One brand, every surface — you pick the color

What the audit found

Four parallel audits covered marketing, the app shell, the editor, and auth/settings. The structure of the findings is unchanged — the problems are drift and one-offs. Six findings account for the "slopped" feel, plus one new one: the palette itself.

Six candidate palettes

Each is a full token set — paper, ink, grays, accent trio, hairlines — not just a button color. Flip the selector in the bar above and walk the page tabs; every surface re-renders. The strip shows paper → soft accent → accent → deep accent → ink.

Shared semantic colors (all palettes)

The rule from the audit stands under every palette: these are the only semantic colors. Emerald "Live" pills, blue comment rings, yellow quotes, and hashed avatar rainbows all map onto these four plus the accent.

One button system

Auth keeps these; settings drops its black shadcn defaults (except under Graphite, where ink is the accent); Convert and Slides drop text-white hardcodes for the foreground token. Hover is always the deep step, never accent/90.

Kill list

Landing

Diagnosis: solid bones, wrong nav, generic headline. The hand-rolled header disagrees with AppNav on links; the H1 says "Create beautiful docs…" while the product's best line — already written, buried in the developers footer — goes unused. The editor mock leaks off-palette blues and purples. No footer.

Documents dashboard

Diagnosis: the most on-brand surface, sabotaged by its published-sites section — six hashed pastel gradients (violet→purple, rose→pink) with fake traffic-light dots, straight from the AI-slop catalog. Plus emerald pills that bypass the green token, duplicate eyebrows, and radius drift.

Document editor

Diagnosis: the document floats on bare gray with no frame; the header crams ~9 controls with three different active-color systems; the comments panel switches to blue rings, yellow quotes, and rainbow avatars; the share dialog uses stock black shadcn while everything else uses the accent.

Docsmith chat

Diagnosis: a cohesive surface that lives on its own island — no AppNav, no logo, a third sidebar design, raw green-600 checkmarks, and "Docsmith is thinking…" as the personality. It reads as a different product bolted onto the shell.

Convert (& the tool-page pattern)

Diagnosis: Convert and Slides break the brand's headline system — tiny sans text-2xl H1s, no eyebrow, text-white hardcoded buttons — so they read as utilities bolted onto an editorial product. The fix is a compact serif title block: same species as the marketing pages, smaller scale.

Pricing

Diagnosis: already one of the better pages — right headline, real CLI framing. Drift only: inline-styled badge pills, ring + border double emphasis on the popular tier, padding that disagrees with the landing preview of the same cards, and no footer.

Auth & Settings

Diagnosis: auth and settings are two different products today — bespoke accent inputs and buttons on login, stock black shadcn on API keys; four hand-rolled headers that disagree on stickiness and CTA style; serif headings on some pages, sans on others; hover tokens split between the deep step and accent/90.