Style guide
The parts, unassembled
Every section this theme ships, once each, under the slug you type into the inserter to place it. The token sheet opens the page because every one of the specimens below is painted out of it.
Before launchThis page is a demonstration. Delete it, and the navigation row that points at it, before the site goes live — nothing else in the theme depends on either.
table-and-type/token-sheet
The tokens, the ladder and the presets
Every swatch paints from the live custom property rather than a printed hex, so the sheet cannot go stale in either mode or inside any variation.
Style guide
The tokens
Two modes, four variations, one set of values that every template, pattern and block reads.
Surfaces
Page
–wp–preset–color–background
Card stock
–wp–preset–color–card
Quiet ground
–wp–preset–color–muted
Secondary
–wp–preset–color–secondary
Hairline
–wp–preset–color–border
Ink and brand
Ink
–wp–preset–color–foreground
Quiet ink
–wp–preset–color–muted-foreground
Stamp red
–wp–preset–color–primary
Served-now chip
–wp–preset–color–accent
Link
–wp–custom–color–link
Focus ring
–wp–preset–color–ring
The slip’s own material
These five hold the same value in both modes. A sheet of paper does not relight itself when the room around it does; only its clip and its shadow follow the mode.
Slip
–wp–custom–color–slip
Slip ink
–wp–custom–color–slip-ink
Stamp
–wp–custom–color–slip-stamp
Slip edge
–wp–custom–color–slip-edge
Clip
–wp–custom–color–clip
Status
A dot is never the only signal; the sentence beside it carries the claim.
Open
–wp–custom–color–positive-fill
Warning
–wp–custom–color–warning-fill
Critical
–wp–custom–color–critical-fill
The type ladder
Ratio 1.250, anchored at 1.5rem. Brygada 1918 sets the card and the headings, Radio Canada the chrome, Sometype Mono the slip.
Lunch, until half past two
display-xl · 2.93rem, fluid
Lunch, until half past two
display · 2.34rem, fluid
Lunch, until half past two
xx-large · 1.875rem
Lunch, until half past two
x-large · 1.5rem
Lunch, until half past two
large · 1.125rem
Lunch, until half past two
medium · 1rem
Lunch, until half past two
small · 0.875rem
Lunch, until half past two
x-small · 0.75rem
The variations
A variation is a token swap and nothing else: it repaints the room and the ink, never the paper, and it moves nothing.
Base
Zinc. A Paris-style bistro: warm limestone paper, stamp red, one gold chip. Follows the reader’s system setting and the light/dark toggle.
Dark
The dark half of Zinc as the palette, in both modes: a site that is dark whatever the visitor’s system says.
Cresson
Watercress green and a blush slip, for a morning-and-brunch café.
Faïence
Enamel cobalt and an apricot slip, for a tiled bakery-café.
NoteThe four are named here rather than drawn side by side: a style variation is the whole document’s palette, so a second one cannot be painted inside the first. Switch them in Styles › Browse styles and this sheet repaints — which is the demonstration.
table-and-type/served-card
The slip, and the card’s rows
The signature: a card set once a season, with dated sheets clipped to its corner and one row struck by the sheet that replaced it.
On the card
The card, and today’s changes
The menu is set once a season; today goes on the slip.
Brunch and supper are not served today.
03
Le midi
Served now
Marks: V vegetarian · GF no gluten · N contains nuts
Today
Wed 16 Sep
Soupe: courge rôtie et pomme, graines grillées · VG
$9
Posted 07:52 by the kitchen
Instead
Wed 16 Sep
Tomates du marché instead, last of the season
$15
Posted 07:52 by the kitchen
Allergies
One kitchen and shared pans, so nothing is free of anything. Tell us at the counter and we will tell you what is in a dish.
Prices
Prices are per dish and taxes are added at the till.
table-and-type/menu-dayparts
The card’s rows, photographed
A service band on its own plate: thumbnail rows cropped to a focal point, and the slip lane in the card’s flow rather than over it.
