Typecoast is a West Coast–based website workshop that brings letterpress sensibilities to web design. We don’t specialize in a particular industry or use cookie-cutter templates; we just make great sites. And we have fun doing it.
Whether we’re analyzing and improving your customer’s website experience or refreshing your brand for readability and accessibility, we always lean into what’s unique about your organization or business—because that’s what’ll make you stand out amidst the generic AI dreck on offer. Using the latest and best practices in UX, code and accessibility, we build websites that are secure, usable, and visually singular. There’s nobody like you, and we’ve never made a website like yours.
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WordPress Renovations
While we thrive in any web dev platform, building + running WordPress the right way is our expertise.
While we love building new websites from scratch, most of our customers initially come to us with bloated, cobbled-together, plugin-stuffed WordPress websites built without a focus on sustainability or ease of use. We’ve rescued or rebuilt hundreds of websites.
Begin the process now to convert your existing WordPress site to a secure, accessible, block-based WordPress site. Utilize the full feature set of Gutenberg and WordPress 6.x., including internal style guides, unified color palates, and reusable pattern templates.
Our block-by-block renovation process will bring your site into the present without a full rebuild, increase security and decrease load times for a zippier site.
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“I have worked with Typecoast on three website build projects since 2020, and the work has always been exceptional and detail-oriented. Each project is gorgeous and unique for our users, and easy to use for staff and project managers. I really appreciated the collaborative spirit and kindness that Scout brings to our projects, and I feel so grateful to have worked with him and Typecoast.”
—Ann Marie Lonsdale, Partake Arts
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Host + Maintain
Typecoast offers fast, secure hosting and upkeep plans, to help free up your attention and time.
When you’re busy changing the world, you don’t have time to worry about your web presence. Keeping track of domain renewals, deciding when to enable backups, and knowing whether or not an update is going to break your website can all detract from your focus, time, and energy. So let us do it instead.
Typecoast offers Hosting + Maintenance packages that will allow you to rest easy knowing that someone else is taking care of your site. Our packages include hosting, domain registration, website security, optimization, content updates, and more. Take advantage of a worry-free consolidated system (domain, hosting, email & security) with renewals and assessment handled for you.
Accessibility Renovations
“We worked with Typecoast to develop our website and branding during a growth stage. It was all executed remotely, but couldn’t have felt more personal and tailored to our needs. We met regularly to build rapport and a vision together. It felt like Typecoast was part of our team (and it sitll does). The end result is something we are all proud of and has helped to elevate our online presence. 10/10.”
—Ephraim D. Froelich, AKWA-DC
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New Builds
At Typecoast, we prioritize readability and accessibility.
Typecoast helps its customers navigate the chaotic maelstrom of being visible online. We believe ina more cohesive web; less distracting and meddlesome. Less dutiful to seasons of web design fads, less reliant on endless plugins to achieve core functionality. In the new web, accessibility isn’t an afterthought. Design systems can be built directly into a Block Theme’s pattern database and the Site Editor’s stylesheets, so each new piece of content doesn’t require design decisions, painted on like so many layers of wallpaper. Search engine optimization and AI visibility can start at the site map, and the site map can be informed by only the user’s UX journey. Amidst incredible technological advances, delivering speedily rendered, pleasing type remains the primary function of most websites.
Typecoast Builds
Typecoast brings letterpress sensibilities to WordPress block themes. In the beginning was the word, and so it remains. For now, the web is still a medium of the word, bolstered, of course, by color, art, photography and videography. For as hard as it has tried to grab attention with shortened videos and pop-up calls-to-action, the web cannot escape its need for written words. ChatGPT spins up AI conversations in text, branded video content is useless without logo bumpers, TikToks need captions, and HBO opening credits sequences need type choices that work in 8k or in a subway-rider’s palm. Your 2027-ready website can deliver crisp, content and audience–informed typography, and it can do so while respecting your users’ privacy and protecting your online systems.
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auxillary services
Our expert guidance covers every aspect of online visibility and internal digital tools.
Our customers come to trust us with all aspects of their online visibility. We manage social media accounts, ghostwrite newsletters and coach presentations. We help our customers navigate LLMs, set internal AI policies, and build automation and consistency into their project management systems.
We’d love to meet you. Contact us.