Our website is often the first place someone meets ORG. Below are three possible new designs, offered for the community to discuss and vote on. Each shows the same two screens, the home page and the Beliefs page, using our real images and our real beliefs. Only the colours, fonts and layout change. The words and pictures stay ours.
The current design has a strong archival style: a near-black background, narrow capital letters, typewriter-style labels and dashed frames around every image. It was a bold choice, and it gave the site character. As ORG grows, though, the site has to do more than look distinctive. It has to welcome newcomers, make long texts easy to read, and show how we govern ourselves.
All three options keep what already makes ORG recognisable: the octagon, the rainbow imagery and the nine sections. Every text colour meets the international accessibility standard for contrast (WCAG AA), so the site is easier to read for everyone, including people with low vision.
A candle-lit room at night. Deep indigo, warm gold, and the aurora colours of the octagon wheel as light rather than decoration.
Home
The Octagon Religious-Research Group
A spiritual organisation governed by its members' votes.
Beliefs page
Held by the majority of members, ordered by agreement.
We are grateful that we have love in this particular version of reality. It's a beautiful barometer or compass at very least. At any time, we can compare our actions to what love would do, and immediately we know the value of what we're up to.
Proposed by Chris3 of 3 agreeWe're here to explore and learn, especially about love, and we're here to enjoy it, as wild and crazy as that sounds.
Proposed by Chris3 of 3 agreePalette
Typography
Daylight through a prism. A pale pearl ground, violet ink, and the octagon itself as the shape of every tile.
Home
The Octagon Religious-Research Group
A spiritual organisation governed by its members' votes.
Beliefs page
Held by the majority of members, ordered by agreement.
We are grateful that we have love in this particular version of reality. It's a beautiful barometer or compass at very least. At any time, we can compare our actions to what love would do, and immediately we know the value of what we're up to.
Proposed by Chris3 of 3 agreeWe're here to explore and learn, especially about love, and we're here to enjoy it, as wild and crazy as that sounds.
Proposed by Chris3 of 3 agreePalette
Typography
An inscription carved in stone. Cool stone, lapis blue and gold rules, with lettering inspired by classical carved capitals.
Home
The Octagon Religious-Research Group
A spiritual organisation governed by its members' votes.
Beliefs page
Held by the majority of members, ordered by agreement.
We are grateful that we have love in this particular version of reality. It's a beautiful barometer or compass at very least. At any time, we can compare our actions to what love would do, and immediately we know the value of what we're up to.
Proposed by Chris3 of 3 agreeWe're here to explore and learn, especially about love, and we're here to enjoy it, as wild and crazy as that sounds.
Proposed by Chris3 of 3 agreePalette
Typography
Text column held to about 65 characters, body at 17–18 px with generous line spacing. Today's Beliefs page runs long grey lines in small Helvetica.
Inner pages get a slim text menu instead of the strip of nine image thumbnails, which is hard to read and pushes content down.
"(3/3, Chris)" becomes "Proposed by Chris · 3 of 3 agree" with a small agreement bar, so the democratic process is visible at a glance.
Headings, sub-points and numbered lists get distinct sizes and spacing, so long pages like Community and Beliefs can be scanned.
A short line under the logo says what ORG is, with one clear "Become a member" action.
Every colour pair meets WCAG AA; fonts load from Google Fonts with only the weights used.
How different is each option? Direction A stays dark and is the gentlest change from today. Directions B and C are light and give the site a completely fresh feel.
Sample text. The home-page line "Explore, learn and decide together" is placeholder copy for the mock-ups. The real wording is for the community to choose.