--- version: "alpha" name: "Minimalismo Fotográfico Elegante" description: "Design an elegant and minimalist photography portfolio landing page. Ideal for landing pages, modern websites. AI-ready template." colors: primary: "#FFFFFF" secondary: "#000000" tertiary: "#333333" neutral: "#E0E0E0" surface: "#F5F5DC" accent: "#000080" typography: h1: fontFamily: Lora fontSize: 2.5rem fontWeight: 700 body-md: fontFamily: Lora fontSize: 1rem fontWeight: 400 components: button-primary: backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}" textColor: "{colors.neutral}" padding: 12px --- ## Overview Design an elegant and minimalist photography portfolio landing page. Ideal for landing pages, modern websites. AI-ready template. The best photography websites have always understood one thing: get out of the way. This tradition traces back to gallery walls — white, silent, deliberately empty. When the web arrived, the smartest photographers carried that logic forward. No chrome. No decoration. Just the work, breathing. The lineage runs through early Flash portfolio sites of the 2000s (often terrible, but the good ones were radical in their restraint), through the rise of platforms like Cargo and Format that codified the full-bleed image as default. Swiss typography provided the structural backbone — Helvetica captions, grid-locked thumbnails, nothing competing with the photograph itself. Japanese design culture reinforced this further: ma (negative space) as active compositional element, not leftover emptiness. What emerged is a convention where navigation is whisper-quiet, transitions are slow and deliberate, and the interface exists only in the gaps between images. The portfolio becomes a sequence, not a page. Scroll becomes curation. The designer's job is to build a frame so invisible that viewers forget they're on a website at all. - Density: 3/10 — Airy - Variance: 8/10 — Expressive - Motion: 4/10 — Subtle - **Style:** Elegant, Minimalist, Visual - **Keywords:** photography, portfolio, elegant, minimalist, visual, clean, artistic, sophisticated, focused, serene - **Era:** 2026+ Arte Visual - **Light/Dark:** ✓ Full / ✗ No ## Colors - **Branco** (#FFFFFF) — Light surface, card backgrounds - **Preto** (#000000) — Dark surface, primary background - **Cinza Escuro** (#333333) — Dark surface, primary background - **Cinza Claro** (#E0E0E0) — Secondary text, borders, muted elements - **Bege** (#F5F5DC) — Extended palette, decorative use - **Azul Marinho** (#000080) — Secondary accent - **Verde Escuro** (#006400) — Deep contrast surface - **Marrom** (#A52A2A) — Extended palette, decorative use ## Typography - **Display / Hero:** Lora — Weight 700, tight tracking, used for headline impact - **Body:** Lora — Weight 400, 16px/1.6 line-height, max 72ch per line - **UI Labels / Captions:** Lora — 0.875rem, weight 500, slight letter-spacing - **Monospace:** JetBrains Mono — Used for code, metadata, and technical values Scale: - Hero: clamp(2.5rem, 5vw, 4rem) - H1: 2.25rem - H2: 1.5rem - Body: 1rem / 1.6 - Small: 0.875rem ## Layout - **Grid:** CSS Grid primary. Max-width containment: 1280px centered with 1.5rem side padding. - **Spacing rhythm:** Balanced. Base unit: 0.5rem (8px). - **Section vertical gaps:** clamp(4rem, 8vw, 8rem). - **Hero layout:** Asymmetric composition. - **Feature sections:** Asymmetric grid with varied card sizes. No 3-equal-columns. - **Mobile collapse:** All multi-column layouts collapse below 768px. No horizontal overflow. - **z-index contract:** base (0) / sticky-nav (100) / overlay (200) / modal (300) / toast (500). ## Elevation & Depth Foco total na imagem, tipografia serifada elegante para títulos e sans-serif para corpo, navegação discreta, espaço em branco generoso, transições suaves de galeria, micro-interações de zoom em imagens. - **Physics:** Ease-out curves, 200-300ms duration. Smooth and predictable. - **Entry animations:** Fade + translate-Y (16px → 0) over 420ms ease-out. Staggered cascades for lists: 80ms between items. - **Hover states:** Subtle color shift + shadow adjustment over 200ms. - **Page transitions:** Fade only (200ms). - **Performance:** Only transform and opacity animated. No layout-triggering properties. ## Shapes Base corner radius: 8px. See rounded tokens in front matter for the full scale. ## Components - **Primary Button:** Subtly rounded (0.5rem) shape. Accent color fill. Hover: 8% darken + subtle lift shadow. Active: -1px translate tactile press. Font weight 600. No outer glows. - **Secondary / Ghost Button:** Outline variant. 1.5px border in muted color. Text in primary color. Hover: subtle background fill. - **Cards:** Subtly rounded (0.5rem) corners. Surface background. Subtle shadow (0 2px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.06)). 1px border stroke. - **Inputs:** Label above input. 1px border stroke. Focus ring: 2px accent color offset 2px. Error text below in semantic red. No floating labels. - **Navigation:** Primary surface background. Active item: accent color indicator. Font weight 500 when active. - **Skeletons:** Shimmer animation matching component dimensions. No circular spinners. - **Empty States:** Icon-based composition with descriptive text and action button. ## Do's and Don'ts - No emojis in UI — use icon system only (Lucide, Heroicons) - No decorative gradients — flat color only - No shadows heavier than 0 2px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.08) - No pure black (#000000) — use off-black or charcoal variants - No oversaturated accent colors (saturation cap: 80%) - No 3-column equal-width feature layouts — use zig-zag or asymmetric grid - No `h-screen` — use `min-h-[100dvh]` - No AI copywriting clichés: "Elevate", "Seamless", "Unleash", "Next-Gen" - No broken external image links — use picsum.photos or inline SVG - No generic lorem ipsum in demos - Do Foco total na imagem - Do Tipografia serifada elegante - Do Navegação discreta - Do Espaço em branco generoso - Do Transições de galeria - Do Micro-interações de zoom. ## Use Case Landing pages, Modern websites