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Workday
HR-warm professional in tangerine — Adelle Sans humanist curves, signature `#f37721` orange, and a calm white people-first canvas.
By webdesignhot · www.workday.com
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Reuters Global newswire restraint — signature orange (`#ff8000`), Knowledge Medium custom sans, broadsheet rigor for the world''s oldest news agency. Riot Games Crimson `#d13639` red on near-black with custom Riot Beam display — esports-tournament drama and competitive-MOBA editorial. Rive Chunky animated display type and saturated playful colour — interactive graphics platform that wears its motion design on its sleeve. Roblox Bright `#ed1d24` red on white with Builder Sans — the youth-block-builder playground turned multi-billion-game social platform. RunPod Deep slate canvas with Inter and a signature `#673ab7` purple — accessible GPU cloud dressed in friendly developer chrome. Runway A near-black research canvas with ABC Normal headlines pulled tight at -2.5px — a film studio, an ML lab, and a brutalist gallery in one shell. Salesforce Cloud-trust dashboards — Salesforce Sans on a sky-blue ground, with Astro the bear standing guard over a dense CRM portal. 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Sunsama Thoughtful daily planning in warm cream and ink — Inter at modest weights over a paper-cream canvas with sage and rose accents and a calm, unhurried voice. Supabase Off-black canvas, signature emerald `#3ecf8e`, Circular as display, Postgres-grade type discipline. Superhuman White paper canvas, a custom Super Sans variable, and a single confident lavender — premium email dressed as a stationery brand. Supreme Box-logo red, Courier monospace, skate-deadpan minimalism — the most influential streetwear store on the web. Svelte Hot orange #ff3e00 against clean white with a confident sans — the framework that wears its flame as a wordmark. Tailwind CSS The system applied to itself — Inter Variable on white canvas, signature cyan #06b6d4, every component built from Tailwind utilities. Tana Pure black canvas, a custom tanaClassic serif at 83px, and a pale-pistachio CTA — a knowledge graph dressed as a literary supplement. Target Bullseye red CTA, Helvetica Neue, photographic hero — friendly mass-market design with confident chromatic restraint. Telegram Cloud-blue messaging — Tesla Cinematic showroom on white — one Electric Blue CTA, Universal Sans, and viewport-height car photography. The Atlantic Modern serif headlines on cream-paper, signature Atlantic orange `#fbb33b`, long-form magazine reading rendered for the web. The Economist Deep cinnabar red `#e3120b`, Milo serif body, Econ Sans labels — the global-affairs weekly rendered with cover-illustration discipline. The Guardian Guardian Egyptian slab serif, signature navy `#052962`, structured ruled hierarchy with bold section accents. The New York Times Cheltenham serif headlines on paper-white, signature breaking-news red, the canonical American broadsheet rendered for the web. The New Yorker Adobe Caslon Pro + Irvin headline cap — a century of editorial gravitas in cream paper, ink black, and signature cartoon line. The Washington Post Postoni serif blackletter masthead, "Democracy Dies in Darkness" tagline, sober ink-on-paper political broadsheet. Things Cool light-blue canvas, system-ui sans, vivid Things-blue accent — a task manager that ships like an Apple Pro Display. Threads Instagram-adjacent text-first social — pure-black canvas, system-sans clarity, and a quiet brand restraint built from the @ glyph alone. TikTok Electric cyan-magenta on pure black — vertical-video voltage with custom Proxima Nova display and a bold neon brand grammar. tldraw Casual whiteboard sketchy — hand-drawn UI primitives, dotted-grid canvas, and a soft pastel palette that wears its toy-like energy with confidence. Together AI Deep navy on near-white with Inter sans — open-source LLM cloud rendered as developer-platform infrastructure. Toyota Japanese-reliability mainstream — `#eb0a1e` Toyota red on white, ToyotaType sans, and a calm-confident marketing surface for the world's most-sold automotive brand. Turbo Vercel-grade pure-black canvas with a magenta-to-blue Turbo gradient — the build system that wears its speed as a sweep. Turso SQLite at the edge — a deep-teal canvas with a CRT-bright cyan accent (#00face) that reads as a glowing edge node. Twilio Signal-red `#f22f46` against clean white — communications APIs given the visual weight of a broadcast colour. Twitch Purple `#9146ff` on `#0e0e10` canvas with Inter — the live-streaming UI built around chat, raids, and gaming density. Uber Eats Pure-black ground, Uber Move custom sans, Uber-app continuity — the operating system of food delivery. Udemy Signature `#a435f0` purple on white with Sailec sans — the open course-marketplace bazaar made approachable. Uniqlo Signature red `#ff0000`, Helvetica Neue system stack, japanese-utility-functional grid — the LifeWear engine. v0 A near-white prompt canvas with GeistSans and pure OKLCH grayscale — Vercel''s AI builder dressed as the calmest text editor on the internet. Venmo A single confident `#3d95ce` blue, Aktiv Grotesk geometry, and a social-feed informality — payments dressed as group chat. Vercel Brutalist developer-product polish — near-white canvas, near-pure black-on-near-white type, Geist sans + mono, conic-gradient accents. Vite Electric purple #646cff + Manrope display + a literal lightning-bolt mark — the build tool that designed itself to feel as fast as it is. Vodafone Vodafone Red broadcast band, monumental 144px display, two-tier button system — corporate-newsroom telecom design. Volkswagen People's-car blue — the deep `#001e50` corporate hue, custom VW Sans, and a friendly-German marketing surface that sells everyday mobility with confidence. Walmart Spark-yellow on big-box blue, Antonio Display + Bogle sans — everyday low prices made loud. Warp Near-black canvas, neon-lime cursor, real terminal screenshots — a marketing site that boots like a shell. 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---
name: Workday
tagline: HR-warm professional in tangerine — Adelle Sans humanist curves, signature `#f37721` orange, and a calm white people-first canvas.
author: webdesignhot
source_url: https://www.workday.com
spec: design.md/v1.5
quality: curated
featured: false
categories: [saas]
tags: [light, enterprise, sans, orange, b2b, hr, warm, human-centered, finance]
preview_swatch: ['#ffffff', '#f37721', '#1a1a1a']
related: [salesforce, sap, ibm]
description: 'Workday''s web is HR-and-finance enterprise software dressed in a signature tangerine `#f37721` — a deliberately warm orange chosen because Workday sells to humans (HR, Finance, Talent), not to admins. The canvas is a clean white (`#ffffff`) with charcoal ink (`#1a1a1a`) for text; the brand orange carries every primary CTA and the wordmark moment. Headings run **Adelle Sans Workday Heavy** at confident weight, body sits at 16/1.5 in Adelle Sans Regular, and the system reaches for humanist warmth over corporate severity — every card has a soft `8px` radius, every button a `4px` rectangle, and the photography is overwhelmingly **people in conversation**. Where SAP commits to cobalt-cool precision, Workday commits to warm-orange humanism: same enterprise scale, opposite emotional register.'
colors:
bg: '#ffffff' # primary white canvas
bg-soft: '#f7f5f2' # warm-cream alternating section
bg-section: '#f0ece6' # warmer cream for feature bands
bg-feature: '#1a1a1a' # near-black charcoal feature band
bg-warm-feature: '#3d2914' # deep-cocoa warm dark band (rare)
bg-footer: '#1a1a1a' # near-black footer
bg-info: '#fef4ec' # pale-orange info wash
surface: '#ffffff' # default card surface
surface-soft: '#faf8f5' # cream card surface
surface-elev: '#ffffff' # elevated card on cream sections
brand: '#f37721' # Workday Tangerine — primary CTA, wordmark
brand-hover: '#d65f0e' # darker hover state
brand-active: '#a64909' # pressed state
brand-soft: '#fef4ec' # softest tangerine wash
brand-tint: '#fde0c4' # mid tangerine tint for hover surfaces
brand-deep: '#a64909' # deep burnt-orange for emphasis text
charcoal: '#1a1a1a' # near-black for text and feature
ink: '#262626' # secondary text-strong
text: '#1a1a1a' # primary text on white
text-strong: '#000000' # extreme heading weight only
text-soft: '#5a5a5a' # secondary metadata
text-faint: '#8c8c8c' # placeholder, caption
text-on-dark: '#ffffff'
text-on-dark-soft: 'rgba(255,255,255,0.78)'
on-brand: '#ffffff'
border: '#dcd9d4' # warm-gray hairline (slightly cream-tinted)
border-soft: '#ebe7e0' # softer cream divider
border-strong: '#a8a39b' # form-input emphasized border
link: '#0066b2' # link blue (rare — Workday uses orange CTAs over linked text)
link-hover: '#004a85'
success: '#3aa15a' # confirmation green
success-soft: '#e7f4ec'
warning: '#d97706' # cautious orange-amber (distinct from brand)
warning-soft: '#fff5e6'
danger: '#c63030' # error red
danger-soft: '#fbeaea'
info: '#0066b2' # informational blue
info-soft: '#e6f0f8'
scrim: 'rgba(26,26,26,0.55)'
shadow-card: 'rgba(26,26,26,0.08)'
shadow-elev: 'rgba(26,26,26,0.14)'
shadow-deep: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.20)'
shadow-warm: 'rgba(243,119,33,0.18)' # tangerine-tinted glow on brand hover
typography:
display:
family: '"Adelle Sans Workday", "Adelle Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif'
weights: [300, 400, 500, 700, 900]
opentype-features: ['kern', 'liga', 'tnum on numeric']
body:
family: '"Adelle Sans Workday", "Adelle Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif'
weights: [400, 500, 700]
serif:
family: '"Adelle", Georgia, serif'
weights: [400, 700]
mono:
family: '"JetBrains Mono", Menlo, Consolas, monospace'
weights: [400, 500]
scale:
display-hero: { size: 80, weight: 900, lineHeight: 1.0, tracking: '-0.025em', family: display, notes: 'Adelle Sans Workday Heavy on flagship hero' }
display-large: { size: 60, weight: 900, lineHeight: 1.05, tracking: '-0.02em', family: display, notes: 'industry/solution page hero' }
h1: { size: 44, weight: 700, lineHeight: 1.15, tracking: '-0.015em', family: display }
h2: { size: 36, weight: 700, lineHeight: 1.2, tracking: '-0.01em', family: display }
h3: { size: 28, weight: 700, lineHeight: 1.25, tracking: '-0.005em', family: display }
h4: { size: 22, weight: 700, lineHeight: 1.3, tracking: '0', family: display }
h5: { size: 18, weight: 700, lineHeight: 1.4, tracking: '0', family: display }
body-large: { size: 20, weight: 400, lineHeight: 1.55, tracking: '0', family: body, notes: 'hero intro paragraph' }
body-md: { size: 16, weight: 400, lineHeight: 1.55, tracking: '0', family: body, notes: 'default body' }
body-strong: { size: 16, weight: 700, lineHeight: 1.55, tracking: '0', family: body }
body-sm: { size: 14, weight: 400, lineHeight: 1.5, tracking: '0', family: body }
label: { size: 14, weight: 700, lineHeight: 1.4, tracking: '0', family: body }
eyebrow: { size: 13, weight: 700, lineHeight: 1.3, tracking: '0.1em', family: body, transform: uppercase, notes: 'category eyebrow over hero — wide tracking' }
button: { size: 14, weight: 700, lineHeight: 1.2, tracking: '0', family: body }
quote: { size: 28, weight: 400, lineHeight: 1.4, tracking: '-0.005em', family: serif, notes: 'Adelle serif pull-quote on customer stories' }
caption: { size: 12, weight: 400, lineHeight: 1.4, tracking: '0', family: body }
legal: { size: 11, weight: 400, lineHeight: 1.45, tracking: '0', family: body }
code: { size: 14, weight: 400, lineHeight: 1.5, tracking: '0', family: mono }
tabular: { size: 14, weight: 500, lineHeight: 1.4, tracking: '0', family: body, opentype: 'tnum' }
radius:
micro: 2
sm: 4 # buttons, inputs
md: 8 # cards, badges
lg: 12 # featured cards, modals
xl: 16 # hero feature card
pill: 9999 # status pills, language pills
spacing:
base: 4
scale: [4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 80, 96, 128]
layout:
page-width: 1280
prose-width: 720
header-height: 80
sub-nav-height: 56
outer-gutter-mobile: 20
outer-gutter-tablet: 32
outer-gutter-desktop: 48
hero-content-proportion: 0.55
hero-image-proportion: 0.45
components:
button-primary:
bg: '#f37721'
color: '#ffffff'
border: '1px solid #f37721'
radius: 4
padding: '14px 28px'
font: button
use: 'Primary CTA — "Get started", "Talk to us", "Watch demo".'
