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How much Sprout is enough?

Aceve ships 28+ products across Europe — different stacks, different customers, different trades. Sprout isn’t a mandate that forces them identical. It’s a guideline that makes them feel like Aceve and lifts UX to a good-enough floor. Start at the base. Climb as far as makes sense for your product.

The adoption pyramid

Pick a level to see what it includes. Wider at the bottom means more products should reach it.

1Required
Brand foundations
Look like Aceve.

The non-negotiable floor. Adopt Aceve’s colors, type and icons and your product instantly reads as part of the family — before you touch a single component. This is the one level every Aceve product should reach.

Includes
Color Typography Iconography
Products at this level: tracked soon — once we map all 28+ Aceve products.

What Sprout is — and isn’t

The line between alignment and autonomy.

Sprout aligns
  • The same icons, colors and typography
  • Validated components, once they’re ready
  • A good-enough UX floor on every screen
Sprout doesn’t dictate
  • Every pixel of how a component looks
  • Your navigation and layout patterns
  • How your service actually behaves

The right-hand column is yours. Product teams own how their service behaves — Sprout just makes sure it wears the Aceve face and clears the UX bar.

Why a pyramid?

Three commitments behind the model.

01
Align, don’t homogenise.

We’re not building one app. We’re making 28+ products — different stacks, customers and trades — feel like they came from the same company.

02
Raise UX to good-enough.

Sprout lifts the floor, not a ceiling. A team that adopts only the base still ships something measurably more usable and more Aceve than before.

03
Grow the validated library.

Components join the system only after they’re user-tested and validated with customers. Adopting one is borrowing proven work, never a gamble.

Start at the base

Three pages, and your product already reads as Aceve.

ColorThe Aceve palette + tokens TypographyManrope + Helvetica Now IconographyLineicons Pro + custom
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