Type
One sans family, one mono family. Italics are out everywhere — no font-style: italic, no Instrument Serif accent, no <em> styled italic. Emphasis comes from weight, color, or scale instead.
Headings sit at font-weight: 450 — slightly heavier than light, not a full medium — and use tight optical tracking that grows tighter at larger sizes.
Three sub-pages
- Scale — display ramp + body ramp + eyebrow + mono.
- Display emphasis — the dimmed-tail technique.
- Body ramp — five tiers from 12 px to 22 px.
System rule — no italics
font-style: italic is banned across all three surfaces (web, app, docs). Use font-weight: 500 or a stronger ink token for emphasis inside body copy. The <em> HTML tag renders non-italic with weight 500:
em, i, cite, dfn, var, address { font-style: normal; }The Funnel Display 800 wordmark is the only exception to "no italic" — and even then, the wordmark renders upright. Funnel Display is reserved for the wordmark surface only.
Use weight + color for emphasis.
<strong> and <em> both render upright at weight 500.Don't add a one-off italic for "elegance". Every italic in the codebase is a drift bug.