Coolify UI design system

This document defines Coolify's UI design system for its Livewire + Blade + Alpine + Tailwind v4 frontend. The visual system covers the global shell, project and environment pages, application navigation, settings surfaces, tables, modals, toasts, terminals, and metrics.

Use this file as the source of truth for frontend design work. Update it in the same change whenever a new shared visual pattern or component is introduced.

Onboarding validation and live server validation checkpoints share <x-checkpoint-item> (idle / pending / running / success / error) inside a compact divided list, not legacy green check SVGs or fixed-width status rows.

Maintainer rules

Keep the work frontend-focused unless existing data must be exposed to the view.

Preserve routes, Livewire bindings, permissions, confirmations, and working interactions while changing layout and presentation.

Add or update tests when a UI change affects behavior. Follow the testing requirements in AGENTS.md.

Validate Blade with ./scripts/dev exec php artisan view:cache, then clear it with ./scripts/dev exec php artisan view:clear.

Build frontend assets with npm run build.

Use existing components before adding another styling abstraction.

1. Visual direction

The interface is compact and product-focused:

near-neutral layered surfaces instead of large bordered boxes;
13–14px UI typography and 32px controls;
crisp hairline rings plus a restrained card lift (single 1px ring + 0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0 / 0.05)) so cards and tables separate from the canvas, never heavy borders or a strong floating shadow;
full-width data tables for dense collections;
outline Reicon glyphs through <x-reicon>;
the Coolify purple brand accent in light mode;
the readable Coolify yellow accent in dark mode;
solid active-item fills (neutral black/white opacity), not accent gradients; active state is a flat selected surface with no accent rail;
sentence-case labels and headings;
never use the em dash (—) in UI copy. Prefer a period, colon, comma, or ASCII hyphen (-) for empty cells and separators.

Avoid oversized titles, generic dashboard cards, strong shadows, thick dividers, native browser selects, and isolated colored buttons that do not match the current action styles.

Standard .button controls use a compact 2px bottom depth. Hover raises the button face by 1px and increases the visible depth to 3px. Pressing moves the face down 2px into the edge and removes the depth until release, keeping the overall bottom position stable. Disabled controls stay flat, and focus-visible controls retain the accent ring alongside the depth. Movement and depth-shadow changes transition over 80ms; color transitions keep the shared 120ms duration. Standard button labels use capitalize, giving each word an initial capital. Highlighted buttons use --color-coollabs-300 for their bottom edge; the custom theme derives it from its bright color mixed with black, so custom colors keep a matching edge. Dark mode matches the depth edge of neutral buttons to their regular border color (rgb(255 255 255 / 0.08)).

2. Development and cascade notes

PHP runs in this branch's Coolify container (./scripts/dev exec …). The main checkout serves the app at http://localhost:8000 with Vite on 5173; worktrees use the port block printed by ./scripts/dev urls.

resources/css/app.css still contains unlayered global element rules for headings, labels, and tables. Tailwind utilities are layered, so the unlayered rules can win unexpectedly.

The settings and dense-surface CSS therefore lives as plain unlayered CSS near the end of resources/css/app.css, beginning at:

/* Coollabs layer-card settings surfaces */

Important consequences:

scope settings forms with .application-settings-form or .application-settings-workspace;
add shared surface overrides to the unlayered block instead of stacking !important utilities;
listbox panels require ancestors with overflow: visible;
anchored cards use scroll-margin-top: 7rem to clear the fixed topbar and the page's top padding;
modal shells reuse the layer-card classes but keep content-width sizing on desktop;
Alpine code inside quoted Blade attributes must not introduce conflicting quote characters.

3. Tokens and color behavior

The surface ladder is defined in resources/css/app.css.

