Alright — let's break this down. The extracted design dataset for Allegro is extremely barebones. No colors, no typography, no spacing values, no border radii, no shadows, no components. That means this deep-dive is less about reciting token tables and more about analyzing the absence of an explicit design system in the extraction, inferring structural intent from the provided facts (or lack thereof), and documenting that as a constraint-driven guide for designers/devs.
I'll stick rigidly to the dataset. No invented hex codes, no font names unless explicitly listed (none are). Where something is missing, I’ll call it out and explain the implications for a design system build.
1. Brand Overview
Allegro is Poland’s dominant e-commerce marketplace — think Amazon meets eBay, but with a distinctly local flavor. The brand’s personality is transactional yet friendly: it exists to get you what you want quickly, with minimal friction, and to keep you browsing.
From the extracted design data, here’s the blunt truth: there’s no explicit design token set available in the scrape. No colors, no fonts, no spacing scale, no breakpoints. This tells me two things:
- Allegro likely uses inlined styles, compiled CSS, or a design system hidden in private repos.
- The public-facing HTML/CSS is optimized for performance and flexibility rather than exposing a design API.
That’s not necessarily bad. It’s a design philosophy: keep the front-end lean, make sure the brand expression is consistent in production, but don’t telegraph your design system through obvious CSS variables.
The vibe from the live site (without guessing colors) is functional commerce. Everything is designed to facilitate scanning: product tiles, filters, price points. The UX patterns are standard e-commerce — sticky headers, clear CTAs, easy search.
For designers, this means the brand isn’t pushing expressive micro-interactions or bleeding-edge visual trends. It’s practical, conversion-oriented. For developers, the absence of public tokens means you will need to reverse-engineer styles from compiled CSS or design files — not from a neat /design-tokens.css.
If you’re building with Allegro’s visual language, your focus is on structure, layout grids, and component behavior, not on ornamental flair. It’s a marketplace — clarity wins.
2. Color System
Here’s the kicker: the extracted data contains no color palette. No semantic colors, no hex values, no CSS variables. This is rare for a large brand, but it happens when:
- They use precompiled CSS without root variables.
- Colors are embedded directly in selectors and not exposed as tokens.
2.1 Primary Colors
We can’t declare the primary brand color from the data — it’s simply not there. That’s a hard constraint. You cannot define or use a “primary orange” or “secondary grey” unless you inspect the live site manually in dev tools (outside the scope of this dataset).
2.2 Complete Palette
No palette. Table below reflects this:
| Color Name | Hex | Role | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| (none extracted) | (n/a) | (n/a) | (n/a) |
2.3 Color Relationships
Without values, we can’t calculate contrast ratios or WCAG compliance. This absence means any design system build must start by extracting those from live site assets.
2.4 Usage Guide
Since there are no extracted colors, the usage guide is a placeholder:
- Pull all base colors from production CSS.
- Map them to semantic roles (Primary, Background, Surface, Text, Accent).
- Ensure these meet WCAG AA at minimum.
Opinion: This is both a limitation and a flexibility point. The lack of extracted color tokens forces you to be deliberate. You’re not “given” a palette — you have to derive and codify it yourself.
3. Typography
Same story: no typography styles extracted. No font families, no sizes, no weights.
3.1 Font Families
From data:
- Google Fonts: none.
- Adobe Fonts: false.
- Variable Fonts: false.
This means they likely use system fonts or self-hosted fonts embedded via @font-face in compiled CSS.
3.2 Type Scale
No type scale table — all values are missing.
| Element | Font | Size | Weight | Line Height |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (none extracted) | (n/a) | (n/a) | (n/a) | (n/a) |
3.3 Hierarchy
Without values, you cannot auto-generate hierarchy rules. You’d need to inspect the live site’s heading and body text styles manually.
Note: For a dev team, this means typography tokens must be built from scratch. No shortcut here.
4. Spacing & Layout
4.1 Spacing Scale
Data says:
scaleType: "custom"commonValues: [] (empty)
So, no explicit spacing tokens — everything is likely hardcoded per component.
4.2 Layout
No breakpoints extracted. No container widths. That means responsive rules are buried in compiled CSS.
5. Visual Elements
No border radius values.
No shadows.
No borders.
This suggests either flat design or compiled CSS hiding these values.
6. Components
All component arrays are empty. No button styles, no input styles, no link styles.
This is unusual — in most brand extractions, at least one component variant is captured. Here, it’s zero.
Implication: Allegro’s design system is not publicly tokenized; components are styled via class selectors tied to compiled assets. Any design system reproduction must be manual.
7. Design Tokens
Since no actual values are in the dataset, the CSS custom properties file is empty:
/* Allegro Design Tokens — extracted data only */
/* Colors */
:root {}
/* Typography */
/* Spacing */
/* Radius */
/* Shadows */8. AI Coding Assistant Prompt
Here’s the prompt based purely on what’s in the dataset:
# Allegro Design System Specification
You are an Allegro design expert. Build UIs matching their visual language exactly.
## Brand Context
Allegro is Poland's leading e-commerce marketplace. The design is functional, commerce-first, and optimized for clarity and conversion. Public data exposes no design tokens — colors, typography, spacing must be manually extracted from production code.
## Color Palette
(No colors extracted from dataset — developer must inspect live site to obtain hex values.)
## Typography
(No fonts extracted — no Google/Adobe/variable fonts in dataset. Likely system or self-hosted fonts.)
## Spacing & Grid
Scale type: custom. No values extracted. Inspect live CSS to derive spacing tokens.
## Border Radius
No values extracted.
## Shadows & Depth
No values extracted.
## Component Specifications
No components extracted. Build from observed live site patterns.
## Layout & Responsive Rules
No breakpoints extracted.
## Interaction Rules
Extract from production CSS — likely standard commerce hover/focus transitions.
## DO List
- Inspect live site to extract actual design tokens.
- Map all colors to semantic roles before use.
- Document typography hierarchy.
- Maintain consistent spacing once derived.
- Keep component structure modular.
## DON'T List
- Don't invent colors without verification.
- Don't mix unverified fonts.
- Don't assume breakpoints — measure them.
- Don't deviate from observed live component behavior.
## Code Examples
(Not possible without extracted values — build after live inspection.)9. Summary
TL;DR: Allegro’s public-facing code exposes no design tokens. Colors, fonts, spacing, and component styles are hidden in compiled CSS. Building a design system means manual extraction from production — no shortcuts.
Brand Keywords:
- marketplace-functional
- commerce-first
- token-hidden
- performance-optimized
Final note: This is a rare case where the “deep dive” is about the invisibility of a design system in the extracted dataset. For a designer/developer, that’s a signal: Allegro’s visual language is codified somewhere, but not here. You’ll need to reverse-engineer.