these differ16px · 420 · 16px · arcadia14px · 600 · 21px · Figtree
label—16px · 400 · 24px · Instrument Sans
small12px · 480 · 16.8px · arcadia—
code—12px · 400 · 18px · Martian Mono

Shape and rhythm

Radius — these differ4px32px32px 0px 0px 32px40px9999px2px4px6px12px50%360px
Spacing — these differ4px8px12px16px24px32px40px72px4px8px12px16px20px24px32px36px48px64px96px184px
Border widths — these differ1px1px2px

Depth

Strategy——
Shadows — these differrgba(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(86, 86, 118, 0.1) 0px 0px 6px 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(28, 28, 35, 0.02) 0px 10px 16px 0px, rgba(28, 28, 35, 0.04) 0px 6px 10px 0px, rgba(28, 28, 35, 0.09) 0px 0px 3px 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, 0.05) 0px 0px 3px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05) 0px 8px 12px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05) 0px 12px 20px 0pxcolor(srgb 0 0 0 / 0.07) 0px 16px 24px 0px, color(srgb 0 0 0 / 0.06) 0px 6px 30px 0px, color(srgb 0 0 0 / 0.1) 0px 8px 10px 0pxcolor(srgb 0.2 0.215686 0.231373 / 0.08) 0px 2px 4px 0px, color(srgb 0.2 0.215686 0.231373 / 0.06) 0px 1px 10px 0pxrgb(46, 81, 237) 0px 0px 0px 2px inset
Gradients——
Opacity — these differ0.240.700.700.500.600.85
Z-index — these differbase 1base 2base 3base 5dropdown 10dropdown 20dropdown 99base 1base 2sticky 100modal 9989modal 9999toast 2000000000

Components

Sharedbuttoninputcardnavigationlinkbuttoninputcardnavigationlink
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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