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Aesthetic-Focused
Garden Kitchen
Soft floral pastels with garden aesthetic. Fresh greens, rose pinks, and lavender accents for organic, natural food.
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60 recipe website concepts exploring different approaches to design, user experience, strategy, intelligence, and radical new directions. From aesthetic themes to AI-powered personalization, each concept solves unique problems for recipe websites.
GLM4.7 Concepts — Visual Aesthetics
Five design themes focused on mood, colour palettes, and typography. Each creates a distinct atmosphere.
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Aesthetic-Focused
Nordic Simplicity
Scandinavian minimalist design with cool greys, generous white space, and elegant typography. Clean and sophisticated.
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Aesthetic-Focused
Warm Hearth
Rustic farmhouse aesthetic with warm browns, brick oranges, and cream backgrounds. Cosy comfort food vibes.
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Aesthetic-Focused
Sunlight & Shadows
Modern bright aesthetic with sun yellows, vibrant oranges, and airy design. Light-filled and contemporary.
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Aesthetic-Focused
Midnight Baking
Elegant dark mode with deep blues, gold accents, and sophisticated typography. For refined night-time cooking.
View Design →Kimi 2.5 Concepts — User Experience
Five UX strategies focused on solving real problems: reading comfort, ingredient discovery, cooking assistance, seasonal eating, and social cooking.
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UX-Focused
Cookbook
Story-first reading experience with magazine-style layout. Optimised typography for extended reading and print-friendly recipes.
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UX-Focused
Pantry
Ingredient-first discovery. Input what you have, get match percentages for recipes. Reduces food waste and saves money.
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UX-Focused
Kitchen
Active cooking mode with hands-free operation. Giant text, high contrast, built-in timers, and voice control for the actual cooking experience.
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UX-Focused
Seasons
Calendar-based seasonal eating. Interactive year calendar, "what's fresh now" guides, and anticipation engine for peak produce.
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UX-Focused
Gather
Social recipe community with multi-contributor platform, recipe variations, event planning, and live cook-alongs. Cooking together.
View Design →Opus 4.6 Concepts — Content Strategy
Five content-strategy-driven concepts that go beyond visual aesthetics to rethink how recipes are structured, presented, and experienced. Each solves a specific content problem.
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Content Strategy
Mise en Place
Process-driven layout. Recipes are workflows, not documents. Communicates timing, parallelisable tasks, and rhythm. A slow-roasted lamb and a stir-fry look different because they are different.
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Content Strategy
Provenance
Every recipe is a story about place, people, and culture. Origin-first, story-driven editorial features with the practical instructions woven into a richer narrative about tradition and connection.
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Content Strategy
Ratio
Science-first cooking. Understand WHY recipes work, not just how. Master the custard ratio (2:1:¼) and you can make crème brûlée, ice cream, or pastry cream without a recipe. Clean grids, data visualisation, monospaced measurements.
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Content Strategy
Heirloom
Family archive. What happens to Nanna's recipe cards when no one can read her handwriting? Digital preservation disguised as a recipe site — lineage chains, margin notes, coffee stains that prove it's been used a thousand times.
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Content Strategy
Weeknight
The anti-aspirational recipe site. You're tired, the kids are hungry, the fridge is half-empty. Real cook times, real energy levels, real dish counts. Constraint as feature — "one pot", "under $10", "low energy".
View Design →Gemini 3.0 Concepts — Intelligence & Adaptation
Five intelligent concepts that treat the recipe site as a computational tool. Adapts to context, data, and user input.
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Intelligence
The Engineer
Parametric recipes. Adjust serving size, hydration, or spiciness sliders and watch the ingredient list recalculate in real-time. Blueprint aesthetic.
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Intelligence
The Forager
Context-aware cooking. Detects your simulated weather and time to suggest the perfect meal. "It's raining -> Make Soup". Organic tech style.
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Intelligence
The Nutritionist
Data-driven fuel. Interactive charts update as you swap ingredients. Visualise the macro impact of butter vs olive oil. Clinical dashboard look.
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Intelligence
The Remix
Modular cooking. Recipes are blocks (Base + Protein + Sauce). Spin the slot machine to generate dinner ideas. Bold Memphis design.
