Max Bennet is a short, punchy portfolio for a freelance web designer or small studio, built almost entirely from one color and very tall letters. The name fills the hero edge to edge in condensed tomato-red capitals on pale blush, with a circled C at the end and a grainy blur smeared across the middle letters. Three small captions sit underneath: disciplines on the left, the city in the middle, a partner badge on the right. The header is just as compact, with a tiny MB monogram, a row of condensed links, and a red Let's Talk pill.
Flowmance keeps the homepage to one idea: the work, shown big. Projects sit in a grid of rounded image cards, two across, then one full width, then two again, each with a white client logo in the center and the project name and year along the bottom edge. The photography is warm and editorial, from an upside-down portrait on a blue pool deck to a tennis player in a pale hoodie and a tin of cocoa shot from above. After the last card, a big red panel takes over with Let's Talk in huge cream letters and small link columns in the corner. The second homepage layout keeps the same hero but sets the first row of cards at uneven widths.
On a phone, the name still spans the screen, the captions center beneath it, and the menu folds into a hamburger beside the Let's Talk pill. Cards stack one per row.
We'd pick Max Bennet for designers and small studios with strong client imagery and short project names. The homepage runs on photos alone, with no about or services copy, so that story has to live on inner pages. A long surname would also crowd the hero.
Based on the live demo, viewed on desktop and on a phone. The Design and Dev scores come from separate independent reviews. See how we score templates.