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mymind

serene · editorial · warm · private · dreamy

mymind pairs a high-contrast editorial serif (Louize, 140px, tight -6% tracking) with a soft, glowing orange-to-pink radial gradient and generous white space, so a productivity tool reads like a calm, private art book rather than SaaS software. The warmth comes almost entirely from blurred gradient halos and one hot orange (#ff5924), while the actual UI stays near-white and quiet, letting saved images and quotes carry the colour.

Palette

Typography

Headings
Louize (205TF)
Body
Inter (UI text); Avenir for small labels
Free swap
Louize → Cormorant Garamond or EB Garamond (Cormorant is closest in contrast and narrowness); Avenir → Nunito Sans or Figtree; Inter is free.

Hero headline is Louize Regular at ~140px, line-height 0.85, letter-spacing -0.06em, centered, black/near-black on two lines. Section headlines drop to ~72–80px with the same tight tracking and ~1.0 line height. Italic Louize is used for poetic moments ('Search my mind…', 'Welcome to …your new mind.') and a drop-cap-sized italic 'In' opens the manifesto. Manifesto body is Louize at ~32px, line-height ~1.35, slate #3a475a. Supporting copy is Inter ~18–20px, weight 400, line-height ~1.6, #4a5465, centred in narrow ~420px columns. Eyebrows are 13px uppercase sans with ~0.1em tracking, in orange or black ('IT JUST WORKS', 'OUR MANIFESTO'). Emphasis words like 'NO' switch to bold orange sans uppercase next to serif text.

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Signature moves

  • Set the hero headline in a huge, tightly tracked high-contrast serif (140px, 0.85 line-height, -6% tracking) over a white circle carved out of a blurry orange-pink radial gradient.
  • Embed coloured outlined pills inside running sentences to name content types, turning copy into a visual tag cloud.
  • Use italic serif for product-voice moments (search placeholder, sign-off lines) to make the software feel personal and literary.
  • Keep the palette almost monochrome and let a single hot orange (#ff5924) do all CTA, eyebrow and emphasis work, with gradient glows supplying warmth.
  • Write a manifesto section in large serif prose with orange 'NO' statements to sell values rather than features.
  • Prefix nav links with tiny coloured dots instead of icons or underlines.

Layout

Fully centred, single-column composition with a ~1300px max container for product shots and much narrower text measures (~500px for manifesto, ~420px for sublines). Very low density: each section is one headline, one short paragraph, one visual, separated by 150–250px of white space. Backgrounds alternate between white, cool #f9fafc and warm #f6f4f2 full-bleed bands. Large radial gradient halos (orange/coral/pink with lavender edges) frame the hero and the 'Welcome' section, acting as section dividers instead of lines. Platform downloads sit in a 5-column row separated by hairline vertical rules.

Components

Nav
Minimal: small logo left, three centred links each preceded by a tiny coloured dot (orange, yellow, pink), 'Log in' with green dot and an orange (#ff5924) pill 'Sign up' button with white text on the right. No background bar.
Tag pills inline in copy
Words like notes, bookmarks, inspiration, articles, images are set inside outlined pills (1px borders in pink #e48abf, sky #99d2fb, coral #ea726b, yellow, orange) with matching coloured text, embedded mid-sentence.
Platform buttons
Soft grey (#f5f7f9-ish) fully rounded pills with a brand icon and grey Inter label; no border, no shadow.
Product window
A large rounded (12px) near-white panel with a faint wide shadow (0 0 120px rgba(0,0,0,0.15)), containing an italic serif search field and a masonry grid of saved items; a phone mockup overlaps the bottom-right corner.
Platform install grid
Five columns divided by 1px #e2e2e2 vertical rules, each with an app icon, serif platform name (~28px) and a tiny uppercase orange 'GET APP' / 'INSTALL' link.
Manifesto list
Stacked lines of 'NO' in bold orange uppercase sans followed by serif text, left-aligned in a centred block.
Inline AI badge
An orange outlined pill containing 'AI' dropped into the middle of a serif headline as a glyph.
CTA
Small orange pill 'TRY IT OUT >' in uppercase tracked sans, sitting at the base of a glowing orange gradient.

Product UI

Shown as a stylised but realistic app screenshot in a large rounded panel plus an overlapping phone mockup. The UI is a borderless masonry grid of cards on a pale #f9fafc canvas: images, products with small white price tags ($450), serif-set quotes with big curly quote marks, checklists with strikethroughs, and book covers, each with a tiny grey caption below. A slim left rail holds a vertical 'my mind' wordmark and a few line icons (moon, sparkle, grid, gear). Top-right tabs (Everything, Spaces, Serendipity) are plain grey text with an orange marker for the active one. The search field is a giant italic serif placeholder over a hairline rule. Density is moderate, chrome is near-invisible, and colour comes only from user content. Later sections show floating product photos on warm #f6f4f2 with 8–12px radii.

Great for

  • Personal knowledge and note apps
  • Bookmarking or inspiration-board tools
  • Privacy-focused consumer software
  • Journaling, wellness or mindfulness apps
  • Design-literate creative tools

Watch out for

  • Using Louize without a licence; substitute Cormorant Garamond and re-tune tracking since it is lighter.
  • Applying -6% tracking to serif at small sizes; it only works above ~60px.
  • Over-saturating gradients or using hard-edged blobs; the halos must be heavily blurred and fade to white.
  • Adding many accent colours to buttons; the rainbow is reserved for small tag pills and nav dots.
  • Grey Inter body text (#4a5465 / #748297) at small sizes on tinted gradient areas, which loses contrast.
  • Dense feature grids or icon rows that break the slow, single-column editorial rhythm.

Design like mymind

Read https://pageproofer.com/inspiration/calm-minimal/mymind.md and open its screenshots. To design in this style, centre everything in a single column on white (#ffffff) with alternating full-bleed bands of #f9fafc and #f6f4f2, and leave 150–250px between sections. Set headlines in a high-contrast serif (Louize, or Cormorant Garamond as a free substitute) at 120–140px for the hero with line-height 0.85 and letter-spacing -0.06em, and 72–80px for section heads; use italic serif for personal or product-voice lines. Body copy is Inter 18–20px, line-height 1.6, colour #4a5465, in narrow ~420px centred columns; headings use #000 or #3a475a. Use one accent, #ff5924, for pill buttons (fully rounded, white text, small uppercase tracked labels for secondary CTAs), eyebrows (13px uppercase, 0.1em tracking) and emphasis words. Frame the hero with a large blurred radial gradient (orange #ff8a3d → coral/pink → faint lavender) behind a white circle. Put coloured 1px outlined pills (#e48abf, #99d2fb, #ea726b, yellow, orange) inline in sentences to name categories. Show the product as a 12px-rounded near-white window with a soft 0 0 120px rgba(0,0,0,0.15) shadow and a borderless masonry grid of content cards; use 1px #e2e2e2 hairlines for any dividers.