Getting startedBrandTokensDesign systemResources

Brand

  • Overview
  • Writing
  • Color
    • Our colors
    • Colors in marketingComing
    • Colors in productComing
    • Best practicesComing
  • TypographyComing
  • IconographyComing

The brand layer.

How Macy's and Bloomingdale's look, sound, and feel. One system carries both houses, and the brand layer is where they diverge on purpose.

  • WritingLive

    The voice: thoughtful, genuine, surprising, inviting, joyful, relatable.

  • ColorLive

    The palette, the three colors the brand rests on, and where the red star came from.

  • TypographyComing

    The editorial type system across brand and product.

  • IconographyComing

    A consistent, legible icon library.

NextWriting →

Every story
has a thread.

The system

  • Getting started
  • Brand
  • Tokens
  • Design system
  • Resources

Live now

  • Feel the motion voice
  • Learn how we sound
  • Understand the tokens
  • Color
  • Color tokens
  • Type tokens
  • Space and radius tokens
  • Border tokens

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Thread is the design system for Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s.