# Groovy Sunshine: a seventies birthday website theme > Groovy Sunshine dresses a birthday site in seventies sunshine: mustard and burnt orange, a sunburst, daisies, a nav of pills on a rainbow band and a striped scrollbar. Page: https://bday.land/themes/groovy-sunshine · updated 2026-10-12 a birthday with a seventies glow: warm cream and mustard, wavy rainbow bands, daisy stickers, and a sunburst rising behind every page. **comes with Milestone · $39 once.** mustard and burnt orange, wavy rainbow bands, daisy stickers and a sunburst: a birthday with a seventies glow. ## the look, in parts **the paint chips:** - warm cream (#FBF0DA): the page - oatmeal (#F3D8A7): card stock - mustard (#EBB035): buttons, name tabs and the page you're on - burnt orange (#E2742F): stamps and the stacked shadow - sunflower (#F6D365): tape, swipes and hover - dusty rose (#E5A49E): keys and prompts - avocado (#A9B451): done - rust (#A4482A): the love meter **the type:** headlines in Shrikhand, handwriting in Caveat, everything else in Nunito. **the paper:** warm cream and oatmeal card stock, a sunburst behind every page and low hills along its foot. **the cards:** rounded retro cards with a mustard, orange and rust racing stripe across the top, held down with pinstriped tape **the nav (the groove):** a cream capsule with a wavy rainbow band through it, every page a chunky pill that fills with its own stripe of rainbow; the page you're on is mustard with a sunrise and a daisy. on phones, two rows of pills, each on its own rainbow band, the last one "more grooves", which opens a cream card with the rest. the pages are called the porch · drop a card · the mixtape · the island · the jamboree. **the scrollbar (the striped tab):** a rounded mustard tab with a sock stripe of burnt orange and rust round its middle, riding a cream groove with a wavy line down it: sunflower under the pointer, avocado while you drag. **accent colours it comes with:** mustard (#EBB035), apricot (#F4A25E), avocado (#A9B451), dusty rose (#E5A49E), turquoise (#78CCC4). **best for:** the vintage lover, the music friend, a laid-back backyard party. ## the idea Groovy Sunshine dresses the birthday site as a long seventies summer afternoon, the kind with a record playing in the next room and someone flipping burgers in the garden. the page is warm cream, a soft sunburst of mustard rays fans out from behind the top of every page, and two low hills of mustard and burnt orange roll along the bottom. everything is rounded: the cards, the buttons, the boxes friends write in, even the photos, which come back with soft corners like snapshots from the chemist. the sticker rule still holds underneath, so every card keeps its dark ink outline and its hard little shadow, and every note, doodle, photo and clip sits exactly where a friend put it. what changes is the room it's in. friends' cards lose their torn edges and become rounded retro cards, each with a racing stripe of mustard, burnt orange and rust across the top, held down with pinstriped tape. daisies turn up wherever the site wants a little mark, and the headlines are set in a heavy seventies brush italic with a stacked rainbow shadow. ## the palette eight colours, straight out of a seventies kitchen, each with a job. **warm cream** is the page and **oatmeal** is the card stock half the cards are cut from. **mustard** is the accent: the main buttons, the name tabs on friends' cards, the site's name and the page you're on. **burnt orange** stamps things and carries the middle of the stacked shadow, **sunflower** is the tape and the highlighter, **dusty rose** marks the keys and prompts you can press, **avocado** means done, and a deep **rust** fills the love meter. every word is dark ink on a light ground, and every colour pair on the page is checked for contrast, so the warm palette never costs anyone their reading. mustard comes with four checked alternatives, apricot, avocado, dusty rose and turquoise: pick one on the site's design page and the buttons, the name tabs and the scrollbar's tab all follow it, while the rainbow stays the rainbow. friends choosing a colour for their blob pick from six seventies colours too: mustard, burnt orange, avocado, dusty rose, turquoise and rust. ## the type - **Shrikhand** for the headlines: a heavy, swooping brush italic, outlined in ink over a stacked shadow of sunflower, burnt orange and rust, like the title on a record sleeve. - **Caveat** for the handwriting: card messages, captions and the notes friends scribble in the margins. - **Nunito** for everything you read at length, from the buttons to the names of the pages in the nav. headlines keep the case they were written in, so the board's title and the line on a missing page read like a relaxed hello rather than a shout. friends' names sit on mustard tabs at the top of their cards, in the same brush italic, exactly as they typed them. ## the groove (the nav) the nav is a groove: a cream capsule across the top of every page with a wavy rainbow band running through it, five stripes of avocado, mustard, orange, rust and dusty rose between two ink lines. the site's name rides the band in a pill with a sunrise fanning up inside