THE TEMPLATE
This is the design template the E2 network runs on. It was written down first at Starvard, our free university, and it belongs to every land here. One design language, everywhere, so the whole universe feels like one place.
Everything in the template serves these. When two of them fight, the earlier one wins.
A page must earn its place. If the content is dull, no layout will save it, so the template assumes the words and pictures are worth a stranger's minute and gets out of their way.
Each band of the page does one job and then stops. Readers scroll through arguments, not piles. White space is not emptiness; it is the punctuation.
Our house target is three quarters of a second, half a second on a good day. System fonts, small images, no framework tax. A beautiful page that loads slowly is a slow page with makeup on.
Georgia, the serif, speaks for the soul: headlines and long reading. The system sans speaks for the machine: buttons, labels, navigation. Both already live on your device, so nothing is downloaded and nothing jumps around while loading.
Navy carries structure and trust. Gold marks the one thing that matters most on the screen. Ivory warms the cards. That is the whole palette, and restraint is what makes it read as expensive.
No popups, no sticky bars eating the page, no dark patterns, no pretending. Prices, limits, and caveats in plain words, and an accuracy note in the footer of every page. Trust is the brand.
Every specimen below is rendered with the template's real values, the same ones running this page. Copy them exactly and your page will feel like ours.
It never sticks to the top and covers what you are reading. Your place on the page is yours.
If everything is highlighted, nothing is. Gold is a spotlight, not a paint.
Text is text: searchable, translatable, readable aloud.
WebP, sized for its slot, lazy below the fold. Decoration that costs a second costs the reader.
Nobody should have to guess what is tappable.
Semantic HTML first; the page reads fine before any script wakes up.
The template travels with the words.
Who made this, what it costs (nothing), and an honest note about accuracy.
Seriously. The fastest way to spread good design is to give it away. The full original, with the copy-paste starter skeleton, lives at Starvard: starvard.org/template. View source on this page and take the whole thing. Free forever.