button-primary-dark:
bg: '#f37721'
color: '#ffffff'
border: '1px solid #f37721'
radius: 4
padding: '14px 28px'
use: 'Primary CTA on dark feature band — orange stays consistent across light/dark surfaces.'
button-secondary:
bg: 'transparent'
color: '#1a1a1a'
border: '2px solid #1a1a1a'
radius: 4
padding: '13px 27px'
use: 'Secondary outlined — "Learn more", "See how it works".'
button-secondary-dark:
bg: 'transparent'
color: '#ffffff'
border: '2px solid #ffffff'
radius: 4
padding: '13px 27px'
use: 'Outlined CTA on charcoal feature band, paired with orange-filled primary.'
button-tertiary:
bg: 'transparent'
color: '#a64909'
border: 'none'
padding: '14px 12px'
icon: 'arrow-right after label'
use: 'Inline CTA — "Read the report ›", "Find your industry ›".'
button-ghost:
bg: '#fef4ec'
color: '#a64909'
border: 'none'
radius: 4
padding: '14px 28px'
use: 'Soft-tangerine ghost button on tangerine-soft surfaces.'
card-content:
bg: '#ffffff'
radius: 8
border: '1px solid #ebe7e0'
padding: '32px'
shadow: '0 2px 8px rgba(26,26,26,0.06)'
hover-shadow: '0 8px 24px rgba(26,26,26,0.12)'
use: 'Default content card — feature card, industry tile, customer story.'
card-feature:
bg: '#faf8f5'
radius: 16
border: 'none'
padding: '48px'
use: 'Hero feature card on cream section — larger radius, no border, soft cream surface.'
card-customer-story:
bg: '#ffffff'
radius: 12
border: '1px solid #ebe7e0'
padding: '40px'
overlay-portrait: 'top-right person photo'
use: 'Customer-story card — pull-quote in Adelle serif + customer name + role + portrait.'
card-stats:
bg: '#ffffff'
radius: 8
border: '1px solid #ebe7e0'
padding: '40px 32px'
metric-size: 64
metric-color: '#f37721'
use: '"3.2x faster" stat card — tangerine numeral over charcoal label.'
badge-info:
bg: '#fef4ec'
color: '#a64909'
radius: 4
padding: '6px 12px'
font: { size: 12, weight: 700 }
use: '"Featured", "AI-powered", "New" — categorical pill.'
badge-success:
bg: '#e7f4ec'
color: '#1f6b35'
radius: 4
padding: '6px 12px'
use: '"Available now" — confirmation pill.'
input-text:
bg: '#ffffff'
border: '2px solid #dcd9d4'
radius: 4
padding: '14px 16px'
focus-border: '2px solid #f37721'
label-position: 'above input — left-aligned 14/700 charcoal'
use: 'Default text input — contact form, search.'
input-search:
bg: '#f7f5f2'
border: '2px solid #dcd9d4'
radius: 4
padding: '12px 16px 12px 44px'
icon: 'search 18px left-padded'
use: 'Top-bar global search.'
global-nav:
bg: '#ffffff'
height: 80
border-bottom: '1px solid #ebe7e0'
sticky: true
items: 'wordmark + Why Workday / Solutions / Industries / Customers / Insights + utility (Search/Sign in/Contact sales)'
use: 'Fixed top bar — generous 80px height, hairline-only at rest.'
mega-menu:
bg: '#ffffff'
radius: '0 0 12px 12px'
shadow: '0 16px 40px rgba(26,26,26,0.10)'
columns: 3
use: 'Solutions hover panel — 3-column grid + featured story banner right.'
feature-band:
bg: '#1a1a1a'
color: '#ffffff'
padding: '120px 0'
use: 'Full-width charcoal strip — 50/50 split copy left + people-photography right.'
customer-story-band:
bg: '#f0ece6'
color: '#1a1a1a'
padding: '96px 0'
use: 'Cream feature band with serif pull-quote — customer-voice moment.'
footer:
bg: '#1a1a1a'
color: '#ffffff'
padding: '80px 0 32px'
columns: 5
legal-bar: 'separated by 1px white-10% hairline'
use: 'Charcoal footer with 5-column site index + tangerine wordmark + legal strip.'
motion:
ease-standard: 'cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1)'
ease-emphasized: 'cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1)'
ease-decelerate: 'cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1)'
duration-fast: 120
duration-standard: 240
duration-slow: 360
duration-page: 500
hover-lift: 'card hover: shadow rises from 0 2px 8px → 0 8px 24px rgba(26,26,26,0.12) over 240ms ease-standard, with 2px translateY lift'
cta-press: 'transform: translateY(1px) + 100ms color shift to brand-hover'
link-underline: 'underline grows from 0 → 100% over 240ms ease-standard on hover'
reduced-motion: 'respects prefers-reduced-motion: reduce — translateY lifts degrade to opacity 0.95 → 1 dim only; underline-grow disabled; image-fade-in disabled.'
breakpoints:
mobile: 600
tablet: 900
desktop: 1200
wide: 1440
shadows:
none: 'none'
card: '0 2px 8px rgba(26,26,26,0.06)'
card-hover: '0 8px 24px rgba(26,26,26,0.12)'
elevated: '0 12px 32px rgba(26,26,26,0.14)'
modal: '0 24px 56px rgba(26,26,26,0.20), 0 6px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.10)'
ring: '0 0 0 3px rgba(243,119,33,0.40)'
warm-glow: '0 6px 20px rgba(243,119,33,0.25)'
accessibility:
contrast-text-on-bg: 16.0 # charcoal on white — AAA
contrast-text-on-brand: 3.5 # white on tangerine — AA at large text only
contrast-text-on-brand-deep: 7.2 # white on deep burnt-orange — AAA
contrast-text-on-charcoal: 17.5 # white on charcoal — AAA
contrast-soft-on-bg: 7.2 # text-soft on white — AA
focus-ring: '3px solid rgba(243,119,33,0.40) with 2px offset — tangerine glow ring'
reduced-motion-honored: true
touch-target-min: 44
keyboard-nav: 'Tab order — skip-link → wordmark → primary nav (Why Workday/Solutions/Industries/Customers/Insights) → utility (Search/Sign in/Contact sales) → main → footer.'
aria-patterns: 'Mega-menu uses aria-haspopup + aria-expanded; carousel uses aria-roledescription="carousel"; tabs use roving tabindex; pull-quote citations use <cite> element + role="quote".'
dark-mode: null # Workday marketing is light-only. Charcoal feature bands are content-driven (single emphatic moment per page), not theme-driven. The product surface uses Workday Canvas Design System with light/dark theme tokens, but the public marketing site does not.
---
## 1. Visual Theme & Atmosphere
Workday's web is **HR-and-finance enterprise software with a deliberately warm, human-centered face**. The tangerine `#f37721` is not a "tech orange" (the saturated electric orange of Stripe Climate or HBO Max) — it's softer, more terracotta-adjacent, the color of an autumn afternoon rather than a notification badge. That choice is core to Workday's positioning: the company sells to humans (HR managers, finance teams, talent leaders), not to system administrators, and the brand orange is calibrated to feel like warm Pacific-Northwest sunlight, not a hostile alert color. Photography across the site reinforces this: nearly every hero image is **people in conversation** — small groups, candid moments, multiple ethnicities, soft natural light. Where SAP shows products and dashboards, Workday shows faces.
The canvas is a clean white (`#ffffff`) with charcoal ink (`#1a1a1a`) for text. The brand orange carries every primary CTA, the wordmark, and a single accent moment per page. Cream surfaces (`#f7f5f2`, `#f0ece6`, `#faf8f5`) appear as alternating section bands — not pure neutral grays, but warm-tinted creams that align tonally with the orange and the photography. The chromatic discipline is tight: charcoal text + cream surfaces + tangerine action + a single near-black feature band per page. Status colors (success green, warning amber, danger red, info blue) appear only in semantic contexts — never as decorative accents.
Typography carries enormous brand weight. Workday commissioned a custom cut of **Adelle Sans** (originally TypeTogether's slab-rooted sans-serif) called **Adelle Sans Workday**, which adds weight options (Heavy 900, Black) and tightens optical spacing for screen rendering. The face has **humanist warmth** — single-story 'a', open 'g', friendly 'e' counters — that prevents the system from reading as cold-corporate. **Adelle Sans Workday Heavy 900** carries every hero headline at tight `-0.025em` tracking; body sits in Adelle Sans Regular 400 at 16/1.55 with generous line-height. Customer-story pages occasionally swap to **Adelle** (the slab-serif companion) for pull-quotes — the only typeface deviation in the system, used to give human voices their own visual register.
Surfaces breathe through soft elevation. Cards take an `8px` radius (a step softer than SAP's `6px`) with a default shadow of `0 2px 8px rgba(26,26,26,0.06)` — present, but whisper-quiet. Hover lifts the card 2px with shadow rising to `0 8px 24px rgba(26,26,26,0.12)`. Buttons remain crisp `4px` rectangles — the same enterprise discipline as SAP — but the orange fill softens the corporate severity. Feature bands are charcoal `#1a1a1a` (near-black with a slight warm tint), reserved for one emphatic moment per page; cream feature bands carry the customer-story serif pull-quote. The whole system feels like clean enterprise chrome with humanist warmth — disciplined, calibrated, and never antiseptic.
The page rhythm runs **white ground → cream `#f7f5f2` zone → charcoal feature band → cream `#f0ece6` customer-story band → white ground**. The two-cream-tier rhythm gives the page more textural variation than a single shaded zone would; the charcoal band provides the brand's emotional anchor (typically a "Workday for [industry]" hero) and the cream band carries the customer-voice moment.
**Key Characteristics:**
- Signature tangerine `#f37721` calibrated as a humanist warm orange — never electric, never neon
- Photography overwhelmingly **people in conversation** — never product screenshots-only
- Charcoal `#1a1a1a` for text and feature bands — not pure black, slightly warm-tinted
- Cream surface tiers (`#f7f5f2` / `#f0ece6` / `#faf8f5`) instead of cool grays — temperature-coherent with orange
- Custom **Adelle Sans Workday** typeface — humanist warmth at enterprise scale
- Adelle (slab-serif companion) reserved for customer-story pull-quotes only
- 4px-radius rectangle buttons (enterprise discipline) softened by warm orange fill
- 8px-radius soft cards with whisper-quiet default shadow + 2px hover lift
- Tangerine glow focus ring (`3px solid rgba(243,119,33,0.40)`) — warm and visible
- Two-cream feature-band rhythm (warm `#f7f5f2` neutral + warm `#f0ece6` story-band) plus single charcoal anchor
- Header at 80px (taller than SAP's 72) — generous breathing room
## 2. Color Palette & Roles
### Primary
- **White** (`#ffffff`): The default page canvas. Pure white, never tinted — the cream warmth comes from section-band overlays, not from the base canvas.
- **Charcoal** (`#1a1a1a`): Primary text on white, also the dark feature-band ground. Reads as a "warm near-black" — slightly cocoa-tinted compared to true `#000000`, which keeps the brand emotionally consistent with the orange.
- **Tangerine** (`#f37721`): The signature brand action color. Used on filled CTAs, the wordmark, stat-callout numerals, and one accent moment per page. Never paired with a competing accent hue.
### Brand & Dark
- **Charcoal** (`#1a1a1a`): Feature band, footer, dark surface ground.
- **Brand Hover** (`#d65f0e`): Tangerine darkened ~15% for hover/active states on filled CTAs.
- **Brand Active** (`#a64909`): Pressed state — deep burnt-orange.
