What websites look like Substack?

Chegg, Brex, Laravel, Replit, Paddle have the closest design to Substack, measured from their live pages: light or dark background, accent color, fonts, corners and headline size.

Websites like substack.com

Websites like Substack

Substack's website is light (#FFFFFF), with Spectral, 104px headlines at weight 600, 8px corners and an orange accent (#FF6719). These 12 sites share the most of that look, closest first.

What each site is compared with

Substack

Background: Light #FFFFFF
Accent: Orange #FF6719
Font: Spectral
Corners: 8px, pill buttons
Headlines: 104px, weight 600

Chegg3 of 5 same
Background
Light #FFFFFF
Same
Accent
Orange #EB7100
Same
Font
Aspira
Differs
Corners
10px, pill buttons
Same
Headlines
48px, weight 700
Differs
Brex2 of 5 same
Background
Light #FFFFFF
Same
Accent
Red #FF3D00
Same
Font
Inter
Differs
Corners
10px
Close
Headlines
72px, weight 500
Differs
Laravel2 of 5 same
Background
Light #FFFFFF
Same
Accent
Red #F53003
Same
Font
Instrument Sans
Differs
Corners
6px
Close
Headlines
72px, weight 400
Differs
Replit2 of 5 same
Background
Light #F6F5F4
Same
Accent
Red #FF3C00
Same
Font
Replit Diatype
Differs
Corners
8px
Close
Headlines
64px, weight 400
Differs
Paddle2 of 5 same
Background
Light #F9F8F7
Same
Accent
Red #FF5329
Same
Font
Serrif Condensed / Inter
Differs
Corners
12px, pill buttons
Close
Headlines
72px, weight 400
Differs
Sanity2 of 5 same
Background
Light #FFFFFF
Same
Accent
Orange #FF4100
Same
Font
Waldenburg / IBM Plex Mono
Differs
Corners
28px, pill buttons
Differs
Headlines
112px, weight 400
Close
Rippling3 of 5 same
Background
Light #FFFFFF
Same
Accent
Pink #7A005D
Differs
Font
Basel
Differs
Corners
6px, pill buttons
Same
Headlines
112px, weight 500
Same
Walmart3 of 5 same
Background
Light #FFFFFF
Same
Accent
Purple #452358
Differs
Font
Everyday Sans
Differs
Corners
8px, pill buttons
Same
Headlines
100px, weight 700
Same
Xiaomi2 of 5 same
Background
Light #F7F7F7
Same
Accent
Orange #FF6900
Same
Font
Mi Sans
Differs
Corners
10px
Close
Headlines
16px, weight 700
Differs
SavvyCal1 of 5 same
Background
Light #FCF7ED
Close
Accent
Red #F54320
Same
Font
GT Alpina Condensed / Inter
Differs
Corners
6px
Close
Headlines
88px, weight 700
Close
Redis2 of 5 same
Background
Light #FFFFFF
Same
Accent
Red #FF4438
Close
Font
Primary / Space Grotesk
Differs
Corners
6px, pill buttons
Same
Headlines
64px, weight 500
Differs
Audible2 of 5 same
Background
Light #FFFFFF
Same
Accent
Orange #FFA000
Close
Font
Audible Sans
Differs
Corners
6px, pill buttons
Same
Headlines
28px, weight 400
Differs

How these are matched

Each of the 475 sites in the design library is compared with Substack on five things you see at a glance. Background: light or dark, and how close the shade is. Accent: the hue of the color on buttons and links. Font: the same family for headings and body, or one of them. Corners: the typical radius and pill buttons. Headlines: the largest type size and its weight. Same counts most, close counts half. Open any site for its fonts, color codes and a prompt for Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable or v0.

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Measured from each site's live page as a browser renders it, Substack on 8 October 2026. Siteprint is not affiliated with these sites; names and trademarks belong to their owners.