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Localy

Brand site for a Moscow specialty coffee bar, built for speed on mobile

Role
Design and development
Timeframe
July 2026
Localy

Problem

The Localy coffee bar needed a brand site that captured its identity (cream, coral, lowercase, big type) and loaded instantly on a phone, with no online-ordering system to maintain. Most cafe sites are heavy templates that feel generic and slow.

Approach

Built a static brand site with Astro to the Localy brandbook: cream background, coral accent, warm brown, large typography, an all-lowercase interface. Production ships pure HTML and CSS with zero KB of JavaScript. The menu and gallery are edited through a git-based CMS (Keystatic), so there is no database to run, and the brand typeface is self-hosted rather than pulled from a CDN.

Outcome

Live at cafe.localy-store.ru: a fast, premium-feeling brand site that loads instantly on mobile and is trivial for the owner to keep updated.

Stack

Astro, Tailwind CSS, Keystatic, self-hosted fonts

Team

Solo (client work)