it (on the front page, a daisy sits there instead), and every page rides it as a chunky rounded white pill: **the porch, drop a card, the mixtape, the island** and **the jamboree**. each pill leans a little, like a row of friends swaying to a slow song. point at one and it straightens up, fills with its own stripe of the rainbow and does a tiny boogie. the page you're on turns mustard with a sunrise in it, and a daisy blooms on its shoulder, then slowly turns. the music switch rides the band at the end as one more pill, its note sitting on a little record; in the band it keeps just the record and its arrow, no words. on a phone the pills ride two bands, three on the top one and two on the one underneath. the last one says **more grooves**, and it opens a cream card with the rainbow band across its top like an awning, holding the jamboree and the music switch, its words back. on a tablet the name sits on its own above two rows of three, each row on its own band, so every page has room without anything squeezing. ## the scrollbar even the scrollbar is in on it. the thumb is a **striped tab**: a rounded mustard pill outlined in ink, with a sock stripe round its middle, burnt orange over rust, which doubles as its grip. it rides a cream groove with a thin orange and mustard line waving down it. it turns sunflower under the pointer and avocado while you drag, and it follows whichever accent the host picked, so with turquoise chosen the tab turns turquoise and keeps its stripe. small boxes, like the message box in the card maker and the island's menu, get a slimmer plain tab on a clear groove. Firefox draws scrollbars in a single colour, so there it's a plain dark-mustard thumb on the cream: the same idea, with fewer details. ## page by page - **the front page:** the birthday person's name in big mustard brush letters with a rainbow shadow, a white badge above it that says "far out, it's a birthday" with a daisy pinned on, and the countdown told on three rounded little television screens. - **the card maker:** the step you're on blooms into a daisy, finished steps turn avocado with a tick, and every button wears a cream inline like an enamel badge. - **the board:** renamed **the mixtape**, every card a track on it and the card count shouted from a scalloped sun badge. the tidy button says "line up the tracks", and "shuffle them again" puts them back. - **the festival:** **the jamboree** in the nav, twelve booths and a row of arcade cabinets set up in the backyard, each game's best scores on a little white ticket, and a new best lands on the sun badge. - **the island:** the menu opens on a striped retro card, and hugs pop up as +100 LOVE, FAR OUT! and GROOVY! - **a missing page:** "this track skipped", a record with a slice broken off it, and a way back to the porch. ![the festival in Groovy Sunshine: the jamboree in mustard with its daisy, an orange title, a strip of taped photos, a who's playing card with a racing stripe and round filter pills](https://bday.land/_next/static/immutable/media/theme-groovy-sunshine-festival.1lrmqyuwz-ah1.jpg) *the jamboree: the page you're on in a mustard pill with its daisy, over a who's playing card with a racing stripe* ## who it suits the vintage lover, whose flat is all wood panelling, trailing plants and a record player rescued from a car-boot sale. the music friend, who once made you a mixtape and still asks whether you listened to side two. a laid-back backyard party with a paddling pool, a long playlist and a cake going a little soft in the sun. it suits a 30th as well as a 60th, and it's a lovely fit for anyone born in the seventies, or anyone who wishes they had been. whichever look a site wears, the island stays its paper-cutout self, and every card, photo and clip friends left stays exactly as they left it. a look changes the record on the turntable, never the party. > **comes with milestone:** it comes with Milestone: one payment of $39 for that birthday, or $20 more for a site already on Party. any site can try it on first: start the site and preview this look on its design page. once the site is on Milestone, pick it there and the site wears it. see [pricing](https://bday.land/pricing) for everything else Milestone adds. ## keep reading - [themes](https://bday.land/themes): the ten looks a birthday site can wear: sticker saga free, and nine more with milestone, from a graph-paper notebook to an 8-bit arcade. - [sticker saga](https://bday.land/themes/sticker-saga): the free, default look: kraft paper, washi tape, die-cut sticker headlines and marker doodles, on the board and the island. - [amber notebook](https://bday.land/themes/amber-notebook): a graph-paper notebook look: a binder nav with index tabs, masking tape, one amber accent and a ruled-paper scrollbar. - [pricing](https://bday.land/pricing): one-time per birthday site: free for five cards, $19 for the whole group and every game, $39 for the big ones with the signature themes. friends never pay. --- birthdayland is a birthday website your friends fill together. it's free to start, a paid plan is one payment per birthday site, and friends never pay. every page, for language models: https://bday.land/llms.txt