# Adaline — Style Reference
> botanist's specimen journal beside a developer's terminal — warm linen pages, sage ink annotations, and tracked mono tags.
**Theme:** light
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Adaline operates as a naturalist's field journal beside a developer terminal: warm linen canvas, sage-green annotations, and a single literary serif headline anchoring the top of the page. Color is used sparingly and organically — dark forest ink carries body text and CTA fills, while muted sage, teal, and crimson appear as specimen-card backgrounds and category labels rather than as flat accent washes. The type system pairs a neo-grotesque workhorse (Akkurat) with a whisper-light editorial serif (Newsreader) and a tracked monospace (Fragment Mono) that acts as field-note tagging across badges, buttons, and inline labels. Surfaces are flat with hairline borders instead of shadows; photography appears as full-bleed landscape plates between content sections, turning the page into a sequence of specimen sheets rather than dashboard panels.