For saying it, not showing it.
The third Quaeris Design release, and the largest: thirty-one routes, every menu generated from one list, and a design that holds a picture agency’s site together without a single picture — with the whole demo live and open to inspection.
Every figure came from astro-design-the-plate.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 typographic direction, and an unusually literal one: the site ships no photographs at all. Building-scale Archivo Narrow on painted concrete, line heights crushed to 0.70, hairline rules where other themes reach for cards, and four identity colours used as wayfinding rather than decoration — one per part of the business, carried from the home page into every section it belongs to.
Every route below is generated at build and served as a static file.
A picture agency with no pictures sounds like a provocation, and it is, but it is also the practical argument: nothing here waits on a shoot, an image licence or a retoucher. The whole site is set in one typeface at one weight, and it still has a first impression.
Green, pink, amber and red are fixed to the four parts of the business rather than to states or severity. A visitor learns the mapping on the home page and then reads it in the bands and section rules everywhere else, which is what a colour system does that a palette does not.
The header menu, the footer columns, the site map page and the 404 page are all generated from a single navigation file. Adding a page means adding one line, rather than remembering the four places a link is supposed to appear and finding three of them.
The Open Graph image, the app icons and the web manifest are generated at build time from the design tokens and the site config. Change the name and they follow, so the one asset most owners forget to replace cannot be left showing someone else’s.
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.
The Plate, 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.
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