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The facts

What it is

A horror website. Six modes, one engine.

Price

Free. No account, no email address, nothing to install.

Made by

One person. The Management is a character, not a company.

Runs on

A browser. Live WebGL where it can, a complete hand-built scene where it cannot.

Collects

Cookieless page counts. No camera, no microphone, no reaction recording.

Boilerplate

Lift either of these verbatim. No attribution line is required, and neither is a link — though one is welcome.

Short

Nightmare Project is a horror website that opens on something calm and then stops being calm. Six modes — a jump scare, a ten-minute slow burn, an unattended wait, a daily find-the-wrong-thing puzzle, a prank link you can send to a friend, and an endless feed that is mostly sunsets. Free, no account, and every scare has an off switch.

Long

Nightmare Project is a horror website built around a single idea: that calm is the scariest thing you can show someone, because it is the only thing that can be taken away. It opens on a lake at blue hour, rendered live rather than filmed, and it waits. Six modes run on the same engine, from a jump scare you choose the intensity of to a ten-minute corridor shift in which nothing jumps out at all. A daily puzzle asks you to find the one wrong thing in five pictures; a prank link lets you point any of it at a friend, who can switch it off without asking you. There are no accounts, no email capture, no advertising and no cookies. Sound and scares each have a visible switch, Esc stops anything already running, and reduced-motion settings are honoured automatically. It is made by one person, and The Management — the voice that files the paperwork — is a character.

Assets

Every file below is generated from one hand-built vector — solid fill, no strokes, no type converted to outlines — so the SVG is the artwork rather than a picture of it. Prefer it where you can.

The mark

The NP monogram on its own. First choice at any size where the wordmark would be unreadable — an avatar, a favicon, a corner of a thumbnail.

• SVG, light
• SVG, dark
• PNG 1024, light
• PNG 1024, dark

The lockup

Mark and wordmark together. Use this wherever the name has to be legible — a title card, a sponsor slide, a list of credits.

• SVG, light
• SVG, dark
• PNG 1200, light
• PNG 1200, dark

The avatar

A square tile, mark reversed out of the background, for anywhere a platform demands one shape and crops it to a circle.

• PNG 512, dark
• PNG 512, light
• WebP 512, dark
• WebP 512, light

The interface icons are a separate 24-pixel set and are not part of the identity; they support controls and never stand in for the mark.

Colour

void #050506

The background. Everything sits on it.

ash #e7e4dd

Headings and the mark on dark surfaces.

bone #c6c0b3

Secondary text and quiet labels.

blood #b0121c

Fills and borders. Never text — it is 2.9:1.

ember #ff2d3d

The accent. Case references, one word per heading.

How to use it

• Use the light mark on dark surfaces and the dark mark on light ones.

  Do not recolour it. It is one flat fill and inherits whatever it is given.

• Keep the clear space built into the file.

  Do not crop to the painted pixels — the padding is part of the artwork.

• Scale the SVG. It is a single path and holds its shape at any size.

  Do not add a glow, shadow, outline, gradient or texture inside the mark.

• Call it Nightmare Project, two words, both capitalised.

  Not The Nightmare Project, not NightmareProject, not NP on first mention.

Before you show it to anyone

The scares include sudden flashing images and loud audio. On this site nobody meets one without passing a warning first and without a switch within reach. In a video, a stream or a talk, that protection is yours to provide — please warn for flashing imagery and sound before you play anything, and say that photosensitive epilepsy and heart conditions are the reason.

Worth knowing, and worth repeating on air: sound and scares each have their own switch at the top of every page, the choice is remembered between visits, Esc stops anything already running, and prefers-reduced-motion is honoured automatically. Nothing on the site autoplays — audio is never even initialised until someone presses something. The full detail is in the accessibility statement.

One thing to get right if you cover the prank links: the person who receives one can retire it permanently from the page itself, without an account and without the sender's permission. That is not a footnote, it is the reason the feature is allowed to exist.

Asking anything else

Press, interviews, permissions and anything this page failed to answer: hello@nightmareproject.com. How the thing is built is on the colophon, and the other desks are listed on the contact page.