Building a Personal Site That Feels Crafted
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Why restraint is hard
A minimal site is unforgiving. With nothing to hide behind, every detail carries weight — the spacing, the type scale, the way a link reacts to a hover.
The details that matter
- Optical alignment over mathematical alignment
- A type scale you can defend
- Motion that respects
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Good design is as little design as possible — but no less.
It is less about adding polish and more about removing everything that is not load-bearing.