Brand
The craft behind the craft
ProsaBridge builds translation software for people who make books. Everything it ships is drawn by one hand, in one language of paper, ink, and bronze. This page is that language's specimen sheet.
The design language
Atelier
We call the design language Atelier — a workshop, not a dashboard. It is the table where a careful person sits with translations spread out: one pen, one lamp, no noise.
Atelier is built to feel like a well-made heirloom: warm rather than white, furnished rather than emptied, precise down to the pixel. The same hand draws the writer's add-in inside Microsoft Word, the operator console, and this site.
The full name set in the display serif is the primary ProsaBridge mark. Use it wherever the available space allows.
The serif P is the official mark for square or highly limited placements, including browser tabs, installed-app icons, and structured metadata.
Typography
Three voices
Display
Cormorant Garamond
A noble, high-contrast serif for titles and large numerals. It carries the editorial feel, and it stays at display sizes where its fine strokes hold.
Twelve chapters, faithfully carried across
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Body
Plus Jakarta Sans
A quiet, competent sans for reading and interface work. Modern, and not the star.
The quiet sans carries paragraphs, forms, and footnotes without ever raising its voice.
Mono
JetBrains Mono
Reserved for eyebrows, metadata, and the occasional ID — never for body text.
CHAPTER 12 · 84,120 WORDS · DE→EN
Color
Paper, ink & bronze
Four surfaces stack like sheets on a table. Four voices of ink build hierarchy without reaching for color. One bronze accent asks for attention — and rarely.
Canvas
The page itself — warm ivory, the floor of the room.
Atlas
The work surface a section sits on.
Vellum
The lift for hovered rows and gentle selection.
Inverse
The dark surface reserved for primary affordances and moments of emphasis.
Four voices of ink
Ink
Body and headlines speak in full voice.
Ink soft
Captions and supporting clauses step back.
Ink faint
Metadata and descriptions stay quiet.
Ink whisper
Eyebrows and source labels are skimmed past.
The accent
Bronze
The only color that ever asks for attention: primary actions, active states, a single mark on a chart.
Semantics
Sage
Success — quiet and vegetal.
Amber
Warning — soft, never traffic-light.
Coral
Danger — serious, not alarmist.
Principles
House rules
Square corners
A radius of zero on everything. The one exception is the true circle: a status dot, a spinner.
One accent
Bronze appears when something needs attention. If it were everywhere, it would mean nothing.
Warm throughout
Never pure white, never pure black. Coolness is the fastest way to lose the character.
Tabular numbers
Figures line up in columns, and money lines never wobble.
Sentence case
Buttons, labels, and headings are written the way sentences are written.
Motion settles
Things fade in, rise a few pixels, and come to rest. Nothing bounces.
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