Opening the vault…
Public vault · every note in the open
80 entries, 188 steal-notes — 85 by hand, 103 model drafts. Every entry answers: where is it from, what family is it, and what would you steal? 2 results have public source URLs; source correspondence awaits human review.
Brutalist / Indie · full website · via Httpster
Steal · copywritingNotes by Will
'HTML is a material' — reframing markup as craft medium. Manifesto tone with zero jargon.
Steal · component patternNotes by Will
Bare <ul> of member sites, no cards, no thumbnails — the list as an aesthetic object.
private-reference-only
View original ↗Provenance & takedown
Publicly sourced references link to an original; private or concept examples are labelled separately. All referenced work belongs to its creators. What this vault adds — and what it is for — is the commentary: the steal-notes are the content, not the pixels. Notes are written by hand unless their card says otherwise; a model draft is always labelled. Study use only.
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Try it in your agent · no key
One command puts these notes inside Claude Code. Without a key the agent sees 5 families and gets 5 calls a day — enough to judge the taste before you rent it. The key opens every family and lifts the meter.
claude mcp add --transport http trova https://trova.design/api/mcpOriginal: Creator not recorded. Source verification: pending review.
Recorded rights label: private-reference-only. Original work and reproduction rights belong to their owners. A note license does not grant rights to copy a screenshot, trademark or design.
Trova notes: apply the principles in your own work, including commercial projects. Bulk republication or resale is not permitted. Usage terms.
Captured: 2026-07-21. Capture does not establish source verification.
Bauhaus / Constructivism · editorial · via San Diego State University
Steal · typographyNotes by Will
Asymmetric balance over axial symmetry: flush-left ragged-right body text paired with stark size contrasts (72pt lead vs 9pt metadata) without intermediate stepping.
Steal · grid/layoutNotes by Will
Thick structural black bars (4px to 12px) used as active typographic elements that terminate measure and direct reading velocity.
Fonts: Tschichold DIN, Futura PTOriginal: Jan Tschichold
private-reference-only
View original ↗Original: Jan Tschichold. Work date: 1928. Primary metadata checked 2026-10-01. SDSU record for the 1928 edition of Die neue Typographie. Stored image is an illustration, not a capture. Capture correspondence and reproduction rights remain unverified.
Recorded rights label: private-reference-only. Original work and reproduction rights belong to their owners. A note license does not grant rights to copy a screenshot, trademark or design.
Trova notes: apply the principles in your own work, including commercial projects. Bulk republication or resale is not permitted. Usage terms.
Captured: 2026-07-07. Capture does not establish source verification.