Story pages

27 sites with a deeply-analysed story page , across consumer brand, fitness, saas product, health, hospitality, creative studio, other, retail. Build a story page from how the best sites build that page, not a generic skeleton.

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Aesop

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Consumer Brand

an editorial e-commerce reference where Suisse Intl on warm-cream `#fffef2`, a modular 1.13 type ratio, and full-bleed photography do all the work - no display face, no accent colour, no motion of consequence.

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Barrys

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Fitness

the original HIIT studio brand selling "the best workout in the world", a dark, cinematic Webflow site built on near-black and the Red Room red, condensed athletic display type, a hand-painted script signature, and a booking-first hero that puts "find a studio" above everything.

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Cofounder

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Saas Product

The reference for fusing a pixel-art world-building aesthetic with editorial chapter-based content - a 16-bit hero on a learning-guide body.

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Cubitts

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Health

a London bespoke-spectacle maker treating its Shopify storefront like a design museum, near-black ink on white, a tiny precise type scale in its own Fold Grotesque, generous 16px-radius media tiles, and a giant "CUBITTS" wordmark laid behind a Greenwich Observatory photograph.

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Dishoom

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Hospitality

a beloved restaurant group whose site is a love letter to its story, warm cream-and-charcoal editorial storytelling in a Cheltenham serif, with menus and "book a table" threaded through the narrative for each venue.

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Dominique Ansel

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Hospitality

a world-famous pastry chef's bakery group on WordPress that leads entirely with product photography, a sage-and-olive neutral palette (#B8BAAB sage, #282D22 deep olive ink), all-caps Proxima Nova labels over a full-bleed image carousel of viennoiserie, and a gentle ease-driven motion that lets the food do the talking.

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Drexler

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Creative Studio

A Baltimore studio that uses a single 765px-tall wordmark as the entire homepage, with a warm pink-on-black palette and 5-link nav, signalling small-shop confidence through wordmark-as-canvas restraint.

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Edition Roasters

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Other

A speciality roaster whose homepage is mostly hushed, moody photography of an empty cafe at dawn - serenity sold through atmosphere and almost no copy, with a single deep-plum accent doing all the colour work.

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Erewhon

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Retail

a cult premium grocer that turned organic groceries into a lifestyle brand, a warm off-white canvas, confident Sharp Sans, a category-led shop, and a strong mission-and-community story that justifies the premium.

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Fabrique Bakery

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Other

A Swedish artisan bakery whose home page is a single warm photograph of hands shaping dough, over which three cities (Stockholm, London, New York) sit as a quiet gateway - belonging and craft conveyed before a word of selling.

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Frenchie Restaurant

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Hospitality

a Paris restaurant group telling a family story, a dark moody hero of textured produce stills, a Traulha display serif (roman and italic) over a Gill Sans body, cream type on near-black ink, and a calm row of venue cards that turns six establishments into one elegant front door.

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Gsap

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Developer Tool

a near-black product site where a 101px "Animate anything" headline in the bespoke Mori sans on creamy off-white (`#fffce1`) and 3D liquid-form objects animated by GSAP itself make the homepage the most credible product demonstration in the JavaScript-animation category.

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Hay

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Retail

a Danish designer-furniture house whose store reads like a quiet gallery, near-black ink on a single light-grey field, Neue Helvetica paired with an ITC New Baskerville serif, almost no UI chrome, and a slow editorial scroll where the products and photography are the only colour.

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Jardan

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Retail

an Australian designer-furniture and homewares house whose homepage opens on a warm, cinematic golden-hour video of hands working raw timber and a rug being woven, set in a strictly greyscale, whitespace-led editorial system with the Neuzeit Grotesk sans doing nearly all the work and a BN Cicero serif for accents.

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Karo Crafts

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Creative Studio

NYC creative studio + merch shop - "unification of artwork, fashion, music & video", Helvetica + ultra-blue accent, Nuxt + Prismic stack, 229px hero.

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Lalo

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Childcare Education

a baby-and-toddler products store on Shopify that reads as premium rather than cutesy, deep navy (#0F234C) on white, a GT Alpina serif paired with Neue Haas Grotesk, warm real-family kitchen photography, full navy feature panels with a warm CTA, and GSAP-plus-Swiper product carousels.

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Lanserring

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Trades

a bespoke-joinery house that sells craft as heritage, warm sepia interiors and meadow photography under a high-contrast transitional serif, the brand reduced to a single fine line-drawn ring, with quiet WordPress structure and almost no visible motion furniture.

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Mejuri

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Retail

a flagship fine-jewellery shop that reads like an editorial magazine, full-bleed black hero portrait, an all-caps grotesque headline set against monospace body and warm-grey detail copy, near-zero radii and almost no shadow, with restraint doing all the luxury work.

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Murdock London

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Beauty

a heritage British barbershop and grooming brand run as a polished Shopify storefront, deep ink-navy on warm off-white, Montserrat throughout, a hand-script accent for warmth, and a calm 0.3s ease-in-out motion language that keeps the commerce furniture quiet.

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Noma

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Hospitality

a three-Michelin-star restaurant that sells itself through photography and a quiet serif, full-bleed seasonal imagery, a lowercase joined wordmark, and almost no chrome, so the food and the place carry the whole page.

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November

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Type Foundry

a type-foundry-and-design-studio site whose signature is a "Type-Toggle", the entire page can be re-rendered in any typeface from their own collection, wrapped around a tight, gridded flat-lay portfolio in black, white and one electric yellow.

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Pacaso

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Real Estate

a proptech site that sells second-home co-ownership as an aspirational lifestyle, leading with a full-bleed cinematic landscape, a freight-display serif headline with one italic word, and a calm ink-on-cream palette warmed by a single sage green.

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Scout Motors

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Consumer Brand

a brand-revival flagship built in Astro v5 with Lenis + Locomotive + Swiper + Splitting, three bespoke Scout Sans cuts (regular / medium / wide-medium) + IBM Plex Mono, signature orange `#ff5432`, and the most cinematic photography in the library - golden-hour Terra/Traveler EV trucks at 624 image requests.

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Sightglass Coffee

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Other

A speciality-coffee shop that opens on a warm sunrise gradient and a hand holding the bag, then earns belonging through quiet ritual ("Coffee Served Daily", a 4.9/5 wall of reviews) rather than hard selling.

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The Modern House

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Real Estate

a design-led estate agency that presents homes like an art magazine, a black-on-warm-paper system with a custom serif-and-sans pairing, tracked uppercase labels, sharp un-rounded corners and slow 0.9s cross-fades that make property browsing feel curated and unhurried.

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Tux Creative

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Creative Studio

A bicoastal independent creative house (LA + Montréal) whose site is built around one monumentally oversized custom display face (TuxPlaza at ~223px), a chrome-grey blurred-pill top nav, and full-bleed cinematic Vimeo case study reels - motion-heavy creative portfolio at indie-craft tier.

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Vrai

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Retail

a lab-grown fine-jewellery house whose homepage is a near-empty white gallery, a single yellow-gold solitaire ring floating in bright caustic light above a quiet centred serif headline, set in a black-on-white system with metal-named gradient tokens (white-gold, yellow-gold, rose-gold, platinum) and slow, refined cubic-bezier transitions.

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