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Concept round · Seven looks · One decision

Seven looks. One room to build.

Seven directions for seo.stream on the Section 08 kit. Four are Codex renders, each with a Fold comp: its first viewport rebuilt in HTML to the brief, the artboard kept below it. Three are HTML from the first pixel down, so their boards are screenshots of pages, not renders: 05 Altitude, the aperture; 06 Black Book, which breaks the kit’s palette on purpose and says why; and 07 The Rainmaker, Monsoon’s pick for the most commercial expression of the brand. The mascot that landed today is in all three. Rank them, say why in a line, and download the sheet. The count and the door price in the Fold comps are live as of 28 Sep (384 in, $299 a month, $319 after the next 25 join) and update from the feed at build; the week-one receipt is the brief’s until the real ones land. The four renders still carry the placeholder figures they were drawn with.

Budget band $5–10k. Each look says what it costs to build and which rule it bends, because the prettiest one here is also the most expensive and the most exposed.

Rank from the comparison, or open a look for its stylescape, homepage, course page and motion.

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The first viewport is what a cold click sees at 1440 × 900. Judge that before the full page.

Artboards at equal scale, uncropped in full-page mode: generated stills for 01–04, page screenshots for 05–07. Section crops are approximate. Brand lockup and receipts are placeholders throughout; the count and door price are live as of 28 Sep in the HTML looks.

What they keep

  • Dark only. #0E0620 ground on every board except 06, which goes near-black and ends on a bone signature page, and says so.
  • Archivo. With three rulings pending: the condensed cut in 03 and 04, monospace that has moved from artwork into labels, and mixed-case headlines in 05 and 06. 07 asks for none.
  • One red element per view. The Join button. Nothing else on any board is red.
  • No people, no fabricated proof, no money imagery. Receipts are labelled placeholders; the count and door price are live as of 28 Sep in the HTML looks.
  • The seven-item nav and the 7-day guarantee line, verbatim.

What differs

  • Material. Smoked glass · silk and smoke · velvet, marble and brass · characters as surface · a wall and a window · paper on a black desk · glass, stamped.
  • Light. One edge light · rim light on a fold · candle and chandelier · emissive, everywhere · through the aperture · a desk lamp · from the poster.
  • Motion. A ribbon into the button · almost none · a physical-to-digital wipe · character rain · a zoom through the window · a seal that stamps · a live band.
  • Cost. Medium · Low · High · High · Medium · Low · Medium. The islands (canvas, WebGL, wipes, scroll choreography, the webhook) are the line items that move the quote.
  • Gold as rendered. None of the four renders hits #D4AF37; their warm pixels sit at hue 29–36°, 10–17° warmer than the kit. 05, 06 and 07 are HTML, so every hairline is the token; the only warm pixels off it are the mascot’s, as supplied.

Artboard

← → switches direction at this size · Escape closes · Show fold marks the 1440 × 900 first viewport.