Where a lesser brand ships an icon set, Nekuda uses one dot at different sizes and weights. This sheet shows every cyan use side by side — on a real screen, the accent budget is one cyan moment, no exceptions.
4aTYPE LAYER
01 HEADLINE PERIOD — 0.35 × CAP HEIGHT, TANGENT ON BASELINE
Work, finished
02 PULL-QUOTE MARK — INK, HUNG LEFT
We removed fourteen thousand clicks a month.
03 LIST MARKER — 0.45 × X-HEIGHT, HUNG IN MARGIN
Invoices reconciled overnight
Handoffs without the handoff email
Reports that write themselves
04 SECTION DIVIDER — ONE CENTERED DOT, NEVER A RULE
…and that's where most teams stop measuring.
The second half of the story starts in the queue.
05 EYEBROW — MONO + INK DOT PREFIX
CASE STUDY — LOGISTICS
06 FOOTNOTE MARKER — 3PX DOT + MONO INDEX
Median time saved per operator1
4bINTERFACE LAYER
07 NAV — ACTIVE ITEM CARRIES THE DOT
Product
Pricing
About
08 PROGRESS — DONE 6 / CURRENT 10 / NEXT 6 @ 35%
09 DECK PAGINATION — INK ONLY, CYAN STAYS ON CONTENT
10 LOADING — OPACITY PULSE ONLY, DOTS NEVER TRAVEL
11 NOTIFICATION — 6PX CYAN, OUTRANKS ALL OTHER ACCENT
Inbox
12 CURSOR BEACON — ONE 400MS RING PER CLICK
13 INPUT FOCUS — THE DOT SITS WHERE THE ANSWER ARRIVES
acme-payroll.csv
4cDATA & VIDEO LAYER
14 DATA POINTS — MARKS ONLY, NEVER CONNECTED
+38%
15 VIDEO CHAPTERS — PLAYED INK, CURRENT CYAN
02:14CH 3 — THE QUEUE
16 CHECKLIST STATE — A TASK ENDS THE WAY A SENTENCE DOES
Reconcile Q2 invoices
Chase approvals
filled = done · outline = still open (the only outlined dot in the system)
4dSIZING RULES
The dot ladder
headline period0.35 × cap height
body periodnative glyph < 24px type
list marker0.45 × x-height
divider dot0.5 × x-height, 64px clear
ui done / current / next6 / 10 / 6px @ #c4ced6
notification6px, always cyan
minimum dot3px screen / 0.6pt print
Accent budget: one cyan moment per screen. Priority when they collide: notification > active state > headline period — everything lower falls back to ink. Below the 3px minimum, omit the dot entirely; never let it blur.
4eMARK FAMILY — TAB TO WATERMARK
FAVICON 16
APP ICON 48
AVATAR 80
Nekuda
WORDMARK — SCHIBSTED 800, −0.035EM
Nekuda
VIDEO FRAME
Watermark: wordmark at 40% paper, period at 75% cyan, lower-right, 18px inset. Below 24px of width, drop the wordmark — the dot alone is the mark. In the icon family the dot always sits lower-right, where a period lives: it's the end of a sentence, never a target. One geometry, four sizes, zero redrawn assets.