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KC Design System — Sketch / Sketch

Rough it out.
One system, every component.

The sketch style redraws the system freehand in design-system-sketch.css: handwriting type, wobble borders, sticky-note labels and marker highlights, everything a degree or two off square. Same components, same markup — the notebook the classic skin was ruled up from.

Design style
Colour set

Specimen

One card, re-inked and re-shaped by whatever the two columns say.

Primary chip

Set — Sketch / Sketch

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Prose, quotes & callouts

Everything below renders from Markdown on blog posts. Blockquotes take the 4px ink bar from the original single-post page; callouts are authored as :::note / :::tip / :::warning containers.

Body copy with a hyperlink, some bold emphasis, inline var x = 42; code, a Ctrl + K shortcut and a highlight.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Charles Eames

Notes carry supporting context the reader can safely skip.

Tips are shortcuts: the thing you wish you had known first.

Warnings flag the failure modes that only show up in production.

  • Square accent markers on unordered lists
  • Comfortable 8px spacing between items
TokenValueSource
--ds-accent#7371FC.text-magenta
--ds-border2px solid ink.salv-blog-wrap
--ds-radius-md10px.nav-tag-item
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Code blocks

Fenced code gets a framed block on the #141414 canvas: language label, one-click copy, and a brand-tuned syntax theme (Prism). C#, PowerShell, YAML, Bash, SQL, JSON, TypeScript and Razor ship by default. 
public sealed record DesignToken(string Name, string Value)
{
    // Tokens are immutable; the system changes by versioning, not mutation.
    public static DesignToken Accent { get; } = new("--ds-accent", "#7371FC");

    public override string ToString() => $"{Name}: {Value};";
}
$tokens = Get-Content './design-system.css' |
    Select-String -Pattern '--ds-[\w-]+(?=:)' -AllMatches |
    ForEach-Object { $_.Matches.Value } |
    Sort-Object -Unique

Write-Output "The design system defines $($tokens.Count) tokens."
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Diagrams

A fenced ```mermaid block in Markdown renders to an SVG diagram on a framed, centered panel, themed to the active palette (tidal blue and golden dune under Flow; periwinkle on the classic skin). The library loads lazily and only on pages that contain a diagram; if it ever fails to load, the raw source stays readable. Flowcharts, sequence, pie, xychart, block and radar diagrams are supported. 
flowchart LR
    A[Write Markdown] --> B{mermaid fence?}
    B -- yes --> C[Render SVG]
    B -- no --> D[Framed code block]
    C --> E[Themed diagram]
pie showData title Discipline weights
    "Specification" : 35
    "Context" : 25
    "Harness" : 20
    "Verification" : 20
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Markdown extras

The full Markdig pipeline is wired up. GitHub-style alerts (> [!NOTE]), LaTeX math ($x$ inline, $$…$$ block, rendered with KaTeX), footnotes, definition lists, strike/insert/sub/sup, abbreviations and citations all render to the system style. Emoji shortcodes (:rocket: → 🚀) and smart typography (straight quotes become curly, -- an en dash) are on too.

Note

GitHub alert syntax maps to the same look as the :::note callouts.

Important

The important variant uses the periwinkle accent.

Caution

Caution maps to the danger token.

Inline math like \(E = mc^2\) sits in the text, while block math is centered on its own line:

\[\int_0^\infty e^{-x^2}\,dx = \frac{\sqrt{\pi}}{2}\]

A footnote reference1 links down to the list at the foot of the article. Inline runs support struck text, inserted text, H2O, x2, an HTML abbreviation and a cited source.

Greenfield
A new system built without the constraints of prior work.
Brownfield
Work that must integrate with an existing, live codebase.

  1. Footnotes render smaller, with a top rule and a back-link. ↩

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Media blocks

Figures take an uppercase caption with the small accent line. Plain YouTube or MP4 links in Markdown become responsive 16:9 embeds automatically. Image pairs can opt into a two-column gallery.
Sample architecture diagram drawn with design-system colors
Figure with caption (diagrams use the same palette)
Gallery, left
Gallery, right