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Intelligence
The Stream
Motion-first interface. Vertical feed of auto-playing recipe loops. Cook-along timeline overlay. Immersive dark mode mobile experience.
View Design →Claude Code Opus 4.6 — Radical Directions
Ten radically different concepts that push the boundaries of what a recipe website can look and feel like. Each has a unique AI-powered suggestion feature, 4 full pages, and a distinct visual identity.
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Dark Editorial
Ember & Ash
Premium dark-mode editorial magazine. Dramatic food photography against black. Asymmetric grids, pull quotes, and a "Sommelier's Pick" mood-slider AI.
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Coastal Living
Tidepool
Coastal Australian lifestyle — Byron Bay meets Noosa. Wave-shaped dividers, flowing layouts, and a "Tide Report" AI that recommends based on weather and mood.
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Street Food
Neon Noodle
Night market energy. Neon glow effects, dense grids, oversized type. A "Street Oracle" fortune-teller chatbot for late-night recipe inspiration.
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Newspaper Editorial
The Morning Press
Broadsheet newspaper aesthetic. Multi-column layouts, mastheads, bylines. A "Daily Edition" AI that serves recipes as front-page headlines.
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Artisanal Bistro
Copper & Thyme
French bistro elegance — copper accents, fresh herbs, natural light. A "Chef's Board" chalkboard AI that recommends like a market vendor.
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Outdoor Adventure
Basecamp
Rugged mountaineering aesthetic. Topographic patterns, expedition badges, trail ratings. "Trail Conditions" AI for planning outdoor meals.
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Celebration
Confetti
The happiest recipe site ever. Bouncy animations, rounded everything, pastel gradients. A "Party Planner" AI with confetti-burst animations.
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Swiss Minimal
Mono
Ultra-minimal Swiss typography. Black, white, and food photography — nothing else. The Dieter Rams of recipes. A stark "Query" text-only AI.
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Mediterranean
Terracotta
Sun-baked Mediterranean warmth. Arched containers, ceramic patterns, whitewash backgrounds. A "Piazza" AI that chats like a village market vendor.
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Motion-First
Kinetic
Cutting-edge web design meets recipes. Scroll animations, glass effects, gradient shifts. A "Flow State" AI with a mood-reactive pulsing orb.
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Radical Direction
Laneway
Melbourne laneway culture — hidden corner cafes, espresso mornings, late-night share plates. DM Serif Display meets urban sophistication.
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Radical Direction
Rooftop
Elevated city living — golden hour cooking, skyline entertaining, rooftop gardens. Playfair Display typography with urban elegance.
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Radical Direction
Corner Store
Neighbourhood recipe collection — diverse community flavours from around the corner. Lora and Source Sans 3 create approachable warmth.
View Design →Claude Code Opus 4.6 — Personal & Notepad
Five concepts that reimagine recipe sites as personal artifacts — journals, letters, notebooks, and scrapbooks. Each brings the warmth of analog media to digital cooking.
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Personal/Notepad
Fieldnotes
Home cooking journal — dot-grid notebook aesthetic, kraft paper textures, pencil sketch feel. Courier Prime and IBM Plex Sans for that field notebook vibe.
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Personal/Notepad
Dear Kitchen
Love letters to food and cooking — correspondence aesthetic, wax seals, stationery warmth. Cormorant Garamond creates intimate editorial elegance.
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Personal/Notepad
Marginalia
A well-loved recipe collection — margin notes in a beloved cookbook, post-its, coffee stains, highlights. Libre Baskerville celebrates the marks of use.
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Personal/Notepad
Recipe.txt
Plain text recipe directory — brutalist monospace aesthetic. Every recipe is a formatted text file. JetBrains Mono throughout for that terminal feel.
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Personal/Notepad
Scrapbook
My recipe collection — collage, washi tape, Polaroids, creative chaos. Permanent Marker and Nunito bring playful handcrafted energy.
View Design →Claude Code Opus 4.6 — Professional & Editorial
Five polished concepts with editorial sophistication — French patisserie, food journalism, dark luxury, gallery exhibits, and photography portfolios.
