Weather Cards

Weather Cards is a small study in the opposite direction from the minimalist-dashboard default. What if a weather display tried to be legible and dense and emotionally specific, all at once? Each card is a city, and each card is a whole visual scene — sky gradient driven by time of day and sun elevation, drifting clouds that scale with wind and coverage, sun and moon positions, starfields on night cards, biome-aware ground, iconic landmark silhouettes, and seasonal flourishes like cherry blossoms in Tokyo or northern lights in Reykjavik.

The underlying bet is one Anselm keeps coming back to: modern interfaces have over-corrected toward minimalism, and the visual cortex is capable of parsing much richer compositions than current design culture gives it credit for. Dense infographics as a medium, not a problem to be cleaned up.

Real-time weather from Open-Meteo, hand-tuned SVG layers, React + Vite under the hood. One of the more modest projects in the archive — more a study than a full tool — but the kind of study that keeps informing later work.