A station that only exists after dark
Paper Moon is listener-funded and broadcasts from eleven at night until dawn. Everything about the visual system had to answer one question: what does a radio station look like when nobody is supposed to be awake?
The answer was a slow, breathing gradient that shifts from indigo to pink across the night, with programme information set in a small monospaced voice over the top. Nothing flashes. Nothing asks for attention it has not earned.
Motion
The on-air player drifts rather than animates. Each show has a seed value that changes the gradient’s movement, so regular listeners begin to recognise shows by their weather before they read a title.
The site runs on a tiny budget and a single volunteer developer, so every component was built to be edited without a designer in the room.