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ERETNIK — a site people don’t scroll, they leaf through
For a practising tarot reader we built a grimoire instead of a page: a closed book on the table, one tap and it opens, then you leaf through it like the real thing. Every spread is live HTML on parchment texture, not an image. Letters catch fire and vanish, ash drifts out from under the cover, and a muted ambient track plays alongside.







Things you won’t find in a template
- Parchment without Photoshop. The page textures come from a real photograph of the book through an inverse homography — the pages are “flattened” into a rectangle, so the text sits in the plane of the sheet instead of on top of it.
- Burning letter by letter. Each word is split into graphemes with Intl.Segmenter, every one burns with its own delay, and a separate canvas draws the sparks. The parchment stays intact — only the text burns.
- Magnifier panel. Tap an engraving and an explanation slides over the book; tap again and it goes. It never appears from a stray cursor movement.
Built by hand
- Typography scales from the page height (em, not vh) — the book does not drift on a phone
- Section navigation, arrows, swipe; your position is remembered
- Ash and embers on a separate canvas, thinned out on the phone
- Ambient sound and page turns — with a mute button
- The content is the reader’s real texts from their Instagram
- Requests fly to Telegram through a Cloudflare Worker: the bot token is never in the page
Where it sits in the calculator
This is a “film-like site” at full stretch: $2500–3000+, two weeks. The prices on the site itself are a draft still being agreed with the reader. Price up something similar →




















































