noo/.claude/context/design-system/DESIGN_SYSTEM.md

Noo Design System

Noo is a Nextcloud client for iOS, Android, macOS and Windows. ("Noo" is a placeholder name.) Its visual language is warm neutrals with one violet accent, flat surfaces, pill-shaped controls, and no gradients.

Platform rule: keep one visual language everywhere. Adapt only the navigation chrome (status bar, top bar, bottom bar, window controls) to each platform. Content components look the same on every platform.

Reference files in this project:

• Noo Screens.dc.html has every screen on every platform, in light and dark.
• Noo Design System.dc.html is the visual component sheet.
• noo-kit.js holds the tokens (TH), the icon set (SVG/ic), file-type mapping (KIND) and mock data.
• Mobile Screen.dc.html and Desktop Screen.dc.html are the reference builds for each screen.
• Noo — Missing Screens is a live design canvas (Claude Design, not a static file in this repo) covering the screens this doc originally had no recipe for: Media viewer, Search, the Upload/Move/Copy destination picker, and the Details sheet's tab switch. It has both an iOS row (built first, ready for later) and an Android row (built to match right now) - same content, chrome adapted per the platform rule above. §4 below is the written-up version of what's approved there; go back to the canvas for pixel-level layout, not just the summary.

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1. Tokens

1.1 Color (semantic). Use these names in code.

Token	Role	Light	Dark
bg	App background, desktop sidebar	#F3EFE6 warm off-white	#0E0D0B
surface (sf)	Cards, rows, bars, sheets, desktop main pane	#FFFFFF	#25241F
surface-2 (sf2)	Inputs, inset panels, secondary buttons	#F6F5F2	#3D3C38
surface-3 (sf3)	Progress tracks, toggle off, grabbers	#EAE8E2	#5A5852
line (ln)	Dividers, 1px borders	#EAE8E2	#3D3C38
fg-1	Primary text	#0E0D0B	#F3EFE6
fg-2	Secondary text, idle icons	#5A5852	#BDBAB1
fg-3	Meta text, placeholders, trailing icons	#7C7A72	#9E9B92
accent (ac)	Primary fills (buttons, FAB, toggle on, progress)	#8D0DE3	#8D0DE3
accent-text (act)	Accent text and icons, active nav	#8D0DE3	#CBA5FD
accent-soft (acs)	Selected and active backgrounds, tonal buttons	#ECDFFF	#2F0454
danger / danger-soft	Destructive text / bg	#A8202A / #FDE7E7	#F49E9E / #560F18
danger-fill	Swipe-delete background (white text)	#A8202A	#A8202A
success / success-soft	Synced, connected	#3E7A23 / #EAF5DF	#B7DD9F / #1E3F10
warning / warning-soft	Video file type	#8C5A0E / #FBEFD0	#F0C26C / #4A3208
info / info-soft	Docs, images	#2940A8 / #E6ECFE	#B6C3FB / #1C2B73
scrim	Behind sheets, drawers, dialogs	rgba(14,13,11,.45)	rgba(0,0,0,.6)

Rules:

• Text on accent is always #FFFFFF. Accent-colored text uses accent-text, never accent in dark mode.
• On-color text always uses the matching pair: accent-text on accent-soft, danger on danger-soft, and so on.
• Don't use gradients. Don't add new colors. Avatar and photo placeholder fills use the secondary palette: #8DCDE2 #96B0FD #E5D8BD #EEEDB3 #DA9AC7 #A7D296 #E9A6A7 #85D1BD #CBA5FD, always with #0E0D0B text.

1.2 File-type tiles (KIND)

Kind	Background	Icon color	Lucide icon
folder	accent-soft	accent-text	folder
pdf	danger-soft	danger	file-text
doc / text	info-soft	info	file-text
sheet	success-soft	success	sheet
video	warning-soft	warning	film
image	info-soft	info	image
archive	surface-3	fg-2	file-archive

Tile sizes: 40px/r12 for mobile rows, 30px/r9 for desktop rows, 44px/r12 for the share header, 32px/r10 for activity. The icon is half the tile size (20, 16, 24, 16).

1.3 Typography

Fonts (Google Fonts): Schibsted Grotesk for headings (weights 500/600) and Instrument Sans for UI (weights 400/500/600). Load them with https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Instrument+Sans:wght@400;500;600&family=Schibsted+Grotesk:wght@500;600&display=swap. Don't use italics, all-caps or wide tracking.

