The Practice · Three Studies
Small sites, hand-set, that treat readers like guests.
Each study below is a complete, working site built for a fictional client—so the businesses are invented, but every technique is real, measured, and yours to commission. No frameworks, no templates, no trackers; each one is a single lightweight page tuned by hand until it reads well and runs fast.
Fictional clients · Real code · Every page under 100 KB before fonts
Commerce · Small Business · New Orleans
Ledoux & Daughters, Creole Bakehouse
A whole storefront set like a broadsheet: menu, hours, history, and standing orders—without a single photograph to shoot, license, or load.
Open the study →- DemonstratesType-only art direction; engraved SVG ornament
- ForBakeries, restaurants, shops, cafés, makers
- WeightOne HTML file; no images at all
Portfolio · The Arts · Night Gallery
N. Okafor, Painter of Night Interiors
A gallery you walk through in the dark, carrying the light yourself. The visitor’s cursor is the lamp; the paintings wait to be found.
Open the study →- DemonstratesInteractive light; atmosphere as navigation
- ForPainters, photographers, musicians, galleries
- WeightCanvases painted in CSS—zero image files
Data · Enterprise · Annual Reporting
Terrene Coffee Co., Transparency Report
Ten years of farm-gate prices told as one chart read three ways—an annual report designed to be finished, not filed.
Open the study →- DemonstratesCanvas data narrative; hover instrumentation
- ForBrands, nonprofits, annual & impact reports
- WeightData inlined; chart drawn live, no chart library
The same standards, whoever the client is.
Typography first.
The type is the design. Two faces, chosen slowly; everything else earns its place afterward.
Weight is a promise.
Every kilobyte is someone’s patience on a phone in a parking lot. Pages ship small and stay small.
Nothing watching you.
No trackers, no pop-ups, no consent theater. Sites that respect readers outlast sites that harvest them.