Token	Light	Dark	Use
`--coollabs-canvas`	97% off-white	14.48% neutral	page canvas (kept below card fills so cards lift)
`--coollabs-elevated`	98% neutral	20.02% neutral	shells and card headers
`--coollabs-base`	white	22.64% neutral	nested card bodies
`--coollabs-recessed`	96% neutral	25.2% neutral	inputs and listboxes
`--coollabs-fill`	92.2% neutral	29.31% neutral	dividers and passive fills
`--coollabs-line`	translucent dark	32% neutral	control borders
`--coollabs-hairline`	85.5% neutral	32% neutral	shell rings (crisp enough to read as a card edge, ~1.5:1)
`--coollabs-subtle`	50% neutral	70.8% neutral	labels and muted titles (light darkened for WCAG AA 4.5:1)

Accent behavior is intentionally theme-aware:

Light mode: Coolify purple (coollabs) for active controls, focus, primary actions, and navigation accents.
Dark mode: Coolify yellow (warning) for the same states because the original purple did not provide sufficient text and ring contrast.

Do not hard-code blue focus rings or leave yellow accent utilities active in light mode. Primary action patterns should normally follow:

bg-coollabs/10 text-coollabs ring-coollabs/25
dark:bg-warning/15 dark:text-warning dark:ring-warning/25

The filled top-level action/tab treatment uses the same palette at a restrained opacity rather than a fully saturated fill.

Shell layering

The app shell is three distinct surface layers, not one flat color. Chrome lifts, content is the base, cards lift off the content:

Content canvas is the base layer: bg-app in dark (deepest, --color-app oklch(14.48% 0 0), sRGB 10), bg-neutral-50 in light. The <main> content area and page body use it.
Sidebar and topbar chrome use bg-panel in dark (--color-panel oklch(19.13% 0 0), sRGB 20, a clear step lighter than the content canvas) and bg-white in light, so the chrome reads as a separate panel from the content.

Dark surface tokens are exact oklch equivalents of chosen sRGB steps. oklch lightness compresses toward pure black below ~15%, so do not pick dark values by round oklch percentages. The dark ladder is --color-app 10, --coollabs-elevated 22, --coollabs-base 28, --coollabs-recessed 34 (sRGB), which reads as distinct surfaces.

Temperature: every panel is pure neutral gray (r=g=b), one consistent temperature across the sidebar, tables, cards, inputs, dividers, borders, and text, in both modes. Do not give one surface a cool (blue) or warm cast while the others stay neutral. The light page canvas uses bg-neutral-50 (not bg-gray-50, which is faintly cool) so it matches the neutral cards and chrome. The only intentional color is the purple/yellow brand accent.

Cards, tables, and collection tiles lift off the content canvas with dark:bg-white/[0.05] plus the crisp --coollabs-hairline ring; in light they are bg-white with the ring and the restrained card lift.

Do not paint the content area with the same bg-panel as the sidebar, and do not drop card fills below dark:bg-white/[0.05]; both make surfaces read as one color. Row-hover states keep the lighter dark:hover:bg-white/[0.025].

4. Page shells and navigation

Global shell

Main sidebar groups are compact, use outline Reicons, and keep a 32px row height.
Active sidebar rows are rounded pills (rounded-md) with a solid neutral selected fill (bg-black/5 light, bg-white/6 dark) and no accent rail. Hover rows use the same radius. Do not use accent-tinted gradients on nav rows; yellow washes look muddy on dark UI.
Nested items sit behind a thin 1px guide line (.nav-children) and use the same selected pill, not a thick box border.
The update badge sits on the version row and uses a tiny fully rounded primary-action pill.

Resource navigation

Application, service, database, and server pages have no second navigation bar; content starts directly below the 48px global topbar. Every route in a resource family (settings pages, backups, logs, terminal, metrics, danger zone) is an entry in its grouped settings sidebar. Do not add a tab row, a large in-flow resource heading, or legacy .navbar-main tabs to one resource type.

Keep route-derived active state in Blade/Livewire. Do not rely only on Alpine state because it can disappear after polling or a Livewire morph.

