Design teardown

Arc

A cream and violet homepage with scalloped bands, tight display headlines, and large product pictures.

arc.net

Design character

Soft, picture-led, and playful

The page is a single centered column of full-bleed bands. A violet bar sits on top, then a pale wash, a violet quote band, white feature sections, a cream quote row, and a violet footer. Headlines are one or two short lines, centered, with a single quieter sentence under them. Buttons are a few words with an icon. Navigation is single words. Footer groups use tiny tracked labels over one- or two-word links. The tone is warm, second-person, and lightly playful. One word in a closing line is italic.

Typography

Display lines use a soft rounded face and a high-contrast display face, both tight and heavy. Support copy is a smaller humanist sans in gray. Labels and chips are a small mono, often uppercase with positive tracking.

Color system

The stage is warm cream. Full-bleed bands are a vivid violet with a light noise image, so the violet photographs a little lighter and grainier than the flat fill. Text on violet is cream. Actions are near-black, white, or deep indigo.

Spacing and geometry

An 8px rhythm with wide 32px page insets. Bands are tall because each feature is mostly a picture. Corners stay in a small set: 8, 10, 18, and 22.

Layout

Full-bleed horizontal bands, content centered. A sticky violet header keeps a shortened title and the dark pill after scroll. Feature sections are a title, one sentence, then a wide product picture.

Motion

Motion is short and functional, plus one slow loop. Hover fades are under a quarter second. A quote line travels sideways for more than a minute. Product sections are silent autoplay videos.

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