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Professional/Editorial
Atelier
Recipes of quiet refinement — French patisserie precision, marble counters, gold leaf details. Cormorant Garamond and Lora create sophisticated elegance.
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Professional/Editorial
Column
The food section — NYT-style food journalism, multi-column layouts, drop caps, bylines. Playfair Display gives editorial authority.
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Professional/Editorial
Burnished
Dark luxury recipes — copper and brass accents, speakeasy menu aesthetic, refined darkness. Playfair Display on deep browns creates moody sophistication.
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Professional/Editorial
Exhibit
A culinary gallery — museum exhibition aesthetic, white walls, caption cards, clean presentation. Inter creates minimal institutional elegance.
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Professional/Editorial
Folio
A visual recipe collection — photography portfolio lookbook, full-bleed imagery, dark presentation. Poppins and Work Sans for modern editorial.
View Design →Claude Code Opus 4.6 — Warm & Inviting
Five cosy concepts focused on comfort, warmth, and tactile textures — slow mornings, fireside evenings, meadow walks, provincial bistros, and summer porches.
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Warm & Inviting
Sunday
Slow cooking, gentle living — soft pastels, warm sunlight, leisurely mornings. Fraunces and Nunito create relaxed Sunday energy.
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Warm & Inviting
Fireside
Recipes for warm evenings — wool and knit textures, bookish warmth, tactile comfort. Crimson Pro and Merriweather feel like a favourite sweater.
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Warm & Inviting
Wildflower
Recipes from the meadow — watercolour aesthetic, organic forms, hand-painted feel. Cormorant Infant and Quicksand bring botanical softness.
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Warm & Inviting
Linen
A provincial bistro — French country aesthetic, tablecloth textures, chalkboard menu. DM Serif Display creates rustic refinement.
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Warm & Inviting
Porchlight
Recipes for summer evenings — verandah dining, string lights, fireflies, amber on navy. Bitter and Open Sans create nostalgic twilight warmth.
View Design →Claude Code Opus 4.6 — Modern & Contemporary
Five cutting-edge concepts that push digital boundaries — greyscale with colour reveals, travel infrastructure, music streaming, colour-shifting palettes, and prismatic light effects.
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Modern/Contemporary
Sable
Recipes developed in the darkroom — greyscale until interaction reveals colour. DM Sans and DM Mono create photographic sophistication.
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Modern/Contemporary
Transit
Culinary departures — airport terminal aesthetic, boarding passes, departure boards. Barlow Condensed brings infrastructure efficiency.
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Modern/Contemporary
Wavelength
Your recipe playlist — music streaming aesthetic, equaliser bars, "now playing" format. Space Grotesk creates rhythmic modern energy.
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Modern/Contemporary
Chromashift
Recipes that change colour — dynamic colour palettes shift per recipe via CSS custom properties. Outfit and Inter bring systematic flexibility.
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Modern/Contemporary
Prism
Where light meets flavour — light physics aesthetic, spectral splits, chromatic aberration effects. Space Grotesk on rainbow gradients.
View Design →Claude Code Opus 4.6 — Expressive & Bold
Five vibrant, high-energy concepts — Australian outback, aperitivo hour, 1970s photography, Memphis design, and spice market maximalism. Unapologetically bold.
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Expressive & Bold
Outback
Recipes from the red earth — Australian landscape, red ochre, eucalyptus, campfire warmth. Sora and Nunito Sans capture the rugged spirit.
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Expressive & Bold
Negroni
Aperitivo kitchen — aperitivo hour aesthetic, Art Deco geometry, Campari and vermouth sophistication. Poiret One brings cocktail-hour glamour.
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Expressive & Bold
Kodachrome
Recipes from the golden age — 1970s film photography, Polaroid frames, retro warm colours. Righteous and Faustina bring vintage charm.
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Expressive & Bold
Terrazzo
Bold recipes for confident cooks — Memphis design, speckled texture, bold geometry, asymmetric layouts. Space Grotesk delivers fearless energy.
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Expressive & Bold
Paprika
A spice market of flavours — spice bazaar maximalism, tessellation patterns, dense layered warmth. Playfair Display on rich warm tones.
