Chinese tea, typed into a search field
The tea name typed with the cursor still blinking
Thirty-four Chinese teas presented as search results: one thin input field, a red pointer, a yellow button and the leaf inside a dotted box.
Chinese tea, typed into a search field
Thirty-four Chinese teas presented as search results: one thin input field, a red pointer, a yellow button and the leaf inside a dotted box.
3 teas · 3 categories
Most people meet a tea as a typed phrase long before they meet it as a leaf, so this shop keeps the typing on the page. The field is one hairline rounded rectangle, the cursor is left blinking, and the query stays lowercase in a plain grotesque because that is how it was entered. Red is used only for pointing, a mark, a pin, an arrow, and yellow only for the one action, which keeps the page as quiet as an empty result screen. Photographs sit inside dotted boxes, either full-bleed or cut out on white, without styling, the way an image result behaves. Chinese tea gains something from this treatment: the query is usually a place and a grade, so the search line doubles as the label. It is also honest about how the trade now works, since a mountain in Fujian reaches most buyers as autocomplete.