Herbarium Journal
A naturalist's field journal: specimen plates, Latin names, moss green and foxed paper.
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The idea
Pages from a Victorian collector's herbarium, re-set for the screen. Pressed-specimen plates in numbered frames, Latin binomials in italic, catalogue numbers in a small typewriter face and a deep moss green on foxed cream. Patient, precise and quietly delighted by detail.
Herbarium Journal borrows from Victorian herbarium sheets, 19th-century botanical plates and the field notebooks of amateur naturalists. It feels like opening a museum drawer: cream paper with faint foxing, specimens mounted in numbered frames, Latin names in italic, accession numbers in a small typewriter face. The palette is moss, lichen and rust, all slightly desaturated as if faded by a century of daylight. Precision is the charm — everything is catalogued, numbered and labelled.
Principles
- Catalogue everything: plates get Roman numerals, items get accession numbers.
- Show specimens flat and centred on paper, never in lifestyle scenes.
- Use italic for every Latin name and for one word in each headline.
- Frame content in thin ruled plates, like mounted herbarium sheets.
- Prefer small, detailed type over large slogans.
Motion
Specimen plates settle into place with a soft 16px rise; on hover each plate tilts 1.5 degrees as if lifted from the folio by a corner.
Do & don't
Do
- ✓ Number plates with Roman numerals (Pl. I, Pl. II).
- ✓ Italicise all Latin names, e.g. Rumex acetosa.
- ✓ Use double-ruled frames around specimen images.
Don't
- ✕ Don't use bright or neon greens.
- ✕ Don't round corners beyond 2px.
- ✕ Don't show people gardening or lifestyle imagery.
+ 3 more of each, and component rules, in the full DESIGN.md.
What's in the DESIGN.md
- 01Overview & principles
- 02Colors (tokens + proportions)
- 03Typography (families + 12-role scale)
- 04Layout & spacing scale
- 05Elevation & depth
- 06Shapes & radii
- 07Motion (easing, durations, signature)
- 08Imagery + generation prompt
- 09Components (button, card, nav, input, badge)
- 10Do's and don'ts
- 11Responsive behaviour
- 12Iteration guide + agent checklist
Plus theme.css (Tailwind v4 @theme), tokens.json (W3C) and the preview page source — 365 lines of DESIGN.md in total.
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