The global topbar owns the current resource identity, its compact status badges, configuration warnings (#configuration-warning-hud-slot), and the resource actions (#resource-action-hud-slot). If a resource is missing from x-top-breadcrumb, extend the global topbar instead of repeating its name or status summary in the page. Below xl the resource heading repeats the name, status, and links in-flow because the desktop HUD is hidden there.

Desktop resource actions dock in #resource-action-hud-slot (visible from xl) as one <x-split-action>. The main button is the primary action for the current state (Deploy, Restart, Start, Restart Proxy); the caret opens a menu with the secondary actions: Deploy (without cache) and Restart on applications, Pull latest and restart / Force Restart / Force Deploy / Force Cleanup Containers on services, Refresh Proxy Status on servers. Stop is the last menu item in the error color. Stop, restart, and removal items open the existing confirmation modals. Do not add a separate Advanced dropdown or collapse actions into an overflow menu. Place Links (x-applications.links, x-services.links) or the server Traefik Dashboard link immediately before the split action; Links stay a separate dropdown because the URL list is unbounded. Below xl the same split action renders full width under the in-flow resource name. A resource that cannot deploy yet shows a single Actions dropdown that explains why.

The only fixed tab strip left is x-dashboard.navbar, and it renders only when a page has at least two real sibling routes or header actions. Never repeat main-sidebar destinations such as Dashboard, Projects, Terminal, Servers, Sources, Destinations, or Storage as a tab row. A single collection page does not need a tab just to fill the bar; keep its primary action in the page header.

A tab must be active on the page that renders it. A bar whose only tab points at a different route reads as broken navigation, so project and environment pages (project.show, project.edit, project.environment.edit, project.clone-me) carry a plain page header with a 24px title and a 13px muted summary instead of a bar. The environment identity and the way back to its resources already live in x-top-breadcrumb; do not restate them in a sub-header.

The dashboard is a compact overview, not a metrics wall. It has no page header: live active deployments come first as a compact table, followed by traffic analytics when a server has it enabled, then two full-width sections (Projects, then Servers) that follow the projects-page grid pattern. Each section uses x-section-heading linking to its full index. Communicate server health with the shared status badge.

Top-level dashboard destinations

Every page opened directly from the main sidebar uses the same compact content shell:

24px page title and a 13px muted summary;
the primary action at the top right using the restrained brand fill;
no legacy coolbox, .navbar-main, or oversized subtitle block;
four-column compact cards for small browsable collections;
a dense table instead of cards when the collection is expected to grow;
x-empty anatomy for empty states;
x-status-badge for state and x-reicon for all interface icons.

Collection cards are min-h-28 or min-h-32, use a 32px icon tile, and keep secondary metadata at 11px. They must not grow into dashboard-sized summary cards. Sources, destinations, S3 storage, private keys, and shared-variable scopes use this pattern.

Top-level settings families such as Team, Notifications, Keys & Tokens, and instance Settings use their *settings-layout component: the same grouped, icon-led settings sidebar as resources, plus a settings-mobile-header title below xl. Do not nest <button> elements inside sidebar links.

Route-family consistency

Treat every route family as one cohesive experience rather than styling only its index or most visible route:

index, create, detail, settings, logs, metrics, backup, execution, and danger routes must share the same navigation hierarchy and surface language;
main-sidebar collection routes use the global shell without duplicating those destinations in a tab row;
resource detail families use resource identity, status, and actions in the global topbar, and put every sibling route in the grouped settings sidebar;
create and edit routes stay inside the same sidebar family instead of falling back to an isolated legacy page;
reusable partials, empty states, confirmation flows, and row editors must be updated with the page that exposes them;
audit the whole family for native selects, legacy heading blocks, old Save buttons, old status chips, and coolbox/navbar-main/sub-menu-wrapper to keep the family consistent.

Do not leave a sibling route using old tabs, a large in-flow title, a browser select, or a different modal anatomy.

