Platebook

Platebook is a free portfolio template for Framer that helps product and brand designers show their work like a printed plate book. A giant name, numbered plates that develop from one-ink grey into colour under your cursor, and case studies that say how many days each project took.

Perfect for

• Product and UX designers going live on their own domain this month

• Brand and packaging designers who want the work to lead

• Freelancers who quote projects and want the site to show real numbers

What makes it different

• Plates that develop. Move over a plate and the photo develops into colour with a wobbly trail that closes again; on phones a touch does the same and a one-time sweep shows how. Turned off for visitors who prefer reduced motion.

• Plates, not cards. Every project is a numbered plate with a caption line, parallax photo and hover lift.

• Case studies with the days. Year, discipline, role and days beside the story, with a rich-text body from the CMS.

• Paper / Ink switch in the nav, remembered per visitor, with a light and a dark colour set.

• Smooth by default. Spring entrances, a 0.5 s smooth scroll, a sticky four-week story and a clients ticker.

What's included

• 12 pages: Home, Work, Case study, About, Journal, Article, Contact, Resume (with print layout), Start here guide, 404, Privacy, Style guide

• CMS: Projects, Journal and Testimonials, all seeded

• Working contact form with sending and sent states

• 9 colour styles (light + dark), 13 text styles in Instrument Serif, Geist and Geist Mono

• Tablet and phone layouts; respects reduced motion

Needs a Framer Pro plan to publish (3 CMS collections). Questions: vexorastudio02@gmail.com.