Northern Clay Center
📍 Minneapolis
A cooperative studio for potters and sculptors, with classes for every level and open-studio access for members.
- Wheel throwing
- Gas & electric kilns
- Glaze lab
- +2 more
AccessClass fees; member studio time available
North Woods style guide
The living design system for makeminnesota.org — a cozy, warm, outdoorsy look
built on forest, lake, birch, and campfire. All tokens live in
assets/css/main.css as CSS custom properties.
Core palette
Drawn from a Minnesota north-woods scene: evergreen forest, a blue lake, birch-bark paper,
and a campfire glow. --birch is the page, --paper is every card,
--forest anchors the hero and footer, and --amber is the accent
that pulls the eye.
Category accents
Each filter group carries one accent color, exposed as --accent via
[data-group]. Cards borrow it for their top border and badge; filter pills
borrow it for hover and active states. Add a category in _data/categories.yaml,
a bucket in _data/groups.yaml, and a matching --g-* color here.
Typography
Headings use Fraunces, a soft, organic display serif. Body copy uses
Nunito, a rounded, friendly sans. Together they read warm and hand-made
rather than corporate.
Display / Fraunces 600
Build something real
Heading / Fraunces 600
Northern Clay Center
Body / Nunito 400
A cooperative studio for potters and sculptors, with classes for every level and open-studio access for members. The kind of place you leave with clay under your nails.
Components
Filter pill
Card
Principles
Warm over stark. Cream paper, rounded corners, soft shadows — nothing
pure-white or hard-edged.
Color codes the craft. A glance at a card's accent tells you what kind of
making happens there.
Data-driven. Content changes happen in _data/makers.yaml;
categories and buckets in _data/categories.yaml and
_data/groups.yaml. No HTML edits needed to add a space.