About this site template

This is the light, typographic member of the template set — paper rather than ink, and composed as a print spread instead of a landing page. Three devices do the work, and all three come from print. The first is the numeral: one enormous red figure with photographs absolutely positioned into its negative space at overlapping depths, so the digits crop the images and a flat number becomes a composition. It is structure rather than ornament, because the figure is the project number and the switcher changes it. The second is the paragraph with photographs set inline — not beside the text but inside the sentence, as inline-block elements on the middle baseline, so the line box still resolves and the words wrap around them. The picture becomes a word, which is rarely attempted on the web and is the single reason the section reads as a magazine rather than a text block with a gallery underneath. The third is the wordmark: a black slab with a quarter-circle bitten out by a radial-gradient mask, vector and exact at any scale with no asset to ship. Every photograph is forced to greyscale so that the only colour anywhere is the signal red.