About Palm webOS
webOS arrived on the Palm Pre at CES 2009 with one idea that outlived the company: every running app is a card. You fan through cards sideways and flick one off the top of the screen to close it.
Inside each card sits a Mojo scene: a quiet grey page, black and charcoal text, Palm-blue labels and a yellow selection highlight, set in Font Bureau's humanist Prelude. This system keeps that light scene, the glossy charcoal pills and the black chrome around it.
- Origin
- Palm, Inc., Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Era
- 2009–2011: Palm Pre and Pixi (2009), Pre 2 and webOS 2.0 (2010), HP TouchPad (2011)
- Key figures
- Matias Duarte · Jon Rubinstein · Roger Black · David Berlow
- Movements
- card-based multitasking · gesture-first mobile UI · web-technology app frameworks (Mojo, later Enyo)
Palm webOS design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
Source Sans 3Headings
Source Code ProMono
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