Cyphr
www.cyphr.studioThe reference for venture-studio portfolios that flex through monumental condensed type, a single blue I-beam cursor accent, and a venetian-blind slat hero that fragments a single image into a column-rhythmic curtain.
Design tokens
- display
- Bandit Condensed
- displayFallback
- Impact, sans-serif
- body
- Messina Sans
- mono
- Messina Sans Mono
Do / Don't
Reference it for
- Warm off-white rgb(236, 236, 233) page with pure black ink (not pure white, not greys)
- Single electric blue rgb(33, 45, 210) accent used exclusively as the I-beam cursor at the end of typed-in display headlines
- 3:389 accent-to-page colour ratio — chromatic restraint as brand expression
- Bandit Condensed display + Messina Sans Mono metadata + Messina Sans body three-family system (Impact-class condensed for monumental, mono for system info, humanist for reading)
- 12-step type scale running 9 -> 416px with three monumental tiers (90 / 96 / 146px) and one canvas-marquee size (416px)
- Two weights only (300 + 400) — discipline through scarcity
- 1:1 line-height on display type (Bandit Condensed H1 at 139.2px / 139.2px)
- Venetian-blind slat hero composition — single image fragmented across ~12 vertical columns via --pattern-col-width: 3em + --pattern-col-gap: 5.25em
Do not copy
- The Cyphr © CYPHR wordmark or roundel logomark
- The Bandit Condensed bespoke type (commercial licence from FaceType / similar)
- The Messina Sans + Messina Sans Mono pair (Luzi Type commercial licence)
- The exact #212dd2 blue cursor accent
- The "SHAPING THE FUTURE OF BRAND EXPERIENCE" hero copy or "WE KEEP GOOD COMPANY" marquee copy
- The LIV Golf / Weber Ranch Vodka / Tex AI Mixologist / Spotify case study images
- The megaphone hero photograph
- The Barba.js page-transition stack on a Jiffi rebuild — use Astro's built-in <ClientRouter /> instead
Signature moves
venetian-blind slat hero fragmenting one image
a single hero image is fragmented across ~12 vertical columns into a column-rhythmic curtain via --pattern-col-width 3em and --pattern-col-gap 5.25em, on a warm off-white (#ecece9) page.
monumental condensed type with a single blue I-beam accent
an Impact-class condensed display (Bandit Condensed, always uppercase, 1:1 line-height) runs a 12-step scale to 416px with monumental tiers (90/96/146px), and a single electric-blue I-beam cursor at the end of typed-in headlines is the only accent (3:389 ratio), with mono metadata and humanist body at two weights.
asymmetric one-soft-corner radius and chromatic section flips
an 8px radius applied to only TR+BR (or one corner) leaving the others square is the architectural signature, with no shadows (depth from colour and radius), inverted full-black sections for case studies/footer, and a cinematic curve (cubic-bezier(0.65,0.01,0.05,0.99)) on a 4-step duration ladder (500/550/625/725ms).
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