Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode Documentation

Fourteen looks. The quiet ones:

• Plain — type on a quiet background.
• Card — a raised panel in the middle, over your background image.
• Split — words on one side, picture on the other; stacks on a phone.
• Gradient — a wash of colour built from your accent, no image needed.
• Midnight — dark, with one bright accent.
• Poster — one enormous headline; best with three or four words.
• Notice — plain and businesslike, written for maintenance.
• Frame — your image edge to edge, the words in a thin frame on top.

And the ones with something going on:

• Aurora — soft lights drifting slowly behind the words.
• Glass — a frosted panel over your picture; wants a photograph with somewhere quiet in the middle.
• Spotlight — a light that follows the pointer across the dark, resting in the middle for anyone without one.
• Blueprint — drafting paper with a glow behind the headline.
• Terminal — monospace on black with a cursor still blinking.
• Marquee — your headline running across the top in a band, and again in full underneath.

Every bit of that motion stops when a reader's system asks for less — the lights settle, the band holds still and the cursor stops blinking, rather than the whole thing vanishing.

Colours are left empty on purpose. Empty means "whatever this design says", so changing design actually changes the colours. Set one and it wins, whichever design you pick afterwards. The button's text colour is worked out from your accent, so a pale accent gets dark text rather than white on white.

The picture only appears for the five designs that use one — Card, Split, Midnight, Frame and Glass. The others hide the field rather than offering a control that quietly does nothing.

Typeface offers four stacks, all of them already on the reader's machine. A webfont is two extra round trips before a single word appears, on the one page that has the least excuse for being slow.