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How this site is built — because “we eat our own cooking” should be checkable, not a slogan.

kilnworks.studio is built and operated on the Kilnworks platform: the same renderer, the same accessibility defaults, and the same deploy path that serve every client site. The studio is tenant #1 of its own product. These marketing pages are code in the platform repository, with tests asserting the claims on this page.

The numbers

  • The homepage is 28 KB — HTML, CSS, and every illustration, in a single response. That figure is measured by a test, not estimated.
  • 0 bytes of JavaScript on every marketing page.
  • 0 external requests: no webfonts, no CDNs, no analytics scripts, no trackers. The type is your system's own fonts.

Accessibility statement

This site is built to WCAG 2.1 AA: semantic landmarks with a skip link, one h1 per page, visible focus on every interactive element, AA contrast in both light and dark color schemes, honoured reduced-motion preferences, and full keyboard operability. The navigation menu on small screens is a native disclosure element — it works with a keyboard and without JavaScript, because there is no JavaScript. The same defaults are baked into every site the platform ships — an inaccessible page is treated as a defect, not a style choice.

If anything here is hard for you to use, tell us at hello@kilnworks.studio and we will fix it.

Type, color & drawing

Serif display headings, system sans body, mono numerals — all system font stacks, zero downloads. The palette is “Charcoal & Ember”: warm ink on warm paper, the studio green for links and buttons, and ember orange reserved for emphasis and the fire motif. Every text/background pair is contrast-checked in both schemes.

Every illustration — the kiln on the homepage, the service and process glyphs, the browser-frame proof — is hand-written inline SVG on the same color tokens, so the drawings follow your color scheme like the text does. The fire itself never changes temperature: its gradient is the one constant across light and dark.

House rule: if the studio site ever needs a trick the platform doesn't have, that's a missing platform feature — it gets built into the core, not hacked in here.