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About

Made for people who ship Etch sites.

EtchPress is made by Gorilla Perch, a small web studio, for builders in the Etch community who want to launch client sites sooner and keep every one to the same standard.

Why it exists

Complete kits, and a skill that builds to the same standard.

Etch is the best builder we have used, and the way Kevin Geary teaches page building is the way we want every site built. What the community asked for was more templates and an AI that understands the system. EtchPress is both: complete kits built to that standard, and a skill that teaches your coding agent the same standard.

Who makes it

Two people, one standard.

Connery Kirk and Alejandra side by side at the salt flats of La Guajira, Colombia: a white salt pile, the flats and the sea behind them under a blue sky.
La Guajira, Colombia, 2024.
Builds

Connery Kirk (CJ)

Runs Gorilla Perch from Colombia and has built client sites on Kevin's frameworks since the ACSS 2 days. Writes the kits, the skill and the site.

Designs

Alejandra

Handles design and reviews every kit's interface: the thumbnails, the colours, the states, and what a buyer sees first.

How the kits are judged

A written standard. If a kit does not pass, it does not ship.

01

Page Building 101

Structure, semantics, selectors, styling, systems: the fundamentals Kevin Geary teaches, applied in that order.

02

Etch conventions

Components with props, loops and templates built the way Etch itself expects, so a paste lands clean.

03

The ACSS 4 inventory

Tokens and classes verified against a real install, so a kit follows your palette and scale without edits.

04

A design checklist

Contrast, spacing, type, states and copy, built from Anton Sten, Adham Dannaway and Josh Puckett's work. The skill carries the same list.

Independent project. EtchPress is an unofficial, independent product made by Gorilla Perch, a DBA of Wrong Aspect LLC. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Digital Gravy or EtchWP. The Etch and EtchWP names belong to Digital Gravy. Everything sold here is built to work with Etch, but Digital Gravy has not reviewed or approved it, and support for Etch itself comes from Digital Gravy, not from us. Kevin Geary and the Digital Gravy team make Etch. We make things for it, and we asked before using the name.

Talk to a person

Email hello@etchpress.com. We answer within one business day, Colombia time.

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