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THE COLOPHON

A concept storefront for the same poetry shop, typeset like a printed book of poems you can buy things from. Checkout hands back to Etsy.

Status
Local buildConcept
When
Aug 2026
Category
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A second take on the poetry shop, built as a concept. The storefront reads like a printed book, and the cart hands off to Etsy for checkout.

The home page, set like a book.
The home page, set like a book.
A product plate.
A product plate.

Stack

Vite and vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, zero runtime dependencies. Scroll-driven parallax. Self-hosted Newsreader, Instrument Sans, Fragment Mono, Parisienne.

Highlights

  • A four-color palette pulled by pixel-clustering a reference image, with chartreuse as the single action color.
  • A curtain footer, a fixed lilac underlay the page scrolls away to uncover, with giant cream script bleeding off both edges.
  • Real product data, nineteen curated listings of 196, and a fully built cart that lands on the Etsy shop or listing.