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Windmill

Developer documentation with sky-blue personality

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Born From

CSS framework documentation that made the docs themselves the brand. Negative letter-spacing at -4.8px on Inter 400 where compressed headings become architectural. The spacious layout tradition that says generous whitespace signals confidence in your content. The belief that developer documentation should feel calm and welcoming, not technical and challenging.

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Design Tokens
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Color Palette
Brand and semantic colors
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Typography Scale
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#FFFFFF
Background
#F5F5F5
Surface
#000000
Text
#6B7280
Muted
#3B82F6
Accent
#D8E6FD
Soft
#D3D3D3
Border
#EBEBEB
Hover

Why It Works

Inter at 400 weight with spacious density creates breathing room that makes documentation feel easy. #3B82F6 blue accent is the universal developer trust color. Familiar, not surprising. 8px radius keeps code blocks and containers feeling sharp and technical. Glow hover effect adds personality to an otherwise utilitarian system. JetBrains Mono for code blocks paired with Inter body creates the exact reading rhythm developers expect.

Best For

Developer framework documentation with extensive code examples. Open-source project homepages that need to feel approachable and well-maintained. CSS utility library documentation where the docs are the product. Developer education platforms with tutorial-style content.

Skip This If

Your brand needs visual distinction. Inter with blue accent on white is the default developer doc look. It blends in completely. You need compact, data-dense layouts. Spacious density prioritizes readability over information density. Your product targets designers or creatives. The utilitarian palette and typography signal pure engineering.

Palette

Windmill starts with white.

One blue to break the silence.

Pure white background with a glass-blur surface treatment at 16px. Elements have a subtle frosted quality. Like looking through a pane of slightly clouded glass. That effect turns a simple white page into something that feels layered and modern without adding a single color.

background#FFFFFF
surface#F5F5F5
surface hover#EBEBEB
text#000000
muted#6B7280
accent#3B82F6
accent soft#d8e6fd
border#D3D3D3
Chart Palette
Status
Success
Warning
Error
Contrast
Text 21.0:1AAA
Accent 3.7:1AA Large

The blue accent (#3B82F6) is the utility blue. The "click this" blue. The "this is interactive" blue. It's the same wavelength that every developer's brain has been trained to recognize as "link" since the dawn of the web. Against white, it's impossible to miss. A repeating gradient pattern adds subtle diagonal lines to backgrounds. Barely visible structure. Like graph paper under your content.

Documentation that makes you want to ship.

The design is doing half the work.

Windmill makes complex developer documentation feel approachable, the sky-blue confidence says "this is all going to make sense."

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Endpoints
Webhooks
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limitintegerMax results (default 20)
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Typography

Geist at 400.

Paired with Geist.

Inter for everything. Headings at 400 weight with extreme negative letter-spacing (-4.8px). That tracking is the signature move. At large sizes, the letters nearly collide, creating headlines that feel like typographic events. Dense, impactful, impossible to skip. This is the "big type that lands hard" approach that defines modern dev tool marketing.

Geist
mono: JetBrains Mono
Display55px
Heading 144px
Heading 235px
Heading 328px
Body18px
Caption14px
Weight: 400/500Heading spacing: -4.8pxBody spacing: normalHeading LH: 1Body LH: 1.56Base: 18pxScale: 1.25Para spacing: 16px

Body text at 500 weight (medium) with 1.56 line height is optimized for long-form reading. Documentation, guides, tutorials. The slightly heavier body weight gives paragraphs substance without heaviness. At 18px base size, it's comfortable for hours of reading. Which is exactly how long someone spends in good documentation.

Reading, not skimming.

The hierarchy earns it.

Inside Windmill's editorial layout, technical content lands with the clarity of a great teacher, not a great typesetter.

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people remember.

Design tokens that give your product a point of view. Not just colors and fonts. Personality.

Shape

Soft radius. 1px borders.

Windmill's physical language.

Eight-pixel radius on containers, scaling up to full-round pills at radiusXl. The standard rounding of modern dev tools. Friendly enough to not feel hostile. Restrained enough to not feel playful. Glass surfaces with that 16px blur add depth without shadows. Elements feel like they're floating on frosted panels. Modern, clean, slightly futuristic.

