Most 404 pages are an afterthought.
Nobody designs for the page they hope no one ever sees. It is usually just a default template with "Page Not Found" and a link back home. Nobody remembers it, because there is nothing to remember.
When I built Varelo's new site, I did not want to skip it.
A 404 page is still part of the experience, even if almost no one lands on it. So instead of treating it as an error message, I treated it as a small chance to show what we actually do: take a page nobody thinks twice about and make it something people would actually enjoy landing on.
If you end up there by accident, I hope it is the first 404 page you have ever wanted to screenshot instead of just clicking away from.
Small detail. But that is kind of the point. The details nobody asks for are usually the ones that tell you the most about how a business thinks.
Curious what it looks like? Go get lost on purpose:
https://www.vareloagency.com/