Maillard Toast
Every surface is a shallow caramel-to-espresso gradient, like crema settling — all warm, no cool, anywhere.
Construction · Tinted
Surfaces are a wash of the accent over the page — no border, no shadow, only a shift in tone saying where one group ends.
Every style renders this same screen, so the only thing changing between two of them is the style. The component above is the file below, running.
Prompt
Design this interface in the Maillard Toast style. Toasted color doing the depth: every surface is a shallow caramel-to-espresso gradient, like crema settling, over soft warm shadows. Nothing is cool-toned anywhere —
The numbers in this prompt are printed from the tokens below, so it cannot drift from what the specimen renders.
What carries the look
- caramel-to-espresso gradients
- crema-soft shadows
- all warm no cool
- butter-to-coffee range
What this style refuses
- any cool blue or grey
- flat untinted white surfaces
- hard shadows
- neon saturation
The refusals are the half that keeps generated interfaces from converging — a prompt that only says what to add gets the default look.
Tokens
Palette
#f8f1e7#1c130c#f3e6d3#29190f#d9c3a8#4a3423#3a2417#f3e6d7#77573e#bfa68d#a4551e#d97b34#fff3e4#2a1204Shape and type
Measured contrast — body 12.96:1 light, 14.91:1 dark; secondary text 5.82:1 and 7.89:1. Every pair clears WCAG AA in both themes, checked on each build.
Specimen · Specimen.tsx
import type { CSSProperties } from "react";
/**
* Vibary · Maillard Toast
*
* Every surface is a shallow caramel-to-espresso gradient, like crema settling — all warm, no cool, anywhere.
*
* One complete product screen, rendered from the token object below —