01
Le petit-déjeuner
01
Le petit-déjeuner
Marks: V Vegetarian · VG Vegan · DF No dairy
Viennoiseries
Croissant au beurre
V
Laminated overnight, baked at seven
$4.25
Pain au chocolat
V
Two batons of dark chocolate, the same dough as the croissant
$4.75
Kouign-amann
V
Butter, sugar and forty minutes of patience. Two batches a day
$5.50
Œufs & tartines
Œufs brouillés, tartine
V
Slow-scrambled eggs, cultured butter, sourdough
$14
Tartine à l’avocat
V
VG
DF
Avocado, lemon, chilli, rye
Add: egg $2.50 · smoked trout $5
$13
02
Le brunch
02
Le brunch
Marks: V Vegetarian · VG Vegan · GF No gluten · DF No dairy
Assiettes
Crêpe sarrasin, œuf et jambon
Buckwheat, folded at the corners, egg left soft
$17
Pain doré à la brioche
V
Yesterday’s brioche, maple, crème fraîche
$16
Truite fumée sur rösti
GF
Cold-smoked trout, potato rösti, dill cream
$21
03
Le midi
03
Le midi
Served now
Marks: V Vegetarian · GF No gluten
Today
Wed 16 Sep
Soupe: courge rôtie et pomme, graines grillées · VG
$9
Posted 07:52 by the kitchen
Instead
Wed 16 Sep
Tomates du marché instead, the last of the season
$15
Posted 07:52 by the kitchen
Soupes & salades
Tartine aux champignons
V
Off the card today — the slip says what is on instead
slip · 2
$15
Soupe du jour
Whatever is best this week; today’s is on the slip
$9
Salade de lentilles
V
GF
Green lentils, shallot, mustard, soft herbs
$16
Sandwichs & assiettes
Croque-monsieur
Béchamel, aged cheese, pressed on the plancha
Add: fried egg $2.50 · green salad $4
$17
Poulet rôti, demi
GF
Half a bird, jus, whatever is roasting beside it
$26
04
Le goûter
04
Le goûter
Marks: V Vegetarian · GF No gluten · N Contains nuts
Note
Wed 16 Sep
Kouign-amann: second batch out at 14:30
Posted 07:05 by the kitchen
Desserts
Cannelé
V
Dark crust, soft centre, one batch at three
$4.50
Tarte Tatin
V
Turned out whole, cut at the counter, cream on the side
$9
05
Le souper
05
Le souper
Marks: V Vegetarian · GF No gluten · DF No dairy
table-and-type/menu-index
The card’s front matter, and the dietary control
The numbered contents page, the allergy statement and the tax note set once, and the four diet toggles. The toggles are inert until the companion plugin is active.
The whole card
The card, by time of day
Five services on one card, and the day’s changes clipped on top.
52 dishes · 10 sections · 5 times of day
Card last changed on Monday
Services
05
Supper · Thursday to Saturday · 17:30 – 22:00 · last order 21:15
11 dishes
$9 – $34
Not today
Café & boissons · 9 drinks, printed once at the end
Allergies
One kitchen and shared pans, so nothing is free of anything. Tell us at the counter and we will tell you what is in a dish.
Prices
Prices are per dish and taxes are added at the till.
table-and-type/menu-drinks
The rows without a plate
Type-only rows with add-on pricing, no photograph and no sheet — the register a long card ends on so the reader can tell it is over.
Café & boissons
Marks: V vegetarian · VG vegan · DF no dairy
Espresso
V
VG
GF
DF
Today’s beans, on the grinder since Tuesday
Add: oat milk $0.75 · extra shot $1.25
$3.25
Allongé
V
VG
GF
DF
A long black, pulled short and lengthened
Add: oat milk $0.75 · extra shot $1.25
$3.50
Café crème
V
GF
Espresso and steamed milk, in the big cup
Add: oat milk $0.75 · extra shot $1.25
$4.75
Cappuccino
V
GF
Six ounces, no syrup, no dusting
Add: oat milk $0.75 · extra shot $1.25
$5
Filtre du jour
V
VG
GF
DF
Batch filter, refilled on the half hour
Add: oat milk $0.75
$4
Chocolat chaud
V
GF
Melted dark chocolate, milk, no powder
Add: oat milk $0.75
$5.25
Thé en feuilles
V
VG
GF
DF
Four leaf teas, in a pot, timed at the counter
Add: oat milk $0.75
$4
Jus d’orange pressé
V
VG
GF
DF
Pressed when you order it, not before
$5.50
Limonade maison
V
GF
Lemon, a little honey, soda from the tap
$5
A carafe of wine is supper only and stays on the supper card, where somebody is choosing what to drink with the duck.