The New Resource page keeps its filter controls in the top layer card, then renders Applications, Databases, and Services as separate layer-card sections. Do not leave category headings and resource grids floating as uncontained content below the filter card.

Settings workspace

Application, service, database, server, and top-level settings pages use the same 210px grouped, icon-led sidebar and a full-width content column. From xl the sidebar is a fixed full-height rail below the topbar that tracks the main sidebar width, with its own fill, right hairline, filter input, and scroll. Below xl it becomes a wrapped grid of links above the content. Do not use the legacy sub-menu-wrapper, native mobile page selects, or a row of top-level tabs. Only show nested section anchors when a page has at least four useful sections.

The shared workspace grid is:

<section class="application-settings-workspace w-full max-w-none">
    <div class="grid min-w-0 gap-8 xl:grid-cols-[210px_minmax(0,1fr)] xl:gap-8">
        <x-application.configuration-sidebar :application="$application" :current-route="$currentRoute" />
        <div class="min-w-0">
            ...
        </div>
    </div>
</section>

Instance Settings uses x-settings.layout with the same full-width workspace.

Page titles (global): x-dashboard.navbar H1s (titleOnDesktop="false", the default) hide at lg+ only when the page renders a fixed tab strip or actions; otherwise they stay visible. Collection indexes (Servers, Projects, …) always keep their H1; stack title above actions on narrow widths so they never overlap. Application, service, and database names render in-flow below xl (the desktop action HUD breakpoint), server names below lg, and settings families use settings-mobile-header below xl. Fixed tab-strip spacers must be lg:h-12 to match the bar height. Do not put the H1 beside the settings sidebar.

Standard content stack:

<div class="application-settings-workspace flex flex-col gap-6">
    <x-application.settings-section ... />
    <x-application.settings-section ... />
</div>

The current cross-page section gap is gap-6. Do not introduce extra top padding on an individual page unless its toolbar is intentionally separated from the first card.

Use a flex or grid stack with gap-6; do not use space-y-* between layer cards. The layer-card root intentionally resets its own margin, so margin-based spacing utilities can silently collapse.

5. Layer cards

Use resources/views/components/application/settings-section.blade.php. Older manual shells may use .application-settings-section-header and .application-settings-section-body; both must retain the same padded, action-aligned anatomy as the component. Use the component for new work and replace a manual shell when modifying it instead of creating another variant.

<x-application.settings-section
    id="public-access-section"
    title="Public access"
    helper="How this section affects the resource.">
    <x-slot:actions>
        <x-forms.button>Action</x-forms.button>
    </x-slot:actions>

    ...
</x-application.settings-section>

Anatomy:

8px shell radius;
elevated header strip;
no divider below the header;
nested base-color body with its own fill ring;
16px body padding;
optional flush mode for full-bleed tables;
card-level actions belong in the header slot.

Header actions use an 8px top/right inset while the title keeps its 16px left inset. Do not leave a larger empty strip between the final action and the card's top-right corner.

Do not split one collection into a summary card followed by a table or log card. Keep its status/action in the header, its view switcher or toolbar at the top of a flush body, and its data in that same layer card. Repeated file editors are the opposite case: each file gets its own titled layer card so its content and actions remain clearly associated.

Nested radii

Concentric boxes must follow:

outer radius = inner radius + visible inset

Examples:

a 6px tab or listbox option inside 4px padding uses a 10px outer well;
an 8px button inside the unsaved pill's 8px padding uses a 16px outer pill.

Do not give visibly inset parent and child boxes the same radius. Flush or edge-to-edge children are exempt because there is no visible inset to add.

Use an empty state when the section has no usable controls:

<x-empty size="sm" title="Nothing here" description="Explain what enables it.">
    <x-slot:icon>
        <x-reicon name="layers" class="size-8" />
    </x-slot:icon>
</x-empty>

6. Controls

All normal controls are 32px high with an 8px radius.

