gsap.com — design breakdown

Dev Tools · Dark · Colorful · Energetic

GSAP — the animation library; its site is a live demo of itself. Animation platform energy, kinetic type demos, green accent on dark. This page breaks down the measurable design decisions behind the site — the extracted color palette, typography, tone of voice — and generates a complete vibe-coding prompt that recreates the same design language in Lovable, Cursor or v0.

Screenshot of the gsap.com homepage — Dev Tools web design example

The gsap.com front page as captured for the Norrly library.

Color palette

The dominant colors extracted from the live site:

#181818#484848#d8d8c0#787860#a8a890

Typography & voice

Heading fontMori

Hero headline“Animate Anything”

CategoryDev Tools

Voice: confident and premium; expressive and optimistic; bold and high-tempo. Hero headline: “Animate Anything”

What gsap.com does well

Uses dark surfaces to make accent colors and product shots glow with contrast.
A confident, saturated palette that makes the brand instantly recognizable.
High visual tempo — bold claims, big type and momentum from section to section.

Apply it to your own project

On dark themes, reserve one bright accent for the primary CTA only.
Pick 1–2 signature hues and repeat them everywhere; rainbow dilutes.
Vary section rhythm — big statement, then proof, then statement again.

The vibe-coding prompt

Norrly generates a complete founding prompt from the measured values above — theme, exact hex colors, type scale, button geometry, section structure, motion rules and hard constraints. Paste it into Lovable, Cursor, v0 or Bolt to start from gsap.com's design language instead of AI defaults. A preview:

You are a world-class web designer + frontend engineer. Build an original single-page landing page in the exact design language of gsap.com (dev tools — GSAP — the animation library; its site is a live demo of itself.) Do NOT clone their content or logo; recreate the FEEL. Every token below was measured from the live site — follow them precisely, they are the product.

Stack: React + Tailwind CSS (works in Lovable, v0, Bolt or Cursor as-is). Single page, production quality, fully responsive.

━━━ 1. DESIGN SPEC (measured tokens — the source of truth) ━━━

THEME & MOOD
- Dark theme: the page lives on #0e100f; light text; contrast and glow create hierarchy.
- Personality: animation platform energy, kinetic type demos, green accent on dark. In two words: Dark + Colorful.
- Reference anchor: think “gsap.com” — animation platform energy. Combine this reference with the exact values below (reference alone is vague, values alone lack character).

COLORS
- Page background: #0e100f
- Body text: #fffce1
- Accent (CTAs, links, ONE highlight per viewport — nothing else): #d8d8c0
- Full measured palette: #181818, #484848, #d8d8c0, #787860, #a8a890

Get the full prompt in the library →

The library includes a 15-second scroll recording, three screenshots, the full measured token set and the complete prompt for gsap.com and 350+ more sites. 5 sites are free to explore.