Walk in and order at the counter — most of the day takes no booking at all.
table-and-type/hours-table
The hours record
The week printed once, today called out beside it, a closed day muted and a struck row keeping its name and its place.
Hours
This week, and what changed
One record for the week, with the dated exceptions clipped on.
Hours
One row is superseded by a slip this week.
Hours
27 Sep
Terrace closed for the season from the 27th
Posted 07:52 by the team
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
08:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
08:00 – 17:00
Thursday
08:00 – 22:00
Friday
08:00 – 22:00
Saturday
09:00 – 22:00
Sunday
09:00 – 16:00
Last order 21:30 at supper.
Today
Tuesday, 08:00 – 17:00
Lunch is being served until 15:00.
Terrace
slip · 1
Open in fine weather, 12:00 – 21:00
Twelve of the seats are outside, and they are not held for anybody.
Between services 11:00 to 11:30, Tuesday to Friday.
table-and-type/booking-policy-card
The card panel, with its lane
Every service as a row — walk-in ones included — a policy slip striking the row it supersedes, and the three limits a reader needs beside them.
Booking
What takes a booking, and what does not
Two services take a table; the rest of the day is walk-in.
Walk in for everything else, every day we are open.
Book a table
One service is walk-in only while the slip stands.
Booking
14 Sep
Lunch is walk-in only until the 27th
Posted 09:10 by the floor
Walk-in only
slip · 1
Takes bookings, up to 6
Walk-in only
Takes bookings, up to 8
Before you book
Tables of up to 6
Larger than that and the room cannot seat it in one go.
Larger groups
Seven or more by enquiry, answered by email.
Late
A booked table is held for 15 minutes.
table-and-type/house-rules-list
The disclosure, and the ground layer
A native details a crawler reads closed and a reader with no script can still open, over the empty ground slot a drawing is painted into.
House rules
Laptops, dogs, the terrace
The laptop answer changes with the service, so it is a table.
Dogs
Welcome on the terrace and in the front room, on a lead.
Terrace
First come, first served. It is never held for a booking.
Children
High chairs at the counter end, and a short card for them.
Laptops
Laptops are welcome until noon, and away through lunch.
Breakfast
Laptops welcome
Lunch
Laptops away
Afternoon
Laptops welcome
Supper
Laptops away
Why the rule changes with the hour
Two services fill the room, and a table held for four hours is three tables nobody else sat at. Outside those hours the room is half empty and a laptop costs nothing, so the rule follows the service rather than the day.
table-and-type/find-us-split
The record, and the block a reader takes with them
Label-and-value rows, the address in a block selected in one press, coordinates behind a disclosure, and two links instead of a map embed.
Getting in
Your street address here
City, Region, Postcode
Where the door is, and what to expect when you reach it.
Bus
Two lines stop at the corner, one minute from the door.
Metro
Nearest station is an eight-minute walk, exit on the north side.
Parking
Free on the side street after 18:00 and all day Sunday.
Bikes
Two racks outside, and a docking station across the road.
Door
Level with the pavement, 90 cm wide, opens outward.
Washroom
One washroom on the same floor, 85 cm door, grab rail fitted.
Room
Four tables clear 70 cm underneath; the counter stools do not.
Phone
Address
The name of the business
Your street address here
City, Region, Postcode
The coordinates, for a map app that wants numbers
00.0000, 00.0000
table-and-type/booking-seam
The seam, and the enquiry chrome
The press with its destination named beside it, and the enquiry block’s chrome. The fields, the validation and the receipt are the companion plugin’s.
Booking a table
Our reservation partner takes the table; we keep the record. Supper and brunch take a booking, and the rest of the day is walk-in.
bookings.example.com
We show no live availability here; the partner’s page has the times. Booking opens in a new tab.
If the button does not open, the page is at bookings.example.com/your-café.