View Design →Trinity Large — Ritual & Sensory
Five concepts focused on the ceremonial and sensory aspects of cooking — ritual dining, multi-sensory experience, hearth-centered warmth, maker's craft, and global culinary exploration.
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Ritual & Sensory
Ritual Table
Ceremonial dining — quiet elegance, brass and wine tones, the formality of the table. Cormorant Garamond creates contemplative sophistication.
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Ritual & Sensory
Scent & Sound
Multi-sensory cooking — synaesthesia approach, aroma-driven experience, sensory layers beyond taste and sight.
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Ritual & Sensory
The Hearthlight
Hearth-centered warmth — firelit ambience, gathering around the flame, the ancient ritual of cooking with fire.
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Ritual & Sensory
The Workshop
Maker's workshop — hands-on craft approach to cooking, tools and techniques, building flavours like craftwork.
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Ritual & Sensory
The Atlas Table
Global culinary atlas — world flavours and traditions, mapping recipes across cultures, exploring the geography of taste.
View Design →Quick Comparison
See how the concepts differ in their approach to recipe websites.
| Concept | Focus | Primary Problem Solved | Unique Approach |
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| Garden Kitchen | Aesthetic | Create organic, fresh atmosphere | Soft pastels, garden imagery |
| Nordic Simplicity | Aesthetic | Minimalist, clean presentation | Cool greys, generous white space |
| Warm Hearth | Aesthetic | Rustic, comfortable feeling | Warm browns, farmhouse textures |
| Sunlight & Shadows | Aesthetic | Bright, modern presentation | Yellow/orange, sun-kissed glow |
| Midnight Baking | Aesthetic | Elegant, sophisticated mood | Dark mode, gold accents |
| Cookbook | UX | Poor readability, scanning vs reading | Magazine layout, story-first |
| Pantry | UX | "What can I cook with what I have?" | Ingredient matching, substitutions |
| Kitchen | UX | Hard to use while hands are busy | Giant text, voice control, timers |
| Seasons | UX | Recipes ignore seasonality | Calendar interface, peak produce |
| Gather | UX | Cooking treated as solitary activity | Social features, community platform |
| Mise en Place | Content Strategy | Recipes ignore timing and process | Workflow timelines, parallelisable tasks |
| Provenance | Content Strategy | Recipes stripped of cultural context | Origin-first editorial, story-driven |
| Ratio | Content Strategy | Rote following, never understanding | Science-first, ratios, data visualisation |
| Heirloom | Content Strategy | Family recipes lost to time | Digital preservation, lineage chains, nostalgia |
| Weeknight | Content Strategy | Aspirational recipes vs reality | Constraint-based, honest times, low energy |
| The Engineer | Intelligence | Recipes are static text, not formulas | Parametric sliders, real-time calculation |
| The Forager | Intelligence | Irrelevant suggestions (Salad in winter) | Context-aware (Weather/Time) adaptation |
| The Nutritionist | Intelligence | Guessing nutritional impact | Interactive macro visualisation |
| The Remix | Intelligence | Cooking rut / boredom | Modular randomisation / Slot machine |
| The Stream | Intelligence | Static images don't show motion | Vertical video feed, micro-loops |
| Ember & Ash | Radical Direction | Recipe sites lack editorial gravitas | Dark magazine, mood-slider AI sommelier |
| Tidepool | Radical Direction | No coastal Australian lifestyle identity | Wave dividers, tide-report AI |
| Neon Noodle | Radical Direction | Everything is minimal and pastoral | Neon glow, night market, street oracle AI |
| The Morning Press | Radical Direction | Recipes lack journalistic authority | Newspaper broadsheet, daily edition AI |
| Copper & Thyme | Radical Direction | Bistro warmth without farmhouse cliché | Copper accents, chalkboard chef's board AI |
| Basecamp | Radical Direction | No outdoor/adventure cooking identity | Topographic maps, trail conditions AI |
| Confetti | Radical Direction | Cooking sites take themselves too seriously | Celebration maximalist, party planner AI |