Field grids

The grid must match the controls visible in the current state:

two visible peer controls use two columns, not a three-column grid with an empty track;
three visible peer controls may use three columns when their content stays readable;
conditional fields remain in the same grid when they are part of that field group, so a URL or text input does not become wider than its peer column;
collapse to one column at smaller breakpoints.

Do not pick a column count from the maximum possible state if the normal state shows fewer controls.

Inputs

Use x-forms.input and x-forms.textarea. Fields need visible vertical spacing between the label and control. Password visibility uses the outline Reicon eye/eye-off treatment from the shared input component.

Dropdowns

Do not use native <select> on application routes, including mobile fallbacks. Use:

<x-forms.listbox id="property" label="Setting" :options="[
    ['value' => true, 'label' => 'Enabled'],
    ['value' => false, 'label' => 'Disabled'],
]" onChange="instantSave" />

Boolean checkboxes should normally become descriptive two-option listboxes. Use .live behavior only when the selection needs an immediate server rerender.

Keep checkboxes for compact permission matrices and multi-select lists. Those controls must use the shared x-forms.checkbox anatomy: an 18px rounded custom box, purple checked fill in light mode, yellow checked fill in dark mode, and a high-contrast check mark. Never expose the browser or Tailwind Forms default checkbox on application pages.

The popup panel uses a 10px radius around 6px options with a 4px inset. Keep the option content left-aligned and size the panel to its content or trigger; do not create an unnecessarily wide menu.

Every dropdown, menu, listbox panel, and the command palette uses the shared --shadow-dropdown token (0 4px 12px rgb(0 0 0 / 0.12), 0 2px 4px rgb(0 0 0 / 0.08)) for a restrained, consistent lift. Do not hand-roll a heavier shadow-lg / 0 18px 50px / 0.45-alpha drop shadow on a menu. Reserve the stronger --shadow-modal for actual modals, dialogs, and toasts.

Toolbar filter and sort buttons keep static labels (Filter, Sort). The selected option is indicated inside the menu, not repeated on the trigger.

Livewire dropdown state synchronization

Instant-save listboxes must not flash back to an older value while Livewire is saving or morphing the DOM. Treat the Alpine selection as the current visual state until its request finishes:

await the Livewire change handler and prevent overlapping selections while it is running;
when a client-managed listbox can be rerendered by an unrelated or stale Livewire response, use the listbox's preserveValue option so the morph does not replace its newer Alpine value;
scope preserveValue to controls whose value is owned by that interaction; do not use it when external server events must replace the displayed value;
after saving through a related model, refresh the parent component's loaded relationship before rendering the response. A database write alone does not update an already-loaded Eloquent collection;
use stable wire:key values for rows containing listboxes. Do not include the selected value in the key, because recreating the Alpine component causes a visible reset;
remember that a portalled options panel is teleported outside its visual wrapper. Guard selection in the Alpine handler itself rather than relying only on pointer-events or a disabled wrapper.

The failure mode to avoid is: selection B is shown optimistically, selection A is chosen next, the response for B morphs the listbox back to B, then the later response finally shows A. The control should remain on the newest accepted selection throughout the save sequence.

Multi-select filter dropdowns

Toolbar filters that can combine criteria use one multi-select listbox rather than separate dropdowns or a single selected value. Follow the deployment history filter in resources/views/livewire/project/application/deployment/index.blade.php:

set aria-multiselectable="true" on the listbox;
group related options under compact uppercase labels;
keep the dropdown open while options are toggled;
use the shared 16px custom checkbox treatment: purple checked fill in light mode, yellow checked fill in dark mode, and a high-contrast check mark;
show the number of active selections in a small count pill on the static Filter trigger;
combine selections within one group with OR logic and combine different groups with AND logic;
constrain only the options area with max-h-80 overflow-y-auto;
place a persistent Reset filters action in a separate footer below the scrollable options, divided by a top border;
disable the reset action when no filter is active, and close the dropdown after resetting.

