Photoyoshi
photoyoshi.coma Tokyo photographer's portfolio that turns a contact-sheet grid of faded thumbnails into the page itself, with one giant Neue Haas category word ("Landscape") and a katakana wordmark anchoring an otherwise near-empty bone-white field.
Design tokens
- display
- neue-haas-grotesk-display
- body
- neue-haas-grotesk-display
- mono
- none
Do / Don't
Reference it for
- Contact-sheet-as-homepage: a dense grid of dimmed thumbnails that doubles as navigation, with most images held back so a few sing.
- A single oversized category word (Neue Haas at 67.5px) used as the only display element on an otherwise empty field.
- Barba-driven page transitions for a portfolio where reloads would break the calm.
- Restraint as a flex: near-monochrome on warm off-white, one red accent kept almost entirely in reserve.
- A WebGL grid layer treated as quiet texture, not spectacle.
Do not copy
- The katakana wordmark フォトヨシ is the photographer's own mark; reproduce the technique with the client's name, not this glyph set.
- Three.js for a thumbnail grid is a lot of weight for the effect; only reach for it if the shader interaction is genuinely the point.
- The "/100Photos" counting conceit is this site's editorial frame; borrow the idea of a finite, numbered body of work, not the exact label.
Signature moves
contact-sheet grid as homepage and navigation
a dense grid of dimmed thumbnails is the page itself and doubles as navigation, with most images held back so a few sing, on a bone-white field (#f1efe7).
single oversized category word on an empty field
one oversized category word in a grotesque (Neue Haas at 67.5px) is the only display element on an otherwise near-empty bone-white field, with a small 10/14px supporting scale and one red accent kept in reserve.
Related references
Madrone Construction
strongOther
A family-owned Central Oregon custom-home builder that wins trust through warmth and calm - full-bleed photography of light-filled finished homes, a "Built On Trust" promise, and a quiet values narrative (Quality, Integrity, Experience) that feels like a handshake, not a pitch.
Olha Lazarieva
nichePhotography
Ukrainian photographer/artist personal site at maximum restraint — Times serif at 13.5px on off-white, zero motion, zero shape decoration, image-driven.
Ottografie
nichePhotography
a Dutch beauty-and-fashion photographer's portfolio where a single huge Big Caslon word ("Beauty") floats among scattered editorial images on a warm pampas field, with a soft 5-second background cross-fade and a floating pill category selector doing all the navigation.
Outside Landscape Group
flagshipOther
A high-end Alpharetta / North Metro Atlanta landscape design-build firm that makes competence feel measured, not boasted - lush portfolio photography on a navy-and-olive canvas, "Best Pick" and "Guild Quality" award language, and a calm proof-led narrative that earns a luxury outdoor-living budget.