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Charlie. Monastery stone-cut typography on obsidian.

  • Studio
  • Dark theme
  • 4 colors
  • 3 typefaces

Charlie Le Maignan's portfolio is a brutalist editorial canvas: pure black void as the page, oversized white type as the only architecture, and one punishing red slab that detonates against the monochrome. The visual language is a collision of a custom sliced display face (Brasparz) at absurd scale against a restrained neo-grotesque (NeueHaas) doing the quiet labor. Everything is allowed to be massive — line-height compressed to 0.70, letter-spacing driven to -0.079em — so type bleeds across the viewport rather than sitting inside it. The single red hero block functions as the only color punctuation in the entire system; everything else stays achromatic. Surfaces are flat with no elevation, no gradients, no decorative shadow — the design communicates through scale, contrast, and a single chromatic detonation.

Screenshot of Charlie
Captured from charlielemaignan.com on October 11, 2026

Charlie design system

Charlie

Brand1

  • Hero detonation block — the only chromatic moment, used as full-bleed surface against black. Makes monochrome feel like a held breath before a shout

Neutrals3

  • Page canvas, deep surface — the void everything floats on

  • Muted secondary text, inactive nav labels, tertiary metadata

  • Primary type, nav pill borders, active state fill, hairlines, iconography

Try a pairing

Pick any two colors from the palette to check whether text stays readable on top.

Aa

Obsidian on Alarm Red

4.79 : 1 contrast

Background
Text
  • Body textPasses AA 4.5
  • Large textPasses AA 3
  • StrictFails AAA 7

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