The full index · 30 directions, growing
30 self-contained sheets.
Each one is committed to its own world — different palette, different typography, different ideas about what a personal site is for. Filter by tag, sort by what's trending, or click into any sheet to open it live alongside its design notes. New entries land via pull request; the index updates automatically.
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Ditherpunk
Terminal frame, mono, monochrome.
IBM Plex Mono on near-black with three foreground levels. Scanlines, a dithered portrait, syslog-style writing entries. The whole page reads like a session.SSH'd into someone's brain.
udaysinhEditorial
Long-scroll editorial, sans, olive.
General Sans in a single 720-pixel column, hairline dividers, one olive accent that earns its keep by appearing twice on the page. Calm, considered, no metaphor.This person has taste, quietly.
udaysinhSunday Edition
A personal weekly broadsheet.
Editorial New serif, double-rule nameplate, halftone portrait, a classifieds ledger, and a live masthead strip that updates with weekday and issue number.Small serious publication.
udaysinhWashi
Cream-paper notebook with one red seal.
Italic Fraunces, Klee One for Japanese ornaments, brush-stroke dividers, a tilted hanko stamp. The accent is the seal, and only the seal.Zine on a tearoom counter.
udaysinhMaritime
Nautical chart of an engineer.
Cormorant Garamond, a real SVG compass rose, Pune lat/long in the header, bearings as project rows. The site is the chart, not a metaphor for one.A cartographer's portfolio.
udaysinhAtelier
Architecture monograph, monumental sans.
Inter Tight at 124 pixels, concrete grey with a warm oak accent, project specifications formatted like building presentations. The grid is the whole design.Tadao Ando, for code.
udaysinhRisograph
Two-colour print zine, one pass.
Space Grotesk poster headlines doubled with 6-pixel misregistration, ISSUE NO. 04 numbering, a bordered card grid for essays. Looks like a poorly-aligned print run, on purpose.Berlin studio print object.
udaysinhDrafting
Engineer's working drawing.
A visible 6-millimetre graph grid lives behind everything; Cormorant Infant + Plex Sans Condensed + Plex Mono share the page, with a drafting title block in the footer.This person actually does math.
udaysinhBrutalist
Times New Roman. No design system.
One HTML file. Five lines of CSS. Zero JavaScript. Default blue links, default purple visited links. The refusal to design is the design.So confident I don't need the wrapper.
udaysinhArchive
Personal archive of one.
Vellum paper, EB Garamond, accession cards with typewritten numbers, a rotated red PROCESSED stamp, and a custodian's note in the margin. He treats his own work like a museum collection.Treats his own work like a museum collection.
udaysinhClinical
An “about page” written as a scientific paper.
Source Serif 4 in two columns, a journal masthead with DOI, a boxed abstract, a FIG. 1 SVG plot, numbered references. Uncomfortably rigorous; possibly a researcher in disguise.Uncomfortably rigorous.
udaysinhScrapbook
Constrained chaos. Tape, post-its, marker.
Kraft-paper board with rotated cards, polaroids, masking tape, post-its, highlighter, marker, ruled clipping. Caveat + Special Elite + Archivo Black sharing the page.Inside someone's head.
udaysinhHalation
Film-grain photo treatment. Warm red bleed.
Deep film black, Fraunces at optical-size 144, halation glow on every photo, SVG grain, a light leak in one corner, a contact sheet for essays. Late-evening atmosphere, heavy and cinematic.Late-evening atmosphere.
udaysinhWebring
Sincere Web 1.0 revival.
Centered HTML tables, beveled buttons, a marquee, web-safe pastels, a working hit counter in localStorage, webring nav, badges. Home is not a product.Home is not a product.
udaysinhLiminal
Nine viewports, one word each.
Pastel gradient bed, drifting blur shapes, Cormorant Infant italic at 168 pixels, one sentence per scroll. Drift, echo, afterimage, slowweb. A meditation app for one person.A meditation app for a person.
udaysinhCalibration
The page is the measuring instrument.
Edge rulers in 4 / 24-pixel ticks, every type size labelled in its margin (68 / 64), a live viewport and DPR readout, a baseline grid that is always on.Meticulous to the point of being slightly unwell.
udaysinhWindows 98
Teal desktop. Chiseled chrome. Three windows.
Notepad (About) + Explorer (My Stuff) + WordPad (Writing) on the teal desktop, MS Sans Serif throughout, a working Start menu, draggable windows, a live taskbar clock.Hand-built in MS Paint.
udaysinhWindows XP (Luna)
Bliss wallpaper. Glossy blue title bars. Green start.
