Onda follows Apple's design discipline without copying Apple's look.
The discipline
- Reduction. Say less. One idea per section, one focal element per moment. Subtract until only the essential remains.
- Deference. The design gets out of the way so the motion is the hero. Chrome is quiet; content is loud.
- Clarity. Generous negative space, confident typography, nothing decorative for its own sake.
- Purposeful motion. Every animation means something. No gratuitous movement.
The surface
The surface is deliberately not Apple: a dark, premium canvas with a single signature accent and characterful type. Apple's restraint + a premium-dark-startup skin (closer to Linear / Vercel / Viktor).
A literal Apple clone would be light, neutral, and generic — which fights our goal of being unmistakable. The dusty rose accent (--onda-accent: #D96B82) is deliberately ours. Almost every dev tool goes blue or violet; we don't.
For the locked color/type/spacing values, see the design tokens section in ../CLAUDE.md.