Vernissage

# Build a website in the "Vernissage" style

You are building a production-ready website. Follow the design system below exactly and adapt the content to the project. The design comes from the Qalib library (design No. 024).

## 1. The project

- Name: [fill in]
- Type of site: [fill in]
- What it does: [fill in]
- Languages: Arabic and English: Arabic first (RTL) and a full English version (LTR) with a language switch
- Pages: One page with sections and anchor links
- Contact details: [fill in]
- Assets: No photos yet: use suitable placeholders and mark each one TODO for replacement.

## 2. Visual reference

- Live demo (Arabic): https://qalib.omardeek.tech/demos/vernissage/ar.html
- Live demo (English): https://qalib.omardeek.tech/demos/vernissage/en.html

Each demo is one HTML file with all its CSS in a <style> tag. Download the raw file (for example `curl -s <url>`), not a summary of it, and treat its CSS as the source of truth for spacing, sizes and effects. The demo's business and text are fictional: never copy them.

## 3. Design DNA: Vintage

The spirit of old shops and print houses: aged paper, big display type, round badges, tickets and labels, and sepia photographs.

- **Typography:** A heavy display face with period character for headings, a typewriter face for small details, a classic serif for text.
- **Colour:** Cream or beige paper with grain, dark brown ink, and a printer's red or ink blue as the accent.
- **Layout:** Poster-like centred compositions, headings inside ribbons and badges, sections divided by dashed rules.
- **Shapes:** Ticket cards with notched corners, dashed borders, round badges, photos with white borders like old prints, slightly tilted.
- **Imagery:** Sepia or black-and-white photographs with grain and a vignette.
- **Motion:** Minimal: quiet reveals and one stamp that lands on the page.
- **Details:** Light paper texture, "established" stamps, numbers in circles, ✦ stars between elements.
- **Avoid:** Pure white, glass and modern gradients, geometric modern sans faces.

**This design in particular:** Rust and olive on warm paper, like an opening invitation sent by post: a striped envelope edge, the month's programme on a timeline and a wall of photos.

## 4. Design tokens

```css
:root {
  --bg: #F2E8D8; /* page background */
  --surface: #FAF4EA; /* cards, panels, alternate sections */
  --ink: #3A2A22; /* main text */
  --muted: #6F5C4E; /* secondary text */
  --accent: #9B4D3A; /* buttons, links, highlights */
  --accent2: #6D7F5C; /* second highlight */
  --line: #E0D0B8; /* rules and borders */
  --on-accent: #FFFFFF; /* text on the accent colour */
  --radius: 2px;
}
```

- Colour scheme: light
- Fonts (available on Google Fonts and fontsource; self-host them):
  - Arabic headings: Aref Ruqaa (400, 700)
  - Arabic text: Amiri (400, 700)
  - Latin headings: IM Fell English (400)
  - Latin text: Lora (400, 600)
- Type scale: h1: clamp(2.7rem, 6.2vw, 5.4rem) · h2: clamp(2rem, 4.2vw, 3.3rem) · h3: 1.25rem · text: 17px with 1.7 line height (Arabic 18px and 1.9) · max width 1200px · section spacing clamp(72px, 10vw, 136px)

## 5. Page structure

The demo shows a Art gallery. Build the sections with these visual treatments, in this order:

1. **Header**: The logo centred on top with the links in a row beneath it, like a masthead; the call-to-action sits at the end.
2. **Hero**: Headline, lead and buttons centred inside a decorative frame, with a wide photo underneath.
3. **Main offering** «Exhibitions»: a numbered list of rows: title and text, with the price at the end
4. **About** «About the house»: Two columns: heading, paragraphs and a short signed quote; a tall photo with a smaller photo overlapping its corner.
5. **Schedule** «Programme»: a vertical timeline: times on one side, a line with dots
6. **Gallery** «The rooms»: a masonry wall of photos with mixed heights
7. **Call to action** «Become a friend of the house»: a full-width coloured band with a heading, a line of text and a button
8. **Contact** «Your visit»: A large card on a tinted background: contact details on one side, the hours and button on the other.
9. **Footer**: a single row: logo and tagline, social icons, copyright

## 6. Motion

Calm: only soft fades (about 1s) as sections enter; no movement on hover beyond colour.

**Decorations in this design:**
- a fine film-grain texture over the whole page (an SVG noise overlay at about 8% opacity)
- red-and-blue airmail stripes along the header and footer
- small ornamental dividers between sections: three dots

## 7. Technical requirements

- **Stack:** Choose the stack that fits the project; prefer static HTML, CSS and JavaScript unless it needs more.
- Semantic HTML, mobile first, adapting at 360, 768, 1024 and 1440px, with no horizontal scrolling.
- Arabic: <html lang="ar" dir="rtl">, CSS logical properties (margin-inline-start, inset-inline-end…), mirrored directional icons, never letter-space or uppercase Arabic, and Arabic text at 18px or more.
- Accessibility: WCAG AA contrast, visible focus states, alt text on images, and all motion off under prefers-reduced-motion.
- Performance: self-hosted fonts with font-display: swap and only the weights and subsets in use, WebP or AVIF images with set dimensions, lazy loading below the first screen, and no heavy libraries for simple effects.
- SEO: a title and description for every page, Open Graph, a favicon, and LocalBusiness structured data where relevant.
- Buttons: WhatsApp links as https://wa.me/<number>, phone as tel:, email as mailto:.

## 8. Delivery

1. Start with the tokens and base styles, then build the sections from top to bottom.
2. Compare the result with the live demo at phone and desktop widths before you finish.
3. Finish with how to run the site and how to deploy it.

Paste it into Claude Code inside a new project folder.