diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/.gitignore b/packages/roleypoly-design/.gitignore
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index 0000000..1eaff4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+lib
+node_modules
+*.log
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diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/.storybook/addons.js b/packages/roleypoly-design/.storybook/addons.js
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index 0000000..6aed412
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/.storybook/addons.js
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+import '@storybook/addon-actions/register';
+import '@storybook/addon-links/register';
diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/.storybook/config.js b/packages/roleypoly-design/.storybook/config.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f94f9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/.storybook/config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import { configure } from '@storybook/react'
+const req = require.context('../src', true, /\.stor\bies|y\b\.[tj]sx?$/)
+
+function loadStories() {
+  req.keys().forEach(req)
+}
+
+configure(loadStories, module)
diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/.storybook/webpack.config.js b/packages/roleypoly-design/.storybook/webpack.config.js
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index 0000000..1609a56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/.storybook/webpack.config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+module.exports = ({ config }) => {
+  config.module.rules.push({
+    test: /\.(ts|tsx)$/,
+    use: [
+      {
+        loader: require.resolve('awesome-typescript-loader'),
+      },
+      // Optional
+      {
+        loader: require.resolve('react-docgen-typescript-loader'),
+      },
+    ],
+  });
+  config.resolve.extensions.push('.ts', '.tsx');
+  return config;
+};
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diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/.stylelintrc b/packages/roleypoly-design/.stylelintrc
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index 0000000..7bde962
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/.stylelintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "processors": [
+    "stylelint-processor-styled-components"
+  ],
+  "extends": [
+    "stylelint-config-recommended",
+    "stylelint-config-styled-components"
+  ]
+}
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diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/package.json b/packages/roleypoly-design/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..29fbe5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{
+  "private": true,
+  "name": "@roleypoly/design",
+  "version": "2.0.0",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "react": "^16.8.6",
+    "react-dom": "^16.8.6",
+    "styled-components": "^4.2.0"
+  },
+  "files": [
+    "lib"
+  ],
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@babel/core": "^7.4.4",
+    "@storybook/addon-actions": "^5.0.11",
+    "@storybook/addon-info": "^5.0.11",
+    "@storybook/addon-knobs": "^5.0.11",
+    "@storybook/addon-links": "^5.0.11",
+    "@storybook/addons": "^5.0.11",
+    "@storybook/react": "^5.0.11",
+    "@types/jest": "^24.0.13",
+    "@types/node": "^12.0.2",
+    "@types/react": "^16.8.17",
+    "@types/react-dom": "^16.8.4",
+    "@types/storybook__addon-actions": "^3.4.2",
+    "@types/storybook__addon-knobs": "^5.0.0",
+    "@types/storybook__addon-links": "^3.3.4",
+    "@types/storybook__react": "^4.0.1",
+    "@types/styled-components": "4.1.8",
+    "awesome-typescript-loader": "^5.2.1",
+    "babel-loader": "^8.0.6",
+    "react-docgen-typescript-loader": "^3.1.0",
+    "stylelint": "^10.0.1",
+    "tslint": "^5.16.0",
+    "tslint-config-standard": "^8.0.1",
+    "typescript": "^3.4.5"
+  },
+  "scripts": {
+    "storybook": "start-storybook -p 6006",
+    "build-storybook": "build-storybook"
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/src/button/Button.story.tsx b/packages/roleypoly-design/src/button/Button.story.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eb9bd8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/src/button/Button.story.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import * as React from 'react'
+import { storiesOf } from '@storybook/react'
+
+import Button from './Button'
+
+const s = storiesOf('Button', module)
+
+s.add('Default', () => <Button>Example</Button>)
+s.add('Disabled', () => <Button>Example</Button>)
+s.add('Primary', () => <Button>Example</Button>)
+s.add('Secondary', () => <Button>Example</Button>)
+s.add('Loading', () => <Button>Example</Button>)
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diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/src/button/Button.tsx b/packages/roleypoly-design/src/button/Button.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4362022
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/src/button/Button.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import * as React from 'react'
+import {
+  StyledButton
