A homepage for a travel brand that wants to feel light: a pale sky, a blurred blue bird crossing it, a light headline and one search chip.
Airy travel brand homepage · Website · Small business site · single page: hero and one section
AirborneOur storyAboutContactFind a flight
Lighter TravelFewer stops, better seats, no surprises at the gate.Find a flight
A mock-up of the homepage, drawn from this design’s layout, palette and typefaces. A build follows the full prompt below.
Add app screens
Pick up to 6 screens, such as a dashboard, settings or an empty state. Each is built in this design’s own palette and typefaces, with its states and guardrails.
Marcellus gives the headline a calm, classical lift; Host Grotesk is a clean grotesk for a fast, practical search.
MarcellusHeadings: the light headline
Host GroteskBody: search chip, subcopy and buttons
Who it is for
Travelers planning a trip
Frequent flyers
People browsing for ideas
Layout
Page background: the sky blurred to haze blue
Tiny nav on top
Light headline centered in the upper third
Search chip: from, to, date and a blue pill
One supporting section: three destinations as tall crops with a fare from
Palette
Light, open, high key.
sky white#fafdff
haze blue#c6dae3
flight blue#0062d6
ink#0d2233
Every checked pair, measured again
Sample
Where
Ratio
Needs
Aa
body text on the page
15.89:1
4.5:1
Aa
text on cards and chips
16.23:1
4.5:1
Aa
secondary text on muted surfaces
5.82:1
4.5:1
Aa
secondary text on the page
7.10:1
4.5:1
Aa
label on the primary action
5.65:1
4.5:1
Aa
label on secondary surfaces
16.23:1
4.5:1
Aa
label on the accent
16.23:1
4.5:1
Aa
error label
4.55:1
4.5:1
primary action against the page
5.53:1
3:1
As vibld’s tokens
The palette on the 15+ color tokens vibld styles a project with, each text color on the fill it is read on. Marked tokens are solved from the palette, because no swatch held that role at 4.5:1.
background
card
muted *
primary
secondary
accent
destructive *
Type scale
Display
Marcellus, the light headline
Body
Host Grotesk, search chip, subcopy and buttons
Spacing and imagery
Bright hero at 100svh; headline centered upper third; search chip below it; lots of air.
A motion-blurred blue bird gliding through a pale, almost white sky, airy, high key. No text in the frame; most of the sky empty.
Components
Search chip
Pill CTA
Destination cards
Blurred hero echo background
Interactions
The bird glides across the sky once on load
Clouds parallax gently on scroll
Search chip expands into a full form on focus
Data
Content{headline, subcopy, cta, section items}
Build prompt
The baseline every prompt in the catalog assumes, then this design’s own ten sections, from goal to guardrails.
The baseline
### How to use these prompts
Each Cinematic Hero prompt describes one page: a full-bleed hero built around a single generated image, and one supporting section in the same style. The rules below apply to every one of them.
### Cinematic Hero principles
- One full-bleed hero per page. The image is the subject, not decoration.
- An oversized display headline of two to four words that runs past an edge or overlaps the subject. It is live text, never part of the image.
- A tiny nav: a wordmark and three or four small links, one pill-shaped primary action, and at most one quiet secondary action.
- The hero image returns as the page background, blurred 40 to 80px and darkened, so the hero sits in a card with 24 to 32px corners.
- A tight palette: two or three colors taken from the image and one accent, used mostly on the primary action.
- A distinct display face with a quiet body face. Small labels get wide tracking.
- Small glass or chip details (a stat, a tag, an avatar row, a counter), never a wall of features.
- One signature motion and a staggered text reveal. prefers-reduced-motion turns every loop off and shows still frames.
- On phones the headline keeps its bleed at a clamp() size, the subject stays in frame, a video becomes its poster, and chips stack under the action.
### Engineering baseline
- TypeScript strict mode, small typed components, and one source of truth for design tokens (CSS variables consumed by Tailwind).
- All copy lives in one typed content file, so the owner can edit words without touching layout.
- Every form validates on the client, says what went wrong in plain words beside the field, and never claims success it has not had.
- No secrets in the bundle and no third-party scripts beyond Google Fonts.
