Corporate Memphis
企业孟菲斯
Aliases:企业孟菲斯大厂插画风蓝色小人插画长手长脚扁平小人科技公司插画风AlegriaBig Tech illustrationflat blob people
What is it
Flat abstract human figures and a limited solid palette as the friendly big-tech illustration look: small heads, exaggerated limbs, no facial detail, purple-yellow-peach blocks in rounded compositions. Cheap to mass-produce — and therefore highly homogenous.
Design spec
Typography
Geometric sans at medium weight, airy leading
Color
Purple #7B61FF, yellow #FAD141, peach #F48196, non-realistic skin
Border
No outlines — fills meet directly
Shadow
No shadows, flat fills only
Spacing
Airy padding, illustration and copy in split columns
Motion
150–200ms flat fill colour swaps, no movement
States
Hover switches to an adjacent fill; focus shows a visible 2px violet frame; active uses a darker flat fill; disabled reduces opacity; error uses a peach fill
Style in action
The same page, ready to useTry it free opens the collaboration workspace. Operate the original hero calendar’s previous/next month and date controls, including year boundaries and date selection; the fixed initial date is 2024-01-17. The original Tasks 5 and Notes 12 entries open five actual seeded tasks and twelve readable notes. Create an owner-assigned task for the selected date; complete/uncomplete tasks to update pending counts, progress and the selected-date summary. Add, read and delete notes with synchronized hero note totals. In-page reset or reload restores 2024-01-17, five pending tasks and twelve notes. Product, Customers, Pricing, Careers and Log in reveal content without real accounts or team invitations.
Full-page preview · interact directly
What to look for
- 01Use alegria’s original navigation and primary CTAs; inspect content and return paths, not just click notices.
- 02Use the original hero calendar across year boundaries and select a date; open Tasks 5 and Notes 12 to read seeded content, add/complete tasks and add/read/delete notes, checking pending counts, progress, date summary and note totals together.
- 03Check reflow, focus and validation with keyboard and 390px / 320px viewports; test in-page reset and document reload separately, confirming restoration of 2024-01-17, five pending tasks and twelve notes without persistent state.
✓ When to use
- SaaS empty states, onboarding and marketing spots that need non-threatening friendliness
- Illustration systems produced by many hands that must stay consistent
- Abstract values of inclusion, collaboration and access
✕ When not to use
- Brands that need distinction — this look drowns you in big-tech sameness
- Premium, craft or serious subjects that flat figures cannot carry
- Explaining concrete product mechanics — abstract figures cannot
Variants
Memphis people
经典人形
Small-headed long-limbed figures in exaggerated poses
Abstract shapes
抽象色块
No figures — rounded rectangles, dots and arcs only
Gradient flat
渐变扁平
Flat shapes washed with two-stop gradients
Implementation
border-radius: 999pxbackground: #7B61FFclip-path: ellipse()fill (SVG)no box-shadowBuild illustrations from SVG or solid blocks: circle heads, rounded-rectangle torsos, limbs as thick round-cap strokes. Lock the palette to 3–5 colors; skin is blue, purple or green for abstract inclusivity. No outlines, gradients or shadows — flat fills only. UI follows the same source: pill buttons, borderless cards, airy padding. Dark mode swaps the ground but keeps the same saturated set.
Agent prompts
Four prompt layers run from “what it is” all the way to a ready-to-run task. On the Agent task layer you can stack a visual style and extra requirements, then copy it to your coding agent in one click.
