Athletics theme review

Three directions for the Little Athletics site.

Each preview is a dedicated demo page with its own layout, motifs, fonts, and athletics placeholder content — not just a colour swap on the existing Phantoms pages. Three personalities, same content. Concept A is now aligned with Australian Athletics' official 2025 brand (the unified national body Little Athletics NSW sits under) — the "safe sell" if the committee wants to look like part of the parent organisation. B and C are deliberately distinctive alternatives.

Trackside AA-aligned

Concept A · the safe sell to committee

Officially aligned with Australian Athletics' 2025 brand — the unified national body Little Athletics NSW now sits under. Exact AA palette (Pantone-matched), Montserrat display font, lane-line motif. Reads as a sibling site of the parent organisation. Gold for centre records, orange for season PBs.

#192c34 · AA navy #00a594 · AA teal #d06516 · AA orange #fac600 · AA gold Montserrat Pantone-matched
View Trackside demo

Lane 4

Concept B · the precision instrument

Light theme, data-first, monospaced numerals dominant. The hero is one giant centre-record readout. Records table reads like a stopwatch display. Hot yellow highlights record-holder rows. Spare and clinical.

#f8f8f5 · chalk #ffd400 · safety yellow #1a1a1a · graphite Anton + JetBrains Mono
View Lane 4 demo

Photo Finish

Concept C · the editorial archive

Editorial masthead layout, photo-led hero with a finish-line stripe motif, serif body for gravitas, gold/bronze medal accents. Includes a "from the centre report" longform story and an honour-roll timeline. Reads "this club has history".

#0c0c0c · void #d4af37 · medal gold #cd7f32 · bronze Bebas Neue + Source Serif
View Photo Finish demo
★ Trackside — chosen direction

Full Trackside experience (public + admin)

Beyond the home-page demo, here are the full set of pages built in the Trackside aesthetic. Public pages use sample data on this rugby deploy; admin pages need a logged-in session.

Public
Home
Public
The Draw
Public
Results
Admin (mockup)
Mockups index

Production admin pages also live at /admin/athletics/ — those require a logged-in session and talk to the real D1.

How to use this: open each demo in a new tab, scroll through, get a feel for the rhythm. They're built to be evaluated side-by-side — same content, three personalities.

After you've picked one or two to take forward, tell me which and I'll: clean out the losers, build the winning theme as a real theme-athletics-X.css layered with the production Phantoms infrastructure (so the actual Athletics site uses the existing nav/footer partials + sport-module dispatcher + W1.5 athletics data), and resume on scripts/new-club.mjs.

The earlier colour-only preview (?theme= on the main site) stays available as a "system check" but it's not the real product preview — these three are.