### Goal
Build **Airborne**: A homepage for a travel brand that wants to feel light: a pale sky, a blurred blue bird crossing it, a light headline and one search chip. It is one cinematic hero and one supporting section, in the Cinematic Hero series.
### Stack
React + TypeScript + Vite and Tailwind CSS. Motion in CSS and the Web Animations API. No backend: the page is static, and any form keeps its result on the page until the owner connects an endpoint.
### Pages & layout
1. Page background: the sky blurred to haze blue.
2. Tiny nav on top.
3. Light headline centered in the upper third.
4. Search chip: from, to, date and a blue pill.
5. One supporting section: three destinations as tall crops with a fare from.
Copy to start from, all in `content.ts`: headline "Lighter Travel", subcopy "Fewer stops, better seats, no surprises at the gate.", primary action "Find a flight". On phones the headline keeps its bleed at a clamp() size, the subject stays in frame, and chips stack under the action.
### Design system
Mood: Light, open, high key.
Palette: sky white `#fafdff`, haze blue `#c6dae3`, flight blue `#0062d6`, ink `#0d2233`. Tokens: background `#fafdff`, foreground `#0d2233`, primary `#0062d6` with `#ffffff` labels, cards `#ffffff`.
Type: Marcellus for the light headline; Host Grotesk for search chip, subcopy and buttons. Load both from https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Marcellus&family=Host+Grotesk:wght@400;500&display=swap. Small labels in Host Grotesk with 0.12em tracking.
Corners: 28px on the hero card, 16px on cards, pills fully round. Spacing: Bright hero at 100svh; headline centered upper third; search chip below it; lots of air.
Hero image: A motion-blurred blue bird gliding through a pale, almost white sky, airy, high key. No text in the frame; most of the sky empty. The series made this image for the design: https://vibld.com/img/cinematic/airborne.webp, 2688 by 1535, alt text "A blue bird gliding across a pale, almost white sky". Use it by that absolute URL, with `srcset="https://vibld.com/img/cinematic/airborne-800.webp 800w, https://vibld.com/img/cinematic/airborne-1600.webp 1600w, https://vibld.com/img/cinematic/airborne.webp 2688w"`, unless the person has uploaded a hero image of their own, which then takes its place. Never a placeholder photo or a stock image of people.
### Components & interactions
- Search chip
- Pill CTA
- Destination cards
- Blurred hero echo background
Motion:
- The bird glides across the sky once on load
- Clouds parallax gently on scroll
- Search chip expands into a full form on focus
The signature motion is: One bird glide on load. Keep it to that one; everything else is a 150 to 300ms state change. With prefers-reduced-motion, loops stop, videos show their poster and reveals are instant.
### Data & state
All copy and the supporting section's items live in one typed `content.ts`. Inputs validate as the visitor types and report a result inline; nothing is sent anywhere until the owner connects a form endpoint.
### Accessibility
WCAG 2.2 AA. The headline is real text, not part of the image, and the image has alt text describing it. Every control has a visible focus ring and a 44px target. Verified contrast: body text on the page #0d2233 on #fafdff 15.89:1; text on cards and chips #0d2233 on #ffffff 16.23:1; secondary text on muted surfaces #485966 on #e2e7eb 5.82:1; secondary text on the page #485966 on #fafdff 7.09:1; label on the primary action #ffffff on #0062d6 5.64:1; label on secondary surfaces #0d2233 on #ffffff 16.23:1; label on the accent #0d2233 on #ffffff 16.23:1; error label #ffffff on #d93a3a 4.54:1; primary action against the page #0062d6 on #fafdff 5.52:1.
### Security
No third-party scripts other than Google Fonts. Forms carry a hidden honeypot field and cap input length.
### Performance & SEO
Serve the hero image as AVIF or WebP with its width and height, `fetchpriority="high"` and no lazy loading; the blurred echo reuses the same file with a CSS filter. Preconnect to Google Fonts. Title and meta description come from `content.ts`. Largest contentful paint under 2.5s on a mid-range phone.
### Guardrails
- Avoid: Dark heavy overlays, plane window clichés.
- One accent color, one primary action, at most four nav links.
- No carousel or slider in the hero, no mega menu, no emoji or clip-art icons, no hard offset shadows.
- No purple-to-blue gradient and no stock photos of people at desks.
- The brand is invented. Use no real company's name, logo or trademark.
