Karo Crafts
www.karocrafts.comNYC creative studio + merch shop - "unification of artwork, fashion, music & video", Helvetica + ultra-blue accent, Nuxt + Prismic stack, 229px hero.
Design tokens
- display
- Helvetica
- body
- Helvetica
- fallback
- ui-sans-serif, system-ui
Do / Don't
Reference it for
- Helvetica + ultra-blue rgb(0, 18, 255) accent classic NYC aesthetic
- Pure black + pure white + single chromatic accent three-tone palette
- 11-step decimal-precision fluid scale (13-230px)
- 229px hero display for confident brand statement
- Nuxt + Prismic Vue stack with CMS-managed content
- "Karoverse" sub-brand naming for creative universe content
- "Store" first in nav - commerce-led creative studio
- Pill-only radius discipline (50/28/80px pill + 50% circle, no rectangles with small radius)
Do not copy
- The KARO name + "Karoverse" sub-brand
- The "unification of artwork, fashion, music & video" positioning
- The exact ultra-blue #0012ff hue
- The Facebook Pixel + Google Ads tracking
- The Prismic dependency unless brand uses Prismic
- The LightWidget Instagram integration unless required
Signature moves
three-tone NYC modernist system
pure black plus pure white plus a single ultra-blue chromatic accent, set entirely in one Helvetica family with zero motion and zero shadows for a static modernist feel
confident oversize hero + pill-only radius
a 229px hero display anchors the brand statement, and the whole UI uses pill radii only (28/50/80px plus 50% circles) with no small-radius rectangles, across an 11-step decimal-precision fluid scale (13-230px)
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