Spoke & Wheel

Why it looks this way.

Typography

Azeret Mono runs from hairline to black, so headings are set very heavy, like a frame serial number stamped into steel, and secondary lines are set light. Overpass, drawn from American highway signs, carries the reading text. Together they look like a well-organized parts wall.

• Azeret Mono headlines
• Overpass body text

Color

The site opens in its dark theme, because most people check it in the evening before a 5 PM shop night. The amber is a sodium streetlight on 4th Avenue at dusk and the turquoise is the trim on a Barrio Viejo door. The light theme swaps to a sun-bleached caliche ground with a deep turquoise for links, which holds contrast in bright desert light.

• Page #EFE8DD
• Cards #FBF8F3
• Text #2A1F17
• Brand #17635F
• Accent #C76B1C

Layout

A slim icon rail keeps every page in reach without a header bar, leaving the full width for the week's schedule. Icons are paired with labels, and the rail turns into a plain menu on phones.

Pages: This week, Fix your bike, Earn a bike, Give a bike, Volunteer, Rides & classes

Hero

The week itself is the hero: seven columns, each with what's on that day, today's column highlighted, and a countdown to the next open shop. Regulars only need that one screen, and newcomers learn when to show up before anything else.

Calls to action

The main action is 'Come to open shop' because that's the one thing almost everyone here does first. 'Sign up for Earn-a-Bike' is for people who need a bike, not a repair, and 'Drop off a bike' gives every carport in Tucson a use for the bike that's been sitting there since 2019.

Photography

Hands, wheels and grease: people truing wheels, women in a workshop with a bike between them, a kid learning to ride. Real mechanics doing real repairs, and no lycra racing shots, because almost nobody here rides for sport.

Accessibility

Both themes pass WCAG AA for all text. The rail icons always have text labels. The weekly schedule is real text in day columns, so screen readers read each day in order, and the countdown is written in plain words.