Cut-Paper Collective Site

Present a studio’s work as a connected collection of stories, people and practical offers. Cut-Paper Collective Site uses a compact serif hero on ink, painted paper hills, torn cream transitions and taped project frames to give a handmade identity a disciplined page structure. Its fictional civic-design collective demonstrates twenty connected routes, with detailed cases and local browsing/enquiry interactions rather than live booking or payment services.

What you get

  • A full homepage narrative: small centered black hero above inset paper hills, touchstone text/hands split, one-open principles accordion, torn blue quote band, portrait collage, colorful studio/figures panels, founder story, offset project collage, partner notes and lead-plus-two journal cards. Shared dark CTA and footer connect this story to the inner pages. Quotes and numerical panels can be removed when no approved evidence exists.
  • A twenty-route fictional example with Home, services, approach, project index and four cases, people index and three members, journal index and three articles, contact, privacy, accessibility and a designed not-found page. Cases include context, process, a separate detail image, deliverables, evidence, team links and a pager; members explain current work and expertise, and articles contain full narratives rather than repeated card summaries.
  • Local controls for project category/search/sort, calculated counts and empty-state reset; journal category filtering; principles and FAQ accordions; standard/community rate display; contact-format preselection; form errors/loading/success/reset; route-aware navigation and copy-link/email feedback. Principles retain one open row, while FAQ can close. Rates change visible figures only, and forms do not send messages or confirm a booking.
  • Newsreader roman/italic headings with Figtree body/UI; warm cream and flat yellow, pink, green, sky and paper-blue blocks; square/torn surfaces, ink rules, tape and slightly rotated frames that straighten on hover. A blue torn quote band and black-and-white cut-out people carry the visual identity. Lilac remains a small interface accent, with violet details allowed inside the supplied artwork rather than large page surfaces.
  • One offline HTML file by default with images and three font files embedded, plus a twenty-image reference library and style, visual-contract, page/route, interior-depth, image, motion, framework and component guidance, asset inliner and static validator. An existing/requested framework gets real components/routes and collection data. The supplied HTML is the worked example, not a finished site containing the buyer’s true clients, people or results.

Before you choose

Let tactile design organize evidence: a project frame opens a useful case, a principle gives a practical example and a person links to work they actually did. Preserve that depth when rebranding instead of counting routes or filling paper panels with generic prose. Keep fictional imagery, local enquiry feedback and optional commerce additions explicit.

Good fit

  • A design studio, collective or civic/participatory practice can support a handmade identity with real projects, people and a clear method.
  • A printmaking studio, school or small practice can map the page family to classes/tutors/events or services/projects/notes.
  • A team prefers collage art, torn edges and tape to conventional rounded-card presentation and can provide enough material for useful detail pages.

Not for

  • A sober corporate or extremely minimal identity that would conflict with bright paper blocks, tactile textures and playful compositions.
  • Live bookings, payments, orders or delivered enquiries without separately connected services. The packaged forms are local demonstrations.
  • A brand whose main page surfaces must be purple or violet. This system keeps lilac small; painted illustration details are a separate exception.

How to use

You say/cutpaper-collective-site Build the Commonfold Collective site for our civic design studio, with four project pages and a contact form.
  1. Provide the name, one-line description and touchstone idea, plus three to five principles with a paragraph and practical example each. Gather projects/classes/products with enough detail for their own pages, team roles/bios/current work, two to four posts/news items, offers/prices and address/email/phone/hours. Draft ordinary missing copy in a warm, concrete voice and list it for confirmation. Never invent clients, awards, certifications, quotations or performance results.

  2. Use the standalone HTML path when no project exists. Inspect an existing/requested project before porting, preserve unrelated files and follow its conventions; if a framework is explicitly wanted but unnamed, the package recommends Next.js App Router with TypeScript. Create components, typed collections and real routes rather than injecting the original HTML or placing it in an iframe. Resolve compatible current dependencies when implementing, not from an old template version.

  3. Plan meaningful page coverage: Home, at least four other top-level pages, a validated enquiry/contact page, Privacy, Accessibility, Not found and a collection with linked detail pages/pagers. The shipped twenty routes are one example, not a mandatory count. Keep the homepage’s hero/touchstone/principles/quote/collage/studio/lead-person/collection/posts sequence; drop unverified partner notes or figures instead of fabricating proof.

  4. Adapt the nouns and information together. A school can use Classes, Tutors, Events and Membership, with dates/level/price/tutor on detail pages and technique filters. An agency can use Projects and Notes. A shop needs product-specific images/prices and an explicitly implemented basket with add/remove/quantity/totals and empty state in the same paper style; the studio example itself does not include a production storefront or checkout.

