Design reference 83 · Avant-garde & experimental
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The sentence itself can be a doorway into another reading.
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Design specification
Idea. The sentence itself can be a doorway into another reading.
Composition. A nearly bare cream page carries large literary prose. Underlined branching phrases, indentation and a small path trace do the work of a navigation system.
Navigation and complete example. Read a complete miniature branching novella: three opening choices lead through six passages to three distinct endings. Undo a choice or review the route without losing your place.
Responsive and inclusive behaviour. Prose keeps a comfortable line length and inline choices wrap naturally. A visible back action complements the embedded links. All controls are native buttons or labelled inputs. Movement is discretionary, no sound starts automatically, reduced-motion preferences remove transitions, and a direct index exposes the same content.
Adaptation. Write choices as part of the voice, and make every branch pay off in content. Avoid turning the story into a survey or a card-based wizard. Retain the relationship between navigation and content. Do not reduce the reference to a generic hero followed by interchangeable cards.
Research. [Typatone](https://typatone.com/); [Conditional Design manifesto](https://conditionaldesign.org/manifesto/). These are conceptual precedents, not copied artwork, source code, branding or text. All diagrams and sample writing in this specimen are original, fictional material.
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- Desktop — 1440 × 1000 viewport
- Phone — 390 × 844 viewport
- Supporting state — 1440 × 1000 viewport
- Full page — 1440 × 1000 viewport
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