Do not represent the empty state as a selectable All option. The footer reset action is the single way to return the multi-select to its unfiltered state.

Standard table controls

Dense tables use the shared x-table.* components so search, filters, sorting, and backend loading states remain visually and behaviorally consistent:

<x-table.toolbar> owns the responsive search-left/actions-right layout;
<x-table.search> owns the search icon, optional loading indicator, clear action, sizing, and input anatomy;
<x-table.filter> owns the static Filter trigger, active-count pill, multi-select panel, scrollable options area, and Reset filters footer;
<x-table.sort> owns the static Sort trigger and single-select panel;
<x-table.loading> overlays only the changing table data for backend search, filter, sort, and pagination requests.

Tables continue to own their filter options, sort choices, headers, rows, queries, permissions, and empty states. Backend-filtered or paginated tables must use x-table.loading; frontend-only Alpine tables reuse the same toolbar and control anatomy but do not show an artificial loading state.

Buttons

neutral actions use the shared .button;
primary actions use the theme-aware purple/yellow tint;
destructive actions use the existing error treatment;
use outline Reicons where a matching glyph exists;
avoid raw browser-default buttons and old dark-mode purple fills.

Unsaved changes

resources/views/components/unsaved-bar.blade.php is a compact floating bottom-center pill. It contains:

“You have changes that haven't been saved yet.”
a subtle Reset action;
a theme-aware Save changes button matching the tab accent.

On small viewports the pill is inset (inset-x-3) and stacks: full label on the first line, Reset / Save on the second (right-aligned). From sm up it returns to the centered single-row nowrap pill.

Do not restore the old full-width footer.

Deferred fields in one Livewire component use one floating unsaved bar and one submit action. Do not add a separate “Save configuration” button to every card. Selectors that are safe to persist independently should use the existing instant-save pattern. When those requests share a component with a modal draft, pass the unsaved bar a dirty Alpine expression comparing that draft with its initial values, so unrelated saves do not hide pending changes. Mount modal save bars only while the modal is open to avoid inactive keyboard shortcuts.

7. Dense tables

Collections with many rows should use the Cloudflare-inspired table pattern:

toolbar above the table;
search on the left;
filters, sort, view toggles, and Add on the right;
40px header row and roughly 48px data rows;
subtle row hover;
plain text or the shared status badge rather than large colored chips;
compact action at the far right;
no separate layer card for each item.

Do not add a summary card above a table when it only repeats the row count, current page, or refresh interval. Keep counts and pagination in the footer. Background polling stays silent unless its state is actionable; do not add a “Live updates” badge just to explain that a table refreshes. Filters only render meaningful values; use the shared listbox instead of a number input or browser-native control.

The footer is always inside the table shell:

Showing X–Y of Z on the left;
first, previous, current page, next, and last controls on the right.

Hide the entire pagination footer when there is only one page (totalPages > 1). A lone “1–2 of 2” bar with disabled controls adds noise and is unnecessary.

Use x-status-badge for resource and execution state. It is a small neutral pill with a semantic dot, not a full colored rectangle.

Relevant classes:

.data-table
.data-table-header
.data-table-row
.table-badge

Create a page-specific grid class when columns differ. Add responsive rules that hide secondary columns before allowing horizontal overflow.

Domain rows on mobile

Domain tables become compact summary cards below 600px. Keep the public URL on its own line, followed by a short routing summary such as HTTP → HTTPS · Port 80 · Noindex. Put DNS status and the existing icon actions on the final row. Do not squeeze desktop label/value columns into a mobile card or move settings behind an overflow menu. Long domains wrap, and icon actions retain 40px touch targets.

