# Monte — Style Reference
> rust-tinted coastal morning
**Theme:** light
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Monte Café is a sun-baked coastal café language: a single dominant terracotta field floods the hero like rusted corten steel under a Newcastle morning, then dissolves into warm cream interiors and café photography. The design is built on two surfaces only — terracotta and cream — and a single serif face (Riposte) that does all the talking, from eyebrow labels to display headlines. Apercu Mono appears as small functional print for metadata, hours, and temperature. The mood is hand-drawn and human: line-art illustrations, curved headline text wrapping circular forms, pill-shaped ghost buttons, and generous breathing room. There are no shadows, no gradients, no decorative chrome — just ink, warmth, and white space.