Plant Shop / Florist — References

Botanical archives meets cyberpunk. Scientific specimen taxonomy corrupted by digital glitch artifacts. Electric green on black. CRT terminal aesthetics applied to plant commerce.

Style References — Terminal & Cyberpunk Aesthetic

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Brutalist Hacker News
brutalisthackernews.com

Terminal-green text on black with monospaced type. Brutalist web design meets hacker aesthetic. The exact color palette and typography vibe we're targeting — green phosphor on black, no decoration, pure data.

HackerTyper
hackertyper.com

Full-screen terminal simulation. Green code on black with CRT glow effect. Shows how a full-page terminal interface feels — immersive, atmospheric, slightly ominous.

GeekTyper NASA terminal
geektyper.com/nasa

Multi-panel terminal interface with data readouts. Status indicators, bordered panels, system metadata. The layout inspiration — multiple data panels arranged in a dashboard-like grid.

IndieWeb terminal green
indieweb.org/terminal_green

Documentation of the terminal green aesthetic as a design movement. Catalogues sites using #4AF262 / similar phosphor greens. Reference for the specific shade and community of terminal-styled personal sites.

Brainstorm cyberpunk design guide
brainstormprojects.studio

Cyberpunk design trends breakdown. Covers neon color palettes, glitch effects, geometric gradients, and digital background patterns. Good overview of the visual vocabulary.

Webflow cyberpunk gallery
webflow.com/made-in-webflow/cyberpunk

Gallery of cyberpunk-themed websites. Multiple live examples showing how the aesthetic translates to actual web layouts — navigation, grids, typography, dark UIs.

Dribbble cyberpunk website designs
dribbble.com — cyberpunk website

Design concepts for cyberpunk web UIs. High-fidelity mockups showing dark interfaces with neon accents, terminal elements, and futuristic typography treatments.

99designs cyberpunk inspiration
99designs.com — cyberpunk

Cyberpunk design gallery. Logos, illustrations, and branding in cyberpunk style — neon glows, glitch effects, dark cityscapes. Useful for the brand identity treatment.

Cargo Vitra template
cargo.site — Vitra template

Clean systematic grid layout. The structural precision that underpins our terminal aesthetic before adding the cyberpunk layer.

Cargo templates gallery
cargo.site — Templates

Template gallery showing diverse layout approaches. Strong typography, editorial grids, portfolio layouts. The baseline quality level we're aiming for.

SiteInspire dark websites
siteinspire.com — Dark category

Curated dark website gallery. How high-end sites handle dark backgrounds: typography contrast, navigation, content hierarchy, white space on black.

Movement References — Botanical Archives & Herbaria

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JSTOR Global Plants herbarium
plants.jstor.org — Type Specimens

Real herbarium database interface. How actual botanical archives present specimen data — search fields, collection metadata, taxonomy hierarchy. The functional reference for our "database" UI.

Smithsonian botany collections
Smithsonian NMNH — Botany Collections

4.2 million specimen records with search interface. Keyword search, field-based search, taxonomic grouping. The data-dense UI pattern we're channeling — forms, fields, structured results.

Kew Gardens herbarium
kew.org — Herbarium

Kew's herbarium presentation. How a world-class institution describes dried specimens, cataloging, and arrangement by family/genus/species. The language and hierarchy of botanical classification.

Field Museum botany collections
Field Museum — Botanical Collections

Museum collection database with specimen counts and type specimens. The institutional voice of botanical science — precise, archival, systematic. Informing our "system status" and record-count aesthetic.

Harvard University Herbaria
Harvard University Herbaria

Six collections, five million specimens. Academic presentation of botanical archives. Clean institutional design with deep data navigation — search tools, collection browsing, taxonomic exploration.

Industry References — Plant Shops & Florists

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The Sill plant shop
thesill.com

Modern plant e-commerce leader. Filter by light needs, pet-safe, size. Product card hierarchy: image → name → price → quick-add. The conventional patterns we're subverting with terminal aesthetic.

Plantsome
plantsome.com

Playful plant e-commerce with personality. Shows how a plant shop can have a strong visual identity beyond generic garden-center vibes. Our version takes "personality" to the extreme.

Bloomscape
bloomscape.com

Premium plant delivery with strong UX. Clean product cards, care-level indicators, size options. The e-commerce patterns we need to make functional even inside our terminal UI.

Léon & George
leonandgeorge.com

Elevated plant shopping with editorial feel. Large product photography, lifestyle staging, sophisticated typography. The "premium" positioning — our version achieves premium through technical precision instead of lifestyle imagery.

Rooted NYC
rooted.nyc

Local plant shop with strong brand. Shows how a neighborhood plant shop presents online — location focus, community feel, curated selection. The "visit us" page reference.

Pattern References — Glitch Art & Digital Corruption

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Glitchet glitch art newsletter
glitchet.com

Curated glitch art and digital corruption. The visual language of data decay — chromatic aberration, pixel displacement, scanline artifacts. Direct reference for our "corrupted botanical database" effect.

Awwwards Brutalist HN listing
awwwards.com — Brutalist Hacker News

Award recognition for terminal + glitch + brutalist web design. Shows the aesthetic has design-community credibility. Built with a single index.html — proving the approach works as self-contained files.

Image Search — Quick Moodboards

12 references
Botanical illustrations on dark backgrounds
Google — botanical archive dark background

Chiaroscuro botanical specimens. Golden/luminous plants on pure black — Dutch Golden Age meets scientific documentation. Plants as dramatically lit isolated specimens.

Cyberpunk plant shop concepts
Google — cyberpunk plant shop

Neon meets nature. Plants in neon-lit environments, the collision of organic growth and synthetic light.

Botanical taxonomy labels
Google — taxonomy labels herbarium

Herbarium specimen labels. Handwritten and printed classification: family, genus, species, collector, date. The typography of scientific cataloging.

Glitch art green and black
Google — glitch green black

Digital corruption in our exact palette. Horizontal displacement, color channel splitting, scanline artifacts, pixel sorting. The glitch vocabulary.

Cyberpunk terminal UI
Google — cyberpunk terminal UI

Green phosphor terminal interfaces. Monospaced type, bordered panels, data readouts, system status indicators. The primary layout language.

Botanical cyberpunk glitch
Bing — botanical cyberpunk glitch

Botanical forms corrupted by digital effects. Plant illustrations with glitch overlays — the exact aesthetic intersection we're building.

Digital herbarium specimens
Bing — herbarium digital dark

Digitized herbarium specimens. Pressed plants photographed against dark backgrounds, with metadata labels. The source material our CSS art is abstracting.

Dark plant shop designs
Bing — plant shop dark minimal

Dark plant shop precedents. How others handle plants on dark backgrounds — most go moody/editorial. Our approach is clinical/technical, which differentiates.

Retro terminal phosphor screens
Google — retro terminal phosphor

CRT phosphor glow and scanlines. The atmospheric layer: text-shadow glow, horizontal scanline overlays, slight curvature vignetting. Warm green on true black.

Botanical technical line drawings
Google — botanical line drawing

Technical plant anatomy illustrations. Clean line drawings: cross-sections, root systems, leaf venation. What the CSS-only botanical art should evoke.

Vintage herbarium classification labels
Bing — herbarium classification labels

Vintage specimen card formatting. Structured data fields: date, location, habitat, notes. Monospaced type on cards. Direct inspiration for plant card components.

Glitch typography design
Google — glitch typography

Corrupted text as design element. Chromatic aberration on type, displaced fragments, partially rendered characters. The headline treatment for brand identity.