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Groove Archive
A homepage for an independent vinyl label: a broken-grid layout, a giant condensed headline with a record sleeve overlapping it, a metadata row and a tracklist.
Indie vinyl label homepage · Website · Small business site · single page: hero and one section
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.
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Typefaces
Big Shoulders Display is tall and condensed like a gig poster; Literata is a warm book face that suits liner notes.
- Big Shoulders DisplayHeadings: the giant condensed headline
- LiterataBody: metadata, liner notes and the tracklist
Who it is for
- Record collectors
- Fans of the label artists
- Shops ordering stock
Layout
- Paper page with the record photo blurred into warm brown at the margins
- Tiny nav on top
- Giant condensed headline across the width with the sleeve photo overlapping it
- Metadata row: catalog number, format, release date
- Listen pill
- One supporting section: the tracklist with durations and a short liner note
Palette
Grainy, warm, a bit rebellious.
- paper
#efe9df - oxblood
#5b1a18 - black
#111111
Every checked pair, measured again
| Sample | Where | Ratio | Needs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aa | body text on the page | 15.64:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | text on cards and chips | 18.88:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | secondary text on muted surfaces | 6.22:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | secondary text on the page | 7.66:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | label on the primary action | 10.83:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | label on secondary surfaces | 18.88:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | label on the accent | 18.88:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | error label | 4.55:1 | 4.5:1 |
| primary action against the page | 10.83:1 | 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
- Big Shoulders Display, the giant condensed headline
- Body
- Literata, metadata, liner notes and the tracklist
Spacing and imagery
Broken grid: headline spans the full width, the sleeve photo overlaps it at an angle; metadata row and tracklist below in offset columns.
A grainy 35mm photograph of a vinyl record sliding half out of a plain sleeve, warm light. No text on the sleeve and none in the frame.
Components
- Metadata row
- Listen pill
- Tracklist
- Blurred hero echo background
Interactions
- Record spins slowly while hovered or focused
- Headline letters stagger in on load
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 **Groove Archive**: A homepage for an independent vinyl label: a broken-grid layout, a giant condensed headline with a record sleeve overlapping it, a metadata row and a tracklist. 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. Paper page with the record photo blurred into warm brown at the margins. 2. Tiny nav on top. 3. Giant condensed headline across the width with the sleeve photo overlapping it. 4. Metadata row: catalog number, format, release date. 5. Listen pill. 6. One supporting section: the tracklist with durations and a short liner note. Copy to start from, all in `content.ts`: headline "Side B Forever", subcopy "New pressing: twelve tracks recorded live to tape.", primary action "Listen". 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: Grainy, warm, a bit rebellious. Palette: paper `#efe9df`, oxblood `#5b1a18`, black `#111111`. Tokens: background `#efe9df`, foreground `#111111`, primary `#5b1a18` with `#efe9df` labels, cards `#ffffff`. Type: Big Shoulders Display for the giant condensed headline; Literata for metadata, liner notes and the tracklist. Load both from https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Big+Shoulders+Display:wght@700;900&family=Literata:wght@400;500&display=swap. Small labels in Literata with 0.12em tracking. Corners: 28px on the hero card, 16px on cards, pills fully round. Spacing: Broken grid: headline spans the full width, the sleeve photo overlaps it at an angle; metadata row and tracklist below in offset columns. Hero image: A grainy 35mm photograph of a vinyl record sliding half out of a plain sleeve, warm light. No text on the sleeve and none in the frame. The series made this image for the design: https://vibld.com/img/cinematic/groove-archive.webp, 2688 by 1535, alt text "A vinyl record sliding half out of a plain sleeve in warm light". Use it by that absolute URL, with `srcset="https://vibld.com/img/cinematic/groove-archive-800.webp 800w, https://vibld.com/img/cinematic/groove-archive-1600.webp 1600w, https://vibld.com/img/cinematic/groove-archive.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 - Metadata row - Listen pill - Tracklist - Blurred hero echo background Motion: - Record spins slowly while hovered or focused - Headline letters stagger in on load The signature motion is: A record that spins on hover. 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 #111111 on #efe9df 15.63:1; text on cards and chips #111111 on #ffffff 18.88:1; secondary text on muted surfaces #494745 on #d9d3ca 6.21:1; secondary text on the page #494745 on #efe9df 7.65:1; label on the primary action #efe9df on #5b1a18 10.83:1; label on secondary surfaces #111111 on #ffffff 18.88:1; label on the accent #111111 on #ffffff 18.88:1; error label #ffffff on #d93a3a 4.54:1; primary action against the page #5b1a18 on #efe9df 10.83:1. ### 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: Glassmorphism, generic centered layouts. - 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.