Style	Font	Size / line-height	Tracking	Use
Large title	Schibsted 600	34 / 0.9	−3%	iOS large title
Stat	Schibsted 600	32 (mobile) · 28 (desktop) / 0.9	−3%	Offline GB, counters
Title	Schibsted 500	22 / 1	−2%	Android top bar, desktop toolbar
Card title	Schibsted 500	17–20 / 1	−2%	Settings cards, sheet sections, account name
Group heading	Schibsted 500	18 / 1	−2%	Photos month
Body L	Instrument 400/500	16 / 1.2	0	Mobile row title, settings label
Body	Instrument 400/500	14–15 / 1.3	0	Desktop rows, activity text, banners
Label	Instrument 600	13 / 1	0	Section labels (fg-2), chips, table headers (12, fg-3)
Meta	Instrument 400	13 (mobile) · 12–13 (desktop) / 1.2	0	Size · date, subtitles (fg-3)
Nav label	Instrument 500 / 600 (active)	12 Android · 10 iOS	0	Bottom bars
Button	Instrument 600	14–16 / 1	0	All buttons
Mono	ui-monospace 400	13–14	0	Share URLs, local paths

1.4 Space, radius, elevation, motion

• Spacing uses a 4px base: 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 32. Mobile screen gutter is 12px (cards) and 16px (bars). Desktop content gutter is 24px.
• Radius:
  • pills (999px) for every button, chip, segmented control, toggle, search field and badge
  • 20px for cards and grouped lists
  • 18px for grid cards and stat cards
  • 14px for inputs and inset panels
  • 12px for desktop sidebar items and selected table rows
  • 28px for the sheet top and drawer edge
  • 24px for desktop dialogs
  • screen corners are 48 on iOS and 36 on Android
• Elevation: product UI is flat, with no shadows on buttons or cards. The only shadow is 0 24px 48px rgba(30,0,47,.14), and only on floating desktop dialogs. Separate things by surface color, not by shadow.
• Motion: use cubic-bezier(.7,0,.15,1) with durations of 180, 280 and 480ms. Nothing bounces. Pressing a button scales it to 0.98.

1.5 Icons

Use Lucide (pinned to lucide-static@0.460.0) at a 1.8 stroke. Sizes are 14, 16, 18, 20, 24 and 32. Icons render in the current text color. Tab icons: Files folder, Photos images, Favorites star, Offline hard-drive-download, Shares share-2, Recent clock, Activity activity, Trash trash-2, Settings settings.

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2. Components

Button

• Always a pill. Heights: 52 (sheet CTA), 44 (mobile card), 40 (inline in a field), 36 (desktop toolbar), 28–32 (compact).
• Variants:
  • Primary: accent fill, white text.
  • Tonal: accent-soft fill, accent-text.
  • Secondary: surface-2 fill, fg-1.
  • Danger: danger-soft fill, danger text.
  • Outline: 1.5px surface-3 border.
• An icon goes on the left, with a 6–10px gap.

FAB (Android only)

• An extended pill: 56px tall, accent fill, labelled "Upload".
• Sits 16px from the right and bottom edges of the content area.
• Shows only on Files and Photos.

Chip

• A pill, 32–34px tall, 12px horizontal padding, Label 13–14.
• Idle: surface fill on mobile, or a 1px line border on desktop.
• Selected: accent-soft fill with accent-text.
• A trailing chevron-down means it opens a menu. A trailing x means it's an active filter.

Segmented control

• A pill track (surface or surface-2) with 3px padding.
• The active segment gets an accent-soft fill with accent-text at weight 600. Idle segments use fg-2 at weight 500.
• Use it for the List/Grid toggle (icons only, 36×28), Shares scope, Theme, and default view.

Toggle

• 48×28 on mobile, 44×26 on desktop, with a white knob 3px inset.
• On: accent track. Off: surface-3 track. It looks the same on every platform.

Search field

• A pill (radius 12 on the iOS inline field), 36–38px tall.
• Surface fill on bg, or surface-2 fill on surface. Leading search icon and placeholder in fg-3.
• Placement:
  • iOS: below the large title.
  • Android: an icon in the top bar that expands.
  • Desktop: 260px wide in the toolbar.

Grouped list (card)

• A surface card with radius 20 and 1px gaps showing line, which draws the dividers.
• An optional group label above it: 13/600 in fg-2, inset 8px.
• Each group is 18px from the next.

File row

• Mobile: 64px tall.
  • Left to right: tile 40, then a column with the name (16/500, one line, ellipsis) above a meta line (13, fg-3), then optional trailing icons, then the overflow menu (ellipsis on iOS, ellipsis-vertical on Android).
  • The meta line is [status icon][shared icon] size · modified.
  • A favorite shows an accent-text star before the overflow menu.
  • Trailing icon by screen: star in Favorites, rotate-ccw in Trash.
• Desktop: a table row 52px tall.
  • Columns are minmax(0,1fr) 180px 160px 120px: Name, two data columns, then status icons and the overflow menu.
  • The header row is 36px, 12/600 in fg-3, with a sort arrow on the active column.
  • A selected row gets an accent-soft fill with radius 12.

