Vanilla

Vanilla is a personal portfolio for one designer, with the soft feel its name promises. The page sits on a warm cream background, and the hero centers a rounded portrait of a woman in a cable-knit sweater against a pale blue wall. Her name runs underneath in enormous dusty blue Magnolia, its letters tucked up over the bottom of the photo. A rotating Available for work ring peeks in from the top right corner, and the menu is a quiet row of Montserrat links: Home, Work, About me, Blog, and Contact me.

Lucas Gusso keeps the rest of the homepage short and typographic. A large intro paragraph in Montserrat introduces the designer, with the job title picked out in blue, and a small serif Let's chat link sits next to a thin circular arrow button. My Work follows as another giant blue heading over a simple list of project titles like Sweater Weather and New light, each with a long arrow on the right instead of a thumbnail. Always keen for a good collab closes in big type, then a row of grey client logos and a footer with a blue serif motto and menu columns. The Selected Work page is livelier: a two-line blue heading, a copyright mark, and tilted rounded photos overlapping on the right.

On a phone, the portrait and the oversized name still fit neatly, with the intro and a down arrow below and the menu behind a thin hamburger.

We'd pick Vanilla for UI designers, illustrators, and freelancers who want a calm, personal site with little to maintain. The homepage project list shows no images at all, so visual work has to wait for the inner pages. The client logo row uses famous brand names, which we'd replace with your own clients or remove.