Card heading
Body text showing how the seed's typography feels inside a real component.
Tag
Hover to feel the interaction
XL Radius
24px
shadowLg
Radius:8px
Radius SM:4px
Radius XL:24px
Border:1px solid
Shadow:none
Hover:glow
Focus:ring
Active scale:0.98
Density:spacious
Divider:line

Docs on the go. Actually usable.

The structure survives the small screen.

Windmill stays readable and navigable on mobile, because developers look things up everywhere, not just at their desks.

DESIGN
Why less choice makes better products
Mia Chen4 min
ENGINEERING
Token architecture for teams that scale
Jake Torres6 min
STRATEGY
The compounding return of great defaults
Priya Nair3 min
Atmosphere

Smooth and spacious.

Windmill's invisible layer.

Glow hover effects instead of traditional shadows. When you hover an element, it doesn't lift. It illuminates. A subtle glow radiates outward. Combined with the glass blur and the active scale at 0.98, interactions feel precise and responsive. The smooth motion speed keeps everything fluid without being slow. Linear easing for transitions means movement is constant and predictable. No bouncing. No overshoot. Just smooth, professional motion.

Speed: smoothEasing: linearEasing In: cubic-bezier(0.16, 1, 0.3, 1)Easing Out: cubic-bezier(0.7, 0, 0.84, 0)Blur: 16pxNoise: noneOpacity: 1
Home
Settings
User
Search
Bell
Mail
Star
Heart
Icons: duotone / 20px
Density: spaciousGrid: 12 cols / 24px gapContainer: 960pxSection: 96px / Content: 8pxSpace unit: 8px

Go build something beautiful.

111 design decisions that all agree with each other. Made for you to use in an instant.

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Everything you need.

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We handle the "pray" part. Instant detection of your framework, automatic optimization, and edge deployment.
Env variables.
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Our high-speed runners build your app in isolated containers. No cold starts, just speed.

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🚀 Production live: https://shipwreck.sh/v1-final

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11s
Avg. Deploy Time.
99.99%
Uptime Guarantee.
0
YAML Files Touched.

Everything you need.

Push and pray.
We handle the "pray" part. Instant detection of your framework, automatic optimization, and edge deployment.
Env variables.
Secure secrets management that actually makes sense. Sync across environments without copying .env files ever again.
Logs.
Real-time streaming logs with zero latency. Filter, search, and debug faster than you can type 'console.log'.

From code to edge.

01

Connect Repository

Link your GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket in two clicks. We scan your tech stack instantly.

02

Automated Build

Our high-speed runners build your app in isolated containers. No cold starts, just speed.

03

Global Propagation

Your app is pushed to 300+ edge locations globally. Sub-10ms latency for every user.

$ git push origin main
Initializing shipwreck build pipeline...
Detecting Framework: Next.js 14
Installing dependencies... [1.2s]
Running production build... [4.5s]
✓ Build successful
Optimizing assets for Edge... [0.8s]
Deploying to 312 nodes...
🚀 Production live: https://shipwreck.sh/v1-final

Observe everything.

A dashboard built for developers who hate dashboards. No fluff, just the metrics that matter for your application health.

  • Automatic SSL Management
  • Preview Deployments on every PR
  • Infinite Scalability Engine
SHIPWRECK CONSOLE / ANALYTICS
Latency
8ms
Success Rate
100%
Traffic
12.4k/s
[12:44:01]GET/api/v1/user/auth - 200 OK (12ms)
[12:44:02]POST/api/webhooks/stripe - 202 Accepted
[12:44:05]GET/static/images/hero.webp - 304 Not Modified

Don't take our word for it. Take theirs.

“

Shipwreck is the first platform that actually stays out of my way. It feels like I’m writing code directly to the browser.

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CTO at Hyperdrive
“

The speed is actually offensive. I push a commit and before I can switch tabs, the preview link is already in Slack.

SK
Sarah Klein
Lead Engineer at Void
“

We migrated 400 microservices in a weekend. Our dev team might actually like me now. Highly recommended.

ML
Marcus Lee
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Pricing that scales.

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Most Popular

Team

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Common questions.

Absolutely not. We run our own bare-metal orchestration layer built specifically for high-frequency deployments. While we leverage cloud partners for edge nodes, the core engine is pure Shipwreck engineering.

Your Friday deploys deserve better.

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