Defining colors for Ascensus
Government savings design system

CONTENT DESIGN . RESEARCH . DESIGN DOCUMENTATION

OVERVIEW

Early in 2022, I was tasked with coming up a color design documentation plan for Ascensus. We worked with 21 states across the U.S and each state had one primary color that was going to be used in our User Interface at a given time. The goal was to group colors based on the roles they play on the interface.

MY TEAM

Solo Product Designer with guidance from the Design Director and other designers.

MY ROLE

Responsible for research, working on documenting colors for Government savings team.

TIMELINE

June 2022 -August 2022, Launched in August 2022

Documentation

Surface Colors

Surface colors are colors that are placed on the surfaces of the screen such as top navigation, bottom floating navigation and cards.

Global Colors

Global colors are foundational colors that are used across all the plans.They are assigned color roles across our UI and are used in expressing interaction states, background colors, errors, warning and success states.

Background Color

This color is used on the backgrounds of all screens.

Interaction Colors

These colors are for things like links, hover states and selected other interaction states.

Action Hovered

The color affects the action buttons when hovered.

Action Selected

The color affects the action buttons when selected.

System Colors

In addition to key colors, the color system includes semantic color roles for error, warning and success states.

Grayscale/Tonal Values