For places worth the detour.
The second Quaeris Design release. An escape journal carrying three destinations, a journal with authors and categories, and a WebGL hero that knows when not to run — with the whole demo live and open to inspection.
Every figure came from astro-design-ailleurs.pages.dev. Open it and check.
One published website. VAT included; the studio licence covers client work. 14 days to withdraw, until the first download.
A visual direction for publications that live on photography. Paper, ink and deep forest, condensed display type set the full width of the page, and hairline rules instead of cards. The homepage opens on a landscape you scroll through rather than past — a depth scene that only loads where the machine can carry it, with a still hero as the honest fallback everywhere else.
Every route below is generated at build and served as a static file.
Scrolling the hero drives a Three.js depth scene through the photograph. On a phone the same scene cost about 39 seconds of main-thread time over slow 4G, so it is not degraded there — it is never downloaded. The still hero is also the fallback for reduced motion and for machines without WebGL, and it was designed to be good on its own.
Photographs reach the page through a single Photo component, so formats, responsive widths and loading hints live in one file. A build integration then fails the build if anything ships as something other than AVIF or WebP, which makes bypassing that component an error rather than a habit.
Identity, contact form, analytics and newsletter each have one file. Pick a provider and forget its key and the build says so and falls back, rather than shipping a form that posts into nothing or a consent banner for a tool that sets no cookies.
Eight categories are defined; the three holding a story are the three that become pages. Thin content dilutes a sitemap, so the route list is generated from what has actually been written rather than from what has been declared.
A good-looking screenshot is the beginning. The details help you choose.
Every release lists its page set, from the homepage to the article, author and category templates your project actually needs.
Page list with each releaseDesktop and mobile layouts, navigation, focus states and interactions, checked at the widths people actually use rather than the one the screenshot was taken at.
How customisation works ↗Source files, installation requirements, licence and support terms are published on the theme page so you can decide before you spend anything.
Exact package with each releasePick the design that fits your project. One licence covers one published website; building for clients is the studio licence.
€59 a theme
One licence, one published website. Work you deliver to clients is the studio licence: €399 for the whole collection, and a year of everything released after it.
Ailleurs, as the complete Astro source. Change anything, deploy it anywhere static, and keep it.
One published website. VAT included; the studio licence covers client work. 14 days to withdraw, until the first download.
For agencies, collectives and practices that would rather say it than show it.
For course platforms, training programmes and anyone selling structured learning.
For earthworks contractors, demolition firms and anyone who sells heavy work.