8. Modals, confirmations, and toasts

Modals

x-modal-input and confirmation dialogs reuse the layer-card shell:

compact elevated header;
nested base-color body;
content-width desktop sizing;
shared 32px controls;
no redundant description below a self-explanatory title;
custom listboxes instead of native browser selects;
listbox and dropdown panels must render above the modal body and escape its scroll container. Never clip a panel at the modal boundary or make users scroll the modal to see its options;
when there is not enough viewport space below the trigger, open the panel above it while keeping the panel visually on top of the modal;
right-aligned footer actions below a divider;
compact action buttons, never a submit button stretched by a column layout.

Edit modals should use the same field layout and option set as their matching create modal.

Command palette

The global search command palette (livewire:global-search) is a compact top-anchored overlay:

elevated shell with hairline ring and modal shadow (not a heavy floating card);
recessed-neutral header strip with outline search glyph and 14px input;
compact OS-aware mod+K (⌘K on macOS, Ctrl+K on Windows/Linux) / / / ESC kbd chips matching the sidebar search trigger;
nested base-color results body with group labels in sentence case;
dense result rows as inset 6px-radius pills (listbox anatomy), not full-bleed bars with global focus rings;
hover uses neutral fill; keyboard focus uses a soft accent wash plus a 2px left rail — never the global ring-2 / ring-offset treatment;
create rows use a neutral plus tile that only picks up the accent when the row is focused;
type pills and quickcommand chips stay recessed; they tint with the accent only on the focused row;
neutral thin scrollbar inside the results body (not brand-colored);
create-resource modals opened from the palette reuse the standard application-settings-section layer-card shell.

Preserve keyboard navigation (arrow keys, Enter via focused links, Escape to clear then close), / and mod+K (⌘K / Ctrl+K by OS) open shortcuts, and the multi-step server → destination → project → environment create flow.

Toasts

resources/views/components/toast.blade.php provides the global window.toast(message, options) API and Livewire event handling.

Current toast behavior:

compact layered card, maximum width 26rem;
Reicon status tile for success, info, warning, danger, or default;
title plus optional description;
dismiss and copy-details actions;
normally up to four stacked notifications, without evicting persistent notices;
four-second dismissal, paused while hovered;
persistent: true disables automatic dismissal, including after hover; users close these notices with the dismiss button;
support for all six screen positions and sanitized custom HTML.

Do not bring back the old oversized dark rectangle.

9. Terminals, logs, and metrics

Terminals

Application and server browser terminals use the same browser-oriented console shell, theme picker, compact header controls, and outline browser-terminal Reicon. Hide a container switcher when only one container exists.

The themed console shell belongs to an open session. Before a target is selected, the global Terminal page stays a normal top-level destination: a full-width layer card titled Start a terminal session, its filter input in the card header actions, and grouped Servers / Containers rows reusing the command-palette row classes. Do not render an empty full-height console canvas just to host the target picker, and do not offer the console theme selector before a session owns that canvas. Rows show the target name, a muted server column that only appears when the team has more than one server, and the shared chevron. Group headers stick to the top of the scrolling list and carry a count.

Logs

Runtime and deployment logs should feel like a clean terminal surface:

keep a single log stream inside one layer card instead of adding an introductory card above it;
one compact toolbar;
a recessed monospace log viewport;
search and line-count controls aligned with icon actions;
clear live/follow state;
fullscreen support without changing the control language;
custom listbox-style menus instead of browser dropdowns.

Metrics

Metrics pages use separate layer cards for range selection, CPU, and memory. Charts follow the application metrics implementation:

240px area chart;
smooth 2px stroke and restrained gradient fill;
dashed neutral grid;
no ApexCharts toolbar;
tooltip positioned at the hovered point;
UTC on both axes and tooltip;
20% headroom above observed values;
downsample long time ranges before rendering.

Only add a metric if Sentinel exposes historical data for it. Current Sentinel history endpoints store CPU and memory. Root filesystem usage is included in the periodic push payload for threshold notifications, but it is not stored as a historical Sentinel metric and has no history endpoint, so it cannot power a disk-usage graph yet.

