Ingamana

www.ingamana.com

a development-studio portfolio that runs as a near-silent black-on-white index, ABC Monument Grotesk set tiny (10-16px), captioned project tiles laid out like a contact sheet, and a single expo-out reveal curve doing all the motion work.

Creative Studio Development Studio niche

Design tokens

black
white
grey
display
ABCMonumentGrotesk
body
ABCMonumentGrotesk
mono
none

Do / Don't

Reference it for

  • The captioned project index: tile, left-aligned title, right-aligned ../YEAR slug, laid out like a contact sheet or file listing.
  • Extreme typographic restraint: a single grotesque held at 10-16px so the work, not the chrome, dominates.
  • Black-on-white with one neutral grey (#DFDFDF) placeholder field and nothing else.
  • A single reusable reveal curve (expo-out cubic-bezier(0.19,1,0.22,1), 0.6-0.75s) carrying the whole site.
  • A lean hand-built stack (Lenis plus DatoCMS) as a reference for framework-free, content-led portfolios.

Do not copy

  • The ../YEAR repository caption motif is ingamana's voice; the technique ports, the exact treatment is theirs.
  • ABC Monument Grotesk is licensed; map to a similar neo-grotesque rather than lifting it.
  • Type this small needs real video work behind every tile to justify it; on a thin portfolio the restraint reads as empty, not confident.

Signature moves

contact-sheet project index

captioned project tiles laid out like a contact sheet, each with a left-aligned title and a right-aligned ../YEAR slug, on a 1400px column over black-on-white with one grey placeholder (#dfdfdf).

tiny-type single-grotesque restraint

a single grotesque held at 10-16px lets the work dominate the chrome, with one reusable expo-out reveal curve doing all the motion.