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Portfolio
Evidence-backed view of 159 monitored websites. Latest comparable capture · Sep 2026
A concise reading of the category, followed by the evidence that supports it.
Portfolio homepages foreground creative identity and practice rather than a unified offer. Across the 92 captured headlines among 159 monitored sites, language repeatedly returns to “design,” “creative,” “studio,” “designer” and “work,” creating a craft-led, self-defining voice. Visually, the category leaves room for individual authorship rather than converging on a single typeface or interface finish.
A notable hard-edged visual subset is visible: 70 of 159 sites use no-radius systems. Typography is more dispersed—Inter, the leading captured font, appears on only six sites—so type choice remains a stronger source of individuality than a shared category signature.
Recent direction: a limited signal points toward more explicit self-definition in hero copy. Among nine sites with captured hero-field changes, Guy Moorhouse shifted from “independent prototyper” to “independent studio of one,” while Daniël van der Winden expanded a name-only headline into a statement spanning design, writing and typography.
Manually confirmed redesigns with publishable hero context and exact copy changes. Internal review candidates are not shown.
0 confirmed redesigns
No confirmed redesign with publishable before-and-after evidence is available for this category.
Current observations, not a time trend or effectiveness claim.
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