Core Atelier Pilates

a warm, editorial pilates-studio site in espresso and cream (#25140C / #F7E7DE) with an Albert Sans plus Minion Pro serif-italic pairing, sun-lit interior photography, Lenis-smoothed scrolling and a giant "core atelier" wordmark closing the page.

Fitness Pilates Studio niche

Design tokens

espresso

cream

caramel

slate

black

white

red

display: Minion Pro
body: Albert Sans
mono: none

Do / Don't

Reference it for

A tight warm palette (espresso #25140C + cream #F7E7DE + caramel) that makes a fitness studio feel like a boutique hotel.
A clean sans + serif-italic pairing where the italic carries a few personal, editorial words ("crafted *for you*", "in motion").
Lenis-smoothed scrolling plus slow GSAP reveals on a long custom easing for a genuinely premium feel.
An oversized lowercase brand wordmark used as a closing device in the footer.
Sun-lit, warm interior photography as the dominant texture for a calm, tactile mood.

Do not copy

The "core atelier" wordmark, the espresso-and-cream scheme and the studio photography are the brand's identity; borrow the moves, not the marks.
Minion Pro and Albert Sans pairing is specific; Albert Sans is free (Google Fonts) but map Minion Pro to a comparable display serif with an italic.
The full GSAP + Lenis + Barba + Swiper stack is heavy; reproduce the feel with lighter tools rather than shipping all four.

Signature moves

boutique-hotel warm palette for a fitness studio

a tight espresso-and-cream palette (#25140C ink on #F7E7DE cream plus caramel) makes a pilates studio feel like a boutique hotel, sun-lit warm interior photography as the dominant texture.

sans plus serif-italic where the italic carries personal words

a clean sans (Albert Sans) pairs with a serif-italic (Minion Pro) where the italic carries a few personal editorial words ('crafted for you', 'in motion'), across an 11-80px scale.

Lenis-smoothed slow GSAP reveals plus an oversized closing wordmark

Lenis smooth scroll plus slow GSAP reveals on a long custom easing (cubic-bezier(0.42,0.14,0.23,0.96)) at ~500ms feel premium, closing with a giant lowercase brand wordmark (70-80px) as a footer device.

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