Fabrique Bakery

A Swedish artisan bakery whose home page is a single warm photograph of hands shaping dough, over which three cities (Stockholm, London, New York) sit as a quiet gateway - belonging and craft conveyed before a word of selling.

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Design tokens

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olive

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display: Fabrique script wordmark (hand-drawn)
body: messinasansweb (Messina Sans)
mono: Courier New (small accent)

Do / Don't

Reference it for

The location-gateway home: one evocative photo + the brand mark + a short list of places as the entire entry, where choosing your city is the navigation and the proof of realness.
A warm nostalgic palette: cream + olive + warm brown + black, carried by candlelit craft photography.
Pairing a hand-drawn script wordmark with a clean neutral sans (Messina) for everything else.
Slow, gentle motion (0.4-0.7s ease) that makes the page feel settled and unhurried.
Confidence through subtraction - a brand strong enough to show only its hands at work.

Do not copy

The literal Fabrique script wordmark and the candlelit dough photography (brand-coded). Use the client's own mark and craft imagery.
The exact olive #719430 / brown #583e36 / cream #fff4e0 palette - re-skin to the client's warm palette.
The Enfold/Avia theme scaffolding and its many avia_* keyframes. Rebuild lean on Astro.
The splash-only homepage if the client needs to communicate more before routing - keep the gateway idea but layer in substance.

Signature moves

place-gateway home

the entire homepage is one full-bleed candlelit craft photo with the script wordmark and three city links (Stockholm, London, New York) centred over it, so choosing your city is both the navigation and the proof the craft is real - belonging delivered before any copy.

warm script-plus-sans heritage pairing

a hand-drawn script wordmark over a clean neutral sans (Messina), on a cream/olive/brown palette toned by candlelit photography, gives an instant heritage, hand-made nostalgia.

settled slow tempo

links and content ease in over a full 0.7s (colour states 0.4s ease-in-out), an unhurried pace that matches the proving-dough, hand-made mood.

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