GRAIN — Digital Culture Magazine
The texture of now.
A refined, print-grade digital magazine for culture and ideas — a curated homepage, long-form articles with a genuine reading experience, section landings, contributor pages and a newsletter. Ships with eight real, well-written articles across art, design, food, technology, society and essays. Built in Astro 5, static-exported and fully self-contained.
Role · Design + front-end build (Astro 5, typed editorial content, demo newsletter) · Updated Jun 2026
- 25+ pages: curated home, 8 long-form articles, 6 section landings, contributor index + profiles, about, subscribe, 404
- A typed content layer for articles, sections and contributors — connect a headless CMS without touching templates
- An editorial design system: warm paper palette, Fraunces + Newsreader, a vermilion/ink-blue accent, drop-caps and pull-quotes
- Reading-progress bar, mobile nav, newsletter form and copy-link — all vanilla-JS islands, no framework runtime
- Delivery
- Within 24h
- Licence
- One-time licence · full source
- Support
- 14 days setup support
- Updates
- Free updates included
Backend · Headless CMS
Articles, sections and contributors are a typed data layer — connect a headless CMS (Sanity, Contentful, Storyblok); the newsletter form wires to your ESP.
Delivered as full Astro source. Replace the sample articles in the data layer, add your own photography, and connect the newsletter form to your ESP.
What makes it special
Eight genuine long-form articles
Every article ships with 800–1,500 words of real, publishable prose across six editorial sections — not lorem — so the template reads like an actual magazine on day one.
Print-magazine typography
A self-hosted Fraunces display over Newsreader body, drop-caps, pull-quotes, hairline rules and a generous reading measure turn long-form into a pleasure to read.
A real reading experience
A reading-progress bar, byline + read-time, contributor cards, related articles and reduced-motion-gated reveals — the considered details a serious publication needs.
A complete editorial IA
A curated homepage, eight articles, six section landings, a contributor index and profiles, an about/masthead and a subscribe flow — all static, zero runtime.
Procedural, self-contained art
Seeded SVG section art with grain texture and abstract marks — deterministic across builds, zero external images, ~0 CLS — and ready to swap for real photography.
What’s included
- 25+ pages: curated home, 8 long-form articles, 6 section landings, contributor index + profiles, about, subscribe, 404
- A typed content layer for articles, sections and contributors — connect a headless CMS without touching templates
- An editorial design system: warm paper palette, Fraunces + Newsreader, a vermilion/ink-blue accent, drop-caps and pull-quotes
- Reading-progress bar, mobile nav, newsletter form and copy-link — all vanilla-JS islands, no framework runtime
- SEO-complete: per-page metadata, sitemap, Article + Organization JSON-LD
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Frequently asked
- What do I get when I buy GRAIN?
- A one-time licence with the full, editable source code, including 25+ pages: curated home, 8 long-form articles, 6 section landings, contributor index + profiles, about, subscribe, 404, a typed content layer for articles, sections and contributors — connect a headless cms without touching templates, an editorial design system: warm paper palette, fraunces + newsreader, a vermilion/ink-blue accent, drop-caps and pull-quotes. 14 days setup support and free updates included.
- What is GRAIN built with?
- It's a Astro blog / editorial, built with Astro 5, TypeScript, Tailwind v4, @fontsource, Fraunces. You receive the complete source to host and extend anywhere.
- Can YantraCore customise GRAIN for my brand?
- Yes — buy it as-is for $800, or have YantraCore tailor it to your brand, content and requirements. Start from this page or commission a custom build.
- How fast is delivery?
- Delivery is Within 24h after purchase.
Make GRAIN yours.
Buy it as-is, or have YantraCore tailor it to your brand and content.