About Yuno

We have a problem with wasted Mondays.

You know the one. It's the first day of a new project. The brief is exciting, the client is excited, and then — before a single component gets built — someone has to sit down and figure out the fonts. Then the colours. Then whether the button radius is 4px or 6px. Then someone else opens Figma and does it slightly differently. Then a developer hard-codes a hex value that doesn't quite match. Then three weeks later, the design system you were supposed to have has become a loose collection of vibes and good intentions.

We built Yuno because we got tired of watching great product work get slowed down at the foundation.

What Yuno actually is

Yuno is a design system toolkit. Not a design tool, not a component library you have to configure for a week before it's useful — a toolkit that gets you from zero to a coherent visual language in the time it used to take just to pick a heading font.

Under the hood, Yuno's font pairing engine is built on actual typographic theory: x-height compatibility, form character contrast (geometric sans meets old-style serif, that kind of thing), weight hierarchy, and mood scoring across five design contexts — editorial, corporate, playful, luxury, and minimal. It's not shuffling Google Fonts randomly. It knows why Playfair Display and Lato work together.

The colour system generates palettes with proper optical balance across nine stops, so your primary-600 is actually readable as a button label and your primary-100 actually works as a background tint. The card designs inherit your fonts and colours automatically. The icons adapt to your brand color the moment you generate a palette.

The whole thing is connected. Change your palette, your previews update. Pick your fonts, your cards inherit them. Export your config, drop it into any React project with one component.

Built for the people who notice these things

Yuno is for designers who think about type the way some people think about coffee — with perhaps a disproportionate amount of attention and feeling. It's for developers who have opinions about component APIs. It's for small teams and solo builders who want a design system without hiring a design systems engineer.

It's also, honestly, for anyone who has ever opened a new project and spent forty-five minutes looking at font combinations on Google Fonts, abandoned that, opened Fontpair, abandoned that, and then just went with Inter and Playfair Display because at least you know they work.

We know. We've been there. That's why we built the algorithm.

Something Labs

Yuno is built by Something Labs, the product studio behind Relativity Studio. We are a small team of designers and developers who find the intersection of typographic craft and engineering genuinely exciting — the kind of people who read about LCH colour space for fun and have strong opinions about optical sizing.

We believe good design tooling should be accessible to everyone building products, not just teams with dedicated design systems engineers and six-figure Figma Enterprise subscriptions.

Yuno is our attempt to put that belief into software.