The Mandarin theme
A full-screen photograph and one warm accent
Mandarin is for creators whose photography can carry a page on its own. The homepage opens on one image at full height with the title set over it and the header resting on top of it, so a reader sees the food before they read a word.
Everything below is deliberately quiet: a white canvas, warm off-white bands, hairline rules, and calm grids of tall image frames with a short title beneath each. Type stays at a modest scale and is never set over a photograph again.
One deep mandarin orange does all of the coloring. It carries the small uppercase labels and every button and appears nowhere else, which keeps the page warm without competing with the food.
What defines it
- Full-screen opening
- One photograph fills the first screen, with the header over it until a reader scrolls.
- Tall image frames
- Portrait crops throughout suit imported phone photography and are cropped server-side.
- One warm accent
- A deep mandarin orange carries every label and action, and nothing else is colored.
Who it suits
- Creators with one strong wide image to open on
- Publications that want a gallery feel rather than a feed
- Anyone who prefers restraint with one warm accent