A centered Control-Panel-style window, gradient left rail with See Also & Other Places, four glossy category cards, a Luna taskbar with green-pill start and a tooltip balloon.The most Y2K computer ever shipped.
udaysinhMac OS 9 (Platinum)
Dotted desktop. Pinstripe title bars. Rainbow Apple.
Macintosh HD Finder + a SimpleText README + a Threadwell Get Info window, the classic menubar with the rainbow Apple, square-cornered windows with platinum shadows, drag & focus.The calmest OS ever made.
udaysinhStudio
All of the above, composed into one studio sheet.
Washi cream paper with a drafting whisper-grid, atelier-scale Plex Sans Condensed name, an “About me.txt” pinned beside it as a small Mac window, project cards as Mac windows with drafting-red annotations in the margin, Sunday classifieds for writing, Instrument Serif italic for editorial flourishes. Includes a floating font-system picker that swaps between Plex / Geist / Inter / Fraunces with `1`–`4`.The candidate that contains all the other candidates.
udaysinhGazette
Sunday broadsheet, with riso poster cards.
A literary publication that happens to be a portfolio. Sunday masthead with live weekday and issue, Fraunces italic nameplate at 144 pixels, halftone-textured portrait, dropcap lead story with pullquote, work as risograph cards with misregistration on every project title.A serious paper, by one person.
udaysinhConsole
Engineering terminal, data-dense, technical.
Ditherpunk terminal spine, a drafting grid behind everything, calibration-style instrument bar (viewport, DPR, live uptime, lat/long), an ASCII-decorated hero, work as calibration data cards with full units (loc, wk, p95 ms, %, revs), about as a clinical scientific abstract.NASA engineer's workstation, mid-shift.
udaysinhJournal
Field notebook of a naturalist of software.
Maritime chart strip with lat/long and a live bearing, a drifting compass rose, Cormorant Garamond italic title, brushstroke section dividers, washi cards as field notes with accession numbers, works as dated expedition log entries.An expedition journal, kept for years.
udaysinhBureau
Design-bureau monograph, monumental and cinematic.
Atelier-scale Inter Tight at 240 pixels (intentionally crops), drafting grid behind everything, calibration margin labels in halation red, three full-bleed cinematic work sections with film-grain photo plates and halation glow.Studio monograph that costs a hundred dollars at the museum shop.
udaysinhE-Ink
A paperback for a Kindle. No accent colour, by rule.
Warm grey-white paper, deep warm-black ink (not pure black, which e-paper can't render), an Aa font button, Wi-Fi-off + slowly-draining battery icons, “Loc. 142 of 412”, a refresh-flash overlay on every chapter jump. Static. No transitions allowed.Reading a book on a device that updates by re-drawing the page.
udaysinhLowFPS
Camcorder tape, 1998. Burned-in timecode. Letterboxed.
Letterboxed 16:9 with hard black bars, every animation through `steps(6, end)`, REC dot blinking at exactly 0.5 Hz, VT323 OSD with chroma-bleed, live timecode, burn-in date stamp, BATT bars draining, a clapper-slate title card.Captured rather than rendered.
udaysinhTeletext
BBC Ceefax, P100. Pure black, seven colours, VT323.
Pure black ground inside a CRT-bezel frame with scanlines and bloom, the canonical seven teletext colours, VT323 monospace on a ~40-column grid, big P100 / 1/3 page numbers, page-flip via numeric keys like a TV remote, a Fastext colour-key bar, scrolling news ticker.Broadcast over the vertical blanking interval of a PAL TV signal.
udaysinhMicrofiche
A 1979 Bell & Howell reader, brass knobs and all.
Dark machine carriage with sprocket holes on both sides, overexposed sepia film inside with visible scratches and scattered dust, Special Elite typewriter text with a white-burn glow halo, every frame labelled M·0142 · F·003 in all four corners, a brass HUD with live frame indicator and animated focus knob.The Library of Personal Archives, basement floor.
udaysinhDotted
A man page on an amber phosphor terminal.
Pure amber phosphor (#E8A028) on near-black with scanlines and CRT vignette, the standard man-page format (NAME / SYNOPSIS / DESCRIPTION / OPTIONS / FILES / AUTHOR / SEE ALSO), a dot-density ASCII portrait with one white-flickering eye, a top(1) process table with live load averages.Reading `man mehta` at 03:00.
udaysinhPlotter
An HP 7475A drawing it live, on manila, in one navy pen.
Manila paper with warm fiber grain, register marks in all four corners, a line-drawn portrait sitting next to a Major Mono hero name. Every SVG path/line/circle/rect animates in on load via `stroke-dashoffset`, sequenced top-to-bottom and timed by path length. A pen log streams per-stroke durations; finishes with a drawn signature.Watch it happen; that's the whole point.
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