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About Māori Koru (Aotearoa)

Māori visual culture is a Polynesian design language built on the koru spiral, woven raranga patterns, and carved meeting-house interiors. The koru — the unfurling silver fern frond — represents new life, growth, and harmony, spiralling outward from ancestral memory into living form.

This system translates those forms into a dark, immersive digital palette: deep paua-shell purple-blue grounds, pitch-black koru line work, kokowai crimson accents, and silver iridescence that shifts like abalone shell. Every spiral remembers the ancestor it came from.

Learn more about the Māori Koru (Aotearoa) style

Origin
Aotearoa / New Zealand
Era
pre-1769 to present; contemporary revival from 1970s onwards
Key figures
Cliff Whiting · Robyn Kahukiwa · Shane Cotton · Lisa Reihana
Movements
Māori traditional art (toi Māori) · kowhaiwhai rafter painting · tukutuku weaving · contemporary Māori art

Māori Koru (Aotearoa) design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

CinzelHeadings
SpartanBody
JetBrains MonoMono
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