Studio·28 Feb · 2026·3 min read

Why the site looks like a riso print.

On choosing a visual language with character, and what we mean by "editorial pop."

The original wolves.ink mock was clean, minimal, and absolutely indistinguishable from every other studio site on the internet. The fonts were Inter. The colours were a kind of off-white. There was a hero section and three feature cards and a CTA. It was fine.

Fine is the worst thing a studio site can be. So we burned it down and started again, this time committing to a single aesthetic with a clear point of view: editorial pop. Anton for the masthead. Fraunces for the asides. Riso pinks and yellows on warm ink. Halftone orbs that drift with the cursor. A stamp in the corner of the footer with the issue date.

The point isn't decoration. The point is that the visuals tell you something about how we work — that we like print, that we read magazines, that we think the web has been getting too quiet. Every time you visit, the page is a publication, not a product page.

If you came here looking for a template, this is the wrong studio.

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Fine is the worst thing a studio site can be.

— Field Notes № 05

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