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# Mintlify: Visual Theme & Atmosphere

Mintlify's website is a study in documentation-as-product design — a white, airy, information-rich surface that treats clarity as its highest aesthetic value. The page opens with a luminous white (`#ffffff`) background, near-black (`#0d0d0d`) text, and a signature green brand accent (`#18E299`) that signals freshness and intelligence without dominating the palette. The overall mood is calm, confident, and engineered for legibility — a design system that whispers "we care about your developer experience" in every pixel.

The Inter font family carries the entire typographic load. At display sizes (40–64px), it uses tight negative letter-spacing (-0.8px to -1.28px) and semibold weight (600), creating headlines that feel focused and compressed like well-written documentation headers. Body text at 16–18px with 150% line-height provides generous reading comfort. Geist Mono appears exclusively for code and technical labels — uppercase, tracked-out, small — the voice of the terminal inside the marketing page.

What distinguishes Mintlify from other documentation platforms is its atmospheric gradient hero. A soft, cloud-like green-to-white gradient wash behind the hero content creates a sense of ethereal intelligence — documentation that floats above the noise. Below the hero, the page settles into a disciplined alternation of white sections separated by subtle 5% opacity borders. Cards use generous padding (24px+) with large radii (16px–24px) and whisper-thin borders, creating containers that feel open rather than boxed.

**Key Characteristics:**
- Inter with tight negative tracking at display sizes (-0.8px to -1.28px) — compressed yet readable
- Geist Mono for code labels: uppercase, 12px, tracked-out, the terminal voice
- Brand green (`#18E299`) used sparingly — CTAs, hover states, focus rings, and accent touches
- Atmospheric gradient hero with cloud-like green-white wash
- Ultra-round corners: 16px for containers, 24px for featured cards, full-round (9999px) for buttons and pills
- Subtle 5% opacity borders (`rgba(0,0,0,0.05)`) creating barely-there separation
- 8px base spacing system with generous section padding (48px–96px)
- Clean white canvas — no gray backgrounds, no color sections, depth through borders and whitespace alone