- **Brand Deep** (`#a64909`): Used for emphasis text — eyebrow links, tertiary CTAs, callout numerals at small sizes where AAA contrast is required on white.
### Accent
There is no second accent color. Cream surfaces (`#f7f5f2`, `#f0ece6`, `#faf8f5`) function as quiet temperature-coherent backgrounds rather than accents. The system explicitly avoids a second saturated hue.
### Interactive
- **Link** (`#0066b2`): Inline link blue — used sparingly. Most "links" on Workday's site are styled as orange tertiary CTAs with a chevron, not as blue underlined text. Blue links appear primarily in long-form Insights articles.
- **Link Hover** (`#004a85`): Darker blue + underline-grow.
- **Tertiary CTA**: `#a64909` brand-deep + chevron + underline-on-hover.
- **Disabled**: text `#8c8c8c` + bg `#ebe7e0` (cream-gray rather than pure gray).
### Neutral Scale
- **Text** (`#1a1a1a`): Primary body — charcoal, slightly warm.
- **Text Strong** (`#000000`): Reserved for extreme heading weight only — display-hero on hero bands.
- **Ink** (`#262626`): Secondary text-strong — h2/h3 on white.
- **Text Soft** (`#5a5a5a`): Secondary metadata, captions, label-secondary.
- **Text Faint** (`#8c8c8c`): Placeholder, timestamp, hint text.
- **Border** (`#dcd9d4`): Default hairline — slightly cream-tinted (warm gray, not cool gray).
- **Border Soft** (`#ebe7e0`): Lightest cream divider.
- **Border Strong** (`#a8a39b`): Form-input emphasized border.
### Surface & Borders
- **Surface** (`#ffffff`): Default card surface.
- **Surface Soft** (`#faf8f5`): Cream card surface — used on cards inside cream feature bands.
- **Cream Section** (`#f7f5f2`): Warm-cream alternating section.
- **Cream Story Band** (`#f0ece6`): Slightly deeper cream for customer-story bands.
- **Cocoa Band** (`#3d2914`): Rare deep-cocoa warm-dark band — used on industry-vertical pages where the standard charcoal would clash with brand photography.
### Shadow Colors
Workday shadows are **charcoal-tinted, not pure black**. Every elevation layer uses `rgba(26,26,26, alpha)` for the primary shadow, which keeps depth feeling warm-coherent with the brand. The brand-orange focus ring uses `rgba(243,119,33, 0.40)` — a tangerine glow that signals warmth even in interaction states.
- **Card Default** `rgba(26,26,26,0.06)` — 8px Y2 spread
- **Card Hover** `rgba(26,26,26,0.12)` — 24px Y8 spread
- **Elevated** `rgba(26,26,26,0.14)` — 32px Y12 spread
- **Modal** `rgba(26,26,26,0.20)` + `rgba(0,0,0,0.10)` — two-layer warm + neutral
- **Warm Glow** `rgba(243,119,33,0.25)` — tangerine-tinted hover glow on brand surfaces
- **Focus Ring** `rgba(243,119,33,0.40)` — 3px tangerine ring
### Semantic
Workday follows a 5-stop semantic palette with calibrated warmth — even the success green and danger red are tuned to feel slightly warm, harmonious with the tangerine.
- **Success Green** (`#3aa15a`) on `#e7f4ec` — confirmation
- **Warning Amber** (`#d97706`) on `#fff5e6` — caution (deliberately distinct from brand tangerine)
- **Danger Red** (`#c63030`) on `#fbeaea` — error
- **Info Blue** (`#0066b2`) on `#e6f0f8` — informational
- **Brand Tangerine** is reserved for action (CTAs), not for status — never doubles as a "warning" color despite the warm hue.
## 3. Typography Rules
### Font Family
- **Primary**: `"Adelle Sans Workday", "Adelle Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif` — Workday's commissioned cut from TypeTogether's Adelle Sans family, with Heavy 900 and Black added for hero use.
- **Serif Companion**: `"Adelle", Georgia, serif` — the slab-serif sister of Adelle Sans, used exclusively for customer-story pull-quotes.
- **Mono**: `"JetBrains Mono", Menlo, Consolas, monospace` — for code in docs and technical specs (rare on the marketing site).
- **Open-source substitute**: Adelle Sans is licensed (TypeTogether). Reasonable substitutes: **Source Sans 3** (humanist proportions, free), **Inter** (slightly cooler but widely supported), **Public Sans** (USWDS, similarly humanist). For the Adelle slab pull-quote, use **Adelle's free-tier samples**, **Roboto Slab**, or fall back to Georgia.
- **OpenType features**: `kern` and `liga` always on; `tnum` (tabular numerals) on by default for financial / pricing contexts; no special stylistic sets active at root.
### Hierarchy
| Role | Font | Size | Weight | Line Height | Letter Spacing | OT Features | Notes |
|------|------|------|--------|-------------|----------------|-------------|-------|
| display-hero | Adelle Sans Workday | 80 | 900 | 1.0 | -0.025em | kern | Flagship homepage hero — Heavy weight |
| display-large | Adelle Sans Workday | 60 | 900 | 1.05 | -0.02em | kern | Industry / solution page hero |
| h1 | Adelle Sans Workday | 44 | 700 | 1.15 | -0.015em | kern | Article-level heading |
| h2 | Adelle Sans Workday | 36 | 700 | 1.2 | -0.01em | kern | Major section heading |
| h3 | Adelle Sans Workday | 28 | 700 | 1.25 | -0.005em | kern | Subsection heading |
| h4 | Adelle Sans Workday | 22 | 700 | 1.3 | 0 | kern | Card title |
| h5 | Adelle Sans Workday | 18 | 700 | 1.4 | 0 | kern | Minor heading |
| body-large | Adelle Sans Workday | 20 | 400 | 1.55 | 0 | kern, liga | Hero intro paragraph |
| body-md | Adelle Sans Workday | 16 | 400 | 1.55 | 0 | kern, liga | Default body |
| body-strong | Adelle Sans Workday | 16 | 700 | 1.55 | 0 | kern, liga | Emphasized body |
| body-sm | Adelle Sans Workday | 14 | 400 | 1.5 | 0 | kern, liga | Metadata, captions |
| label | Adelle Sans Workday | 14 | 700 | 1.4 | 0 | kern | Form labels, table headers |
| eyebrow | Adelle Sans Workday | 13 | 700 | 1.3 | 0.1em | kern, uppercase | Category eyebrow over hero — wide tracking |
| button | Adelle Sans Workday | 14 | 700 | 1.2 | 0 | kern | All CTA labels |
| quote | Adelle | 28 | 400 | 1.4 | -0.005em | kern, liga | Customer-story pull-quote (slab serif) |
| caption | Adelle Sans Workday | 12 | 400 | 1.4 | 0 | kern, liga | Captions, footnotes |
| legal | Adelle Sans Workday | 11 | 400 | 1.45 | 0 | kern | Legal fine print |
| code | JetBrains Mono | 14 | 400 | 1.5 | 0 | none | Inline code in docs |
| tabular | Adelle Sans Workday | 14 | 500 | 1.4 | 0 | tnum | Pricing tables, financial rows |
### Principles
- **Heavy weight (900) is reserved for display-hero only.** Below 60px, the system steps down to Bold 700. The 900 weight is the brand's "shout" register — used sparingly to preserve impact.
- **Tight negative tracking on display sizes** — hero runs `-0.025em`, easing toward `0em` at body sizes. Never tracks looser than `0em` except for uppercase eyebrows (`+0.1em`).
- **Adelle Sans Workday is monolithic for sans use.** The system uses one typeface across product, marketing, and docs — a rare consistency at enterprise scale.
- **Adelle (slab serif) is reserved for pull-quotes only.** Never use the slab serif for headlines, body, or CTAs. Its single permitted role is customer-voice typography.
- **Body line-height is 1.55** — slightly more generous than SAP's 1.5, giving body text a breathable, humanist feel.
- **Headings on white use charcoal `#1a1a1a`, not black.** Pure black reads cold against the warm-cream surface tiers.
- **Eyebrow uppercase + 0.1em tracking** is the strongest typographic signal of brand identity — used as an opening voice over hero headlines.
- **Tabular numerals for pricing.** Financial / pricing rows must opt into `font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums` for column alignment — Workday's finance heritage demands it.
## 4. Component Stylings
### Buttons
**`button-primary` — "Get started"**
- Background `#f37721`, text `#ffffff`, border `1px solid #f37721`, radius `4`, padding `14px 28px`, font 14/700. Hover: `bg #d65f0e` + shadow `0 6px 20px rgba(243,119,33,0.25)`. Active: `translateY(1px)` + `bg #a64909`. Transition: `all 240ms ease-standard`.
**`button-primary-dark` — "Talk to us" (on charcoal band)**
- Same orange fill — Workday's tangerine carries across light and dark surfaces consistently. The orange + charcoal combo is one of the brand's signature visual moments.
**`button-secondary` — "Learn more"**
- Background transparent, text `#1a1a1a`, border `2px solid #1a1a1a` (thicker than SAP's 1px to match Workday's heavier visual weight). Same radius/padding/active. Hover: `bg #1a1a1a` + text `#ffffff` (full inversion).
**`button-secondary-dark` — "See how it works" (on charcoal band)**
- Background transparent, text `#ffffff`, border `2px solid #ffffff`. Hover: `bg #ffffff` + text `#1a1a1a` (inversion).
**`button-tertiary` — Inline CTA**
- Background transparent, text `#a64909` (deep burnt-orange for AAA contrast), no border, padding `14px 12px`. Trailing chevron `›`. Hover: underline grows + chevron translates `4px` right.
**`button-ghost` — Soft Surface CTA**
- Background `#fef4ec` (tangerine-soft), text `#a64909`, no border, radius `4`. Used as a CTA on tangerine-soft surfaces where the filled-orange would overwhelm.
### Cards
**`card-content` — Default Content Card**
- Background `#ffffff`, radius `8`, border `1px solid #ebe7e0`, padding `32px`. Default shadow: `0 2px 8px rgba(26,26,26,0.06)`. Hover: `translateY(-2px)` + shadow `0 8px 24px rgba(26,26,26,0.12)` over 240ms.
**`card-feature` — Hero Feature Card**
- Background `#faf8f5`, radius `16`, border `none`, padding `48px`. Larger radius and cream surface signal "featured" without using a colored border. Often paired with full-width photography on one half.
**`card-customer-story` — Customer Story Card**
- Background `#ffffff`, radius `12`, border `1px solid #ebe7e0`, padding `40px`. Layout: Adelle slab-serif pull-quote at 28/400 on the left, customer portrait + name + role + company on the right. Often nested inside the cream `#f0ece6` story band.
**`card-stats` — Stat Callout**
- Background `#ffffff`, radius `8`, border `1px solid #ebe7e0`, padding `40px 32px`. Metric size `64`, color `#f37721`, family Adelle Sans Workday Heavy 900. Below: 16/700 charcoal label. Three-up grid: "3.2x faster / 99.99% uptime / 11K customers".
### Badges & Pills
**`badge-info` — "AI-powered"**
- Background `#fef4ec`, color `#a64909`, radius `4`, padding `6px 12px`, font 12/700. Uppercase letter-spacing `0.05em`.
**`badge-success` — "Available now"**
- Background `#e7f4ec`, color `#1f6b35`, radius `4`, padding `6px 12px`.
**`badge-warning` — "Beta"**
- Background `#fff5e6`, color `#a05500`, radius `4`, padding `6px 12px`. Distinct amber from brand tangerine.
**`pill-status` — "Customer since 2015"**
- Background `#f7f5f2`, color `#1a1a1a`, radius `9999`, padding `6px 14px`. Categorical chip on customer-story cards.
### Inputs
**`input-text` — Default Text Input**
- Background `#ffffff`, border `2px solid #dcd9d4` (thick warm-gray border), radius `4`, padding `14px 16px`. Focus border: `2px solid #f37721` + 3px tangerine glow ring. Label sits above input, left-aligned, 14/700 charcoal.
