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See how a brand’s design changed over time

Pick a page and designlang reads up to 20 of its Wayback Machine captures, one per quarter or per year. Each capture becomes a snapshot you can compare, so you can watch the palette, the type and the spacing move.

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A timeline of five archived captures, each with a small palette that changes from one to the next.20162018202020222024Rebrand between 2020 and 2022
2 to 20captures per run
1 creditper capture
Proplan and above

How it works

From a saved project to a result, in four steps.

  1. Pick a page and a range

    Enter an address such as stripe.com. designlang asks the Internet Archive’s CDX index which captures exist, and shows the plan and the credit cost before anything is charged.

  2. Read each capture

    The worker loads each archived page, strips the Wayback toolbar and extracts palette, type and spacing from it. Captures that cannot be read are refunded when the job ends.

  3. Browse the timeline

    Every capture is saved as an ordinary Vault snapshot in a project called “<host> history”. Palette and type charts show the drift, and rebrand verdicts mark the big jumps.

  4. Compare and share

    Open the compare view on any two points, or copy a share link for a client or a post.

Where it helps

Brand research

Show a client how a competitor’s identity moved over a decade before you pitch a refresh.

Case studies

Turn “before and after the rebrand” into a link with real tokens behind it.

Inherited sites

Find out when a site’s palette last made sense, and which release broke it.

Limits. The archive decides what exists. Old captures can be missing styles or scripts, so an early capture may show less than the live site did. designlang reads what the archive kept.

Questions, answered

Where does the history come from?
From the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, through its public CDX index. designlang sends polite, rate-limited requests and caches the capture list for a day.
How many credits does a run use?
One credit per capture, claimed up front. You choose between 2 and 20 captures. Any capture that could not be read is refunded when the job finishes.
Can I see a site that blocks the archive?
No. If the archive holds no captures of a page, there is nothing to read. The plan step tells you that before you spend credits.
Can I use the snapshots like any others?
Yes. Archive snapshots are saved to the Vault with the source “archive”, so compare, tokens and share links all work on them.

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Try Time Machine now

Free accounts get 3 live runs. Pro is $9 a month with 200 credits.

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