About Paystack
Paystack started in Lagos in 2015 with a narrow job: let a Nigerian business take a card payment online. Five years later it was the continent's best-known payments API, and Stripe bought it without changing the name on the door.
The system is a white dashboard and documentation site set in navy ink — tables, code wells, integration guides — broken at intervals by full-width navy bands and photographs of real merchants in their own shops. Four flat cyan bars do the only decorating.
- Origin
- Lagos, Nigeria (West Africa)
- Era
- 2015 founded in Lagos; Y Combinator 2016; acquired by Stripe 2020; current visual ~2018–2024
- Key figures
- Shola Akinlade · Ezra Olubi
- Movements
- African fintech · Developer-first API design · Documentation-as-marketing
Paystack design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
PoppinsHeadings
ArchivoBody
JetBrains MonoMono
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