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Jakub Reis. Every screen is a quiet white room where only typography and photography exist.

  • Design tools
  • Light theme
  • 4 colors
  • 1 typeface

Jakub Reis is a type-driven portfolio: a bone-white canvas, a single custom sans-serif at whisper weights, and photographs that carry every drop of color the system refuses to supply. The site reads like a printed exhibition catalog — a name, a discipline, a grid of framed works, and nothing else. Hierarchy is built entirely from size, weight (300 vs 400 only), and the generous negative space between blocks; there are no buttons, no badges, no borders, no shadows, no gradients. The signature is restraint: even the separator between client names in the intro paragraph is a tilde (~) instead of a dot, pipe, or comma — a typographic personality choice that the entire UI leans into. Components are essentially text labels attached to full-bleed images; the design system exists to disappear so the work can speak.

Screenshot of Jakub Reis
Captured from jakubreis.com on October 11, 2026

Jakub Reis design system

Jakub Reis

Neutrals4

  • Primary text, project titles, navigation links, all body copy — the only ink the system ever uses

  • Secondary text, near-identical to Carbon for AAA contrast on Bone — exists for accessibility, not visual contrast

  • Muted UI surface for disabled controls, low-emphasis panels, and placeholder blocks. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color

  • Page canvas, the only background tone — a warm off-white that keeps the page from feeling clinical

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Bone on Carbon

19.77 : 1 contrast

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

More DESIGN.md files. Same web, different personalities.