One job, one screen
Every instrument answers one question you keep running into. The tool comes first, a plain explanation sits underneath, and there are no tabs or settings to learn.
About
Primitives is a set of instruments for the fundamentals of design. Each one does a single job on a single screen. It is free, needs no account and is open source.
For the work itself: setting up scales, palettes, grids and motion before they become tokens; checking something mid-task, like whether a gray is readable on white or what 18 px is in rem; learning why an answer is right; or finding one answer fast for a deck, a landing page or a favicon.
Every result is a link
What you set lives in the address. Send it, bookmark it or paste it into a ticket, and whoever opens it sees exactly what you saw.
one square,
divided once
divided once
Made by Dusk Research
Dusk Research (opens in a new tab) is a software lab that builds tools that should exist and makes them open to everyone. Each project keeps its own name.
5 shipped · 8 planned · 1 missing
One primitive at a time
13 primitives, 50 instruments. Tell us which one is missing from the home page, or fix and propose things on GitHub (opens in a new tab).