**`input-search` — Top-bar Global Search**
- Background `#f7f5f2` (cream), border `2px solid #dcd9d4`, radius `4`, padding `12px 16px 12px 44px`. Search icon 18px, left-padded.
**`textarea` — Multi-line Input**
- Same shell as input-text, padding `16px`. Resize: `vertical` only.
**`select` — Dropdown**
- Same shell as input-text + chevron-down icon right-padded `40px`. Open: chevron rotates 180° over 200ms.
### Navigation
**`global-nav` — Fixed Top Bar**
- Background `#ffffff`, height `80` (generous), border-bottom `1px solid #ebe7e0`, sticky on scroll. Items: Workday tangerine wordmark left, primary nav (Why Workday / Solutions / Industries / Customers / Insights) center, utility (Search / Sign in / Contact sales) right. The "Contact sales" CTA is a filled-tangerine button — primary CTA always visible in the nav.
**`mega-menu` — Solutions Hover Panel**
- Background `#ffffff`, radius `0 0 12px 12px`, shadow `0 16px 40px rgba(26,26,26,0.10)`, 3-column grid + featured customer story banner right (with portrait + quote excerpt).
**`sub-nav` — Sticky Section Nav**
- Below global nav on long industry/solution pages. Height `56`, background `#ffffff`, border-bottom `1px solid #ebe7e0`. Items: in-page anchors with active-link `3px solid #f37721` underline.
**`feature-band` — Charcoal Splash**
- Background `#1a1a1a`, color `#ffffff`, padding `120px 0` (deeper than SAP's 96px — Workday emphasizes breathing room). 50/50 split: copy left + people-photography right.
**`customer-story-band` — Cream Story Splash**
- Background `#f0ece6`, color `#1a1a1a`, padding `96px 0`. Centered serif pull-quote at 28/400 in Adelle slab + customer portrait + role + company below. The cream surface keeps the customer-voice moment warm and editorial.
**`footer` — Charcoal Footer**
- Background `#1a1a1a`, color `#ffffff`, padding `80px 0 32px`. 5 columns: Why Workday / Solutions / Industries / Customers / Resources. Tangerine wordmark anchors top-left. Legal strip below with `1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.10)` separator.
## 5. Layout Principles
### Spacing System
Base unit: 4px. Scale: `4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 80, 96, 128`. Components use 16/24/32/40; sections use 80/96/120. Workday is **slightly more generous than SAP** in section spacing (120px feature-band padding vs SAP's 96px) — the warm humanism is partly delivered through breathing room.
### Grid & Container
Max page width: `1280px` with `48px` outer gutters on desktop, `32px` on tablet, `20px` on mobile (slightly more generous than SAP). Hero sections break the container width and use `100vw` backgrounds with `1280px` inner content. Industry/solution feature grids run 3-up on desktop, 2-up on tablet, 1-up on mobile.
### Whitespace Philosophy
Workday is **breathing-room maximalist** within enterprise constraints. Body line-height sits at 1.55; section padding at 80–120px; card padding at 32–48px. The system trades density for emotional warmth — long-scroll pages with generous whitespace, photography-heavy heroes, and editorial-paced copy.
### Section Cadence
Page rhythm runs **white ground → cream `#f7f5f2` zone → charcoal feature band → cream `#f0ece6` customer-story band → white ground**. The two-cream-tier rhythm gives the page more textural variation than a single shaded zone would. Charcoal bands appear once per page (the brand's emotional anchor), cream story bands appear once per page (the customer-voice moment).
## 6. Shapes & Radius Scale
- **Micro 2px** — internal divider chips, inline tag accents
- **Standard 4px** — buttons, inputs, primary chips, badges
- **Card 8px** — content cards, customer-story tiles, stat callouts
- **Modal 12px** — dialogs, customer-story cards
- **Featured 16px** — hero feature card, industry tile
- **Pill 9999px** — status pills, language pills
Compound radii: mega-menu uses `0 0 12px 12px` (top-flat, bottom-rounded) to anchor under the global nav. Customer-story cards inside the cream story band use `12px` to harmonize with the cream surface.
## 7. Depth & Elevation
| Level | Treatment | Use |
|-------|-----------|-----|
| 0 | `box-shadow: 0 2px 8px rgba(26,26,26,0.06)`, hairline `1px solid #ebe7e0` | Default cards — whisper-quiet shadow + cream hairline |
| 1 | `0 8px 24px rgba(26,26,26,0.12)` + 2px translateY lift | Card hover — visible depth gain |
| 2 | `0 12px 32px rgba(26,26,26,0.14)` | Elevated card, dropdown panel, popover |
| 3 | `0 16px 40px rgba(26,26,26,0.10)` | Mega-menu hover panel — wide spread, lower alpha |
| 4 | `0 24px 56px rgba(26,26,26,0.20), 0 6px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.10)` | Modal dialog, full-screen overlay |
| 5 | scrim `rgba(26,26,26,0.55)` + Level 4 shadow | Scrim-backed modal |
### Shadow Philosophy
Workday shadows are **warm-charcoal-tinted, not pure black**. Every elevation layer uses `rgba(26,26,26, alpha)` — slightly cooler than the brand orange but warm enough to feel coherent. Cards have a *visible-but-quiet* default shadow (unlike SAP's hairline-only default), reflecting Workday's humanist "soft elevation" preference. The hover state adds both a 2px translateY lift and a shadow intensification — a more emphatic interaction signal than SAP's shadow-only shift.
The brand-orange focus ring (`3px solid rgba(243,119,33,0.40)`) is the system's signature interaction signal — it appears on every focusable element and reads as warm-and-confident rather than sharp-and-clinical.
## 8. Interaction & Motion
### Easing Curves
- `ease-standard: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1)` — universal default
- `ease-emphasized: cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1)` — entry animations, modal open
- `ease-decelerate: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1)` — outgoing animations
### Duration Buckets
- `duration-fast: 120ms` — chevron rotations, focus rings, badge color shifts
- `duration-standard: 240ms` — button hovers, card hover lifts (slightly slower than SAP's 200ms)
- `duration-slow: 360ms` — mega-menu open, image fade-ins
- `duration-page: 500ms` — full-page transitions on Insights articles
### Per-Component Micro-States
- **Button hover**: bg shifts to brand-hover (`#d65f0e`) + warm-glow shadow `0 6px 20px rgba(243,119,33,0.25)` over 240ms. Active: `translateY(1px)` press dip + bg → `#a64909`.
- **Card hover**: `translateY(-2px)` lift + shadow rises from `0 2px 8px → 0 8px 24px rgba(26,26,26,0.12)` over 240ms. The translateY signals interactivity more emphatically than SAP's shadow-only.
- **Link hover**: underline grows from `0 → 100%` width over 240ms. Tertiary CTA chevron translates `4px` right on hover.
- **Mega-menu open**: opacity `0 → 1` + translateY `-12px → 0` over 360ms ease-emphasized. 200ms hover-intent delay.
- **Modal open**: scrim fades `0 → 0.55` over 360ms; modal scales `0.94 → 1` + opacity `0 → 1` over 500ms ease-emphasized.
- **Image fade-in**: `opacity 0 → 1` + `filter blur(12px) → blur(0)` over 700ms on intersection-observer trigger.
- **Eyebrow type-in animation**: hero eyebrow fades in at 80ms delay before headline (a small "stage curtain" reveal); disabled under reduced-motion.
### Page Transitions
Workday does not use SPA-style page transitions on the marketing surface — every page is a full document load. Insights articles use a subtle `opacity 0 → 1` over 500ms on initial paint to mask the FOUT.
### Reduced Motion Strategy
Respects `prefers-reduced-motion: reduce`:
- All translateY lifts degrade to `opacity 0.95 → 1` dim only
- Underline-grow disabled — links go straight to underlined state
- Image fade-ins disabled
- Modal scale-in disabled — modal appears at scale-1 with opacity fade only
- Eyebrow type-in disabled
- Chevron translation preserved (spatial cue, not decoration)
## 9. Accessibility & A11y
### Contrast Pairs (WCAG)
- Text `#1a1a1a` on bg `#ffffff` — **16.0:1 (AAA)**
- Text `#1a1a1a` on bg `#f7f5f2` cream — **15.0:1 (AAA)**
- Text-soft `#5a5a5a` on bg `#ffffff` — **7.2:1 (AA)**
- White `#ffffff` on tangerine `#f37721` — **3.5:1 (AA at large text only)** — tangerine fills are used for buttons (large-size text); never used for body links.
- White `#ffffff` on brand-deep `#a64909` — **7.2:1 (AAA)** — used for tertiary CTA text and hover-state buttons where AAA is needed.
- White `#ffffff` on charcoal `#1a1a1a` — **17.5:1 (AAA)**
- Brand `#f37721` on bg `#ffffff` — **3.5:1 (AA at large text)** — acceptable for h1/h2 stat callouts; never body text. Body emphasis uses `#a64909` (brand-deep) for AAA contrast.
### Focus Indicators
Universal: `3px solid rgba(243,119,33,0.40)` ring with `2px` offset — a tangerine *glow* ring (not a hard ring). On dark feature bands, the ring switches to `3px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.40)` for visibility against charcoal. Buttons add the glow ring + 1px outer offset; inputs use a solid 2px tangerine border replacement.
### ARIA Patterns
- Mega-menu: `aria-haspopup="menu"` + `aria-expanded` toggled on hover/focus
- Customer-story carousel: `aria-roledescription="carousel"` + slide counter `aria-live="polite"`
- Solution tabs: roving `tabindex` (one tabbable tab, arrow-key navigation)
- Pull-quote: `<blockquote>` + `<cite>` for customer name; `role="quote"` on the visible text
- Skip-link: visible on keyboard focus, hidden on mouse
### Keyboard Navigation
Tab order: skip-link → wordmark → primary nav (Why Workday / Solutions / Industries / Customers / Insights) → utility (Search / Sign in / Contact sales CTA) → main content → footer columns → legal strip. Esc closes mega-menu, modal, search overlay. Enter activates buttons and links; Space activates buttons.
### Screen Reader Hints
- All icons paired with visible text get `aria-hidden="true"`; standalone icons get `aria-label`
- Stat-callout numerals use `aria-label="3.2 times faster"` rather than relying on `3.2x` visual shorthand
- Customer photography uses `alt="[name], [role] at [company]"` — always names the person
- Decorative cream backgrounds use empty `alt=""`
### Reduced Motion
Honored — see §8 for full degradation matrix.
## 10. Responsive Behavior
### Breakpoints
| Name | Min Width | Notes |
|------|-----------|-------|
| mobile | 0 | Default mobile-first stack |
| tablet | 600 | 2-column feature grids, 64px header |
| desktop | 900 | 3-column feature grids, mega-menu activates |
| wide | 1200 | 80px header, max content rendering |
| ultra | 1440 | Larger gutter spacing, hero breaks 100vw |
### Touch Targets
Minimum 44×44px for all interactive elements. Buttons stretch from 40px-tall (button-sm) to 52px-tall (button-large) — slightly taller than SAP's button heights to emphasize approachability.
### Collapsing Strategy
- **Global nav**: collapses to hamburger menu below 900px. Solutions / Industries become accordion sections inside the slide-in panel.
- **Sub-nav**: collapses to a horizontal-scroll chip strip below 600px.
- **Mega-menu**: replaced by a tap-expand accordion on touch devices.
- **Feature bands**: 50/50 split collapses to stacked (copy-above-image) below 900px. Image always above copy on mobile (people-photography first).
- **Customer-story card**: pull-quote and portrait stack on mobile, portrait above quote.
- **Stat grid**: 3-up grid → 2-up at 600 → 1-up below.
- **Footer**: 5-column → 2-column → accordion below 600px.
### Image Behavior
- Hero images: `aspect-ratio: 16/9` desktop, `4/3` tablet, `4/5` mobile (vertical-tilted on phones)
- Customer portraits: `aspect-ratio: 1/1`, `object-fit: cover`, `border-radius: 50%` for round portraits inside cards
- All images load with native `loading="lazy"` (except hero); `srcset` for `1x / 2x / 3x`
- Image fade-in via intersection observer
### Container Queries
Used on the **stat-callout** card to switch numeral size from `64` → `48` when nested inside a 4-column instead of 3-column grid.