A booked table is held for 15 minutes. After that it goes to whoever is at the door.
Ask us instead
One note for a larger party or a voucher, answered by email — usually the same day.
Seven or more eat from a shorter card, which comes back with the answer. Tables of six and under go through the booking partner.
Gift vouchers are written by hand at the counter, in any amount, with no expiry. Ask for one by email and we will post it.
An enquiry is not a booking: nothing is held until we answer.
Larger groups
Seven or more, by enquiry only.
Gift vouchers
Any amount, no expiry, written at the counter.
By telephone
table-and-type/cta-band
Actions, links and marks
One filled press and one quiet link on a muted band — the shape a route closes on when it has nothing left to say but where to go next.
Before you go
Come and sit down.
Two services take a table and the rest of the day is walk-in, so most of the time the answer is simply to arrive.
table-and-type/hero-served
The hero plate
No scrim: the plate is measured instead. Below lg the picture is an aspect box and the words fall under it; from lg they are set straight on the photograph.
Served now · Wednesday
Lunch, until two.
Walk in and order at the counter: 9 dishes, 2 changes.
Walk in, no booking: seats inside and a few on the terrace.
table-and-type/on-the-grinder
The term-and-definition band
Four facts against a square plate, each row a hairline and two columns. “Usually gone by” is what the room says from experience, not a stock count.
On the grinder
The grinder changes when a bag runs out, not on a schedule
Espresso
A roastery two streets over · Sidamo, Ethiopia · washed
On since Tue 8 Sep
Filter
A roastery two streets over · Huila, Colombia · natural
On since Tue 1 Sep
Out of the oven
Kouign-amann
07:30 and 14:30
usually gone by 11:00
Butter croissant
07:00
usually gone by 10:30
table-and-type/visit-strip
The rule list, and today’s row
The street address as the heading, the four rules a visitor asks about, today’s hours, and the terrace row struck by an hours slip.
Getting here
240 Garden Street
Your city, region and postcode
Step-free from the pavement, and the bus stops at the corner.
Transit
The bus stops at the corner; the metro is eight minutes on foot
Access
Step-free entrance from the pavement; one accessible washroom
Laptops
Laptops away until 14:30
Dogs
Terrace only, and there is a water bowl by the door
Phone
Today
Wednesday
07:30 – 17:00
Terrace
slip · 1
1 May to 15 October, weather allowing
Takeaway
Ordered on our own page, so the whole price stays in the room.
Collection at the counter, and we do not deliver.
orders.example.com
Book a table
Bookings: supper. Everything else is walk-in.
table-and-type/notice-privacy
The notice record
One row per collected field with what it is for, the named person responsible, and the questions a reader actually asks as closed disclosures.
Notices
Personal information, and what we do with it
What the enquiry form collects, and who reads it.
No third-party script runs here, so there is nothing to consent to.
Updated 1 January 2026
The enquiry form
Which of the enquiries this is, so the right person reads it
So the reply is addressed to somebody
The only way we answer. Nothing else is ever sent to it
Whether the room can take the party, before we say yes
Optional. It tells us which service you mean
Whatever you choose to tell us. Please leave out health details
Who to ask
Responsible
The name of the person responsible. Their role here.
Retention
12 months, then deleted
What we do with what you send
One person reads the enquiry and answers by email, usually the same day. It is used for that and for nothing else: no newsletter, no list, no advertising.
Seeing it, correcting it, or having it deleted
You may ask to see what we hold, have it corrected, have it deleted, and withdraw your consent at any time. One email to the address above does all four.
Who else sees it
Nobody. The enquiry reaches our own mailbox and is not passed on, sold, or used for marketing. The site runs no analytics, no advertising and no third-party script.
Cookies, and why there is no banner
The site keeps one thing in your browser: your choice of the light or the dark mode. It stays on your device, we never read it, and it is shared with nobody.
Allergies, and what we can promise
Tell us before you order and we will tell you exactly what is in a dish. One kitchen, shared boards and one fryer: we cannot promise a trace-free plate, and we would rather say so than say yes.
This page ships as a working shape. Replace every name, address and answer with your own, and have somebody qualified read it before launch. It is not legal advice.