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Daniel Triendl. White gallery wall for loud art.

  • Studio
  • Light theme
  • 4 colors
  • 4 typefaces

Daniel Triendl is a digital gallery wall disguised as a portfolio site. The chrome is deliberately austere — pure white canvas, black hairline borders, serif body text, a tiny avatar — so that the kaleidoscopic illustration work can carry every screen without competition. The UI behaves like a museum label: small, quiet, always secondary to the artwork it describes. Navigation is stripped to two ghost buttons and three floating pills, and the only surfaces that deviate from white are a single soft-gray tint used for those pills and the occasional tag background.

Screenshot of Daniel Triendl
Captured from danieltriendl.com on October 11, 2026

Daniel Triendl design system

Daniel Triendl

Neutrals4

  • Primary text, hairline borders, avatar stroke, ghost button outlines — the only ink on the page; borders are the structural device, not shadows

  • Muted secondary text, caption labels under illustrations, hairline borders on less prominent elements

  • Pill navigation background, subtle surface for tag chips, soft section washes

  • Page background, card surface, nav fill — the gallery wall itself

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Canvas White on Obsidian

21.00 : 1 contrast

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

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