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Two Cranks Press
A loud, flat color storefront for a risograph studio that prints and binds one notebook at a time.
Published September 2, 2026. Built from a brief, no AI, no account needed to download.
The brief this store was built from
Two Cranks Press is a risograph studio in a former tire shop in Bloomington, Indiana, run by a printer and a bookbinder who met in a night class. They pull every sheet on a 1987 duplicator in two ink passes, blue then orange, and sew the books by hand on Thursdays. The store sells one thing: the Register Notebook.
- Product
- Register Notebook, A5, $24
- About it
- One hundred and sixty pages of dot grid, printed blue over orange so the grid sits under your writing instead of on top of it. Lies flat at any page because the spine is sewn, not glued.
- Brand facts
- Printed in two ink passes on a 1987 risograph duplicator. Sewn by hand in signatures of sixteen pages. Paper is 100 gsm uncoated stock from a mill in Wisconsin.
- Style
- Bold Modern. Bold uppercase hero — high-energy DTC brand
Who this theme is for
A print studio, a stationer, a zine shop, or anyone whose product is made by a machine worth showing. The page opens on flat saturated color instead of a soft photograph, states the price high on the page, and gives the middle third to how the thing is printed and bound, because a $24 notebook is bought on process.
What was decided in the brief
The style is Bold Modern on the blue and orange variant, which is the closest a web palette gets to two ink passes. Headings are uppercase sans at a size that carries flat color, buttons are square, and the product photography sits against white so the ink reads as ink. The fourth block is a materials band rather than testimonials, since the paper weight is the argument.
What is in the ZIP
- A single-product homepage: hero, trust strip, benefits, how-to-use or specs, reviews, final call to action.
- The whole store shell: product, collection, cart, search and 404 templates, header, footer, announcement bar.
- Valid Shopify 2.0 sections with schema, so every line of text is editable in the Shopify editor.
- The photos you see in the preview, ready to swap for your own.
Questions
- Is this Shopify theme actually free?
- Yes. The ZIP is a complete Shopify 2.0 theme and you can download it without an account. Upload it in your Shopify admin under Online Store, Themes, Add theme.
- Can I swap the notebook for what I sell?
- Every heading, paragraph, price and image is a theme setting you can edit in the Shopify editor. Or press Make it yours and the wizard rebuilds the page around your store name, your product and your photo.
- The colors are loud. Can I tone them down?
- The palette is five color settings in the theme editor, so you can move the primary and accent to whatever your inks are and everything else follows. Nothing is hardcoded in the CSS.