## 11. Content & Voice
### Tone
Workday's voice is **warm-confident-professional** — emotionally available enough for an HR leader to relate to, formal enough to credibly close an enterprise deal. The brand internal style guide names "human-first language" as the core rule: lead with the person, not the system.
### Microcopy Patterns
**Button verbs:**
- Primary CTAs: "Get started", "Talk to us", "Watch demo", "Read the report", "See it in action"
- Secondary CTAs: "Learn more", "Explore solutions", "See how it works", "View pricing"
- Tertiary CTAs: "Read the customer story ›", "Find your industry ›", "See benefits ›"
**Error message recipe:** `[What went wrong, in plain language] + [What to do]` — e.g., "We couldn't sign you in. Try checking your email and password, or reset your password."
**Success confirmation:** Warm and definitive — "You're signed up. We've sent a confirmation to your email." Brief, never effusive.
### Empty States
Workday empty states are **warm but informational**. A search-no-results says "No results for 'xyz'. Try fewer keywords or browse by industry." — never illustrated mascot or playful exclamation.
### CTA Verb Conventions
- "Talk to us" — the dominant primary CTA. Workday is enterprise-sales-led; they prefer human conversation over self-serve flows.
- "Watch demo" — for product walkthrough modals
- "Read the report" — for thought-leadership content (Workday Insights)
- "See it in action" — for product-tour landing pages
- "Get started" — used sparingly; reserved for self-serve products
- "Find your industry" — Workday's signature explore-by-vertical pattern
### Voice Anchors
- Use second person ("you can"). Use first-person plural occasionally ("we'll show you") to emphasize relationship.
- Lead with the customer outcome and the **person affected** — "Help your finance team close 3x faster" not "Workday Financial Management automation".
- Avoid superlatives. Lead with specific, named customers ("Netflix uses Workday for...").
- Industry-specific pages use the customer's vocabulary, not Workday's. (e.g., the Healthcare page says "physician burnout", not "FTE optimization".)
- Reference real customers by name in pull-quotes — Salesforce, Netflix, Amazon, Adobe are all on the customer-story page.
## 12. Dark Mode & Theming
**Light-only — no dark variant offered on the marketing site.**
Charcoal feature bands are content-driven (single emphatic moment per page), not theme-driven. The Workday product surface uses **Workday Canvas Design System** with light/dark theme tokens for the application UI, but the public marketing site explicitly does not ship a dark mode toggle.
Reasoning: Workday's brand emotional register is built on **warm cream surfaces + tangerine accents + people photography in natural light**. A pure dark mode would invert the cream tones to cooler grays and lose the warmth that defines the brand. The charcoal feature band already carries the dark-moment emotional anchor that dark-mode users typically seek, while preserving the cream-warm rhythm of the rest of the page.
## 13. Lineage & Influences
Workday's design language inherits from the **humanist enterprise tradition** — a lineage that runs from Apple's pre-iOS-7 OS X (warm gradients, photographic materials) through Slack's early friendly-but-professional aesthetic to today's Notion / Asana / Lattice "warm-SaaS" cluster. The signature tangerine echoes Slack's playful purple-orange duo and HubSpot's signature orange, but Workday holds it tighter and more saturated — closer to a terracotta sunset than a pure brand orange.
The custom **Adelle Sans Workday** typeface is the system's signature move. TypeTogether's Adelle Sans is a humanist sans with slab-serif lineage (the Adelle slab is its sibling); Workday's commissioned cut adds Heavy 900 for hero use and tightens optical spacing. The choice reflects the brand's strategic positioning: Workday sells to *humans* in HR and Finance, and a humanist typeface (single-story 'a', open 'g', friendly 'e') signals "warm-but-professional" in a way that geometric sans (Inter, Helvetica Now, Geist) cannot.
What Workday rejects: cool-blue corporate (the SAP / Salesforce direction), pastel illustration heroes (the Notion / Linear direction), gradient-as-brand (the Stripe / Linear direction). The brand surface is photography-led — overwhelmingly people in conversation, never product screenshots-only.
**Named influences:**
- **Slack (early years)** — friendly-but-professional brand voice, warm accent on neutral canvas
- **HubSpot** — saturated brand orange as primary action color
- **Asana** — humanist enterprise warmth, people-led photography
- **Apple OS X (pre-flat era)** — warm photographic materials, soft elevation discipline
- **TypeTogether (Adelle family)** — humanist slab-rooted sans-serif typography
## 14. Do's and Don'ts
**Do**
- Lead with people-photography in heroes — small groups in conversation, candid moments, soft natural light. Workday is a "humans of HR and Finance" brand.
- Use the signature tangerine `#f37721` for primary CTAs and the wordmark; never substitute a different orange or red.
- Keep cream surfaces (`#f7f5f2`, `#f0ece6`, `#faf8f5`) instead of cool grays — temperature-coherent with the brand orange.
- Use Adelle Sans Workday Heavy 900 for hero display; step down to Bold 700 below 60px.
- Reserve the slab-serif Adelle for customer-story pull-quotes only — never use it for headlines or body.
- Apply the tangerine glow focus ring (`3px solid rgba(243,119,33,0.40)`) to all focusable elements.
- Use translateY(-2px) hover lifts on cards alongside shadow intensification — both signals together.
- Keep the eyebrow uppercase + `0.1em` tracking pattern over hero headlines; this is a brand signature.
- Reference real customers by name in pull-quotes (Netflix, Amazon, Salesforce, Adobe).
- Honor `prefers-reduced-motion` — degrade transforms to opacity dim, disable underline-grow.
**Don't**
- Don't introduce a second saturated accent color — the system is monolithically tangerine on cream.
- Don't use cool grays for surfaces — they break the temperature coherence with orange.
- Don't pure-black headings — always charcoal `#1a1a1a` (text) or `#262626` (ink).
- Don't pill-shape primary CTAs — Workday buttons are crisp 4px rectangles. Pills are reserved for status chips.
- Don't use product-screenshot-only heroes — Workday's brand surface is people-led.
- Don't use a gradient brand background — solid tangerine or solid charcoal only.
- Don't introduce illustrated mascots — the brand surface is photography-only.
- Don't use Adelle slab for headings or body — its single permitted role is customer-voice pull-quotes.
- Don't use the brand tangerine as a "warning" color — semantic warning is `#d97706` amber, distinct from brand orange.
- Don't overuse the charcoal feature band — once per page maximum (the brand's emotional anchor moment).
- Don't drop body line-height below 1.55 — humanist breathing room is non-negotiable.
- Don't substitute Adelle Sans Workday with a geometric sans (Inter, Geist, Manrope) — geometric reads cool-corporate, breaking the brand voice.
## 15. Agent Prompt Guide
### Quick Color Reference
```
bg: #ffffff
bg-cream: #f7f5f2
text: #1a1a1a
text-soft: #5a5a5a
brand: #f37721
brand-deep: #a64909
charcoal-band: #1a1a1a
border: #ebe7e0
success: #3aa15a
danger: #c63030
```
### Example Component Prompts
1. *"Create a hero section in the Workday design system: white canvas, eyebrow "WORKDAY FOR FINANCE" in 13/700 uppercase with 0.1em tracking and tangerine `#f37721` color, display headline at 80px in Adelle Sans Workday Heavy 900 with -0.025em tracking and charcoal `#1a1a1a` color, body intro at 20/1.55, and a primary CTA "Talk to us" filled in `#f37721` with a secondary outlined "Watch demo" beside it. Right side: photograph of three colleagues laughing in a sunlit office."*
2. *"Design a customer-story card in the Workday style: white card, 12px radius, 1px border `#ebe7e0`, 40px padding. Left half: pull-quote in Adelle slab-serif at 28/400 charcoal, with a `<cite>` for customer name in 14/700 below. Right half: round customer portrait at 120px diameter + name + role + company in 14/400 text-soft."*
3. *"Build a charcoal feature band in Workday style: full-width `#1a1a1a` background, 120px vertical padding, 50/50 split with white headline (44/700) + body copy on the left and people-photography on the right. Include a primary CTA in tangerine `#f37721` filled (orange stays consistent on dark) plus a white-outlined secondary."*
4. *"Render a stat-callout grid in Workday style: 3-up grid of cards, each white background with 8px radius and 1px hairline border. Each card: tangerine `#f37721` numeral at 64px in Adelle Sans Workday Heavy 900 (e.g. "3.2x"), charcoal label below at 16/700 ("faster financial close"). Hover: 2px translateY lift + shadow intensify."*
5. *"Create a cream customer-story band in Workday style: full-width `#f0ece6` cream background, 96px vertical padding, centered content. Show a centered serif pull-quote in Adelle at 32/400 ("Workday lets us close the books in days, not weeks."), then a round customer portrait below at 80px, then customer name in 16/700 charcoal, then role + company in 14/400 text-soft."*
6. *"Design a 5-column footer in Workday style: charcoal `#1a1a1a` background, white text, 80px top padding, 32px bottom. Tangerine wordmark anchors top-left at 32px height. Five columns: Why Workday / Solutions / Industries / Customers / Resources. Legal strip below separated by `1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.10)` hairline."*
### Iteration Guide
1. **Start with the photography.** If your hero shows a product screenshot or a UI mockup, you're already off-brand. Replace with a candid photo of people in conversation under natural light.
2. **Switch to Adelle Sans Workday (or Source Sans 3 substitute).** A geometric sans like Inter or Geist will break the humanist warmth — Workday's typeface is the load-bearing element.
3. **Audit your shadows.** SAP-style hairline-only shadows read too clinical for Workday. Add a whisper-quiet `0 2px 8px rgba(26,26,26,0.06)` default + 2px translateY lift on hover.
4. **Replace gray surfaces with cream.** Every `#f5f5f5` or `#f7f7f7` should become `#f7f5f2` or `#faf8f5` — warm-cream tones that align with the orange.
5. **Soften the eyebrow.** Workday eyebrows are uppercase `0.1em` tracked tangerine — wider tracked than typical eyebrows, with the brand orange as the color signal.
6. **Add the tangerine glow focus ring.** Every focusable element should show `3px solid rgba(243,119,33,0.40)` on focus — never just a hard ring color.
7. **Use Adelle slab for one quote moment.** If your design includes a customer-story moment, switch the pull-quote to Adelle slab-serif at 28/400 — the slab signals "human voice" inside the warm-sans system.
8. **Keep CTAs to "Talk to us" and "Watch demo".** Workday is enterprise-sales-led — replace "Sign up free" with "Talk to us" or "Get started" depending on whether the product has self-serve.
1. Visual Theme & Atmosphere
Workday’s web is HR-and-finance enterprise software with a deliberately warm, human-centered face. The tangerine #f37721 is not a “tech orange” (the saturated electric orange of Stripe Climate or HBO Max) — it’s softer, more terracotta-adjacent, the color of an autumn afternoon rather than a notification badge. That choice is core to Workday’s positioning: the company sells to humans (HR managers, finance teams, talent leaders), not to system administrators, and the brand orange is calibrated to feel like warm Pacific-Northwest sunlight, not a hostile alert color. Photography across the site reinforces this: nearly every hero image is people in conversation — small groups, candid moments, multiple ethnicities, soft natural light. Where SAP shows products and dashboards, Workday shows faces.
The canvas is a clean white (#ffffff) with charcoal ink (#1a1a1a) for text. The brand orange carries every primary CTA, the wordmark, and a single accent moment per page. Cream surfaces (#f7f5f2, #f0ece6, #faf8f5) appear as alternating section bands — not pure neutral grays, but warm-tinted creams that align tonally with the orange and the photography. The chromatic discipline is tight: charcoal text + cream surfaces + tangerine action + a single near-black feature band per page. Status colors (success green, warning amber, danger red, info blue) appear only in semantic contexts — never as decorative accents.
