Clay

Playful claymorphism app landing (pure CSS).

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

npx degit bswxyz/formwork-clay my-app

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

Candy-pastel clay shapes that bob, parallax and squish — a joyful product page with zero images.

A free, MIT-licensed website template. Good for: consumer apps, kids' products, games, anything friendly. The demo brand ("CLAY") is fictional — every word and colour is meant to be replaced with yours.

The signature technique

• Claymorphism recipe: outer drop shadow + inset light + inset press, all CSS
• Shapes bob on individual sine phases and parallax toward the cursor; poke = spring squish
• Squishy buttons and cards; rounded display type (Fredoka)

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-clay --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

• Pastels: the candy palette is :root variables in styles.css
• Shapes: each hero shape is a positioned div — add/remove/resize freely
• Copy: headline, features and steps are plain HTML sections

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 →