+} from './styled-components'
+
+const Button = ({ children, ...rest }: { children: React.ReactChild | React.ReactChild[] }) => <StyledButton {...rest}>
+  {children}
+</StyledButton>
+
+export default Button
diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/src/button/index.ts b/packages/roleypoly-design/src/button/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd8e2db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/src/button/index.ts
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+export { default as default } from './Button'
+
+export {
+  StyledButton
+} from './styled-components'
diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/src/button/styled-components.tsx b/packages/roleypoly-design/src/button/styled-components.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..814a08d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/src/button/styled-components.tsx
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+// import * as React from 'react'
+import styled from 'styled-components'
+
+export const StyledButton = styled.button`
+  /* reset some styles */
+  box-shadow: none;
+  appearance: none;
+  outline: none;
+  cursor: pointer;
+  background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
+
+  /* real styles */
+  position: relative;
+  transition: all 0.05s ease-in-out;
+  padding: 1em 1.4em;
+  font-weight: bold;
+  border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
+
+  &::after {
+    content: "";
+    position: absolute;
+    top: 0;
+    right: 0;
+    left: 0;
+    bottom: 0;
+
+    /* transparent by default */
+    background-color: transparent;
+
+    transition: background-color 0.05s ease-in-out;
+
+    /* put the overlay behind the text */
+    z-index: -1;
+  }
+
+  /* on hover, raise, brighten and shadow */
+  &:hover {
+    transform: translateY(-1px);
+    box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.05);
+
+    &::after {
+      background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /* on click, lower and darken */
+  &:active {
+    outline: none;
+    box-shadow: none;
+    border-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
+
+    transform: translateY(0);
+
+    &::after {
+      background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
+    }
+  }
+`
diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/src/helpers/deep-merge.ts b/packages/roleypoly-design/src/helpers/deep-merge.ts
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index 0000000..002c3b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/src/helpers/deep-merge.ts
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+/*
+Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Uber Technologies, Inc.
+This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+*/
+
+export default function deepMerge (
+  target?: {},
+  ...sources: Array<null | {}>
+): {} {
+  target = target || {}
+  const len = sources.length
+  let obj
+  let value
+  for (let i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+    obj = sources[i] || {}
+    for (let key in obj) {
+      if (obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
+        value = obj[key]
+        if (isCloneable(value)) {
+          target[key] = deepMerge(target[key] || {}, value)
+        } else {
+          target[key] = value
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return target
+}
+
+/* eslint-disable-next-line flowtype/no-weak-types */
+function isCloneable(obj: Object) {
+  return Array.isArray(obj) || {}.toString.call(obj) === '[object Object]'
+}
diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/src/helpers/overrides.ts b/packages/roleypoly-design/src/helpers/overrides.ts
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index 0000000..e0e67f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/src/helpers/overrides.ts
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+/*
+Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Uber Technologies, Inc.
+This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+*/
+import * as React from 'react'
+import deepMerge from './deep-merge'
+
+export type StyleOverrideT = {} | (({ }) => {} | undefined)
+
+export type OverrideObjectT<T> = {
+  component?: React.ComponentType<T>,
+  props?: {},
+  style?: StyleOverrideT
+}
+
+export type OverrideT<T> = OverrideObjectT<T> | React.ComponentType<T>
+
+export type OverridesT<T> = {
+  [x: string]: OverrideT<T>
+}
+
+/**
+ * Given an override argument, returns the component implementation override if it exists
+ */
+// eslint-disable-next-line flowtype/no-weak-types
+export function getOverride (override: any): any {
+  // Check if override is OverrideObjectT
+  if (override && typeof override === 'object') {
+    // Remove this 'any' once this flow issue is fixed:
+    // https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/6666
+    // eslint-disable-next-line flowtype/no-weak-types
+    return override.component
+  }
+  // Otherwise it must be a component type (function or class) or null/undefined
+  return override
+}
+
+/**
+ * Given an override argument, returns the override props that should be passed
+ * to the component when rendering it.
