Kerning

Kerning is a free portfolio template for brand and graphic designers, illustrators and small studios. It shows your work like a printed type specimen book, with warm paper tones, a classic serif, crop marks around every image and page numbers in the margins.

Pages included:

- Home with a hero, selected work, services, about, testimonials, journal and a contact call to action

- Work grid with discipline filters (Identity, Packaging, Editorial, Type, Posters, Web)

- Project case studies with brief, approach, outcome, a client quote, credits and six image plates

- Index: an archive table of every project, with an image preview on hover

- Services with rates, a four-step process and FAQ

- About with portrait, studio photo, "currently" notes and awards, press and talks

- Sketchbook for side projects and experiments, with filters

- Journal and article pages

- Contact page with a working enquiry form

- Privacy and 404 pages

Built on the CMS:

Projects, Services, Testimonials, Clients, Journal, Sketchbook, Recognition, FAQ and a Settings collection that holds your name, hero text, contact details and social links. Add a project once and it appears on Home, Work, Index and its own case study page. Empty fields hide themselves, so nothing looks broken while you fill it in.

Ready to launch:

- Fully responsive across desktop, tablet and phone

- Smooth phone menu, sticky navigation and a back-to-top link

- SEO titles and descriptions on every page, plus share images for each project and article

- Accessible colour contrast, a clear heading order and alt text on every image

- Fast loading, with motion that respects the reduced-motion setting

Swap in your own work and words, and you have a portfolio that looks considered, calm and made with care.