Atelier

Editorial magazine with a horizontal drag gallery.

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Use this template — copy the source into a new project:

npx degit bswxyz/formwork-atelier my-app

Live demo → https://bswxyz.github.io/formwork-atelier/ · How it was built

A cream, image-free fashion editorial with a momentum drag-scroll gallery of typographic plates.

A free, MIT-licensed website template. Good for: magazines, lookbooks, editorial portfolios, photography (drop images into the plates). The demo brand ("ATELIER NOIR") is fictional — every word and colour is meant to be replaced with yours.

The signature technique

• Pointer drag-scroll with inertia; mouse wheel converts to horizontal inside the gallery
• Per-plate parallax between duotone ground and serif title
• Custom 'DRAG' cursor; degrades to native snap-scroll on touch

Use this as your own site

This repo is a template — everything is plain HTML/CSS/JS with relative paths, so it works under any repo name with zero configuration.

1. Click Use this template → Create a new repository (top of this page). Name it whatever you like — my-site, portfolio, anything.
2. In your new repo: Settings → Pages → Build and deployment → Deploy from a branch, then pick main / / (root) and save. (CLI: see below.)
3. Wait ~1 minute. Your site is live at https://YOUR-USERNAME.github.io/YOUR-REPO-NAME/.

Prefer the command line?

gh repo create my-site --template bswxyz/formwork-atelier --public --clone
cd my-site
gh api --method POST /repos/YOUR-USERNAME/my-site/pages \
  -f 'source[branch]=main' -f 'source[path]=/'

No build step, no dependencies to install — edit the files, push, done. The only external requests are Google Fonts and (where used) pinned CDN copies of GSAP/three.js.

Customize it

• Plates: each look is one <article> — set its duotone gradient vars and titles in index.html
• Masthead/issue: cover lines and N° live at the top of index.html
• Palette: cream/ink/oxblood in :root — swap for your editorial colours

The /guide/ page documents the signature technique in depth (with code) — keep it, rewrite it, or delete the folder entirely.

Files

index.html        the page
styles.css        all styling (design tokens in :root at the top)
main.js           the signature effect + motion
guide/index.html  how-it-works write-up (optional — yours to keep or delete)

Built-in quality

• Works with JS disabled or a CDN failure (content is never permanently hidden)
• Respects prefers-reduced-motion; keyboard focus styles throughout
• Canvas/WebGL feature-detected with graceful fallbacks; devicePixelRatio capped for performance
• Responsive at phone / tablet / desktop widths

License & credit

MIT — free for personal and commercial use, no attribution required (a link back is always appreciated). Part of FORMWORK — a collection of 25 free website templates: the full gallery →