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A love letter, set in lead type

Dear
Vilnius,
be mine.

A warm, hand-pressed identity for the city of baroque spires, hidden courtyards and candlelit cafés. Ink on cream paper — the visual language of LoveVilnius.com, composed like a postcard you'd actually keep.

01 — Colour

Pressed in amber & ink

The palette borrows from a printer's tray: warm cream stock, deep iron-gall ink, and a burnt-amber accent earned sparingly. Secondary tones nod to Baltic teal, aged olive and Vilnius oxblood brick. Each surface is paired with a text value that clears WCAG AA.

AA · text
Stock / base
Cream Paper
#F4EAD6
AA · text
Primary ink
Iron Gall
#221B12
Large / fill
Accent
Burnt Amber
#C4571C
AA · text
Highlight
Candleglow
#F0A23C
AA · text
Secondary
Oxblood Brick
#6E2417
AA · text
Info state
Baltic Teal
#2C4A47
AA · text
Open state
Aged Olive
#4C521F
Large / fill
Metallic
Leaf Gold
#B88A2B
02 — Typography

Three voices, one press

Fraunces carries the display work — an opsz serif with soft, almost engraved curves. Spectral handles long-form reading. Space Mono stamps the labels, like a typewriter inventory tag.

Fraunces 900Display · 76px
Old Town, after rain
Fraunces 700Section head · 38px
Courtyards & quiet corners
Fraunces ItalicQuote / pull · 28px
"A city you read like a letter."
Spectral 400Body copy · 18px
Vilnius is a city built for walking slowly. Turn off the boulevard and the noise drops away into cobbled lanes, courtyard cafés and the smell of warm bread — details best set in a calm, readable serif with generous line-height.
Space MonoLabel / meta · 13px
Open daily · 09:00 – 18:00 · Gate № 4
Character study — Fraunces
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03 — Components

Buttons, fields & tickets

Every interactive piece has a printed, physical feel: hard rules, offset shadows that press when clicked, and warm fills. No soft gradients pretending to be glass.

Buttons — one primary per group
Tags & status — icon + text, not colour alone
Open now Free entry ★ Featured Old Town
Form controls
Optional · sealed, never shared

Sealed & sent.

Your note is on its way to Vilnius. Watch for a hidden-courtyard postcard in your inbox.

Place cards
Viewpoint · Old Town

Gediminas Tower

Climb the red-brick keep for the city's best dusk panorama over rooftops and spires.

№ 01 · 13 min walk★ 4.8
Neighbourhood · Bohemia

Užupis Republic

The self-declared artists' republic — a constitution on the wall, an angel above.

№ 02 · Riverside★ 4.9
Landmark · Centre

Cathedral Square

Find the magic tile, make a wish, and watch the bell tower glow gold at night.

№ 03 · Open air★ 4.7
04 — Iconography

Linecut marks

Icons are drawn as single-weight linecuts — like woodblock stamps. Consistent 2px strokes, rounded joins, and a square frame so they sit in the press grid.

Place
Spire
Love
Balloon
Letter
Story
Hours
Featured
05 — System

Grid, rhythm & imagery

An 8-point spacing scale keeps the press grid honest. Imagery leans sepia and high-contrast, framed by hard ink rules and a thin paper border — never bleeding edge to edge.

Spacing scale · base 8
s-2 · 8px
s-4 · 16px
s-5 · 24px
s-6 · 32px
s-7 · 48px
s-8 · 64px
s-9 · 96px
Depth & rules

Hairline 1.5px ink rules divide major regions; lighter paper-edge hairlines handle row separators so the page reads less like a ledger. Solid offset press-shadows (3 / 4 / 6 / 8px) form a single elevation scale.

Imagery treatment
Rooftops at golden hour
Sepia · contrast 1.05Plate № 13

Photos get a warm duotone wash, a thin inner keyline, and a caption set in italic Fraunces — treated as printed plates, not floating images. The overlay gradient is tuned for AA contrast on the caption.

Closing stamp

Set with love,
pressed in Vilnius.