Working grid
Four columns on mobile, twelve on desktop. Alignment is legible; composition can remain asymmetrical.
Design System
A living visual contract for iterating the portfolio from one place. Tokens carry global decisions; editorial primitives give those decisions a consistent shape; pages keep their own narrative and content.
The system protects a distinctive editorial voice while making global change inexpensive.
One signal
Toxic Orange marks action, focus, progress, and live state. Support colors provide depth, never competing calls to action.
Typographic tension
One dominant display event per screen, balanced by restrained body copy and microscopic metadata.
Physical motion
Reveals, shifts, rulers, and image crops explain structure. Motion stays direct and respects reduced-motion preferences.
Six source colors resolve into semantic roles. Components ask for paper, support, signal, or negative, so the palette can evolve without rewriting page markup.
Morning Snow
Primary ground and light ink on deep surfaces.
Amazon Mist
Grouped paper and quiet editorial fields.
Aqua Mist
Supporting surface and secondary negative-mode information.
Toxic Orange
The sole signal for action, progress, focus, and live state.
Black Kite
Primary ink, hard rules, and negative ground.
Garnet
Deep supporting surface and muted information.
Systems at scale
Working index
Digital product
Structure gives the work a voice.
A precise system for complex digital work.
Readable, measured copy carries the decisions behind every artifact.
Fig. 01: A grid is a working instrument.
A quote is the only moment that changes voice.
A type system becomes useful when every family has one clear job.
A compact spacing scale controls component rhythm. Semantic layout tokens then map that scale to page margins, grid gaps, section intervals, and page-header breathing room.
SEBASTIAN
Grouped editorial content.
Depth without stealing action.
A decisive change in reading mode.
Migration is incremental. Each phase preserves content, routes, keyboard access, reduced motion, and the current visual narrative before the next layer begins.
01 / Foundations
Palette, type scale, spacing, layout, rules, motion, and z-index now resolve through shared CSS tokens.
02 / Shared shell
Site shell, header, footer, grid, page headers, metadata, typography, and shared actions consume system roles.
03 / Index surfaces
Home, Work, Resume, Field Notes, and Quote move from local spacing declarations to primitives without changing their narrative.
04 / Detail templates
Work and Field Note MDX templates adopt the same figure, prose, metadata, and section contracts.
05 / Governance
Visual regression checks, accessibility review, and a contribution checklist make drift visible before merge.