Thornwood Herbarium Catalogue

Design a Victorian naturalist's herbarium specimen catalogue.

Concept:
A pressed-plant archive you browse, each specimen mounted and labelled by hand.

Layout / Structure:
- A calm scholarly archive — legible and unhurried
- Left: an index of specimens by Latin name and accession number
- Centre: the mounted specimen sheet — a pressed-plant line drawing with tape corners and a herbarium label
- Right: the collector's field notes
- Top: the institution name and accession

Visual System:
- Aged ivory paper with faint foxing, sepia ink, muted botanical green and pressed-flower ochre
- Delicate engraving-style line art, paper tape corners, a typed taxonomy label box, handwritten notes
- Refined serif with italic Latin and a handwritten note face — NO neon, NO dark mode, NO glow, NO digital flatness

Interaction:
- Choosing a specimen mounts a new pressed plant with its label, settling onto the sheet
- A lens toggle magnifies the specimen's detail
- The field notes update with each specimen

Mood:
Scholarly.
Delicate.
Vintage and botanical.
Quietly studious.