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Illuminated manuscripts website template: sample page for Hare & Quill

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The sample page

Hare & Quill. Independent illustrated-book publisher, Dublin.

The idea

The publisher’s next book becomes an illuminated page: its initial is burnished gold that catches your lamp, and its margins fill with creatures as you read.

What to try

Move your cursor over the initial and across the text: the gold follows your light and the creatures wake in the margins; reserve a copy to see your ex libris.

Made for

Publishers, writers, breweries and tabletop games

Palette

Typefaces

Uncial Antiqua + Crimson Pro

Cultural notes

Initial, border and margins drawn from scratch, copying neither the Book of Kells nor any real codex: no Celtic knots, no shamrock clichés.
Secular content with no made-up Latin; only a correctly used “ex libris”.
Uncial only for the title and initials; body text in a book face with AA contrast.

The HTML

Free download (.zip). Free license: use it in your projects keeping the credit “Page: Alchemia Arcana”.

What you download

A single index.html file with nothing to install: open it, swap in your brand and copy, and upload it to your hosting.
In English and Spanish, tested on desktop and mobile.
Instructions for changing copy, colors, language and prices, plus its license.