About De Stijl
De Stijl distills visual language to its absolute essence: vertical and horizontal black lines carving a white canvas into asymmetric rectangles filled with pure red, blue, or yellow. Founded in 1917 by Mondrian and van Doesburg, the movement sought universal harmony through radical reduction.
This design system translates Neoplasticism into digital interfaces — thick black borders, zero border-radius, flat primary-color fills, and rigidly orthogonal layouts that echo Mondrian's iconic Compositions.
- Origin
- Leiden, Netherlands (later Paris)
- Era
- 1917–1931 (formally dissolved with Theo van Doesburg's death in 1931)
- Key figures
- Piet Mondrian · Theo van Doesburg · Gerrit Rietveld · Bart van der Leck
- Movements
- Neoplasticism · abstraction · modernism
De Stijl design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
Archivo BlackHeadings
Work SansBody
Space MonoMono
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