A paper portfolio for Seal — vertical Chinese titles, vermilion seals, and selected work. Open the live showcase. Navigate inside the frame — you are still on Tawny.
Harbor mark
An identity for a small ferry. The mark is a circle cut by a wake.
The ferry needed a name that could be stamped, sewn, and printed on a ticket. The circle is the boat. The missing half is the water.
Stationery came first: a card, a ticket, a stamp. The rest of the system can wait.
The circle is the boat.
Seal is a one-person editorial studio. The home moves through the practice, the process, and three pieces of work. Headlines are short Traditional Chinese, set vertically. The body stays horizontal.
Open a piece to read it, or send a note from the contact form. The note stays in the browser. Scaffold a copy with the create command below, then replace the studio copy in lib/content.ts.
Scaffold a local copy with your preferred package manager, or paste a prompt into a coding agent.
Sealpnpm create tawny@latest seal my-appBrowse every file in templates/seal.
templates/seal
# Seal
A paper portfolio for a one-person editorial studio. Vertical Traditional Chinese headlines, vermilion seal motifs, and a short list of work. The contact form keeps its confirmation in the browser.
This preview has no street address. The projects are sample pieces.
Design by [Hugo Lin](https://1chooo.com).
## Quick start
### Option A — create-next-app
```bash
npx create-next-app@latest my-seal \
--example "https://github.com/1chooo/tawny" \
--example-path "templates/seal"
```
### Option B — create-tawny CLI
```bash
npx create-tawny@latest seal my-seal
```
Then:
```bash
cd my-seal
pnpm install
pnpm dev
```
Open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000). A piece lives at `/work/field-guide`.
## Customize these files
| File | What to change |
|------|----------------|
| `lib/content.ts` | Studio name, email, chapter copy, and the three projects |
| `app/layout.tsx` | Site title and metadata |
Keep vertical headlines at eight characters or fewer so they still read on a phone, where they switch to horizontal.
## Stack
- Next.js 16 App Router & React
- Tailwind CSS v4
- Noto Serif TC and Source Serif 4
## License
MIT — see [LICENSE](./LICENSE).