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notion.so vs railway.app

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

notion.so
notion.so· 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.

notion.so

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.

notion.so

No named roles measured.

18 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.

notion.so

h1

96px · 600 · shown smaller

h1

64px · 700 · shown smaller

h2

54px · 700 · shown smaller

h2

42px · 700 · shown smaller

h2

32px · 700

h3

22px · 700

h5

18px · 700

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.

notion.so

8px

4px

8px

5px

pill

100px

railway.app

6px

pill

8px

Spacing

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

notion.so

4
8
12
16
20
24
28
32

railway.app

4
8
12
16
24
32
40
48

Depth

Shadows cast on each side's own ground.

notion.so

sm

md

lg

xl

railway.app

sm

md

lg

xl

Buttons

Rendered from the measured computed styles.

notion.so

default

railway.app

default

The measured values behind the panels above.

notion.sorailway.app

At a glance

CornersPillPill
Display size — these differ96px56px
Spacing base4px4px
Accent colours — these differ102
Type families — these differ14
Components — these differ54

Full palette

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

All colours — these differ#0075DE#097FE8#62AEF0#27918D#9849E8#1313BA#FF6D00#005BAB#000000#FFFFFF#31302E#A39E98#F6F5F4#615D59#F9F9F8#F2F9FF#F64932#FFB110#33323E#0000#13111C#6C6B7B#08070C#FFF0#545260#272530#FFFFFF#F7F7F8#000000#A1A0AB#DCDCE0#EBEBEB#E5E7EB#E7E5E3
Semantic — these differError/Danger #F64932Warning #FFB110—

Typography

Families — these differNotionInterHelveticaInterIBM Plex Serifui-monospace
h1 — these differ64px · 700 · 64px · NotionInter56px · 500 · 70px · IBM Plex Serif
h2 — these differ54px · 700 · 56px · NotionInter40px · 500 · 50px · Inter
h3 — these differ22px · 700 · 28px · NotionInter20px · 600 · 27.5px · Inter
h518px · 700 · 28px · NotionInter—
link — these differ16px · 400 · 24px · NotionInter16px · 400 · 26px · Inter
body — these differ14px · 400 · 20px · NotionInter20px · 400 · 28px · Inter
span — these differ14px · 500 · 20px · NotionInter16px · 400 · 16px · Helvetica
label—14px · 500 · 20px · Inter
list-item12px · 500 · 16px · NotionInter—

Shape and rhythm

Radius — these differ4px5px8px8px 8px 0px 0px100%9999px6px8px9999px
Spacing — these differ4px8px12px16px20px24px28px32px36px64px80px124px4px8px12px16px24px32px40px48px52px64px108px128px
Border widths — these differ1px2px1px

Depth

Strategy——
Shadows — these differrgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0.175px 1.041px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.02) 0px 0.8px 2.925px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.027) 0px 2.025px 7.847px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04) 0px 4px 18px 0pxrgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 1px 0px 0pxrgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 7px 0pxrgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04) 0px 4px 18px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.027) 0px 2.025px 7.84688px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.02) 0px 0.8px 2.925px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0.175px 1.04062px 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6) 0px 0px 1px 0pxrgba(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 differ0.200.420.800.100.500.050.500.200.600.300.750.90
Z-index — these differbase 1base 2base 3base 4dropdown 10sticky 100sticky 500modal 1000dropdown 10dropdown 20dropdown 50sticky 999modal 9999toast 2147483636toast 2147483638

Components

Sharedbuttoninputnavigationlinkbuttoninputnavigationlink
Only here — these differcard—
Signature——

How this was measured

Differences here are ours, not the brands'.

Pages read66
Extracted2026-08-092026-08-09
Stylesheets——
Roles unassigned——

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