Opening the vault…
Public vault · every note in the open
3 references, 6 human-written steal-notes. Every entry answers: where is it from, what family is it, and what would you steal?
Saturated color, chunky rounded forms, springy motion, jokes in the copy. Interfaces that feel like objects you want to poke.
Playful / Toy-like · full website · via Httpster
Steal · texture/material
Mac OS 7 chrome + VHS grain + Garamond: three eras collaged into one coherent 'summer memory' texture.
Steal · motion/interaction
Cursor leaves a brief shimmer trail — pure delight, zero utility, perfectly on-brand.
Fonts: Chicago, Garamond
private-reference-only
View original ↗Playful / Toy-like · landing page · via Godly
Steal · color
Brand colors used at full saturation but never adjacent — always separated by white or black. Loud yet never muddy.
Steal · motion/interaction
Speaker cards squash-and-stretch on hover with spring physics (mass 1, tension 280) — cartoon rules applied to UI.
Fonts: Whyte Inktrap, Whyte
private-reference-only
View original ↗Playful / Toy-like · landing page · via Curated.design
Steal · color
Lavender as a primary brand color in crypto — category-defiant palette choice that owns the shelf.
Steal · component pattern
Ghost mascot reacts to scroll position and form errors — mascot as system feedback, not decoration.
Fonts: PP Mori, PP Fraktion Mono
private-reference-only
View original ↗Provenance & takedown
Every reference here links out to its original, and all referenced work belongs to its creators. What this vault adds — and what it is for — is the human-written commentary: the steal-notes are the content, not the pixels. Study use only.
Made something shown here and want it removed? Email util.wills@gmail.com with the entry title or a link to this page — it comes down promptly, no questions asked.
Fork this vault
Take the whole thing — references, steal-notes, provenance — and make it your starting point. Every steal-note here was written by a human. That is the point.
npx trova init --family playful