Miranda

www.niccolomiranda.com

The reference for a broadsheet-newspaper portfolio on warm parchment #e2dedb, where an oversized display serif (MIRANDA, negative tracking, sub-1.0 line-height) is knocked white out of a near-black #1d1d1b ink banner.

Design Portfolio flagship

Design tokens

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surface
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accent
border
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display
Canopee
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Editorial New
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Do / Don't

Reference it for

  • Warm parchment canvas #e2dedb with near-black #1d1d1b ink for all text, rules and banners (matte, never clinical white)
  • Full-bleed near-black masthead banner with the studio name set in a huge display serif knocked out to parchment, letters tracked tight enough to nearly collide
  • Newspaper masthead treatment: a blackletter/fraktur title (The Paper Portfolio) centred between a location dateline (Amsterdam, NL) and a hamburger
  • Three-column editorial spread with thin 1px ink column rules, each column a project card (image, name, NEW tag, serif blurb)
  • Single ember-orange accent #c03f13 used only as a stamp: the small NEW tags and inline seals, never on large fields
  • Centred pull-quote column headline mixing weights (bold ALL WORK! over lighter italic-feel serif deck) with an em-dash line break
  • Small-caps utility labels (TIP! Drag sideways to navigate, AVRO|KO, WOW CONCEPT) that read like caption furniture
  • Flat, borderless, shadow-light components: hierarchy comes from ink-on-cream contrast and rule lines, with only a faint offset card shadow rgba(29,29,27,0.2) -4px 4px 6px

Do not copy

  • The MIRANDA wordmark and its specific custom display letterforms
  • The blackletter The Paper Portfolio masthead lockup
  • The AvroKO / WOW Concept project names, copy and thumbnails
  • Amsterdam, NL dateline and the personal-brand framing (Niccolo Miranda)
  • The exact ember-orange NEW stamp tag as a lifted component
  • The literal newspaper-broadsheet metaphor as a whole if the brief is not editorial or portfolio