Sommers Night Pottery

The site is a family project. Avery, our other sister, designed the brand, and I carried it onto the web. It’s been live at sommersnightpottery.com since 4 August 2026.

I designed the site and wrote the copy. Claude Code did the building, with me directing every change.

Abby would send them from the wheel, testing new glazes and unboxing new tools. Everyone getting them kept asking how they could buy one.

That’s the story on her About page, and it’s how the business started.

It sets 4 colors (turquoise, sage, sea foam and black), with rules for the logo and a leaf pattern that stays an accent.

The brand fonts are commercial, so I kept the official wordmark as an image in the nav and used close web fonts for the headings and body text.

The figure labels were my idea. Abby’s a mechanical engineer by day, so the small captions across the site read like labels on a technical drawing (“fig. 002”), in a typewriter face.

It’s an arched photo slideshow beside the headline, with a small figure label under each slide. My slow-motion tea clip plays as slide 2.

More than 200 of the photos on the site come from my product shoot, mostly mugs outdoors on a scrap of lace, in soft light.

There are no prices on the site yet and no order forms. The shop page is a preview of what’s coming, with the sign-up at the bottom.

New names get a welcome email with the subject line “You’re first at the kiln door”.

Every photo started with the same square placeholder, so the columns kept reshuffling as images arrived. Now each photo holds its real shape before it loads, and the layout shift went from 0.58 to 0.