Typography carries enormous brand weight. Workday commissioned a custom cut of Adelle Sans (originally TypeTogether’s slab-rooted sans-serif) called Adelle Sans Workday, which adds weight options (Heavy 900, Black) and tightens optical spacing for screen rendering. The face has humanist warmth — single-story ‘a’, open ‘g’, friendly ‘e’ counters — that prevents the system from reading as cold-corporate. Adelle Sans Workday Heavy 900 carries every hero headline at tight -0.025em tracking; body sits in Adelle Sans Regular 400 at 16/1.55 with generous line-height. Customer-story pages occasionally swap to Adelle (the slab-serif companion) for pull-quotes — the only typeface deviation in the system, used to give human voices their own visual register.
Surfaces breathe through soft elevation. Cards take an 8px radius (a step softer than SAP’s 6px) with a default shadow of 0 2px 8px rgba(26,26,26,0.06) — present, but whisper-quiet. Hover lifts the card 2px with shadow rising to 0 8px 24px rgba(26,26,26,0.12). Buttons remain crisp 4px rectangles — the same enterprise discipline as SAP — but the orange fill softens the corporate severity. Feature bands are charcoal #1a1a1a (near-black with a slight warm tint), reserved for one emphatic moment per page; cream feature bands carry the customer-story serif pull-quote. The whole system feels like clean enterprise chrome with humanist warmth — disciplined, calibrated, and never antiseptic.
The page rhythm runs white ground → cream #f7f5f2 zone → charcoal feature band → cream #f0ece6 customer-story band → white ground. The two-cream-tier rhythm gives the page more textural variation than a single shaded zone would; the charcoal band provides the brand’s emotional anchor (typically a “Workday for [industry]” hero) and the cream band carries the customer-voice moment.
Key Characteristics:
- Signature tangerine
#f37721calibrated as a humanist warm orange — never electric, never neon - Photography overwhelmingly people in conversation — never product screenshots-only
- Charcoal
#1a1a1afor text and feature bands — not pure black, slightly warm-tinted - Cream surface tiers (
#f7f5f2/#f0ece6/#faf8f5) instead of cool grays — temperature-coherent with orange - Custom Adelle Sans Workday typeface — humanist warmth at enterprise scale
- Adelle (slab-serif companion) reserved for customer-story pull-quotes only
- 4px-radius rectangle buttons (enterprise discipline) softened by warm orange fill
- 8px-radius soft cards with whisper-quiet default shadow + 2px hover lift
- Tangerine glow focus ring (
3px solid rgba(243,119,33,0.40)) — warm and visible - Two-cream feature-band rhythm (warm
#f7f5f2neutral + warm#f0ece6story-band) plus single charcoal anchor - Header at 80px (taller than SAP’s 72) — generous breathing room
2. Color Palette & Roles
Primary
- White (
#ffffff): The default page canvas. Pure white, never tinted — the cream warmth comes from section-band overlays, not from the base canvas. - Charcoal (
#1a1a1a): Primary text on white, also the dark feature-band ground. Reads as a “warm near-black” — slightly cocoa-tinted compared to true#000000, which keeps the brand emotionally consistent with the orange. - Tangerine (
#f37721): The signature brand action color. Used on filled CTAs, the wordmark, stat-callout numerals, and one accent moment per page. Never paired with a competing accent hue.
Brand & Dark
- Charcoal (
#1a1a1a): Feature band, footer, dark surface ground. - Brand Hover (
#d65f0e): Tangerine darkened ~15% for hover/active states on filled CTAs. - Brand Active (
#a64909): Pressed state — deep burnt-orange. - Brand Deep (
#a64909): Used for emphasis text — eyebrow links, tertiary CTAs, callout numerals at small sizes where AAA contrast is required on white.
Accent
There is no second accent color. Cream surfaces (#f7f5f2, #f0ece6, #faf8f5) function as quiet temperature-coherent backgrounds rather than accents. The system explicitly avoids a second saturated hue.
Interactive
- Link (
#0066b2): Inline link blue — used sparingly. Most “links” on Workday’s site are styled as orange tertiary CTAs with a chevron, not as blue underlined text. Blue links appear primarily in long-form Insights articles. - Link Hover (
#004a85): Darker blue + underline-grow. - Tertiary CTA:
#a64909brand-deep + chevron + underline-on-hover. - Disabled: text
#8c8c8c+ bg#ebe7e0(cream-gray rather than pure gray).
Neutral Scale
- Text (
#1a1a1a): Primary body — charcoal, slightly warm. - Text Strong (
#000000): Reserved for extreme heading weight only — display-hero on hero bands. - Ink (
#262626): Secondary text-strong — h2/h3 on white. - Text Soft (
#5a5a5a): Secondary metadata, captions, label-secondary. - Text Faint (
#8c8c8c): Placeholder, timestamp, hint text. - Border (
#dcd9d4): Default hairline — slightly cream-tinted (warm gray, not cool gray). - Border Soft (
#ebe7e0): Lightest cream divider. - Border Strong (
#a8a39b): Form-input emphasized border.
Surface & Borders
- Surface (
#ffffff): Default card surface. - Surface Soft (
#faf8f5): Cream card surface — used on cards inside cream feature bands. - Cream Section (
#f7f5f2): Warm-cream alternating section. - Cream Story Band (
#f0ece6): Slightly deeper cream for customer-story bands. - Cocoa Band (
#3d2914): Rare deep-cocoa warm-dark band — used on industry-vertical pages where the standard charcoal would clash with brand photography.
Shadow Colors
Workday shadows are charcoal-tinted, not pure black. Every elevation layer uses rgba(26,26,26, alpha) for the primary shadow, which keeps depth feeling warm-coherent with the brand. The brand-orange focus ring uses rgba(243,119,33, 0.40) — a tangerine glow that signals warmth even in interaction states.
- Card Default
rgba(26,26,26,0.06)— 8px Y2 spread - Card Hover
rgba(26,26,26,0.12)— 24px Y8 spread - Elevated
rgba(26,26,26,0.14)— 32px Y12 spread - Modal
rgba(26,26,26,0.20)+rgba(0,0,0,0.10)— two-layer warm + neutral - Warm Glow
rgba(243,119,33,0.25)— tangerine-tinted hover glow on brand surfaces - Focus Ring
rgba(243,119,33,0.40)— 3px tangerine ring
Semantic
Workday follows a 5-stop semantic palette with calibrated warmth — even the success green and danger red are tuned to feel slightly warm, harmonious with the tangerine.
- Success Green (
#3aa15a) on#e7f4ec— confirmation - Warning Amber (
#d97706) on#fff5e6— caution (deliberately distinct from brand tangerine) - Danger Red (
#c63030) on#fbeaea— error - Info Blue (
#0066b2) on#e6f0f8— informational - Brand Tangerine is reserved for action (CTAs), not for status — never doubles as a “warning” color despite the warm hue.
3. Typography Rules
Font Family
- Primary:
"Adelle Sans Workday", "Adelle Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif— Workday’s commissioned cut from TypeTogether’s Adelle Sans family, with Heavy 900 and Black added for hero use. - Serif Companion:
"Adelle", Georgia, serif— the slab-serif sister of Adelle Sans, used exclusively for customer-story pull-quotes. - Mono:
"JetBrains Mono", Menlo, Consolas, monospace— for code in docs and technical specs (rare on the marketing site). - Open-source substitute: Adelle Sans is licensed (TypeTogether). Reasonable substitutes: Source Sans 3 (humanist proportions, free), Inter (slightly cooler but widely supported), Public Sans (USWDS, similarly humanist). For the Adelle slab pull-quote, use Adelle’s free-tier samples, Roboto Slab, or fall back to Georgia.
- OpenType features:
kernandligaalways on;tnum(tabular numerals) on by default for financial / pricing contexts; no special stylistic sets active at root.
Hierarchy
| Role | Font | Size | Weight | Line Height | Letter Spacing | OT Features | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| display-hero | Adelle Sans Workday | 80 | 900 | 1.0 | -0.025em | kern | Flagship homepage hero — Heavy weight |
| display-large | Adelle Sans Workday | 60 | 900 | 1.05 | -0.02em | kern | Industry / solution page hero |
| h1 | Adelle Sans Workday | 44 | 700 | 1.15 | -0.015em | kern | Article-level heading |
| h2 | Adelle Sans Workday | 36 | 700 | 1.2 | -0.01em | kern | Major section heading |
| h3 | Adelle Sans Workday | 28 | 700 | 1.25 | -0.005em | kern | Subsection heading |
| h4 | Adelle Sans Workday | 22 | 700 | 1.3 | 0 | kern | Card title |
| h5 | Adelle Sans Workday | 18 | 700 | 1.4 | 0 | kern | Minor heading |
| body-large | Adelle Sans Workday | 20 | 400 | 1.55 | 0 | kern, liga | Hero intro paragraph |
| body-md | Adelle Sans Workday | 16 | 400 | 1.55 | 0 | kern, liga | Default body |
| body-strong | Adelle Sans Workday | 16 | 700 | 1.55 | 0 | kern, liga | Emphasized body |
| body-sm | Adelle Sans Workday | 14 | 400 | 1.5 | 0 | kern, liga | Metadata, captions |
| label | Adelle Sans Workday | 14 | 700 | 1.4 | 0 | kern | Form labels, table headers |
| eyebrow | Adelle Sans Workday | 13 | 700 | 1.3 | 0.1em | kern, uppercase | Category eyebrow over hero — wide tracking |
| button | Adelle Sans Workday | 14 | 700 | 1.2 | 0 | kern | All CTA labels |
| quote | Adelle | 28 | 400 | 1.4 | -0.005em | kern, liga | Customer-story pull-quote (slab serif) |
| caption | Adelle Sans Workday | 12 | 400 | 1.4 | 0 | kern, liga | Captions, footnotes |
| legal | Adelle Sans Workday | 11 | 400 | 1.45 | 0 | kern | Legal fine print |
| code | JetBrains Mono | 14 | 400 | 1.5 | 0 | none | Inline code in docs |
| tabular | Adelle Sans Workday | 14 | 500 | 1.4 | 0 | tnum | Pricing tables, financial rows |
Principles
- Heavy weight (900) is reserved for display-hero only. Below 60px, the system steps down to Bold 700. The 900 weight is the brand’s “shout” register — used sparingly to preserve impact.
- Tight negative tracking on display sizes — hero runs
-0.025em, easing toward0emat body sizes. Never tracks looser than0emexcept for uppercase eyebrows (+0.1em). - Adelle Sans Workday is monolithic for sans use. The system uses one typeface across product, marketing, and docs — a rare consistency at enterprise scale.
- Adelle (slab serif) is reserved for pull-quotes only. Never use the slab serif for headlines, body, or CTAs. Its single permitted role is customer-voice typography.
- Body line-height is 1.55 — slightly more generous than SAP’s 1.5, giving body text a breathable, humanist feel.
- Headings on white use charcoal
#1a1a1a, not black. Pure black reads cold against the warm-cream surface tiers. - Eyebrow uppercase + 0.1em tracking is the strongest typographic signal of brand identity — used as an opening voice over hero headlines.
- Tabular numerals for pricing. Financial / pricing rows must opt into
font-variant-numeric: tabular-numsfor column alignment — Workday’s finance heritage demands it.
4. Component Stylings
Buttons
button-primary — “Get started”
- Background
#f37721, text#ffffff, border1px solid #f37721, radius4, padding14px 28px, font 14/700. Hover:bg #d65f0e+ shadow0 6px 20px rgba(243,119,33,0.25). Active:translateY(1px)+bg #a64909. Transition:all 240ms ease-standard.
button-primary-dark — “Talk to us” (on charcoal band)
- Same orange fill — Workday’s tangerine carries across light and dark surfaces consistently. The orange + charcoal combo is one of the brand’s signature visual moments.
button-secondary — “Learn more”
- Background transparent, text
#1a1a1a, border2px solid #1a1a1a(thicker than SAP’s 1px to match Workday’s heavier visual weight). Same radius/padding/active. Hover:bg #1a1a1a+ text#ffffff(full inversion).
button-secondary-dark — “See how it works” (on charcoal band)
- Background transparent, text
#ffffff, border2px solid #ffffff. Hover:bg #ffffff+ text#1a1a1a(inversion).
button-tertiary — Inline CTA
- Background transparent, text
#a64909(deep burnt-orange for AAA contrast), no border, padding14px 12px. Trailing chevron›. Hover: underline grows + chevron translates4pxright.
button-ghost — Soft Surface CTA
- Background
#fef4ec(tangerine-soft), text#a64909, no border, radius4. Used as a CTA on tangerine-soft surfaces where the filled-orange would overwhelm.
