Design system airbnb.com

---
version: alpha
name: "airbnb.com"
description: "Design system extracted from https://www.airbnb.com/ on 2026-09-28"
colors:
  background: "#ffffff"
  surface: "#dddddd"
  surface-2: "#f2f2f2"
  foreground: "#222222"
  muted-foreground: "#6c6c6c"
  primary: "#da1249"
  on-primary: "#ffffff"
  border: "#ffffff"
typography:
  headline-display:
    fontFamily: "Airbnb Cereal VF"
    fontSize: "28px"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: "1.43"
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Airbnb Cereal VF"
    fontSize: "14px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: "1.43"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Airbnb Cereal VF"
    fontSize: "24px"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: "1.4"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "Airbnb Cereal VF"
    fontSize: "14px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: "1.4"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "Airbnb Cereal VF"
    fontSize: "12px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: "1.33"
  button:
    fontFamily: "Airbnb Cereal VF"
    fontSize: "14px"
    fontWeight: 500
    lineHeight: "1.29"
rounded:
  none: "0px"
  full: "9999px"
  xl: "20px"
  lg: "14px"
  2xl: "32px"
spacing:
  unit: "4px"
  1: "4px"
  2: "8px"
  3: "12px"
  4: "16px"
  5: "24px"
  6: "44px"
  7: "48px"
components:
  button-ghost:
    backgroundColor: "#ffffff"
    textColor: "#222222"
    typography: "{typography.button}"
    rounded: "20px"
    height: "40px"
    padding: "11px 12px"
  button-secondary:
    backgroundColor: "#f2f2f2"
    textColor: "#222222"
    typography: "{typography.button}"
    rounded: "9999px"
    height: "40px"
    padding: "0px 0px"
---

# airbnb.com

## Overview

Airbnb | Vacation rentals, cabins, beach houses, & more: Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide

Pill-shaped controls, layered shadows for depth, restrained display type at 28px / 700, a single red accent on neutrals. The site ships in light mode by default. Measured from 1625 rendered elements at 1440px wide on 2026-09-28.

Reference screenshots live beside this file; look at them before writing any layout, they carry the composition, density and image treatment that tokens cannot:

- `screenshots/desktop-1440-fold.png`: Desktop 1440, above the fold
- `screenshots/desktop-1440-full.jpg`: Desktop 1440, full page
- `screenshots/laptop-1024-fold.png`: Laptop 1024, above the fold
- `screenshots/tablet-768-fold.png`: Tablet 768, above the fold
- `screenshots/phone-390-fold.png`: Phone 390, above the fold
- `screenshots/phone-390-full.jpg`: Phone 390, full page

## Colors

| Token | Value | Use |
| --- | --- | --- |
| background | `#ffffff` | Page background |
| surface | `#dddddd` | Cards, panels, raised or recessed surfaces |
| surface-2 | `#f2f2f2` | Secondary surface |
| foreground | `#222222` | Primary text |
| muted-foreground | `#6c6c6c` | Secondary text, captions |
| primary | `#da1249` | Accent: primary buttons, links, focus |
| on-primary | `#ffffff` | Text on the accent |
| border | `#ffffff` | Hairlines, dividers, input borders |

Full painted palette by area (largest first): `#ffffff`, `#dddddd`, `#f2f2f2`, `#da1249`.

Gradients in use: `linear-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255) 39.9%, rgb(248, 248, 248) 100%)`.

The accent `#da1249` is used sparingly: primary buttons, links and focus rings. Everything else stays neutral.

## Typography

- **Airbnb Cereal VF** for h1, h2, label, button: self-hosted webfont, not freely available; use **Inter** from Google Fonts as the stand-in.

| Role | Family | Size | Weight | Line height | Tracking |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| headline-display | Airbnb Cereal VF | 28px | 700 | 1.43 | normal |
| headline-lg | Airbnb Cereal VF | 14px | 400 | 1.43 | normal |
| headline-md | Airbnb Cereal VF | 24px | 600 | 1.4 | normal |
| body-md | Airbnb Cereal VF | 14px | 400 | 1.4 | normal |
| label-md | Airbnb Cereal VF | 12px | 400 | 1.33 | normal |
| button | Airbnb Cereal VF | 14px | 500 | 1.29 | normal |

Type scale in use: 11px, 12px, 13px, 14px, 20px, 28px. Base body size 14px.

The H1 renders at 28px / 700, start aligned, up to 1px wide. Sample: "Airbnb homepage".

