Meta - October 2026
Bold, Swiss, and very blue
I spend most of my working life making other people's software look and work its best. My own site never got that treatment. It was tidy, and it worked, and it was always the job I'd get round to later. Then even my game started looking better than my personal site/CV, and that was hard to ignore! So here we are...
In early October I redesigned it. I worked through a few rounds of ideas and directions, from editorial print to cinematic, and kept coming back to one I called "Poster" - very bold black type on white, solid blocks of a rather loud ultramarine blue, no borders or rounded corners on anything, just flat, bold, and proud (for want of a better word). Each role on the CV opens with the year it started, set huge. Contact is my email address, written massively big, at the bottom. And there are light and dark versions, because of course there are.
One design system
There's one type scale of eight steps, a heavy grotesque for display, and Atkinson Hyperlegible Next for reading, chosen because it was designed to be legible first. The CV, Studio, and Writing pages all share the same handful of components, so a change lands everywhere at once, like it should.
Studio got the biggest change. Each project now sits on a blue panel with numbered pins on the real screens and notes underneath, kind of like a basic engineering drawing. It explains what the thing does without anyone having to read a case study. It's also not littered with everything I've made, just the handful of things I've been working on fairly recently - basically my current side projects.
My self-imposed constraints stayed: the main pages still carry no libraries beyond Vue, still load fast, still score 100 on Lighthouse, and still meet WCAG accessibility standards, and the 3D fun experiments on the Board and View Source stay in their own corner.
So when your own stuff is starting to look better than your CV, I'd say it's time to be your own client for a bit. Long overdue to be fair, and loads of fun!
All writing - CV