# Seaside Postcard: a vintage travel postcard birthday website theme > Seaside Postcard dresses a birthday site as vintage airmail: sun-faded postcards, a nav of luggage tags on a string, postmarks and a postage-stamp scrollbar. Page: https://bday.land/themes/seaside-postcard · updated 2026-10-12 a birthday that arrives by post: sun-faded postcards, red and blue airmail stripes, a row of luggage tags on a string and a postage stamp for a scrollbar. **comes with Milestone · $39 once.** sun-faded postcards, red and blue airmail stripes, luggage tags on a string and a postage stamp for a scrollbar. ## the look, in parts **the paint chips:** - postcard cream (#F8ECD4): the page - dune sand (#E8CFA6): card stock - sea glass (#5CC4B4): buttons and name tabs - coral (#F7765A): airmail stripes and stamps - sunshine (#FFD45C): tape and highlights - lido blue (#6CC3E8): things to press - beach grass (#BCDD8F): done - postmark navy (#2E4A86): postmarks and the love meter **the type:** headlines in Lilita One, handwriting in Caveat, everything else in Nunito. **the paper:** postcard cream and dune sand, sun-faded, with a faint printed dot screen. **the cards:** square-cut postcards taped up in rows, each date franked with a navy postmark **the nav (the luggage tags):** a twine strung between brass pins, sagging in the middle, every page a luggage tag hung lower toward the centre; the page you're on swings forward in sea glass with a stamp. on phones, one twine across the screen with five tags, the last "more stops", which opens an airmail envelope with the rest. the pages are called home · send a card · mailbag · island · the pier. **the scrollbar (the postage stamp):** a stamp with perforated edges, a white margin and a sea glass face, riding a sand groove with an airmail edge: sunshine under the pointer, coral while you drag. **accent colours it comes with:** sea glass (#5CC4B4), sunset coral (#FF9B85), harbour blue (#7FC8F2), deckchair yellow (#FFC94A), seashell pink (#F7A6B9). **best for:** the traveller, the friend who lives far away, a long-distance birthday. ## the idea Seaside Postcard dresses the whole birthday site as post from somewhere sunny. the page is cream card stock, bleached a little at the top where the sun caught it and printed with a faint dot screen, like a holiday postcard that sat on a shelf for one summer too many. friends' cards become postcards: square-cut, cream or sand, taped up in rows, and each one franked with a navy postmark and a run of wavy lines beside the date it arrived. everything else comes from the post office. the main buttons are edged in red and blue airmail stripes. a section break is a postmark and its wavy cancellation lines. the countdown to the big day turns into a departures board of three navy split-flap tiles. the STUCK! stamp that lands when a friend sends a card comes down in postmark navy, and even the one coffee-ring stain on the page is a faded postmark now. on the front page, "greetings from" is written by hand above the site's name, the way the old big-letter postcards did it. ## the palette and the type **sea glass** is the accent: the main buttons, the name tabs on friends' cards, the site's name and the stamp in the scrollbar. **coral** and **postmark navy** are the airmail pair, and navy also inks the postmarks, fills the love meter and lights the departures board. **sunshine** yellow is the tape and the highlights, **lido blue** marks things you can press, and **beach grass** means done. it all sits on **postcard cream** and **dune sand**, with dark ink for every word, and every colour pair on the page is checked for contrast. sea glass comes with four checked alternatives: sunset coral, harbour blue, deckchair yellow and seashell pink. pick one and the buttons, the name tabs, the tag of the page you're on and the stamp all follow it. friends choosing a colour for their blob get six seaside ones: sea glass, coral, sunshine, lido blue, beach grass and seashell pink. - **Lilita One** for the headlines: chunky block capitals in a white rim, with a navy shadow stepped out behind them like the lettering on an old souvenir postcard. - **Caveat** for the handwriting: card messages, captions and that "greetings from", in a quick, loopy pen, sized up a touch so it stays easy to read. - **Nunito** for labels, buttons and everything you read at length. ## the luggage tags (the nav) the nav is a length of twisted twine strung across the top of every page between two brass pins, sagging a little in the middle, with each page hung from it on a manila luggage tag: **home, send a card, mailbag, island** and **the pier**. the tags follow the twine down, so the ones in the middle hang lowest. every tag has clipped corners, a reinforced eyelet with a loop of string through it, a band of colour along its foot and its own slight lean, the way tags hang after a few airports. point at one and it swings gently from its eyelet, a wavy navy line drawn under its name. the page you're on swings round to face you, a size bigger, in sea glass with a coral stamp stuck on its shoulder. the site's name is franked with a navy postmark, and on the front page the cake sits on a sea glass stamp instead. the music switch hangs off the same twine as a little ticket, punched at the top, with a perforation after its note; on a tablet or a small laptop it keeps just the note and its arrow. on a phone the twine runs the width of the screen with five tags on it, the last one **more stops**: tap it and its tag turns sunshine yellow, and an airmail envelope opens, striped red and blue along its edges, with a stamp in its corner and the rest of the tags lying inside. ## the scrollbar the scrollbar is a **postage stamp**. the thumb has real perforated edges, a white paper margin, a thin printed frame and a sea glass face with two small waves at its middle, and it slides along a sand-coloured groove with a strip of airmail stripes on the page side. it turns sunshine yellow under the pointer and coral while you drag, and its face follows whichever accent the host picked. small boxes, like the message box in the card maker and the island's menu, get a slim plain strip in an ink ring instead of the stamp. Firefox draws scrollbars in a single colour, so there it's a plain dark sea glass strip on the sand: same idea, fewer details. ## page by page - **the front page:** "greetings from" over the site's name in big sea glass capitals, any facts the host adds on a sheet of little stamps, and the countdown as a departures board. - **the card maker:** the steps become stops on a dashed route, and its main buttons wear the airmail stripes. - **the board:** renamed **the mailbag**, with every card a postcard and every date a postmark. the card count is stamped beside the title, the tidy button says "sort the post", and "tip the bag out" scatters them again. - **the festival:** **the pier**, a run of booths and arcade cabinets. pick a game and chase a high score. - **the island:** its menu card carries an airmail stripe along the top, and hugs pop up as SPECIAL DELIVERY, +1 POSTCARD and FIRST CLASS HUG. - **a missing page:** "this page got lost in the post", under a coral stamp that says no such address, with a postcard whose address got smudged and a way back to the front. ![the festival in Seaside Postcard: the pier's tag in sea glass on the twine, a coral title, a strip of taped photos, a who's playing card and round filter chips](https://bday.land/_next/static/immutable/media/theme-seaside-postcard-festival.0aqaq-9uw4wm8.jpg) *the festival: the pier's tag in sea glass on the twine, a coral stamp on its shoulder* ## who it suits the traveller. the friend who lives far away. anyone whose people are scattered across a map and a few time zones. it suits a long-distance birthday best of all, where every card really did come from somewhere else, and a site full of postcards says what a shoebox of them would: we were all thinking of you, from wherever we were. it's warm enough for a parent's 60th and bright enough for a 21st. the island itself stays the same paper-cutout world whichever look the site wears (the look reaches its menu and the words that pop up), and every card, photo and clip friends left is exactly the same: a look changes how the site is dressed, never what's in it. to see it beside the others, compare every look on [themes](https://bday.land/themes). > **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. - [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. - [glossy valley](https://bday.land/themes/glossy-valley): a glossy sky-blue look: a nav of round glossy buttons, level glass cards, a gem on top and a glass-capsule 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