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Monolith Studio
A homepage for a creative studio whose identity is a sculpted rock form: a textured maroon field, a bold expanded headline and an index of work instead of a grid.
Sculpture-led creative agency · Website · Portfolio · 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.
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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
Krona One is wide and solid, which matches a heavy carved object; KoHo is a slightly quirky sans that keeps the index list human.
- Krona OneHeadings: the bold expanded headline across the top
- KoHoBody: the index list, subcopy and pill
Who it is for
- Brands hiring a studio
- Curators and collaborators
- Designers looking for work
Layout
- Maroon textured hero card on a cream page, with the rock blurred into the cream at the edges
- Tiny nav on top
- Bold expanded headline across the width
- Sculptural rock centered; cobalt pill under it
- One supporting section: an index list of projects (year, client, discipline) that previews an image on hover
Palette
Bold, tactile, gallery-quiet.
- maroon texture
#5a1e22 - cobalt
#2f5bff - signal orange
#ff9a1a - cream
#fffde5
Every checked pair, measured again
| Sample | Where | Ratio | Needs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aa | body text on the page | 12.43:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | text on cards and chips | 12.43:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | secondary text on muted surfaces | 4.98:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | secondary text on the page | 5.97:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | label on the primary action | 5.17:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | label on secondary surfaces | 12.43:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | label on the accent | 12.43:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Aa | error label | 4.55:1 | 4.5:1 |
| primary action against the page | 5.03:1 | 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
- Krona One, the bold expanded headline across the top
- Body
- KoHo, the index list, subcopy and pill
Spacing and imagery
Maroon field with grain; rock centered; headline spanning the width above it; index list in two columns below.
A sculptural rock form with smooth carved planes standing on a maroon textured backdrop, gallery spotlight from above. No text in the frame; space above and below the form.
Components
- Cobalt pill
- Hover-preview index list
- Grain texture
- Blurred hero echo background
Interactions
- The rock turns very slowly as the page scrolls
- Film grain shimmers subtly over the maroon
- Index rows show a small image preview on hover or 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 **Monolith Studio**: A homepage for a creative studio whose identity is a sculpted rock form: a textured maroon field, a bold expanded headline and an index of work instead of a grid. 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. Maroon textured hero card on a cream page, with the rock blurred into the cream at the edges. 2. Tiny nav on top. 3. Bold expanded headline across the width. 4. Sculptural rock centered; cobalt pill under it. 5. One supporting section: an index list of projects (year, client, discipline) that previews an image on hover. Copy to start from, all in `content.ts`: headline "Heavy Ideas", subcopy "A studio for identity, space and objects.", primary action "See the work". 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: Bold, tactile, gallery-quiet. Palette: maroon texture `#5a1e22`, cobalt `#2f5bff`, signal orange `#ff9a1a`, cream `#fffde5`. Tokens: background `#fffde5`, foreground `#5a1e22`, primary `#2f5bff` with `#ffffff` labels, cards `#5a1e22`. Type: Krona One for the bold expanded headline across the top; KoHo for the index list, subcopy and pill. Load both from https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Krona+One&family=KoHo:wght@400;500&display=swap. Small labels in KoHo with 0.12em tracking. Corners: 28px on the hero card, 16px on cards, pills fully round. Spacing: Maroon field with grain; rock centered; headline spanning the width above it; index list in two columns below. Hero image: A sculptural rock form with smooth carved planes standing on a maroon textured backdrop, gallery spotlight from above. No text in the frame; space above and below the form. The series made this image for the design: https://vibld.com/img/cinematic/monolith-studio.webp, 2688 by 1535, alt text "A carved stone form on a plinth against a maroon wall, lit from above". Use it by that absolute URL, with `srcset="https://vibld.com/img/cinematic/monolith-studio-800.webp 800w, https://vibld.com/img/cinematic/monolith-studio-1600.webp 1600w, https://vibld.com/img/cinematic/monolith-studio.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 - Cobalt pill - Hover-preview index list - Grain texture - Blurred hero echo background Motion: - The rock turns very slowly as the page scrolls - Film grain shimmers subtly over the maroon - Index rows show a small image preview on hover or focus The signature motion is: A slow rock rotation on scroll. 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 #5a1e22 on #fffde5 12.43:1; text on cards and chips #fffde5 on #5a1e22 12.43:1; secondary text on muted surfaces #835653 on #efe7d2 4.97:1; secondary text on the page #835653 on #fffde5 5.97:1; label on the primary action #ffffff on #2f5bff 5.17:1; label on secondary surfaces #fffde5 on #5a1e22 12.43:1; label on the accent #fffde5 on #5a1e22 12.43:1; error label #ffffff on #d93a3a 4.54:1; primary action against the page #2f5bff on #fffde5 5.03:1. ### 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: Busy portfolio grids, logo walls. - 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.