tai/research/tui-framework-design/axhub-telegram-mobile-design.md

axhub-make Telegram mobile theme teardown (DESIGN.md)

Metadata

Field	Value
Institute	Molodetz Institute — Research & Retrieval Division
Subject	tui-framework-design
Document type	Source Dossier
Tier	1
Source title	telegram-mobile DESIGN.md (axhub-make theme teardown)
Source URL	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lintendo/axhub-make/HEAD/client/src/themes/telegram-mobile/DESIGN.md
Source publisher / author	lintendo/axhub-make (third party)
Source type	repository
Source date (published)	Unknown — not stated
Date researched	2026-10-11
Researched by	tai (agent), model: Muse Spark, on behalf of retoor
Research method	direct page fetch
Confidence	Medium
Status	Active

Summary

A third-party teardown of Telegram's iOS client recording native chrome colors (outgoing accent-blue bubbles, neutral incoming bubbles, #0088CC accent) and the only type-and-spacing scale found anywhere: system fonts, 17pt body, 14pt in-bubble sender names, 11pt in-bubble time, 44px touch targets, 10pt radii, 50pt CTA height. Valuable and entirely unofficial.

Key findings

• Native chrome: outgoing bubble #2B86FD with white text; incoming bubble white (light) / #2A2A2A (dark); accent #0088CC; canvas #FFFFFF (light) / #212121 (dark).
• Typography is the system font (SF Pro on iOS, Roboto on Android): 17pt body text, 17pt semibold names, 14pt semibold sender names inside bubbles, 13pt list time, 11pt in-bubble time.
• Spacing scale: 44px-plus touch targets, 16px-plus input font (avoids mobile zoom), 10pt corner radii, 50pt CTA height.

Pros / strengths

• The only source found with concrete type sizes and spacing numbers for anything Telegram-shaped.
• Chrome colors corroborate the official Desktop theme files directionally (blue outgoing, neutral incoming).

Cons / limitations / caveats

• Third-party iOS teardown, unverified against Android and Desktop: treat every number as indicative, not canonical.
• No official typography or spacing specification exists in Telegram's docs, so there is nothing authoritative to check these numbers against (open gap).
• Pixel units (radii, CTA height, touch targets) have no literal terminal equivalent; only relative emphasis transfers.

Relevance to tai

The sole basis for tai's Telegram-derived type emphasis scale (body > sender > time) and the accent-blue outgoing convention; every value it contributes is flagged third-party in the conclusions that use it.

Changelog

Date	Change
2026-10-11	Initial dossier created.