Cards
card-content — Default Content Card
- Background
#ffffff, radius8, border1px solid #ebe7e0, padding32px. Default shadow:0 2px 8px rgba(26,26,26,0.06). Hover:translateY(-2px)+ shadow0 8px 24px rgba(26,26,26,0.12)over 240ms.
card-feature — Hero Feature Card
- Background
#faf8f5, radius16, bordernone, padding48px. Larger radius and cream surface signal “featured” without using a colored border. Often paired with full-width photography on one half.
card-customer-story — Customer Story Card
- Background
#ffffff, radius12, border1px solid #ebe7e0, padding40px. Layout: Adelle slab-serif pull-quote at 28/400 on the left, customer portrait + name + role + company on the right. Often nested inside the cream#f0ece6story band.
card-stats — Stat Callout
- Background
#ffffff, radius8, border1px solid #ebe7e0, padding40px 32px. Metric size64, color#f37721, family Adelle Sans Workday Heavy 900. Below: 16/700 charcoal label. Three-up grid: “3.2x faster / 99.99% uptime / 11K customers”.
Badges & Pills
badge-info — “AI-powered”
- Background
#fef4ec, color#a64909, radius4, padding6px 12px, font 12/700. Uppercase letter-spacing0.05em.
badge-success — “Available now”
- Background
#e7f4ec, color#1f6b35, radius4, padding6px 12px.
badge-warning — “Beta”
- Background
#fff5e6, color#a05500, radius4, padding6px 12px. Distinct amber from brand tangerine.
pill-status — “Customer since 2015”
- Background
#f7f5f2, color#1a1a1a, radius9999, padding6px 14px. Categorical chip on customer-story cards.
Inputs
input-text — Default Text Input
- Background
#ffffff, border2px solid #dcd9d4(thick warm-gray border), radius4, padding14px 16px. Focus border:2px solid #f37721+ 3px tangerine glow ring. Label sits above input, left-aligned, 14/700 charcoal.
input-search — Top-bar Global Search
- Background
#f7f5f2(cream), border2px solid #dcd9d4, radius4, padding12px 16px 12px 44px. Search icon 18px, left-padded.
textarea — Multi-line Input
- Same shell as input-text, padding
16px. Resize:verticalonly.
select — Dropdown
- Same shell as input-text + chevron-down icon right-padded
40px. Open: chevron rotates 180° over 200ms.
Navigation
global-nav — Fixed Top Bar
- Background
#ffffff, height80(generous), border-bottom1px solid #ebe7e0, sticky on scroll. Items: Workday tangerine wordmark left, primary nav (Why Workday / Solutions / Industries / Customers / Insights) center, utility (Search / Sign in / Contact sales) right. The “Contact sales” CTA is a filled-tangerine button — primary CTA always visible in the nav.
mega-menu — Solutions Hover Panel
- Background
#ffffff, radius0 0 12px 12px, shadow0 16px 40px rgba(26,26,26,0.10), 3-column grid + featured customer story banner right (with portrait + quote excerpt).
sub-nav — Sticky Section Nav
- Below global nav on long industry/solution pages. Height
56, background#ffffff, border-bottom1px solid #ebe7e0. Items: in-page anchors with active-link3px solid #f37721underline.
feature-band — Charcoal Splash
- Background
#1a1a1a, color#ffffff, padding120px 0(deeper than SAP’s 96px — Workday emphasizes breathing room). 50/50 split: copy left + people-photography right.
customer-story-band — Cream Story Splash
- Background
#f0ece6, color#1a1a1a, padding96px 0. Centered serif pull-quote at 28/400 in Adelle slab + customer portrait + role + company below. The cream surface keeps the customer-voice moment warm and editorial.
footer — Charcoal Footer
- Background
#1a1a1a, color#ffffff, padding80px 0 32px. 5 columns: Why Workday / Solutions / Industries / Customers / Resources. Tangerine wordmark anchors top-left. Legal strip below with1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.10)separator.
5. Layout Principles
Spacing System
Base unit: 4px. Scale: 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 80, 96, 128. Components use 16/24/32/40; sections use 80/96/120. Workday is slightly more generous than SAP in section spacing (120px feature-band padding vs SAP’s 96px) — the warm humanism is partly delivered through breathing room.
Grid & Container
Max page width: 1280px with 48px outer gutters on desktop, 32px on tablet, 20px on mobile (slightly more generous than SAP). Hero sections break the container width and use 100vw backgrounds with 1280px inner content. Industry/solution feature grids run 3-up on desktop, 2-up on tablet, 1-up on mobile.
Whitespace Philosophy
Workday is breathing-room maximalist within enterprise constraints. Body line-height sits at 1.55; section padding at 80–120px; card padding at 32–48px. The system trades density for emotional warmth — long-scroll pages with generous whitespace, photography-heavy heroes, and editorial-paced copy.
Section Cadence
Page rhythm runs white ground → cream #f7f5f2 zone → charcoal feature band → cream #f0ece6 customer-story band → white ground. The two-cream-tier rhythm gives the page more textural variation than a single shaded zone would. Charcoal bands appear once per page (the brand’s emotional anchor), cream story bands appear once per page (the customer-voice moment).
6. Shapes & Radius Scale
- Micro 2px — internal divider chips, inline tag accents
- Standard 4px — buttons, inputs, primary chips, badges
- Card 8px — content cards, customer-story tiles, stat callouts
- Modal 12px — dialogs, customer-story cards
- Featured 16px — hero feature card, industry tile
- Pill 9999px — status pills, language pills
Compound radii: mega-menu uses 0 0 12px 12px (top-flat, bottom-rounded) to anchor under the global nav. Customer-story cards inside the cream story band use 12px to harmonize with the cream surface.
7. Depth & Elevation
| Level | Treatment | Use |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | box-shadow: 0 2px 8px rgba(26,26,26,0.06), hairline 1px solid #ebe7e0 | Default cards — whisper-quiet shadow + cream hairline |
| 1 | 0 8px 24px rgba(26,26,26,0.12) + 2px translateY lift | Card hover — visible depth gain |
| 2 | 0 12px 32px rgba(26,26,26,0.14) | Elevated card, dropdown panel, popover |
| 3 | 0 16px 40px rgba(26,26,26,0.10) | Mega-menu hover panel — wide spread, lower alpha |
| 4 | 0 24px 56px rgba(26,26,26,0.20), 0 6px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.10) | Modal dialog, full-screen overlay |
| 5 | scrim rgba(26,26,26,0.55) + Level 4 shadow | Scrim-backed modal |
Shadow Philosophy
Workday shadows are warm-charcoal-tinted, not pure black. Every elevation layer uses rgba(26,26,26, alpha) — slightly cooler than the brand orange but warm enough to feel coherent. Cards have a visible-but-quiet default shadow (unlike SAP’s hairline-only default), reflecting Workday’s humanist “soft elevation” preference. The hover state adds both a 2px translateY lift and a shadow intensification — a more emphatic interaction signal than SAP’s shadow-only shift.
The brand-orange focus ring (3px solid rgba(243,119,33,0.40)) is the system’s signature interaction signal — it appears on every focusable element and reads as warm-and-confident rather than sharp-and-clinical.
8. Interaction & Motion
Easing Curves
ease-standard: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1)— universal defaultease-emphasized: cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1)— entry animations, modal openease-decelerate: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1)— outgoing animations
Duration Buckets
duration-fast: 120ms— chevron rotations, focus rings, badge color shiftsduration-standard: 240ms— button hovers, card hover lifts (slightly slower than SAP’s 200ms)duration-slow: 360ms— mega-menu open, image fade-insduration-page: 500ms— full-page transitions on Insights articles
Per-Component Micro-States
- Button hover: bg shifts to brand-hover (
#d65f0e) + warm-glow shadow0 6px 20px rgba(243,119,33,0.25)over 240ms. Active:translateY(1px)press dip + bg →#a64909. - Card hover:
translateY(-2px)lift + shadow rises from0 2px 8px → 0 8px 24px rgba(26,26,26,0.12)over 240ms. The translateY signals interactivity more emphatically than SAP’s shadow-only. - Link hover: underline grows from
0 → 100%width over 240ms. Tertiary CTA chevron translates4pxright on hover. - Mega-menu open: opacity
0 → 1+ translateY-12px → 0over 360ms ease-emphasized. 200ms hover-intent delay. - Modal open: scrim fades
0 → 0.55over 360ms; modal scales0.94 → 1+ opacity0 → 1over 500ms ease-emphasized. - Image fade-in:
opacity 0 → 1+filter blur(12px) → blur(0)over 700ms on intersection-observer trigger. - Eyebrow type-in animation: hero eyebrow fades in at 80ms delay before headline (a small “stage curtain” reveal); disabled under reduced-motion.
Page Transitions
Workday does not use SPA-style page transitions on the marketing surface — every page is a full document load. Insights articles use a subtle opacity 0 → 1 over 500ms on initial paint to mask the FOUT.
Reduced Motion Strategy
Respects prefers-reduced-motion: reduce:
- All translateY lifts degrade to
opacity 0.95 → 1dim only - Underline-grow disabled — links go straight to underlined state
- Image fade-ins disabled
- Modal scale-in disabled — modal appears at scale-1 with opacity fade only
- Eyebrow type-in disabled
- Chevron translation preserved (spatial cue, not decoration)
9. Accessibility & A11y
Contrast Pairs (WCAG)
- Text
#1a1a1aon bg#ffffff— 16.0:1 (AAA) - Text
#1a1a1aon bg#f7f5f2cream — 15.0:1 (AAA) - Text-soft
#5a5a5aon bg#ffffff— 7.2:1 (AA) - White
#ffffffon tangerine#f37721— 3.5:1 (AA at large text only) — tangerine fills are used for buttons (large-size text); never used for body links. - White
#ffffffon brand-deep#a64909— 7.2:1 (AAA) — used for tertiary CTA text and hover-state buttons where AAA is needed. - White
#ffffffon charcoal#1a1a1a— 17.5:1 (AAA) - Brand
#f37721on bg#ffffff— 3.5:1 (AA at large text) — acceptable for h1/h2 stat callouts; never body text. Body emphasis uses#a64909(brand-deep) for AAA contrast.
Focus Indicators
Universal: 3px solid rgba(243,119,33,0.40) ring with 2px offset — a tangerine glow ring (not a hard ring). On dark feature bands, the ring switches to 3px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.40) for visibility against charcoal. Buttons add the glow ring + 1px outer offset; inputs use a solid 2px tangerine border replacement.
ARIA Patterns
- Mega-menu:
aria-haspopup="menu"+aria-expandedtoggled on hover/focus - Customer-story carousel:
aria-roledescription="carousel"+ slide counteraria-live="polite" - Solution tabs: roving
tabindex(one tabbable tab, arrow-key navigation) - Pull-quote:
<blockquote>+<cite>for customer name;role="quote"on the visible text - Skip-link: visible on keyboard focus, hidden on mouse
Keyboard Navigation
Tab order: skip-link → wordmark → primary nav (Why Workday / Solutions / Industries / Customers / Insights) → utility (Search / Sign in / Contact sales CTA) → main content → footer columns → legal strip. Esc closes mega-menu, modal, search overlay. Enter activates buttons and links; Space activates buttons.
Screen Reader Hints
- All icons paired with visible text get
aria-hidden="true"; standalone icons getaria-label - Stat-callout numerals use
aria-label="3.2 times faster"rather than relying on3.2xvisual shorthand - Customer photography uses
alt="[name], [role] at [company]"— always names the person - Decorative cream backgrounds use empty
alt=""
Reduced Motion
Honored — see §8 for full degradation matrix.
