# Ink & Anchor Tattoo - website by Nerdsharks

> A custom tattoo studio with three resident artists working in traditional, blackwork and fine-line styles. Enquiries arrive as Instagram DMs with no size, no placement and no budget, each artist spends hours replying, and walk-ins keep asking for flash on days when nobody has space. Designed and built by Nerdsharks.

- Source: https://nerdsharks.com/portfolio/ink-and-anchor-tattoo
- Publisher: Nerdsharks (Exeter, Devon, UK)
- Updated: 2026-09-27

## Design rationale

Tattoo clients choose an artist and a style, not a studio, so the page opens like a gig poster pasted on a wall. A pink-toned photograph of a tattooed back stands in front of a giant "Ink & Anchor" wordmark, so the lettering disappears behind the shoulders and returns either side. On load the wordmark bleeds in: eroded, half-melted letters come first, then solid ink glitches in over them in stepped bands while a misregistered bone-white copy snaps into place. Small mono captions are scattered to the corners with the coordinates, the hours and whose books are open, and a pink card carries the headline and the enquiry button. Every photograph after that arrives as a stepped glitch reveal with a pink scan bar. The manifesto highlights its key words with rough brush blocks that wipe in as you read. The flash-day sheet switches to bone paper, and hovering a design floods it with pink ink, jitters it and stamps it. Climate Crisis, a typeface whose letters erode, sets the display type, with Space Mono underneath, on lining black, flash pink and bone.

## Features

- **Poster hero with the wordmark behind a cut-out figure** - It reads as a studio with a point of view, not a template, which is what tattoo clients look for.
- **Artist cards with live 'books open' or waitlist status** - Clients go straight to the right artist and style instead of DMing everyone.
- **Healed-work gallery tagged by style, artist and age** - Showing tattoos months later is the strongest proof of quality.
- **Hover-to-ink flash sheet with prices and dates** - Walk-ins are pointed to set flash days rather than turning up when nobody has space.
- **Structured enquiry form covering size, placement, budget and references** - An artist can quote in one reply instead of ten DMs.

Live demo: https://nerdsharks.com/demo/ink-and-anchor-tattoo