ἕλικος · helikos — Greek, “of the spiral”
A design language for interfaces that are alive. Material treated the screen as paper and ink. Palette treats it as pigment in a current: colour flows, controls change shape with intent, and decoration grows with the data it sits on.
Every motion is one turn of a helix. It cycles, it grows, it comes back to rest.
Speed, amplitude and direction encode state. Idle breathes, working runs, an error stops dead. Nothing moves only to look busy.
Every moving part locks to a shared 2.4 s beat. One Still switch freezes the page, and each component keeps its state in colour and shape.
Pigments flow in hue only. Lightness and chroma are pinned per theme, so text contrast holds in every frame of every gradient.
The model speaks in murmurs and drafts. A person accepts with a tap or a swipe. Every proposal stays undoable for its whole life.
Pigment that flows through type. In Palette it marks provenance: text the model wrote flows until a person accepts it.
Hall B cooling load is 12% under design at current IT load, with headroom for two more racks.
Shows four or five letters. The label travels right to left through the window. Hover or focus opens it to full width.
One target, five intents. Tap for the primary. Drag past the threshold to choose a direction; the button stretches and changes into it.
A wave packet orbits the edge of the field. Its count, speed and colour report state, and each keystroke sends a ripple.
The snackbar for an AI web. It streams, proposes, counts its own life down and swipes away. Murmurs appear at the bottom right.
A card that plays like a 12-second film: subject, metric, trend, risk, next step. It loops until someone acts on it.
Decoration that grows with the value it decorates. Each branch is a finished milestone, seeded from the record ID, so a project always grows the same plant.
Press and hold in the field below for half a second. A ring of letters opens under your pointer, laid out like a bent QWERTY keyboard. Draw through the letters in one stroke, like a brush character, then lift. Alternatives appear around the ring only when the guess is uncertain.
Hold anywhere here · then trace a word, e.g. h → e → l → o for “hello” · tap the centre to close