Status icons (14px)

• Synced: circle-check in success.
• Syncing: refresh-cw in accent-text.
• Error: circle-alert in danger, and the meta text says what to do ("Couldn't sync · Tap to retry").
• Shared: users in fg-3.

Swipe action

• The row slides and uncovers a 96px action block. Delete is white on danger-fill; Favorite is white on accent.
• The block has a 20px icon above a 12/600 label.
• Swipe actions are set in Settings → Swipe on a file.

Grid card

• Surface fill, radius 18. Mobile uses 2 columns with a 10px gap; desktop uses 5 columns with a 16px gap.
• The thumbnail area is 104–118px tall, filled with the file-type soft color and a 32px icon. Real thumbnails replace it when they exist.
• Below it: the name (14/500) with an overflow menu, then the meta (12).

Photo grid

• Square tiles with a 2px gap on mobile (3 columns, edge to edge) and a 4px gap on desktop (8 columns).
• Tiles are grouped by month, with the group heading on the left and the count on the right.
• Videos get a badge in the bottom-right: a play icon and the duration on rgba(14,13,11,.7).

Activity item

• Avatar 36 (initials on a secondary-palette color), then a sentence: Actor verb object tail.
• Time in meta style. The file tile (32) goes on the right.

Banner / summary card

• A surface card with radius 20 (surface-2 on desktop) and padding of 14–18.
• Trash: an info icon, the retention text, and "Empty trash" as a danger text button.
• Offline: the stat, a 6px progress bar, the last-sync meta, and a "Sync now" tonal button.

Progress bar

• 6px tall pill. Surface-3 track with an accent fill.
• Used for storage quota, cache use and the offline limit.

Avatar

• A circle with initials, weight 600, at 0.36× the avatar size.
• Sizes: 30–32 in bars, 36 in lists, 48 in the drawer, 52–56 on the account card.
• The current user gets an accent-soft fill with accent-text.

Settings row

• 52px tall, or 60px with a subtitle.
• Left to right: an optional 20px icon in fg-2, then the label (16) with an optional subtitle (13, fg-3), then a trailing control.
• Trailing control is one of: a toggle, a value in fg-3 with a chevron (desktop uses a 32px dropdown with radius 10), a segmented control, a pill button, or a status badge.
• A destructive row uses danger text.

Tab order row

• A grip icon (grip-vertical, fg-3), the tab icon, the label, then a pin button: a 36px circle (30 on desktop) that is accent-soft with pin when pinned, or surface-2 with pin-off when not.
• Allow at most 5 pinned tabs.

Sheet (mobile)

• Surface fill, radius 28 at the top. A 36×5 grabber in surface-3. Padding 20, with 22px between sections.
• It sits on a scrim.

Dialog (desktop)

• 540px wide, radius 24, padding 24, sitting on a scrim.
• Header: file tile, title "Share """, and a close button (32px circle, surface-2).

Drawer (mobile)

• 316px wide, surface fill, radius 28 on the trailing edge, on a scrim.
• Top to bottom:
  • account block with a chevron to switch accounts
  • storage bar
  • "More" label, then the unpinned tabs as 52px pill items (icon 24, label 16/500, trailing count)
  • Settings
  • an "Edit tabs" link at the bottom, in accent-text

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3. Navigation & platform mapping

Tabs (the user sets the order): Files, Photos, Favorites, Offline, Shares, Recent, Activity, Trash. Settings is always separate.

Mobile

Mobile always has 5 pinned tabs in the bottom bar. The rest go in the drawer, which opens from the top-left menu icon.

Element	iOS	Android
Status bar	54px, Dynamic Island	40px
Top bar	44px row: menu on the left; plus and avatar on the right (all accent-text). Then a 34px large title, then the search field.	64px: menu, 22px title, search, avatar
Bottom bar	Surface fill, 1px top line. Icon 24 above a 10px label. Active: accent-text. Idle: fg-3. 34px home indicator below.	Surface fill, 80px. The active icon sits in a 56×32 accent-soft pill with a 12px label. 20px gesture bar below.
Upload	plus in the nav bar	Extended FAB
Overflow icon	ellipsis	ellipsis-vertical
Settings	Pushed screen with a "‹ Files" back button and a large title. No bottom bar.	Pushed screen with a back arrow and a title. No bottom bar.
Biometric label	"Lock with Face ID"	"Lock with fingerprint"

Desktop

Desktop has a 256px sidebar in bg and a main pane in surface, separated by a 1px line.

Sidebar, top to bottom:

• account switcher card
• the 5 pinned tabs
• a divider
• the remaining tabs
• a spacer
• the storage meter
• Settings

Sidebar items are 38px tall with radius 12, an 18px icon and a 14/500 label. The active item gets an accent-soft fill with accent-text at weight 600. Counts sit on the right: Trash 12, Offline errors, new shares.

