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Soft Shadow Cards

No borders at all — a single soft shadow does every job a border would.

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Construction · Elevation

Height is the only signal: a two-part ambient shadow that grows with importance, and no borders or gradients at all.

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 Soft Shadow Cards style. Cards have no outline whatsoever; one soft, wide shadow separates them from the page. Exactly one elevation level exists, so nothing competes.

Build every surface

The numbers in this prompt are printed from the tokens below, so it cannot drift from what the specimen renders.

What carries the look

  • no outlines
  • one soft wide shadow
  • single elevation level
  • shadow as the border

What this style refuses

  • borders on cards
  • multiple elevation levels
  • hard offset shadows
  • tinted surfaces

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

RoleLightDark
Background#f4f5f7#0b0d0f
Surface#ffffff#151719
Border#eceef1#232629
Text#171a1d#eff1f3
Muted text#585f66#99a0a7
Accent#3160c8#87a9f0
On accent#ffffff#061029

Shape and type

Radius10 / 14 / 20 px
Bordernone
Shadowsoft
Displaysystem-ui
Bodysystem-ui
Monoui-monospace
Type scale11 · 12 · 14 · 16 · 21 · 30 px
Weights400 / 600 / 700
Line height1.5
Tracking0em
Spacing4px grid · regular
Surfacetinted
Accentfilled
Separatorhairline
Labelssentence case
Blurnone

Measured contrast — body 16.02:1 light, 17.19:1 dark; secondary text 5.93:1 and 7.36:1. Every pair clears WCAG AA in both themes, checked on each build.

Specimen · Specimen.tsx

import type { CSSProperties } from "react";

/**
 * Vibary · Soft Shadow Cards
 *
 * No borders at all — a single soft shadow does every job a border would.
 *
 * One complete product screen, rendered from the token object below —

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