10. Responsive Behavior
Breakpoints
| Name | Min Width | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| mobile | 0 | Default mobile-first stack |
| tablet | 600 | 2-column feature grids, 64px header |
| desktop | 900 | 3-column feature grids, mega-menu activates |
| wide | 1200 | 80px header, max content rendering |
| ultra | 1440 | Larger gutter spacing, hero breaks 100vw |
Touch Targets
Minimum 44×44px for all interactive elements. Buttons stretch from 40px-tall (button-sm) to 52px-tall (button-large) — slightly taller than SAP’s button heights to emphasize approachability.
Collapsing Strategy
- Global nav: collapses to hamburger menu below 900px. Solutions / Industries become accordion sections inside the slide-in panel.
- Sub-nav: collapses to a horizontal-scroll chip strip below 600px.
- Mega-menu: replaced by a tap-expand accordion on touch devices.
- Feature bands: 50/50 split collapses to stacked (copy-above-image) below 900px. Image always above copy on mobile (people-photography first).
- Customer-story card: pull-quote and portrait stack on mobile, portrait above quote.
- Stat grid: 3-up grid → 2-up at 600 → 1-up below.
- Footer: 5-column → 2-column → accordion below 600px.
Image Behavior
- Hero images:
aspect-ratio: 16/9desktop,4/3tablet,4/5mobile (vertical-tilted on phones) - Customer portraits:
aspect-ratio: 1/1,object-fit: cover,border-radius: 50%for round portraits inside cards - All images load with native
loading="lazy"(except hero);srcsetfor1x / 2x / 3x - Image fade-in via intersection observer
Container Queries
Used on the stat-callout card to switch numeral size from 64 → 48 when nested inside a 4-column instead of 3-column grid.
11. Content & Voice
Tone
Workday’s voice is warm-confident-professional — emotionally available enough for an HR leader to relate to, formal enough to credibly close an enterprise deal. The brand internal style guide names “human-first language” as the core rule: lead with the person, not the system.
Microcopy Patterns
Button verbs:
- Primary CTAs: “Get started”, “Talk to us”, “Watch demo”, “Read the report”, “See it in action”
- Secondary CTAs: “Learn more”, “Explore solutions”, “See how it works”, “View pricing”
- Tertiary CTAs: “Read the customer story ›”, “Find your industry ›”, “See benefits ›”
Error message recipe: [What went wrong, in plain language] + [What to do] — e.g., “We couldn’t sign you in. Try checking your email and password, or reset your password.”
Success confirmation: Warm and definitive — “You’re signed up. We’ve sent a confirmation to your email.” Brief, never effusive.
Empty States
Workday empty states are warm but informational. A search-no-results says “No results for ‘xyz’. Try fewer keywords or browse by industry.” — never illustrated mascot or playful exclamation.
CTA Verb Conventions
- “Talk to us” — the dominant primary CTA. Workday is enterprise-sales-led; they prefer human conversation over self-serve flows.
- “Watch demo” — for product walkthrough modals
- “Read the report” — for thought-leadership content (Workday Insights)
- “See it in action” — for product-tour landing pages
- “Get started” — used sparingly; reserved for self-serve products
- “Find your industry” — Workday’s signature explore-by-vertical pattern
Voice Anchors
- Use second person (“you can”). Use first-person plural occasionally (“we’ll show you”) to emphasize relationship.
- Lead with the customer outcome and the person affected — “Help your finance team close 3x faster” not “Workday Financial Management automation”.
- Avoid superlatives. Lead with specific, named customers (“Netflix uses Workday for…”).
- Industry-specific pages use the customer’s vocabulary, not Workday’s. (e.g., the Healthcare page says “physician burnout”, not “FTE optimization”.)
- Reference real customers by name in pull-quotes — Salesforce, Netflix, Amazon, Adobe are all on the customer-story page.
12. Dark Mode & Theming
Light-only — no dark variant offered on the marketing site.
Charcoal feature bands are content-driven (single emphatic moment per page), not theme-driven. The Workday product surface uses Workday Canvas Design System with light/dark theme tokens for the application UI, but the public marketing site explicitly does not ship a dark mode toggle.
Reasoning: Workday’s brand emotional register is built on warm cream surfaces + tangerine accents + people photography in natural light. A pure dark mode would invert the cream tones to cooler grays and lose the warmth that defines the brand. The charcoal feature band already carries the dark-moment emotional anchor that dark-mode users typically seek, while preserving the cream-warm rhythm of the rest of the page.
13. Lineage & Influences
Workday’s design language inherits from the humanist enterprise tradition — a lineage that runs from Apple’s pre-iOS-7 OS X (warm gradients, photographic materials) through Slack’s early friendly-but-professional aesthetic to today’s Notion / Asana / Lattice “warm-SaaS” cluster. The signature tangerine echoes Slack’s playful purple-orange duo and HubSpot’s signature orange, but Workday holds it tighter and more saturated — closer to a terracotta sunset than a pure brand orange.
The custom Adelle Sans Workday typeface is the system’s signature move. TypeTogether’s Adelle Sans is a humanist sans with slab-serif lineage (the Adelle slab is its sibling); Workday’s commissioned cut adds Heavy 900 for hero use and tightens optical spacing. The choice reflects the brand’s strategic positioning: Workday sells to humans in HR and Finance, and a humanist typeface (single-story ‘a’, open ‘g’, friendly ‘e’) signals “warm-but-professional” in a way that geometric sans (Inter, Helvetica Now, Geist) cannot.
What Workday rejects: cool-blue corporate (the SAP / Salesforce direction), pastel illustration heroes (the Notion / Linear direction), gradient-as-brand (the Stripe / Linear direction). The brand surface is photography-led — overwhelmingly people in conversation, never product screenshots-only.
Named influences:
- Slack (early years) — friendly-but-professional brand voice, warm accent on neutral canvas
- HubSpot — saturated brand orange as primary action color
- Asana — humanist enterprise warmth, people-led photography
- Apple OS X (pre-flat era) — warm photographic materials, soft elevation discipline
- TypeTogether (Adelle family) — humanist slab-rooted sans-serif typography
14. Do’s and Don’ts
Do
- Lead with people-photography in heroes — small groups in conversation, candid moments, soft natural light. Workday is a “humans of HR and Finance” brand.
- Use the signature tangerine
#f37721for primary CTAs and the wordmark; never substitute a different orange or red. - Keep cream surfaces (
#f7f5f2,#f0ece6,#faf8f5) instead of cool grays — temperature-coherent with the brand orange. - Use Adelle Sans Workday Heavy 900 for hero display; step down to Bold 700 below 60px.
- Reserve the slab-serif Adelle for customer-story pull-quotes only — never use it for headlines or body.
- Apply the tangerine glow focus ring (
3px solid rgba(243,119,33,0.40)) to all focusable elements. - Use translateY(-2px) hover lifts on cards alongside shadow intensification — both signals together.
- Keep the eyebrow uppercase +
0.1emtracking pattern over hero headlines; this is a brand signature. - Reference real customers by name in pull-quotes (Netflix, Amazon, Salesforce, Adobe).
- Honor
prefers-reduced-motion— degrade transforms to opacity dim, disable underline-grow.
Don’t
- Don’t introduce a second saturated accent color — the system is monolithically tangerine on cream.
- Don’t use cool grays for surfaces — they break the temperature coherence with orange.
- Don’t pure-black headings — always charcoal
#1a1a1a(text) or#262626(ink). - Don’t pill-shape primary CTAs — Workday buttons are crisp 4px rectangles. Pills are reserved for status chips.
- Don’t use product-screenshot-only heroes — Workday’s brand surface is people-led.
- Don’t use a gradient brand background — solid tangerine or solid charcoal only.
- Don’t introduce illustrated mascots — the brand surface is photography-only.
- Don’t use Adelle slab for headings or body — its single permitted role is customer-voice pull-quotes.
- Don’t use the brand tangerine as a “warning” color — semantic warning is
#d97706amber, distinct from brand orange. - Don’t overuse the charcoal feature band — once per page maximum (the brand’s emotional anchor moment).
- Don’t drop body line-height below 1.55 — humanist breathing room is non-negotiable.
- Don’t substitute Adelle Sans Workday with a geometric sans (Inter, Geist, Manrope) — geometric reads cool-corporate, breaking the brand voice.
15. Agent Prompt Guide
Quick Color Reference
bg: #ffffff
bg-cream: #f7f5f2
text: #1a1a1a
text-soft: #5a5a5a
brand: #f37721
brand-deep: #a64909
charcoal-band: #1a1a1a
border: #ebe7e0
success: #3aa15a
danger: #c63030Example Component Prompts
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“Create a hero section in the Workday design system: white canvas, eyebrow “WORKDAY FOR FINANCE” in 13/700 uppercase with 0.1em tracking and tangerine
#f37721color, display headline at 80px in Adelle Sans Workday Heavy 900 with -0.025em tracking and charcoal#1a1a1acolor, body intro at 20/1.55, and a primary CTA “Talk to us” filled in#f37721with a secondary outlined “Watch demo” beside it. Right side: photograph of three colleagues laughing in a sunlit office.” -
“Design a customer-story card in the Workday style: white card, 12px radius, 1px border
#ebe7e0, 40px padding. Left half: pull-quote in Adelle slab-serif at 28/400 charcoal, with a<cite>for customer name in 14/700 below. Right half: round customer portrait at 120px diameter + name + role + company in 14/400 text-soft.” -
“Build a charcoal feature band in Workday style: full-width
#1a1a1abackground, 120px vertical padding, 50/50 split with white headline (44/700) + body copy on the left and people-photography on the right. Include a primary CTA in tangerine#f37721filled (orange stays consistent on dark) plus a white-outlined secondary.” -
“Render a stat-callout grid in Workday style: 3-up grid of cards, each white background with 8px radius and 1px hairline border. Each card: tangerine
#f37721numeral at 64px in Adelle Sans Workday Heavy 900 (e.g. “3.2x”), charcoal label below at 16/700 (“faster financial close”). Hover: 2px translateY lift + shadow intensify.” -
“Create a cream customer-story band in Workday style: full-width
#f0ece6cream background, 96px vertical padding, centered content. Show a centered serif pull-quote in Adelle at 32/400 (“Workday lets us close the books in days, not weeks.”), then a round customer portrait below at 80px, then customer name in 16/700 charcoal, then role + company in 14/400 text-soft.” -
“Design a 5-column footer in Workday style: charcoal
#1a1a1abackground, white text, 80px top padding, 32px bottom. Tangerine wordmark anchors top-left at 32px height. Five columns: Why Workday / Solutions / Industries / Customers / Resources. Legal strip below separated by1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.10)hairline.”
Iteration Guide
-
Start with the photography. If your hero shows a product screenshot or a UI mockup, you’re already off-brand. Replace with a candid photo of people in conversation under natural light.
-
Switch to Adelle Sans Workday (or Source Sans 3 substitute). A geometric sans like Inter or Geist will break the humanist warmth — Workday’s typeface is the load-bearing element.
-
Audit your shadows. SAP-style hairline-only shadows read too clinical for Workday. Add a whisper-quiet
0 2px 8px rgba(26,26,26,0.06)default + 2px translateY lift on hover. -
Replace gray surfaces with cream. Every
#f5f5f5or#f7f7f7should become#f7f5f2or#faf8f5— warm-cream tones that align with the orange. -
Soften the eyebrow. Workday eyebrows are uppercase
0.1emtracked tangerine — wider tracked than typical eyebrows, with the brand orange as the color signal. -
Add the tangerine glow focus ring. Every focusable element should show
3px solid rgba(243,119,33,0.40)on focus — never just a hard ring color. -
Use Adelle slab for one quote moment. If your design includes a customer-story moment, switch the pull-quote to Adelle slab-serif at 28/400 — the slab signals “human voice” inside the warm-sans system.
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Keep CTAs to “Talk to us” and “Watch demo”. Workday is enterprise-sales-led — replace “Sign up free” with “Talk to us” or “Get started” depending on whether the product has self-serve.
Drop workday into your project, then ship the actual sections in an afternoon.
1 · install design
npx design-md add workday 2 · ship landing page
npx agentkit init --design workday light structured
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