## Layout

- Spacing unit: 4px. Scale in use: 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 44, 48 (px).
- Flex and grid gaps: 4, 8, 12 px.
- Content max width: not detected (fluid).
- Breakpoints: 743px, 744px, 950px, 1128px, 1440px.
- Header: 96px tall, static, background `rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)`; 5 nav links at 14px / 400 (AllAll · HomesHomes · ExperiencesExperiences · ServicesServices).

## Elevation & Depth

Shadows in use, most common first:

- shadow-1: `color(srgb 0 0 0 / 0.02) 0px 0px 0px 1px, color(srgb 0 0 0 / 0.04) 0px 2px 6px 0px, color(srgb 0 0 0 / 0.1) 0px 4px 8px 0px`
- shadow-2: `color(srgb 0 0 0 / 0.02) 0px 0px 0px 1px, color(srgb 0 0 0 / 0.1) 0px 8px 24px 0px`

## Shapes

- Buttons: 9999px
- Inputs: 0px
- Cards and panels: 0px
- Images and media: 0px
- Radius scale: none 0px, full 9999px, xl 20px, lg 14px, 2xl 32px

## Components

### Button, ghost

Background transparent (it sits on `#ffffff`, so place it on that colour), text `#222222`, border none, radius 20px, height 40px, padding 11px 12px, 14px / 500. Sample label: "Become a host".

### Button, secondary

Background `#f2f2f2`, text `#222222`, border none, radius 9999px, height 40px, padding 0px 0px, 14px / 400.

### Link

Colour `#222222`, no underline at rest, weight 400.

## Dark Mode

No dark mode responded to prefers-color-scheme, a theme toggle, or a root class/attribute.

## Responsive Behavior

| Viewport | Content width | Gutter | Body | H1 | Header | Hero | Grids | Buttons |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| desktop 1440px | fluid | 50px | 14px | 28px, 0 lines, start | 96px, hamburger (Main navigation menu), 2 CTA | media below text | 3→3 col; 5→3 col; 2→1 col | content-width |
| laptop 1024px | fluid | 34px | 14px | 28px, 0 lines, start | 80px, hamburger (Main navigation menu), 2 CTA | media below text | 3→3 col; 4→3 col; 2→2 col | content-width |
| tablet 768px | fluid | 26px | 14px | 28px, 0 lines, start | 80px, hamburger (Main navigation menu), 2 CTA | text only | 4→3 col; 2→2 col; 2→1 col | content-width |
| phone 390px | fluid | 26px | 14px | 28px, 0 lines, start | 125px, 3 links | media below text | 2→1 col; 2→1 col; 2→1 col | 1 full-width |

- H1 goes 28px → 28px (100%), 0 → 0 lines.
- Nav never collapses to a hamburger (3 links still visible at 390px).
- Body text stays 14px at every width.
- Phone side gutter 26px.
- 1 buttons stretch full-width on phones.

## Interaction & Motion

80 elements carry transitions; typical 0.25s with cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1), mostly on transform, box-shadow, background-color. 1 running keyframe animations (kf-h0qfv9 0.15s 1).

- Hover on button-primary: no visible change; cursor pointer; transition transform | 0.25s | cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1).
- Hover on button-secondary: no visible change; cursor pointer; transition transform | 0.25s | cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1).
- Hover on nav-link ("All"): no visible change; cursor pointer.
- Hover on input: no visible change; cursor text.
- Focus on button-primary: no visible focus style measured (may rely on :focus-visible with keyboard only).
- Focus on input: no visible focus style measured (may rely on :focus-visible with keyboard only).
- Tooltip triggers exist (4 × aria-describedby, 2 × title) but none opened on hover in the first viewport; title attributes fall back to the browser's native tooltip.
- Hover/click menus: below the trigger, 1352px gap, shifted left; transparent, radius 0px, padding 0px 0px, shadow none; appears instantly (no fade); stays open after the pointer leaves (click-away or hover-intent grace).
- 14 sizable elements sit at opacity 0 before scrolling: scroll-reveal animations are in use (reveal on enter, fade + rise is the usual recipe).

Full detail (every overlay, table, form, scroll and text rule measured) is in `BEHAVIOR.md`; raw evidence in `evidence.json`.

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do use 4px multiples for every padding, margin and gap; the site does not use odd values.
- Do reserve `#da1249` for actions and focus; never paint large areas with it.
- Do keep body text at 14px in Airbnb Cereal VF.
- Do match corner radii per element class (buttons 9999px, cards 0px); do not pick one radius for everything.
- Do use the measured shadows above; do not invent heavier ones.
- Don't substitute a different accent hue or introduce gradients that are not listed above.
- Don't rebuild from the tokens alone; open the screenshots for composition, density and image treatment.