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perplexity.ai vs spotify.com

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

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

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.

spotify.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.

perplexity.ai

No named roles measured.

14 more, no measured role

spotify.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.

perplexity.ai

body

16px · 400

spotify.com

h2

24px · 700

h1

16px · 700

span

16px · 400

body

14px · 700

Corners

Drawn at the measured radii.

perplexity.ai

pill

6px

11px

8px

12px

4px

spotify.com

6px

pill

50px

500px

4px

2px

Spacing

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

perplexity.ai

4
8
12
16
32
92

spotify.com

4
8
12
16
20
24
28
32

Depth

Shadows cast on each side's own ground.

perplexity.ai

sm

md

lg

spotify.com

No shadows measured.

Buttons

Rendered from the measured computed styles.

perplexity.ai

default

spotify.com

default

The measured values behind the panels above.

perplexity.aispotify.com

At a glance

CornersPillPill
Display size — these differ16px24px
Spacing base4px4px
Accent colours — these differ78
Type families — these differ12
Components — these differ45

Full palette

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

All colours — these differ#271A00#0000#27251E#FFF0#016A71#A23544#DC6973#97431A#000000#D6D5D4#FDFBFA#FFFFFF#539E55#E10600#0000EE#ACCE#980808#B03830#400808#B65E29#680808#B3B3B3#FFFFFF#000000#1F1F1F#121212#101010#333333#C1C1C1#1ED760#D00000
Semantic — these differSuccess #539E55Error/Danger #E10600Success #1ED760Error/Danger #D00000

Typography

Families — these differpplxSansSpotifyMixUISpotifyMixUITitle
h2—24px · 700 · normal · SpotifyMixUITitle
body — these differ16px · 400 · 24px · pplxSans14px · 700 · normal · SpotifyMixUI
h1—16px · 700 · normal · SpotifyMixUI
span—16px · 400 · normal · SpotifyMixUI

Shape and rhythm

Radius — these differ4px6px8px11px12px9999px2px4px6px50%500px9999px
Spacing — these differ4px8px12px16px32px92px4px8px12px16px20px24px28px32px40px48px64px160px
Border widths1px1px

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, 0.08) 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 differ0.700.200.700.30
Z-index — these differbase 1dropdown 10dropdown 20dropdown 30sticky 500base 1base 2base 3base 4base 5base 6base 7sticky 100

Components

Sharedbuttoncardnavigationlinkbuttoncardnavigationlink
Only here — these differ—input
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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