Everything below is a set of options to pick from: four palettes, three type pairings, two illustration lanes, and the rules for how art and UI sit on the page. Use the palette bar to preview the type, art, and components in any of the four color sets.
Six colors with the same six jobs in every palette: ground, ink, primary, secondary, accent, pop. The bar under each shows roughly how much of a page each color covers.
Straight Palm Springs. Motel-sign turquoise, mustard, coral, flamingo pink on cream. Cheerful and retro. Least tied to St. George.
#FBF4E6#262019#E4704F#2E9E9A#E8B33F#F3A5B4From the view. White sandstone ground, the red streak as primary, lava black ink, sage from the fairways, one borrowed pool turquoise so it reads mid-century rather than national park.
#F5ECDA#2D2926#BE4B2B#3E9C95#E7A33B#9DAE8EMisti's garden as the brand. Pad green primary, magenta bloom, tuna-fruit wine for depth, on sand. Fresher and greener. Puts the cactus first.
#F2E6CF#2B2A22#4F7F5A#D2477E#E6B84F#8E2C5BThe quiet one. Palm Desert late afternoon: terracotta, dusty rose, olive, walnut, faded turquoise. Muted and grown-up. More Alexander house than motel sign.
#EEE3CF#4A3628#C7623D#6FA39E#E5B8A5#7A8A5AThree pairings, each shown as the wordmark, a heading, a tag, body copy, a button, and a slice of calendar. All are free Google Fonts. None of them are Papyrus.
A soft, chunky 1970s serif for the wordmark and headings, with a Futura-style geometric sans for everything else. This is the pairing that matches the cut-paper print: friendly, rounded, a little groovy, and still crisp in the UI.
A private desert hideout in The Ledges, St. George. White cliffs out the window, Pine Valley Mountain on the horizon, and a cactus garden that is frankly getting out of hand.
Sign in with GoogleA brush script for the wordmark only, tall condensed caps for headings like a roadside sign, and the same geometric sans for body. The loudest and most kitschy. Great for neon-sign moments, easy to overdo.
A private desert hideout in The Ledges, St. George. White cliffs out the window, Pine Valley Mountain on the horizon, and a cactus garden that is frankly getting out of hand.
Sign in with GoogleA sturdy old-style serif for the wordmark and headings, a plain humanist sans for body, and a monospace for small labels. Matches the pen-and-ink drawing: quieter, bookish, like a good travel magazine. Least "motel," most "boutique."
A private desert hideout in The Ledges, St. George. White cliffs out the window, Pine Valley Mountain on the horizon, and a cactus garden that is frankly getting out of hand.
Sign in with GoogleYour two references are two different lanes, and they work together. Cut paper for the big moments, ink for the small ones, both drawing the same plants: prickly pear, agave, the sun, the cliffs. Drawn below in the live palette.
How art and content share the page, taken from the two references: the print is a centered bouquet on a dark panel with a light mat; the drawing is a single object stacked vertically with acres of white around it.
The bits that get reused everywhere, drawn in the live palette. Buttons are pills with a hard offset shadow, like a printed sticker. Cards are paper. Tags are all-caps and tracked out.
The site pretends to be a commercial resort and everyone knows it isn't. The copy plays it straight and lets the reader find the joke.