+ */
+export function getOverrideProps<T> (override?: OverrideT<T>) {
+  if (override && typeof override === 'object') {
+    return {
+      // $FlowFixMe
+      ...override.props,
+      // $FlowFixMe
+      $style: override.style
+    }
+  }
+  return {}
+}
+
+/**
+ * Coerces an override argument into an override object
+ * (sometimes it is just an override component)
+ */
+export function toObjectOverride<T> (
+  override: OverrideT<T>
+): OverrideObjectT<T> {
+  if (typeof override === 'function') {
+    return {
+      component: (override)
+    }
+  }
+  // Flow can't figure out that typeof 'function' above will
+  // catch React.StatelessFunctionalComponent
+  // (probably related to https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/6666)
+  // eslint-disable-next-line flowtype/no-weak-types
+  return (((override || {}) as any) as OverrideObjectT<T>)
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get a convenient override array that will always have [component, props]
+ */
+/* eslint-disable flowtype/no-weak-types */
+export function getOverrides (
+  override: any,
+  defaultComponent: React.ComponentType<any>
+): [React.ComponentType<any>, {}] {
+  const component = getOverride(override) || defaultComponent
+  const props = getOverrideProps(override)
+  return [component, props]
+}
+/* eslint-enable flowtype/no-weak-types */
+
+/**
+ * Merges two overrides objects – this is useful if you want to inject your own
+ * overrides into a child component, but also accept further overrides from
+ * from upstream. See `mergeOverride` below.
+ */
+export function mergeOverrides<T> (
+  target: OverridesT<T> | undefined = {},
+  source: OverridesT<T> | undefined = {}
+): OverridesT<T> {
+  const allIdentifiers = Object.keys({ ...target, ...source })
+  return allIdentifiers.reduce((acc, name) => {
+    acc[name] = mergeOverride(
+      toObjectOverride(target[name]),
+      toObjectOverride(source[name])
+    )
+    return acc
+  }, {})
+}
+
+/**
+ * Merges two override objects using the following behavior:
+ * - Component implementation from the source (parent) replaces target
+ * - Props and styles are both deep merged
+ */
+export function mergeOverride<T> (
+  target: OverrideObjectT<T>,
+  source: OverrideObjectT<T>
+): OverrideObjectT<T> {
+  // Shallow merge should handle `component`
+  const merged = { ...target, ...source }
+  // Props just use deep merge
+  if (target.props && source.props) {
+    merged.props = deepMerge({}, target.props, source.props)
+  }
+  // Style overrides need special merging since they may be functions
+  if (target.style && source.style) {
+    merged.style = mergeStyleOverrides(target.style, source.style)
+  }
+  return merged
+}
+
+/**
+ * Since style overrides can be an object *or* a function, we need to handle
+ * the case that one of them is a function. We do this by returning a new
+ * function that deep merges the result of each style override
+ */
+export function mergeStyleOverrides (
+  target: StyleOverrideT,
+  source: StyleOverrideT
+): StyleOverrideT {
+  // Simple case of both objects
+  if (typeof target === 'object' && typeof source === 'object') {
+    return deepMerge({}, target, source)
+  }
+
+  // At least one is a function, return a new composite function
+  return (...args) => {
+    return deepMerge(
+      {},
+      typeof target === 'function' ? target(...args) : target,
+      typeof source === 'function' ? source(...args) : source
+    )
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/tsconfig.json b/packages/roleypoly-design/tsconfig.json
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index 0000000..69d92b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "outDir": "./lib",
+    "module": "commonjs",
+    "target": "es2018",
+    "lib": [
+      "es5",
+      "es6",
+      "es7",
+      "es2017",
+      "dom"
+    ],
+    "sourceMap": true,
+    "allowJs": false,
+    "jsx": "react",
+    "moduleResolution": "node",
+    "rootDirs": [
+      "src"
+    ],
+    "baseUrl": "src",
+    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
+    "noImplicitReturns": true,
+    "noImplicitThis": true,
+    "noImplicitAny": true,
+    "strictNullChecks": true,
+    "suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors": true,
+    "noUnusedLocals": true,
+    "declaration": true,
+    "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
+    "experimentalDecorators": true,
+    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true
+  },
+  "exclude": [
+    "node_modules",
+    "build",
+    "scripts"
+  ]
+}
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diff --git a/packages/roleypoly-design/tslint.json b/packages/roleypoly-design/tslint.json
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index 0000000..7967051
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roleypoly-design/tslint.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "extends": "tslint-config-standard"
+}
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