10. Current reference surfaces

Use these as implementation references:

Surface	Reference
Dashboard overview	`resources/views/livewire/dashboard.blade.php`
Top-level collection cards	`resources/views/livewire/project/index.blade.php`, `resources/views/source/all.blade.php`
Top-level settings families	`resources/views/components/team/settings-layout.blade.php`, `resources/views/components/notification/settings-layout.blade.php`
General settings and form anatomy	`resources/views/livewire/project/application/general.blade.php`
Advanced settings	`resources/views/livewire/project/application/advanced.blade.php`
Resource actions in the topbar	`resources/views/livewire/project/application/heading.blade.php`, `resources/views/components/split-action.blade.php`, `resources/views/livewire/server/navbar.blade.php`
Grouped settings sidebar	`resources/views/components/application/configuration-sidebar.blade.php`, `resources/views/components/server/sidebar.blade.php`
Dense environment table and footer	`resources/views/livewire/project/shared/environment-variable/all.blade.php`
Standard table toolbar controls	`resources/views/components/table/*`
Application metrics charts	`resources/views/livewire/project/shared/metrics.blade.php`
Browser terminal workspace	`resources/views/livewire/terminal/index.blade.php`
Layer card	`resources/views/components/application/settings-section.blade.php`
Custom dropdown	`resources/views/components/forms/listbox.blade.php`
Empty state	`resources/views/components/empty.blade.php`
Status pill	`resources/views/components/status-badge.blade.php`
Floating save pill	`resources/views/components/unsaved-bar.blade.php`
Global toast	`resources/views/components/toast.blade.php`
Command palette / global search	`resources/views/livewire/global-search.blade.php`
Outline icons	`resources/views/components/reicon.blade.php`
Shared styling	`resources/css/app.css`, `resources/css/utilities.css`
HTTP error pages	`resources/views/components/error-page.blade.php`, `resources/views/errors/*`

HTTP error pages (400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 419, 429, 500, 503) use the shared <x-error-page> component on the public auth-style canvas: theme-aware status code, compact title and muted description, neutral .button actions, and an auth-text-link-style Contact support link. Keep copy sentence-case and avoid oversized 200px status numbers.

11. UI implementation checklist

Inventory every route and reusable partial in the family before editing.
Read the current Blade and Livewire class before changing presentation.
Preserve every existing action, authorization check, loading state, and confirmation.
Add the grouped settings sidebar and scoped workspace/form class.
Convert meaningful groups to layer cards and use gap-6.
Make the responsive column count match the controls visible in every state.
Replace native selects and checkbox-style configuration with listboxes.
Use one save model per component: instant-save or one floating dirty bar.
Check nested radii using outer = inner + inset.
Keep modal descriptions purposeful and footer actions compact/right-aligned.
Use tables for dense collections and cards for forms or summaries.
Use x-status-badge, x-empty, and x-reicon.
Confirm light and dark accent behavior.
Check fixed-nav anchor offsets and responsive stacking.
Sweep every sibling route for legacy controls and shells.
Run git diff --check.
Compile Blade views with ./scripts/dev exec php artisan view:cache.
Build assets with npm run build.
Hard-refresh and inspect the family routes in both themes.

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Coolify UI design system

1. Visual direction

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3. Tokens and color behavior

Shell layering

4. Page shells and navigation

Global shell

Resource navigation

Top-level dashboard destinations

Route-family consistency

Settings workspace

5. Layer cards

Nested radii

6. Controls

Field grids

Inputs

Dropdowns

Livewire dropdown state synchronization

Multi-select filter dropdowns

Standard table controls

Buttons

Unsaved changes

7. Dense tables

Domain rows on mobile

8. Modals, confirmations, and toasts

Modals

Command palette

Toasts

9. Terminals, logs, and metrics

Terminals

Logs

Metrics

10. Current reference surfaces

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