| Mono | Radical Direction | Visual noise drowns out the food | Swiss B&W typography, stark query AI |
| Terracotta | Radical Direction | Mediterranean warmth beyond generic Italian | Arched elements, piazza vendor AI |
| Kinetic | Radical Direction | Recipe sites never feel modern | Motion-first, glass effects, flow state AI |
| Laneway | Radical Direction | No Melbourne laneway culture identity | Hidden corners, espresso mornings, urban intimacy |
| Rooftop | Radical Direction | No elevated city living aesthetic | Golden hour, skyline views, rooftop entertaining |
| Corner Store | Radical Direction | Neighbourhood diversity underrepresented | Community flavours, approachable warmth |
| Fieldnotes | Personal/Notepad | Digital lacks notebook intimacy | Dot-grid, kraft paper, pencil sketch aesthetic |
| Dear Kitchen | Personal/Notepad | Recipes lack epistolary warmth | Love letters, wax seals, correspondence feel |
| Marginalia | Personal/Notepad | Digital can't capture cookbook annotations | Margin notes, post-its, coffee stains |
| Recipe.txt | Personal/Notepad | Everything is too visual | Plain text, brutalist monospace, terminal aesthetic |
| Scrapbook | Personal/Notepad | No creative collage aesthetic | Washi tape, Polaroids, handcrafted chaos |
| Atelier | Professional/Editorial | Lacks French patisserie refinement | Marble, gold leaf, quiet sophistication |
| Column | Professional/Editorial | No food journalism authority | Multi-column, drop caps, bylines, NYT style |
| Burnished | Professional/Editorial | No dark luxury aesthetic | Copper/brass, speakeasy menu, moody sophistication |
| Exhibit | Professional/Editorial | No museum gallery presentation | White walls, caption cards, institutional elegance |
| Folio | Professional/Editorial | No photography portfolio aesthetic | Full-bleed imagery, lookbook presentation |
| Sunday | Warm & Inviting | No slow morning aesthetic | Soft pastels, warm sunlight, gentle living |
| Fireside | Warm & Inviting | No tactile knit texture warmth | Wool textures, bookish comfort, cosy evenings |
| Wildflower | Warm & Inviting | No watercolour meadow aesthetic | Hand-painted feel, organic forms, botanical softness |
| Linen | Warm & Inviting | No French provincial bistro warmth | Tablecloth textures, chalkboard menu, rustic refinement |
| Porchlight | Warm & Inviting | No summer evening verandah feel | String lights, fireflies, amber on navy twilight |
| Sable | Modern/Contemporary | No greyscale-to-colour reveal | Darkroom aesthetic, colour on interaction |
| Transit | Modern/Contemporary | No travel infrastructure aesthetic | Boarding passes, departure boards, airport terminals |
| Wavelength | Modern/Contemporary | No music streaming aesthetic | Equaliser bars, "now playing" format, rhythmic energy |
| Chromashift | Modern/Contemporary | Static colour palettes | Dynamic colour shifts per recipe, CSS custom properties |
| Prism | Modern/Contemporary | No light physics aesthetic | Spectral splits, chromatic aberration, rainbow gradients |
| Outback | Expressive & Bold | No Australian earth aesthetic | Red ochre, eucalyptus, campfire warmth |
| Negroni | Expressive & Bold | No aperitivo hour sophistication | Art Deco, Campari/vermouth, cocktail glamour |
| Kodachrome | Expressive & Bold | No 1970s film photography aesthetic | Polaroid frames, retro warm colours, vintage charm |
| Terrazzo | Expressive & Bold | No Memphis design boldness | Speckled texture, bold geometry, fearless asymmetry |
| Paprika | Expressive & Bold | No spice market maximalism | Tessellation patterns, dense layered warmth |
| Ritual Table | Ritual & Sensory | Cooking lacks ceremonial aspect | Quiet elegance, brass/wine tones, contemplative dining |
| Scent & Sound | Ritual & Sensory | Recipes ignore sensory layers | Multi-sensory, synaesthesia, aroma-driven |
| The Hearthlight | Ritual & Sensory | Lost ancient fire-cooking ritual | Hearth-centered, firelit ambience, gathering warmth |
| The Workshop | Ritual & Sensory | Cooking not treated as craft | Maker's approach, tools/techniques, hands-on craftwork |
| The Atlas Table | Ritual & Sensory | Global flavours without context | Culinary atlas, world traditions, geography of taste |