Most 404 pages apologise. I wanted mine to invite you to stay for a few seconds. So the page became a surface of moving blue light that reacts when you move the cursor or tap the screen.

The brief I gave myself

How the water moves

The background is a small WebGL shader. It layers fractal noise and then warps that noise with itself, a technique called domain warping. The result behaves like ink in water: slow folds that keep changing and never repeat in an obvious way.

The cursor adds a gentle twist around its position. A tap sends a ring outward that fades after about three seconds. On a phone this turns the page into something you want to touch.

An error page is still a brand moment.

Keeping it fast

Where it lives now

The same moving blue now sits behind the 404 page, the copyright page and the privacy page. It also tints every story in this journal: each track has its own key color, and the gradient takes on that color.

Try it: visit a page that is lost and move your cursor across the screen.

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