# dembrandt/dembrandt

Extract any website’s design system into tokens in seconds: logo, colors, typography, borders & more. One command.

Repository: https://github.com/dembrandt/dembrandt
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dembrandt
Homepage: http://dembrandt.com/
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: design-systems, design-tokens, frontend, playwright, reverse-engineering, productivity, css, design-engineering, design-ops, design-to-code, developer-experience, dx, nodejs, open-source, tailwind-css, ui-audit, brand-audits, mcp, design-md, token-drift
Last push: 2026-08-26T11:11:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 83/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 20
- inputs: {"age_days": 284, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 2.0, "n_releases_24m": 55}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3225, forks 294 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:49.683470+00:00)

## What it is
Dembrandt is an open-source Node.js CLI that extracts a website's design system—colors, typography, spacing, borders, shadows, motion, components, breakpoints—into W3C design tokens in seconds using Playwright-driven headless Chromium. It also exports DESIGN.md, DTCG JSON, Tailwind v4 theme CSS, and brand guide PDFs, and can enforce design-token drift checks in CI.

## Use cases
- extract design tokens from any website
- reverse-engineer a competitor's brand colors and typography
- generate DESIGN.md for AI coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor
- catch design token drift in CI against a committed baseline
- audit WCAG contrast of a live site
- export a site's design system as W3C DTCG tokens or Tailwind v4 theme
- build a brand guide PDF from a live URL

## When to choose
- you need a measured token set from a live URL without manual DevTools work
- you want to enforce brand consistency by failing CI when tokens drift
- you're feeding real design tokens into AI-native UI generation workflows
- you need DTCG, JSON, Tailwind, or PDF exports of a site's design system

## When to avoid
- you need to extract from sites behind logins or heavy anti-bot protection
- you want a full design-system management platform rather than token extraction
- you can't install Node.js 18+ and a Playwright-managed Chromium browser

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, web-scraping, developer-tools, mcp, ci-cd, css-framework, ui-components, accessibility
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: design-tokens, design-systems, playwright, brand-audit, token-drift, dtcg, tailwind-css, design-to-code, wcag-contrast, headless-browser, automation, nodejs, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- dembrandt/dembrandt (main) score 83

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:49.683470+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:44:17.051651+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dembrandt/dembrandt (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:49.683470+00:00, sha a6786fcb7152)
  - homepage: http://dembrandt.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:38:04.395743+00:00, sha f7b97a7b6907)
  - site_page: https://www.dembrandt.com/getting-started (fetched 2026-08-29T09:38:04.406987+00:00, sha e7be140089b0)
  - site_page: https://www.dembrandt.com/app-features (fetched 2026-08-29T09:38:04.409015+00:00, sha 77e6b709ccaf)
  - site_page: https://www.dembrandt.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T09:38:04.412602+00:00, sha e8d5d62bd176)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/dembrandt (fetched 2026-08-29T09:38:04.414163+00:00, sha 68367aa57937)
  - site_page: https://www.dembrandt.com/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T09:38:04.410843+00:00, sha 68b245d25ad2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.