GrooZ
A Tokyo youth-culture platform for music, fashion and Shibuya nights, set entirely in Japanese.
- Origin
- Self-initiated. No client, no brief, nobody asked for it
- Scope
- Eleven-section single page, Japanese only
- Heroes built
- Four explored, one shipped
- Live
- grooz.vercel.app
Takes
Four ways into the same night.
Three of these lead with photography and one leads with a colour field. The colour field won. Point at any of them to see it in full.
Build
What is actually in it.
- Type
- Japanese display typography on a CSS custom-property token set, 30 fluid
clamp()steps - Structure
- Eleven sections in a single file, 28 grid declarations, no framework
- Concept
- An entry stamp and guest list, carried through all four takes and into the shipped page
- Media
- Real photography rather than illustration, served from a CDN
- Meta
- Ships a drawn
favicon.svgand an OG card - Language
- Japanese only. No English fallback, by choice
Unwritten, on purpose
Why this got built at all, and why the colour field beat three
photographic takes, are Jesy's to write. Every line above was read off
the built site or its source. Three href="#" stubs remain
in the shipped page.
drowningdot · Tokyo
Self-initiated