How to read these
Each page carries a Show design notes switch in the lower
right. Left on, it shows small gold markers throughout. Hover or tap one to
read why something is the way it is. Where a decision came from the supplied direction,
the note quotes the source: look for the green Directed label
and the "Why this is here" line.
The notes flag anything we assumed, invented, corrected, or filled with placeholder
content, and they ask questions where input is needed. The lower article grid is
deliberately dummy content: there is one real article so far, and the layout noted as a preference
needs a populated grid to be legible. No statistic, name, date or dollar amount has
been invented anywhere on either page.
Some photographs are stand-ins. Anything marked as an asset note is a slot waiting for
a better file.
Both pages now move. Photographs drift inside their frames as you scroll, headings and
cards settle in as they arrive, and every gradient rule draws itself rather than simply
appearing. It is the same motion on both concepts, on purpose, so it is not one of the
things being chosen between. Scroll slowly and it should feel like a page being set
rather than a page performing. If it is too much, or not enough, say so: every duration
and distance is a dial. Anyone whose device asks for reduced motion gets both pages
completely still.
Next to that switch there is a Palette control with two
options. Newsprint is the default, because it follows the direction asked
for: warmer, more colourful, with darker background colours. It keeps the deep purple as
the identity colour on the headings, the logo and the nib, and it uses a warm charcoal
for the dark bands. Plum is the alternative, the purple-forward version,
if that is preferred. Switch between them on either page, including the photography,
which retints with the palette. The finished site ships one palette, so one is chosen
and the other dropped before build.
