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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 a charred-pine neutral ramp so the amber primaries can hold the light. Folk green and cranberry are supporting colours — used only as small, deliberate accents and state cues.

AA on pine
Lit Amber
Primary · accent
#FFC759
Primary fill
Resin
Primary · base
#E8A52A
Deep
Burnt Amber
Primary · shade
#B9701A
Numeric
Pale Honey
Highlight
#F6D99A
Support
Rye Green
Supporting
#93B271
Support
Cranberry
Supporting
#D65A52
Borders
Bark
Neutral · line
#3A2E1F
Canvas
Charred Pine
Neutral · base
#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
40 / 0.92Užupis after rain
30 / 1.0Old Town courtyards
23 / 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

A nonlinear rhythm

Every margin, gap and pad is drawn from one finite scale on a 4px base. Steps grow nonlinearly so hierarchy reads at a glance — the amber bars below show the ramp.

s-1 · 4px
s-2 · 8px
s-3 · 12px
s-4 · 16px
s-5 · 24px
s-6 · 32px
s-7 · 48px
s-8 · 64px
s-9 · 96px
s-10 · 144px
04 — Components

Experience cards

Cards carry generative amber-light artwork bound by a faint folk diamond weave. Grouped by surface and elevation, with an amber accent edge revealed 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 with an inset shadow; amber focus rings light them up. Toggles and pills keep selection tactile and keyboard-accessible.

Optional — the more we know, the slower and warmer we can make it.
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