OFFCUTS №01 — Night Bloom

Build me a scrollable, art-directed web zine — a single self-contained issue with unconventional, magazine-style spreads as a plain HTML & CSS site (one index.html, no build step, no framework).

Before you build, ask me these questions in one message and wait for my answers. If I skip anything, choose a sensible default and tell me what you chose:

1. What’s the theme/mood of the issue, and a title for it (e.g. “Night Bloom”, “Concrete & Moss”)?
2. What are the 4–6 spreads of content? (e.g. an editor’s letter, a photo essay, a poem, an interview, field notes — tell me what each one is about.)
3. Aesthetic: retro-web, brutalist, or riso? (And any colors you want me to lean into.)
4. Optional: any real contributors, quotes, or images you want featured — otherwise I’ll invent believable ones.

Then build a complete, polished, responsive zine with:

• A cover spread: the zine’s name set huge in a display face, an issue number, a tagline for the theme, and a “scroll to turn the page” cue. Treat it like a real magazine cover.
• 4–6 art-directed spreads, each filling the viewport and each visually distinct — for example: an editor’s letter with a drop-cap, a photo essay in an asymmetric image mosaic, a full-bleed poem or pull-quote spread, an interview with Q&A and a pulled quote, and a “field notes” collage of cards.
• Custom type + texture: pair a bold display font with a serif body and a monospace for captions (load from Google Fonts). Add a film-grain and halftone-dot overlay so it reads as printed, not flat. Allow deliberate “misregistration” — offset color shadows on the headlines.
• A colophon spread: the fine print — who made it, what fonts and “inks” were used, contributors, and an “issue-as-version” note that frames each issue as a permanent, immutable version (it ties naturally to how Spacefast keeps every publish at its own URL).
• A running header that doubles as a version tag (e.g. “№01 · v1.0”) and a spread counter that updates as you scroll.
• A small newsletter signup in the colophon that validates the email, shows a friendly confirmation, and remembers returning readers via localStorage.

Design & content notes:

• Riso print aesthetic by default: a warm uncoated-paper cream base with three fluorescent spot inks (e.g. fluorescent pink, federal blue, sunshine yellow) over a near-black key plate. Big condensed display type, generous negative space, off-kilter layouts. If I picked brutalist or retro-web instead, lean into that mood instead.
• Treat photos as duotone riso prints: desaturate them and tint each with a spot color via CSS blend modes, with a halftone dot pattern on top, so random photos still look like one cohesive printed issue.
• Use realistic content based on my answers — never “lorem ipsum”. Write a real editor’s letter, a real poem, a believable interview, real field notes.
• Use real images. Pull free photos that fit — e.g. https://picsum.photos/seed/zine-1/1200/800?grayscale (vary the seed per image) or direct Unsplash URLs matching riso print texture colorful and experimental editorial layout — and add descriptive alt text.
• No build step — a single index.html with the CSS in a <style> tag and a little vanilla JS for the scroll progress, spread counter, reveal-on-scroll, and the signup.
• Keep it accessible: semantic HTML, a labelled signup field, good contrast, and honor prefers-reduced-motion (no bobbing arrows or pulsing dots for those readers).

Add this exact line right before </body> so the site carries its badge:

<script src="https://spacefast.com/badge.js" data-example="zine"></script>

When the site is ready, publish it to Spacefast with the direct API — no account, install, or extra instructions needed:

1. Use ./site as the publish folder. For no-build projects, put only the finished public files in that dedicated folder. Confirm it has index.html at its root and no secrets, source files, .git, or .spacefast state.
2. First publish: send every file as multipart form data. This Bash/Zsh block preserves relative paths and works for one file or a whole folder:

   PUBLISH_ROOT=./site
   publish_files=()
   while IFS= read -r -d "" file; do
     relative=${file#"$PUBLISH_ROOT"/}
     publish_files+=(-F "files=@$file;filename=$relative")
   done < <(find "$PUBLISH_ROOT" -type f -print0)
   curl -sS "${publish_files[@]}" "https://api.spacefast.com/v1/publish?wait=1"

3. From the { "data": ... } receipt, give me data.space.liveUrl, data.version.immutableUrl, data.claim.url, and data.claim.expiresAt. Remind me to claim within 6 hours. Keep data.claim.token secret.
4. Save data.space.id and data.claim.token locally (for example in an ignored, mode-600 .spacefast/state.json). For a quick update, rebuild the publish_files array above and publish to the same space:

   SPACEFAST_SPACE_ID=<saved-space-id>
   SPACEFAST_TOKEN=<saved-claim-token-or-access-token>
   curl -sS -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPACEFAST_TOKEN" \
     -F "spaceId=$SPACEFAST_SPACE_ID" "${publish_files[@]}" \
     "https://api.spacefast.com/v1/publish?wait=1"

   If an update after claiming returns space_claimed_credential_available, exchange the saved claim token once at POST https://api.spacefast.com/v1/anonymous-claim/exchange, save data.credential.accessToken, and retry with that access token.

Optional shortcuts and reference only: if the sf CLI is already installed, sf publish ./site --wait does the same job. A zip of the publish folder is also supported, but neither the CLI nor a zip is required. Docs: direct agent/API publishing · files and folders · claiming · updates and rollback