Craft
Drawing a tower, pixel by pixel
How this site was made: a 5-pixel grid, a 40-colour palette and rooms you can change from a dropdown.
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Every picture on this site sits on one grid, where one art pixel is five screen pixels. Keeping that grid everywhere is what makes the tower feel like one place.
The palette has about forty colours: warm interiors, cool concrete and a golden-hour city. Walls are see-through in the art, so any wall colour you pick still looks lit.
Each floor is a CMS item. Pick a room and a colour, write two sentences and the building grows by one storey.
Written at the desk on the penthouse floor. Reply to any issue of Small Batch Notes and it comes straight to me.
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