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Not Real. A high-end catalog where only the artwork is allowed to scream with color.

  • Studio
  • Light theme
  • 3 colors
  • 2 typefaces

NotReal operates as a typographic gallery: a near-empty off-white canvas where large product renders and campaign stills do the visual talking while two custom typefaces carry the verbal load. The system is deliberately chromatic-starved — three grays compose 99% of the interface — so that every saturated pixel arrives as client artwork, never as UI chrome. Layout is editorial, not app-like: an asymmetric two-column grid where hero images land at varying vertical offsets to create z-pattern reading flow, with vertical running text and micro-metadata adding a printed-catalog rhythm. The pairing of ogg (a high-contrast didone-influenced serif) for display with telegraf (geometric sans) for everything else is the signature — a whisper-and-speak duality where the serif announces the work and the sans documents it.

Screenshot of Not Real
Captured from notreal.tv on October 11, 2026

Not Real design system

Not Real

Neutrals3

  • Link border underlines, footer text, icon strokes, image overlay text — used as a chromatic anchor only where maximum contrast against Vellum is required

  • Primary text, dominant border strokes (635 occurrences as borderColor), nav accents

  • Page canvas, card surfaces — warm-leaning off-white that gives the page a paper-stock feel rather than digital white

Try a pairing

Pick any two colors from the palette to check whether text stays readable on top.

Aa

Vellum on Full Black

18.76 : 1 contrast

Background
Text
  • Body textPasses AA 4.5
  • Large textPasses AA 3
  • StrictPasses AAA 7

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