Build a complete alegria page in this style, extending the original hero into content, concrete operations and return paths rather than isolated controls or a partial demo. Preserve brand, hero copy, assets, composition, tokens and all variants. The current YAML preview is authoritative for the brand, original navigation and CTAs; never substitute a generic marketing template. Preserve alegria’s original .gs-tasko-grid: intro/avatars, real calendar/task entry, green focus statistics, and notes/motivation, not a replacement figure illustration occupying 40–60% of the hero. Keep #FFF8F0, #7B61FF actions, white cards, #E8DFF5 rims, the 24px token radius and Poppins/Nunito fallback stack; retain the existing stats/motivation gradients. The calendar uses a fixed six-week grid and violet selected day; existing container rules pair columns below 1020px and stack below 600px. Continue real task/note lists rather than substituting abstract figures. Reuse current preview.tokens: background #FFF8F0; foreground #2B2140; accent #7B61FF / #FFFFFF; card #FFFFFF; border #E8DFF5; radius 24px; font Poppins, Nunito, Helvetica Neue, PingFang SC, sans-serif; card shadow none. Use generic-style-pages.css’s existing workspace dark/variants selectors rather than redrawing the hero from generic historical variants; retain each rendered visual panel’s local highlights, gradients and shadows. Full-page operations: Try it free opens the collaboration workspace. Operate the original hero calendar’s previous/next month and date controls, including year boundaries and date selection; the fixed initial date is 2024-01-17. The original Tasks 5 and Notes 12 entries open five actual seeded tasks and twelve readable notes. Create an owner-assigned task for the selected date; complete/uncomplete tasks to update pending counts, progress and the selected-date summary. Add, read and delete notes with synchronized hero note totals. In-page reset or reload restores 2024-01-17, five pending tasks and twelve notes. Product, Customers, Pricing, Careers and Log in reveal content without real accounts or team invitations. Share one renderer between static covers, the detail experience and /style-scenes/corporate-memphis/ (English /en/style-scenes/corporate-memphis/). Static covers contain no nested live buttons; the detail experience enables the same page’s semantic controls and brand continuation in an independent document. Original navigation and CTAs reach actual content or workflows, not placeholder links, color-only changes or one-line toasts. Interaction state lives only in this page’s memory. Reload, toolbar reset and mode changes restore initial state; do not use localStorage or sessionStorage. In-page clear/reset undoes this visit’s operations without implying cross-page or persistent saves. Provide return, cancel or clear/reset paths and disclose the page-memory state boundary; never fake real payments, email, login, AI or cloud sync. Reflow desktop, 390px and 320px layouts with readable text and usable targets rather than shrinking the desktop page. Give controls accessible names, keyboard access and visible focus; overlays close and return focus, validation/results are announced; respect prefers-reduced-motion. Add no dependencies. Check both languages, original navigation/CTAs, concrete results, return/reset and narrow reflow; report checks actually run and pending items, never requirements as passed results. Additional requirements: - Dark mode support - Respect prefers-reduced-motion - No new dependencies - Run existing checks and list modified files
Hand to your coding agent — stack a style and extra requirements on top
Related concepts
A visual language that strips out all simulation: solid color blocks, simple geometry, no gradients, shadows or textures. Hierarchy comes from color, shape and typography alone. The opposite of skeuomorphism — the interface admits it is a glowing plane and trades decoration for clarity.
StylesSimilarThe postmodern anti-functionalist language: squiggles, dots, zigzags and confetti spots in saturated clashing colors with bold black outlines, deliberately breaking grids and order. It embraces the cheap and the festive — happily ugly against modernist good taste.
StylesAlternativeA visual language of natural shapes, warm materials and muted earth tones. Soft contours and generous spacing create an unhurried rhythm while text and controls keep clear boundaries. It suits lifestyle and sustainability themes, provided organic decoration supports content without weakening readability or interaction.
StylesAlternativeWhen a list or page has no data, don't leave a void — fill it with an illustration, one sentence of explanation and a clear next action. It solves the "blank screen" problem where users can't tell what happened or what to do next, turning dead space into a starting point: onboarding for first use, a way out for fruitless searches.
PatternsUsed withIntroduces an interface with an overlay, a spotlight cutout and step bubbles: each step reveals one key area and explains it in place, paced by prev/next controls and a step indicator, always skippable. The explanation lives where the feature happens instead of making users hunt for docs.
PatternsUsed withA self-contained rectangular container outlined by rounded borders or a surface colour, aggregating related content: cover, title, excerpt and actions. The universal display unit of content feeds, dashboards and commerce lists.
ComponentsAffectsNot to be confused with
Corporate Memphis is post-2017 flat figure illustration; Memphis is the 1980s Milano dots-and-squiggles movement.
