Credits

Everything on this site, and where it came from.

Design & development

Akshay Moreshiya

Words

All first person, all mine

Cast

At the laptop: Akshay Moreshiya
On my head: The bird
On my shoulder: The monkey
Behind me: The bear
At the edge of the desk: The dog
By my elbow: The squirrel
Asleep throughout: The cat

Art department

Portrait: Stipple illustration of Akshay Moreshiya
Avatar & favicon: Illustrated avatar of Akshay Moreshiya, used as the site icon, on saved home screens and on shared links
Home illustration: Line drawing of Akshay at his desk with the crew, one drawing in black ink and in white. Made for this site, © Akshay Moreshiya
Glass flower loop: Licensed from GetLayers

The wordmark, one letter at a time, cycling through the site’s three typefaces

Music

Glass Flower Drift: Written, produced and mixed by Akshay Moreshiya
Void & Blossom: Written, produced and mixed by Akshay Moreshiya

Both tracks are my own original compositions and recordings, made for this site, with no samples, loops or third-party material, so there are no copyright claims attached to them. They are © Akshay Moreshiya, all rights reserved. If you would like to use one, ask me first.

Technical

Fonts: Instrument Sans, Instrument Serif, Courier Prime (Google Fonts, open licences); Ciscela and Reatro Retro (commercial licences, see below)
Built with: Next.js, React, Three.js, GSAP, Lenis
Email: Brevo for notify@akshay.ink and letters@akshay.ink

Special effects

The portrait in dots: About twelve thousand dots drawn in code from my own photograph, dense in the hair, the glasses and the beard. They fly in when the About page opens, and the cursor pushes them aside
The eyes: Two cartoon eyes in front of my name. The pupils follow the pointer, or your finger on a phone, and the lids blink on their own
The cube: A die with my name on it, its six faces reading A, K, S, H, A, Y. Left alone it turns through every face; put the cursor on it and you steer it

The eyes’ moods

Neutral: resting, with a slow blink every few seconds
Happy: lids lift when you hover my name
Surprised: wide open when something new appears
Curious: one lid up, following a link under the cursor
Determined: narrowed while you click and hold
Sleepy: half closed after a while with no movement

Motion

Every page gets its own way in, and a few things move on their own.

Preloader: one line draws itself in and bends into a smile, then a dark sheet lifts away
Home: a dark panel folds open from a hairline, like a screen switching on
World: a portal opens onto a turning sphere of points, which shatters as you arrive
Projects: five columns wipe down in turn
Project: a circle in the project’s colour grows from the pointer
About: two curtains close, then open
Contact: the screen folds into an envelope, and its seal lands on the page
Thoughts: eight ruled lines draw across, like a notebook filling
Domains: a grid of tiles pops in from the centre
Credits: fade to black and a title rolls up, then this
Cursor: a different shape on every page: a dot, a ring, a tilted square, a bar, a dashed circle
Journey rail: in the world, a slim line on the right edge fills as you travel; click any chapter to fly there

Colour grading

Four inks, and a different highlight on every page when you select text.

Dark: #212121
Off-black: #040404
Cream: #efded9
Light: #f1edeb

Selection, per page

Home & World: #efded9
Projects: #ffd166
Project: #212121
About: #ff8a5b
Contact: #4f7cff
Thoughts: #c81e18
Domains: #ff4f8b
Credits: #b89cff

Typography

Interface, labels, body text: Instrument Sans
Headlines and the big words: Instrument Serif Italic
The clock and my name: Courier Prime
The emphasised word in big headings: Ciscela
Small retro accents: Reatro Retro

Locations

The page behind the front door is a single Three.js scene. Project cards sit on a spiral and you travel past them by scrolling, dragging or holding. A fluid pass bends the picture while you move and rests when you stop, and the licensed glass flower waits at the end.

Chapter 1: Endless possibilities
Chapter 2: I build the whole thing
Chapter 3: 1200+ landing pages
Chapter 4: No deadline on becoming

Licensed assets

Two typefaces on this site are paid for. They are credited here with the terms they are used under.

Ciscela

Typeface. A display serif by MartypeCo. The emphasised word in the big page headings.

Reatro Retro

Typeface. A western display face by Pandeka Studio. Small retro accents, like the price labels on Domains.

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