/ samples · design archive

Every landing
we tried first.

Sixteen directions, four rounds of feedback, one greenlit homepage. Each card opens the full sample in a windowed preview frame.

16directions
3animated
1shipped

Live

1 item

Currently in production at /.

Press 19 live

Editorial book-jacket cover — display serif over a live ASCII shader, with a brand colour-picker for tuning the green. Promoted to the homepage.

now / →

Animated · ASCII

5 items

Real-time monospace shaders and ASCII art — globes, plasma, terminal manuals, code blocks.

Atlas 17 animated

Live ASCII rotating globe — real 3D-projected sphere with Lambertian shading and a continent mask.

view →
Aequor 18 animated

Full-viewport ASCII shader with cursor ripple. Title and index float over the live shader.

view →
Forum 15

CLI documentation as homepage — static ASCII man-page boxes per tool, with name, stack, status, and install command.

view →
Codex 16

Developer-doc register — static syntax-highlighted code blocks per tool, with an ASCII architecture diagram.

view →
Roman 14

Static ASCII Roman temple façade, Optima inscription title, Latin work names with Roman numerals.

view →

Modern

4 items

Departures from the typography lane. Glass, gradients, bento tiles, dark dev-tool DNA.

Liquid Glass 12

Frosted glass nav, cards, and dock with animated specular sweeps and cursor-tracking 3D tilt. Translucent surfaces over a soft gradient field.

view →
Aurora 09

Soft drifting gradient blobs, gradient-text headline, big rounded tool cards. The friendly modern dev-platform register.

view →
Bento 10

A homepage as dashboard — modular tiles of varied sizes carrying hero, sparkline, ship-log feed, status, and subscribe.

view →
Lattice 11

Dark surface, faint grid, gradient-mesh corner, code-preview block, dense tool grid with gradient borders. Contemporary dark dev-tool register.

view →

Typography-led

6 items

Earlier rounds: editorial serif, classical inscription, brutalist grids, seed catalogues.

Terminal Field 04

Monospace, ASCII field map, prompt-driven. CLI as garden.

view →
The Almanac 05

Editorial serif, masthead, dropcap, dense columns. Print-feel.

view →
Brutalist Grid 06

Visible 12-col grid, heavy borders, dither-blocked cells. Loud and intentional.

view →
Seed Catalogue 08

Catalogue index table with seed-packet cards and hardiness badges.

view →
Cultivar A

Optima inscription title, animated ASCII wheat field, monospace listings.

view →
Stoa B

Marble + Greek-key dividers, animated ASCII columns flanking inscribed plaques.

view →