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Design System · Edition Nº19 · Amber Resin

A city set in amber
warm, slow, lit from within.

The visual language of LoveVilnius draws on Baltic resin and folk geometry — fossil-honey light against charred pine, hand-cut diamond bands, and the unhurried elegance of the north. This is the guide that keeps every page glowing the same colour.

8
Core Colours
3
Type Families
700yr
Old Town Heritage
54.41° N
Baltic Latitude
01 — Colour

The Resin Palette

Built on charred pine darkness so the amber tones can hold the light. Folk green and cranberry red appear only as small, deliberate accents.

Lit Amber
Lit Amber
#FFC759
Resin
Resin
#E8A52A
Burnt Amber
Burnt Amber
#B9701A
Pale Honey
Pale Honey
#F6D99A
Rye Green
Rye Green
#7C9A5D
Cranberry
Cranberry
#C0463F
Bark
Bark Border
#3A2E1F
Charred Pine
Charred Pine
#14100B
02 — Typography

Cut in Fraunces & Spectral

A high-contrast display serif for headlines, a calm reading serif for body, and a mono for the small structural voice. Italics carry the amber.

Display — Fraunces900..144 opt
Aa Vv
64 / 0.92Užupis after rain
40 / 1.0Old Town courtyards
28 / 1.1Hill of Three Crosses
20 / 1.2Markets & amber stalls
Body — SpectralLight 300
Vilnius keeps its warmth indoors and its baroque outdoors. The body face is set in Spectral Light so long passages read like candlelit pages — generous leading, soft contrast, and an italic that leans just enough to feel hand-set. Numbers like 1863, 1991 and €12 sit cleanly in the measure.
Mono — Space Monolabels & data
54.6872° N · 25.2797° E
SECTION / COMPONENT / META
03 — Spacing

An 8-point rhythm

Every margin, gap and pad is a multiple of 8. The amber bars below show the scale used across the system.

xs · 8px
sm · 16px
md · 24px
lg · 40px
xl · 64px
2xl · 96px
3xl · 144px
04 — Components

Experience cards

Cards carry generative amber-light artwork bound by a faint folk diamond weave. Rounded, layered, and lifted on hover.

Old Town

Baroque at Dusk

Walking Tour · 2h

Trace 16 spires of the UNESCO Old Town as the sandstone turns honey-gold under the last Baltic light.

€18 / personBook ↗
Užupis

The Republic of Art

Self-Guided · Free

Cross the bridge into Vilnius's bohemian micro-nation, where a constitution hangs on a wall in 23 languages.

Free / donateMap ↗
Markets

Amber & Rye

Tasting · 90 min

Fossil-resin jewellery, dark sourdough, and a cup of gira — a crawl through the city's oldest market halls.

€24 / personBook ↗
05 — Forms

Controls & inputs

Inputs sink into the pine; amber focus rings light them up. Toggles and pills keep selection tactile.

Baroque Bohemian Slow Foodie Riverside Nightlife
06 — Iconography

Cut-line glyphs

A single-weight, 1.6px line set with a folk-cut diamond accent. Amber strokes on pine, never filled.

Old Town
River Neris
Folk Star
Amber Bead
Rye Bread
Three Crosses
Hours
Love

Imagery follows the same code: warm amber-on-pine photography, generous negative space, and folk diamond bands used only as section punctuation — never decoration for its own sake.

07 — In Context

The system, assembled

Featured · Season of Light

Stay until the city turns gold.

In late autumn the low Baltic sun rakes across the Old Town for barely five hours a day — and every brick glows like the inside of an amber bead. We built three slow itineraries around exactly that light.

"Vilnius doesn't shout. It glows quietly, and waits for you to slow down enough to notice."
— The LoveVilnius Field Notes