Toolbar is 64px tall:

• the title (22px Schibsted Grotesk), with a breadcrumb in Files
• a spacer
• the search field
• context actions: List/Grid toggle and Upload in Files, Upload in Photos, Empty trash in Trash, Sync now in Offline

Element	macOS	Windows
Window	Radius 12	Radius 8
Controls	Traffic lights at the top of the sidebar	40px title bar with the app mark and name; minimize, maximize and close buttons 46px wide
Navigation	Back and forward chevrons at the start of the toolbar	Not shown in the toolbar
Biometric	"Touch ID"	"Windows Hello"
Local path	~/Noo/…	C:\Users\…\Noo
Swipe setting	"Trackpad swipe on a file"	"Touch swipe on a file"

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4. Screen recipes

• Files:

  • Toolbar: sort chip (Name ↑), type filter chip, List/Grid segmented toggle.
  • Desktop adds Modified and Shared filter chips, an active-filter chip, and an item count.
  • Content: a list, or a grid when the toggle is set.

• Photos: type chips (All, Photos, Videos, Camera), then the photo grid grouped by month. The grid view is the only view.

• Favorites: a file list with a star as the trailing icon.

• Offline: a summary card (or 4 stat cards on desktop), then a list whose rows show sync status icons and status meta.

• Shares: a segmented control (With you, By you, Links), then a list. The meta reads "Owner · Permission".

• Recent: a list grouped into Today, Yesterday and This week. The meta is the action plus the location.

• Activity: the feed grouped by day. Desktop limits it to 760px wide.

• Trash: a retention banner, then a list. Mobile rows get a restore icon; desktop rows get a tonal "Restore" pill.

• Settings: sections in this order:

  1. Account card
  2. Accounts (list, then "Add account")
  3. Security
  4. File sync
  5. Files cache
  6. Appearance
  7. Tabs
  8. Swipe on a file

  Mobile uses one column of grouped lists. Desktop uses a 2-column grid of cards with a 1px line and radius 20.

• Share sheet / dialog: sections in this order:

  1. Header: file tile, name, size · folder, and close.
  2. Share with people: an input ("Name, email or group"), then the people with access. The owner comes first; the others each have a permission pill ("Can edit ▾").
  3. Share link: a toggle, then the URL field in mono with a primary "Copy link" button, then option chips (permission, expiry, password, allow download).
  4. Send file directly: an outline button, with a caption saying that link settings don't apply.

• Details sheet: header (file tile, name, size · folder, close) as in the Share sheet above, then a segmented control switching Info/Versions/Activity in place below it - there's no separate tab-strip component, so the segmented control (already used for List/Grid and the Shares scope) is the one that does this job too. Info is a flat label/value list (Size, Type, Location, Modified, Created, ...). Versions and Activity reuse their own row/feed treatment. Same on every platform - this sheet has no iOS/Android split.

• Media viewer (the full-screen photo/video viewer): a black stage regardless of theme, like a native photo/video viewer - not bg. A translucent, blurred top bar (back, filename, meta) and bottom bar float over the media; this is the one deliberate exception to "no blur" in product UI, since it's chrome over photo/video content, not over the app's own surfaces. Back is a plain arrow (arrow-left), not the iOS chevron+label pushed-screen pattern - platform split still to do. The bottom bar holds every action in one row (share, favorite, open externally, download, delete, details) on every platform; don't add a top-bar overflow menu for the same actions. Video adds a transport row above the action row: time · seek bar · time, then play/pause and mute centered below it.

• Search: pushed from the shell's search entry point (menu/search icon in the top bar, or the inline field below an iOS large title - DESIGN_SYSTEM §2 "Search field" placement). The destination screen is one shared recipe for both platforms: back arrow + the pill NooSearchField (not the inset-panel text-field shape - a search field is always the pill, except the one named iOS-inline exception) taking over the top row, autofocus, a clear button once there's a query. Below it: a file list (mobile rows / desktop table, same as Files), or a centered icon + short sentence-case message for the empty ("Search your files") and no-results states.

• Upload / Move / Copy destination picker: a pushed screen (outside the tab shell, so it carries its own complete top bar) titled "Upload to" / "Move to" / "Copy to". Back arrow (Android) or "Cancel" text (iOS) leading, no trailing action. Breadcrumb row, then a folder-only list (no files: this screen only browses folders) using the standard file row/tile at the folder kind. Bottom bar: a meta line ("Moving 3 items") above a full-width 52px primary CTA ("Upload here" / "Move here" / "Copy here").

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5. Copy

• Use plain, active and short sentences, under 15 words. Say "you".
• Name the problem and the fix: "Couldn't sync · Tap to retry", not "An error occurred".
• Use sentence case everywhere and no all-caps. Use a middle dot ( · ) to separate meta values.
• Don't use emoji in the product UI.