We Are Example
www.weareexample.comThe reference for boutique hospitality-PR agencies — warm off-white canvas with deep navy ink, oversized American Grotesk Compressed display headlines, polaroid-style photo collage hero, and a soft Lenis-smoothed editorial rhythm.
Design tokens
- display
- American Grotesk Compressed Heavy 900
- body
- American Grotesk (300 / 400 / 500)
- serif
- PP Editorial New Ultralight Italic 200
- fallback
- Arial, sans-serif
Do / Don't
Reference it for
- Warm #f3f3f0 canvas with #0e1623 ink-navy text — not pure white, not pure black
- Webflow build — possible to ship at this craft level on a no-code stack
- 205px American Grotesk Compressed Heavy 900 display type as the page's central instrument
- Polaroid-collage hero — tilted photos tucked between display words
- PP Editorial New Ultralight Italic 200 serif for emotional punctuation ("And we stay until the work is done")
- Three-font system — compressed display + regular sans body + ultralight italic serif
- Direct mailto pill CTA in top-right (hello@…) — no contact form, no "Get in touch" euphemism
- Lenis smooth-scroll + Splitting.js character reveals — minimal lib stack
Do not copy
- The "Example" name and wordmark
- The hello@weareexample.com direct mailto
- The "WE MAKE BRANDS AND PLACES FAMOUS" hero phrase
- The "And we stay until the work is done" italic serif punchline
- The Hook Island / Intercontinental Hayman / JW Marriott / Don Julio 1942 case study list
- The American Grotesk Compressed Heavy 900 licence (Wilton Foundry / commercial)
- The PP Editorial New Ultralight Italic licence (Pangram Pangram)
- The Sydney + Dubai office split unless the brand operates in both
Signature moves
compressed-display polaroid-collage hero
oversized American-Grotesk-Compressed-class display at ~205px (vw-based H1 at 10vw) interleaves with tilted polaroid-style photos tucked between the display words on a warm #f3f3f0 canvas with #0e1623 ink-navy.
ultralight-italic-serif punctuation
a PP-Editorial-class ultralight italic serif (200 weight) provides emotional punctuation lines amid the compressed sans, a three-font system (compressed display + sans body + ultralight italic serif).
direct-mailto pill CTA
a direct mailto pill (hello@…) sits top-right with no contact form and no "Get in touch" euphemism, on a minimal two-radius scale (7.2px pills, 2.88px fine details).
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