About the De Chirico template
De Chirico's empty plazas and impossible shadows: a peach background (#fed7aa) casts long brown shadows (#92400e) that don't quite align with any light source. The dark text (#1c1917) sits in surreal stillness. Built for galleries, conceptual art collectives, and brands trafficking in mystery and intrigue. The unsettling beauty works—visitors feel transported rather than sold-to. This is for founders confident their offering justifies the disorientation. Showcase momentum with a referral leaderboard that appears almost as an afterthought in this dreamscape.
What the demo shows
The live demo on this page launches Emptyplaza, a made-up product we wrote to show the template with realistic copy: the headline reads “Travel to places no one goes.” and the subhead says “Curated guides to eerily beautiful, under-visited towns across Europe. Long shadows, zero crowds.” Below it you see the signup form, a demo launch countdown and the share-to-climb referral panel exactly as a visitor would. Try the form: in the demo nothing is stored. When you use De Chirico, you replace Emptyplaza with your own product name, headline, subhead and logo; the palette and motion come with it and every colour stays editable.
Design details
De Chirico is a light template: a pale orange background (#fed7aa), charcoal type (#1c1917) and a brown accent (#92400e) on the join button, the countdown and the referral highlights. Body text sits at a 12.9:1 contrast ratio against the background, comfortably past the WCAG AAA threshold. Behind the copy the page animates with dust motes floating in the light, clearly visible; visitors who ask their device for reduced motion get a still frame instead. Structurally it uses the Manifesto layout, shared with 93 other templates, but the palette, the motion and the demo copy are De Chirico's own.
- Background
- #fed7aa
- Accent
- #92400e
- Text
- #1c1917
How it compares
Within Art / Abstract, De Chirico stands out for its brown accent on a pale orange ground. If it is not quite right, Magritte Apple is also light but leans on an emerald accent and clouds drifting past (“Bowler hat, green apple”). Judd Box is also light but leans on a near-black accent and stacking geometric blocks (“Specific objects, steel”). Liquid Motion flips to a dark near-black canvas with a vivid pink accent and a liquid gradient that never stops moving (“Fluid SVG blobs that morph through each other”). All of them share the same signup, referral and analytics features, so switching later only changes the look.
Launch with De Chirico in three steps
- Click “Use this template” and create a free account; De Chirico is preselected in the page wizard.
- Replace the Emptyplaza demo copy with your product's headline and one-line pitch, pick a URL, and optionally set a launch date to show a real countdown.
- Publish and share the link. Every subscriber gets a personal referral link, and you watch signups and top referrers arrive in the dashboard.
