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Named, not just labelled
Every tea names its estate or region and its steep temperature — the kind of detail usually reserved for coffee, applied to tea.
About STEEP
A shelf, not a
catalog.
STEEP started from a small complaint: most tea shops online bury the details that actually matter — origin, caffeine, steep time — behind a single generic "tea" filter. We built the shelf we wanted instead.
02
Honest by default
The cart is real, the checkout total is real math, and the confirmation says plainly that no order is placed. Nothing here pretends to be a backend it isn't.
03
Slow, on purpose
A calm palette, a considered grid, motion that always has a reduced-motion twin. The craft is in what's left out, not piled on.
How it's made
Every product photograph on this site is real, self-hosted photography — downloaded once, converted to WebP, and committed alongside the code. No hotlinking, no runtime requests to a third party, and explicit dimensions so nothing shifts while it loads.
The storefront runs entirely in your browser: no backend, no API calls. Adding to cart and placing an order update local state directly, persisted to this browser's localStorage — instant, and honestly labelled as a demo. Nothing is ever charged and no order is transmitted anywhere.
The filters that matter
Every field below is declared once, in one data file, and the shop keeps working:
type
Type
Green · Black · Oolong · White · Herbal · Chai
caffeine
Caffeine
High · Medium · Low · None
origin
Origin
Japan · China · India · Kenya · Blend
form
Form
Loose Leaf · Sachets
flavour
Flavour
Floral · Earthy · Citrus · Spiced · Sweet