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Minimal Gallery – Hand-picked website inspiration, tools, domains and more

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Minimal Gallery – Hand-picked website inspiration, tools, domains and more — Design System

North Star

A gallery of beautiful & functional websites — a dark canvas that gets out of the way of every featured screenshot.

Theme: dark Tags: dark · vibrant · cool · sans-only · minimal · achromatic · grid-driven · spacious · editorial

Description

Minimal Gallery is a dark-canvas archive of curated website screenshots organized in a uniform 3-column grid. The dark background lets each screenshot's own colors pop; thumbnails are nearly edge-to-edge with small captions below. A thin top tag bar (AI · Portfolio · Personal · Startup · One page · Agency · E-commerce · Branding · Tools · Finance · SAAS · Type foundry…) is the entire navigation. Italics for the site title in the hero, otherwise a quiet sans throughout.

Colors

NameHexGroupRoleTailwind
neutral-50#ffffffneutralneutral step 50zinc-50 (Δ0.015)
neutral-200-1#c6c6c6neutralneutral step 200
neutral-950#000000neutralneutral step 950
neutral-900#0f0f0fneutralneutral step 900stone-950 (Δ0.022)
violet-600#7a00dfvioletviolet step 600purple-700 (Δ0.012)
blue-600#005a87blueblue step 600sky-800 (Δ0.005)
violet-500#9b51e0violetviolet step 500
red-300#f78da7redred step 300
neutral-300#abb8c3neutralneutral step 300
green-300#00d084greengreen step 300emerald-400 (Δ0.016)
neutral-200-2#ddddddneutralneutral step 200zinc-200 (Δ0.023)
blue-500-1#007cbablueblue step 500
orange-400#ff6900orangeorange step 400orange-500 (Δ0)
blue-400#0693e3blueblue step 400
blue-200#8ed1fcblueblue step 200sky-300 (Δ0.02)
neutral-100#e5e5e5neutralneutral step 100neutral-200 (Δ0)
yellow-200#fcb900yellowyellow step 200amber-400 (Δ0.004)
orange-500#cf2e2eorangeorange step 500orange-700 (Δ0.019)
teal-200#7bdcb5tealteal step 200
blue-500-2#006ba1blueblue step 500sky-700 (Δ0.011)

Surfaces (Elevation)

LevelNameHexPurpose
0background#ffffffPage background
1surface-1#e5e5e5Cards / elevated panels
2surface-2#c6c6c6Elevation tier 2
3surface-3#abb8c3Elevation tier 3
4surface-floor#0f0f0fElevation tier 4

Elevation philosophy. Completely flat. The dark canvas is the only stage. Screenshots sit edge-to-edge with their natural shadows or chrome (if any) doing all the visual lifting.

Typography

Inter — weight 400

body

Times New Roman — weight 400

serif

Type Scale

RoleSizeLine-heightTracking
display32px1.4
body17px1.4
h317px1.4
link17px1.4
ui-action17px1
ui-input17px1

Spacing & Radius

Radius

  • none: 0
  • md: 6px

Spacing

  • base: 1px

Layout

Centered hero (logo, italic tagline, email opt-in) → horizontal tag filter row → uniform 3-column grid of screenshots → pagination strip → minimal footer.

Imagery

Pure curation: hundreds of website screenshots, each at the same aspect ratio, each carrying its own design's color story. The gallery's job is to be a frame.

Do

  • Stay dark by default — every featured screenshot has more vibrancy that way
  • Lock the layout to a uniform 3-column grid; the rhythm is the personality
  • Keep the tag-bar navigation horizontal and scannable, not hidden behind a hamburger
  • Use thin sans-serif caption type that yields to the screenshots above

Don't

  • Don't break the grid — varying cell sizes would compete with the screenshots themselves
  • Don't add accent colors or backgrounds beyond the dark canvas
  • Don't shadow or border the screenshots; the dark gutters do the separation
  • Don't introduce display-scale headlines mid-page — only the hero gets a moment