  5. Preserve the first-screen composition: 74px ink header, small eyebrow, two short roman Newsreader lines capped at 76px desktop, a short lead and one small lilac pill, then painted hills cut by a cream tear/fiber edge. Keep the 1240px content grid, 32px column gaps and 84–148px responsive section spacing. Use flat accents and 2–3px ink rules, not gradients/glass or rounded content cards. Keep screen-blended hills free of a new stacking context so their black ground does not become a visible box.

  6. Make inner pages earn their links. Services need concrete formats/duration/group size and related cases; approach needs practical principles, timed steps and handover contents. Cases need a client question, what happened, distinct process image, specific outputs, approved results/quote if available and named team links. People pages explain actual work and expertise. Posts need subject-specific sections and related cases, not an expanded teaser repeated across every article.

  7. Keep collection counts, routes and cross-links synchronized. Show two to four selected items on Home, linking to the index for more; the two-column index accepts additional entries. Update filter categories, search metadata, years/titles, item nouns and empty-state hints. Adding/removing a case, member or article also changes Home/index cards, detail page, footer, pagers and team/article references. The guide allows three to five principles and adjusted figure/team/format grids without preserving a misleading number in a heading.

  8. Publish two rate columns only when standard/community prices are real. Otherwise remove the rate toggle and its section hook and show one rate. When present, check that keyboard and pointer changes update every format price and contact CTAs preselect the right offer. The toggle compares local display values; it does not calculate availability, charge money or establish eligibility for a community rate.

  9. Plan art by role before generating: hero hills, touchstone hands, one portrait per person, a lead and distinct detail per collection item, each post cover, process scenes, contact place and team group. Use black-and-white photographic cut-outs on flat colored paper, white ground for portraits/hands, black for hills and cream for scenes. Match subject, aspect and crop at phone width; alternate crops of the same lead are not a substitute for a distinct process image.

  10. Reuse shipped hills, hands, glossary-board and scissors art as neutral material. The three portraits and group image are generated stand-ins; disclose them and request real photos for actual team members, treated as matching cut-outs. Replace the four sample project lead/detail pairs, depot cover, process scenes and harborside contact building for another business. With limited image budget, prioritize collection leads, then the contact place, then details. Agent image generation may charge; do not promise a complete new image set without the needed tool or assets.

  11. Rewrite every marked content slot and sample identity, including metadata, page titles, logo/menu labels, site URL used for sharing, collection noun, CTA/email copy target, footer stamp ring and social labels, legal text, contact box, filter/search hooks and sample names in comments. Preserve route and article hooks for shared CTA visibility and reading progress. Real clients, dates, figures, prices, names and locations need confirmation rather than being disguised by a new brand.

  12. For React ports the package specifies actual ReUI controls for buttons, fields/selects, radio/toggle groups, accordions, navigation sheet and feedback, styled through mapped tokens and original classes; the torn artwork stays bespoke CSS/SVG. Verify support for non-React stacks rather than promising direct component compatibility or switching the project’s framework. Preserve keyboard behavior, focus trapping/restoration and visible focus while matching the paper design.

  13. Build the offline result with Node.js 18+ and initial internet access for Newsreader roman/italic and Figtree font downloads. Embed local WebP images, targeting under 5 MB with an 8 MB cap. Repeated image copies rely on a small shared-image script, so only their first copy remains visible without JavaScript. Inspect exit status for missing assets before calling the file complete. The static validator checks structure, names and markers; local-files mode does not verify file existence, and framework ports need their own build/type/lint checks.

  14. Walk every route at 1440, 1024, 768 and 390px, checking overflow down to 360px and a wider 1920px view for framework work. Test menu focus/Escape, back/forward and unknown paths, principles/FAQ, category/search/sort/reset, rates, format preselection and form invalid/loading/success/reset states. The default forms delay then show local notes; a newsletter toast may say “Subscribed” without any mailing-list request. Verify actual clipboard contents because fallback feedback can appear on failure. Check light paper seams, hills, crop focus, tilts removed below 600px and reduced-motion behavior. Report only checks actually run and remaining content/image/service gaps.

Requirements and costs

You bring
Studio name, a one-line description and three to five principles with an example each · Projects with what each page needs, plus team members with roles and short bios · Posts or news items, offers and prices, address, email and hours
Dependencies
Node.js 18 or newer on your agent's machine, to run the bundled script that builds the single offline file · Internet access while the file is built, so the fonts can be downloaded once and embedded · An image generation tool in your agent for new collage images
Outside costs
Generating the collage images with your agent's image tool may incur that tool's usage charges. Some neutral shipped art (the hero hills, the hands and two journal images) can be reused at no cost.
Publisher testing
v1.0.2 — Claude Code / Claude Desktop / Cowork / Codex / ChatGPT

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