Folistead style guide

The design system behind every page.

Colour styles, text styles and components used across the template. In Framer, each of these maps to a Color Style, a Text Style or a Component — change a style once and every layer that uses it updates.

Color styles

Twenty-three named colours. Nothing else.

Change a colour once in Assets → Colors and every page updates. Check text contrast when you change Brand, Accent or the text colours.

Background

#F4F5F1

Surface

#FFFFFF

Surface Tinted

#EAEDE7

Surface Pressed

#DFE4DE

Text Primary

#121816

Text Secondary

#3E4744

Text Muted

#626B67

Brand

#1B3F38

Brand Deep

#10302B

Brand Soft

#D8E4DE

Brand Wash

#EDF2EF

Accent

#85661F

Accent Bright

#B08D3E

Accent On Dark

#C9A45A

Positive

#2F7A5B

Border

#D9DED9

Border Strong

#BFC7C1

Border Field

#868F8A

Dark

#0F1F1C

Dark Surface

#163029

Text On Dark

#EEF1EC

Muted On Dark

#A9B4AE

Error

#8F2A24

Text styles

Fraunces for headings, DM Sans for everything else.

Edit fonts and sizes in Assets → Text Styles; each style has Desktop, Tablet and Phone sizes. Component labels set their font directly (see the Customisation guide).

Display · Fraunces 400

Clarity

Heading 1 · Fraunces 400

Books you can build on

Heading 2 · Fraunces 400

One team, from bookkeeping to the boardroom

Heading 3 · Fraunces 500

Controller services

Heading 4 · DM Sans 600

A named team, not a ticket queue

Lead · DM Sans 400

We run your books, close your months by the tenth business day, and give you a fractional CFO who plans ahead.

Body · DM Sans 400

Statements land on a fixed date, so planning happens on real numbers instead of estimates.

Small · DM Sans 400

Read-only bank connections and two-factor authentication on every system.

Label · DM Sans 600

Accounting · Controller · CFO

Caption · DM Sans 400

Illustrative figures for this demo.

Buttons & links

Five button styles, one text link.

One Button component: choose its variant and set its label and link in the right panel. Use Text Link for inline calls to action.

Badges, chips & tags

Small labels with a job.

Badges show status. Chips link to a page. Tags are labels that never link. The sample tag marks demo content you replace.

Default

Accent

Neutral

Positive

Tag

Placeholder tag

Sample tag

Cards

Service, testimonial and pricing cards.

Cards on live pages read from the CMS: edit the content in its collection, not on the card.

“We went from dreading month-end to getting a clean pack on the eighth. The first board meeting after Folistead Advisory came on board was the first one where I was not defending the numbers.”

ML

Maya Lindqvist

Founder & CEO,

Halyard Labs

“We went from dreading month-end to getting a clean pack on the eighth. The first board meeting after Folistead Advisory came on board was the first one where I was not defending the numbers.”

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Maya Lindqvist

Founder & CEO,

Halyard Labs

Most common

Controller

A senior accountant who owns the close, the controls and the reporting pack.

Starting from

$2,900

/ month

Everything in Bookkeeping & close

Close calendar and controls documentation

Monthly management pack with commentary

Budget and quarterly reforecast

Most common

Controller

A senior accountant who owns the close, the controls and the reporting pack.

Starting from

$2,900

/ month

Everything in Bookkeeping & close

Close calendar and controls documentation

Monthly management pack with commentary

Budget and quarterly reforecast

Process & stats

Numbered steps and tabular figures.

Process Step and Stat are components; figures use tabular numbers so they line up.

01

Discovery call

Thirty minutes with a senior member of the team. You leave with a clear recommendation and a written proposal within two business days.

02

Onboarding and clean-up

We connect your systems, tidy the chart of accounts and reconcile back to your last clean period.

03

The monthly rhythm

Weekly processing, one batched question list, close by the tenth, statements and commentary in your inbox.

04

Quarterly planning

A review of the numbers, the forecast and the scope — so the service grows when the business does.

8

Average close day, across clients

8

Average close day, across clients

93

%

Client retention over the last twelve months

93

%

Client retention over the last twelve months

19

h

Founder hours returned per month, on average

19

h

Founder hours returned per month, on average

1

day

Response time on every question

1

day

Response time on every question

Forms

Labelled fields, visible focus, clear success states.

Every form is ready to connect: select the form and use Send To in the right panel. The submit button shows its sending, success and error states by itself.

FAQ

Accordion.

FAQ Item opens and closes by click or keyboard; collapsed answers stay in the page for search engines.

Thirty minutes with a senior member of the team. We ask about your business, your systems and what is not working, and tell you plainly which service fits — or whether you need us at all. You leave with a written proposal within two business days.

A named team: a bookkeeper who processes your transactions, a reviewer who checks the close, and — where you use those services — a controller or CFO who works directly with you. You will know everyone by name within the first week.

Questions are answered within one business day. Urgent items — a lender request, a payment that must go out — are handled the same day wherever possible.

Imagery

Replaceable art direction.

Placeholder art you replace with your own images. Always add alt text to images you upload.

Abstract covers and portrait placeholders are generated art. Replace them with your own photography in the CMS (Cover and Photo fields).

Layout & spacing

One grid, one spacing scale.

Build new sections on these values and they will sit naturally next to the existing ones.

  • Breakpoints. Desktop from 1200px, Tablet 810–1199px, Phone up to 809px. Check every page at all three in the canvas before publishing.

  • Container. Content is up to 1120px wide inside the Container layer, with 40 / 32 / 16px side padding on Desktop / Tablet / Phone.

  • Section spacing. Most sections use 104 / 88 / 64px top and bottom padding on Desktop / Tablet / Phone.

  • Spacing scale. Gaps and padding use 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96 and 128px.

  • Corners. 6px for small elements, 10px for buttons and form fields, 16px for cards, fully rounded for badges, chips and tags.

  • Grids. Card grids step from 3 or 4 columns to 2 on Tablet and 1 on Phone. Two-column rows put the heading on the left and the content on the right on Desktop, and stack on Tablet and Phone.

  • Icons. Feature and Service Card have an Icon property: pick any icon from Framer’s built-in Lucide set in the right panel.