Substrate front-page prototypes — reference-faithful run

Twelve prototypes of Substrate's home page (several variants also carry work and method). Six reference sites, each faithfully translated — its typography, layout language and motion system (load-in choreography, header behaviour on scroll, hover states) — with Substrate's content and concept poured in: AI as the substrate a company is built on. Each reference is built twice by two isolated skill lanes — Impeccable and Taste — that never saw each other's work. The earthy palette is a mood guide, not a token law. Numbers keep their approved framing; approved figures never animate; the simulated feed is always labelled. A floating Variants switcher on every page hops theme, lane and page.

Beew

after beew.studio

Substrate as if beew.studio built it: near-black world, 12px-inset rounded frame hero, floating proof card, dealt-deck sticky panels, one loud amber block — composition and hover finesse over scroll reveals.

Beew — impeccable lane
ImpeccableHomeWorkMethod
Beew — taste lane
TasteHomeWorkMethod

HI Architecture

after hiarchitecturedetail.com

Substrate as if HI Architecture Detail built it: warm greige editorial bands with one dark inversion, Montserrat voice, over-bleed photography, load fade and hover scale.

Huts

after huts.com

Substrate as if huts.com built it: warm serif catalogue energy, smooth scroll, pinned-caption handoffs, sticky rail, card flips and a photo fan — greens, creams and chartreuse-sage.

Portal

after useportal.net

Substrate as if useportal.net built it: painted dusk hero whose sky is the page background, sunrise mountain footer, rotate-in entrances, diagnostic toast loop.

Portal — impeccable lane
ImpeccableHomeWorkMethod
Portal — taste lane
TasteHomeWorkMethod

OVO Redsun

after ovo-redsun.webflow.io

Substrate as if OVO built it: burnt-amber sun with layered bloom and god rays, staged load-in choreography, header transform on scroll, light-up hover cards, mouse parallax, marquee.

OVO Redsun — impeccable lane
ImpeccableHomeWorkMethod
OVO Redsun — taste lane
TasteHomeWorkMethod

Substrate as if Robotflow built it: dark-tech near-black ladder, big radii and pills, uniform rises, char-level scroll scrub, ghost wordmark, vivid amber accent band, live telemetry surface.

Robotflow — impeccable lane
ImpeccableHomeWorkMethod
Robotflow — taste lane
TasteHomeWorkMethod