✕ The Category Is — The Design System
This branch trades the neon stage for film: black-and-white archival photography, a mono ticker voice, and one family of color — the designer's official logo inks, spent entirely on the ✕, the name, and the two CTAs. Emails and print keep the daylight paper. These pages are unlisted — bookmark this one.
The site's system: film neutrals over B/W photography, the official inks, and the screened title — Sasa's Screen-blend registers, the patched-X logotype, and the billing type, all measured off her comp's vectors.
Open the legend →Email, PDF, and print: the deck colors on cream — flat, no glow. Governs the digest and both transactional emails. Unchanged by this branch.
Open the legend →The rendered site, annotated: lines drawn from real elements to their tokens — the screened hero, signup, tickets + venue, and the strip, recaptured from the live preview.
Open the map →Direct the hero film's camera: scrub, drag the green viewfinder, mark keyframes, preview the moves, export the track.
Open the lab →Rehearsal footage from the Times Square event — for Sasa. Unlisted like everything here; please don't pass the link around.
Watch →How the theater is built: the monorepo, the API, edge and deploys. Branch-agnostic — the same guide everywhere.
Open the guide →Every photo on the site with provenance, photographer, clearance status, and fee, plus a Research section of licensing and House-request leads across the decades. Filter by status; click any frame for detail.
Open the sheet →Screen the hero motion takes side by side, frame-exact under one control: a synced 2×2 of the X-pop treatments (diamond-core vs ink-split, with the current and reduced cuts). Pick a beat, scrub, step frames; click a quadrant for the full-size take. Unlisted, like the sheet.
Open the screening →The admin dashboard: signups by status, the daily traffic panel, and the searchable subscriber table with CSV export. Behind Cloudflare Access, so sign in with your approved email.
Open the admin →
Tokens live in apps/web/src/styles/celluloid.css (stage) and the templates in
apps/api/src/email/templates/ (daylight). Type on this branch:
PP Right Grotesk Tall Black (the logotype face) · Manrope · JetBrains Mono.
Site design by Sasa Rodriguez & James Mayes.