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Katha Kavana — three proposals

Three websites for the same coffee shop, built from one set of facts. Every price in all three is transcribed from the venue’s own printed cards; every photograph is of this venue; nothing is invented to fill a gap. What differs is the argument each one makes.

A hand holds a small red cup of black coffee in front of the painted house sign: a tree hung with books, a reader sitting under it, and the words Katha Kavana, every coffee has a story.

The book

Every coffee has a story

The warm one. Cream paper, a serif with real optical sizing, and five pages that read as chapters — the name, the card, the room, the visit. Scroll-driven: a leaf turns between chapters, headings assemble word by word, photographs lift out of the page.

5 pages Tailwind (CDN) · Lenis · GSAP ScrollTrigger · SplitType The default recommendation. Reads like a place worth sitting in, and still degrades to a complete static document. Open The book →
Scan of the venue's printed food card.

The file

Every figure, every source, every contradiction

The severe one. Near-black, monospaced, built as a working document: three rating pools side by side including the unflattering 3.0, three sets of disagreeing hours, all 94 prices, a contact sheet of all 33 photographs with credits, and two whole records for what the sources contradict and what nobody publishes at all.

1 page, 11 records Hand-rolled CSS · Lenis · Motion One For a client who wants to see the homework, and for anyone arguing that honesty is the differentiator. Open The file →
The service counter, a barista working behind it, brewing equipment and grinders ranged along the white top under a coiled pendant light.

The counter

The card, the hours, the number

The fast one. A receipt: one narrow column on warm paper, the whole card in the card's own order with dotted leaders, dashed tear-lines, and an action bar pinned to the bottom of the screen. No JavaScript anywhere on the page.

1 page Hand-rolled CSS · no JavaScript Phones, one bar of signal, someone standing outside deciding whether to come in. Open The counter →

Shared across all three: 94 items across 20 sections of the card, 33 photographs, and one data file that records where each fact came from, where the sources disagree, and what nobody publishes at all.

243, 17th Cross Rd, Sector 6, HSR Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560102, India · 099800 12231