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Martin Laxenaire. Kinetic poster crashing through liquid color waves.

  • Studio
  • Light theme
  • 3 colors
  • 3 typefaces

Martin Laxenaire's site operates as a kinetic poster on a white gallery wall: a near-monochrome interface where one massive black display typeface (MonumentExtended UltraBold) at sizes up to 419px does all the shouting, surrounded by generous negative space. The rest of the typography collapses into a tiny, tight utility voice (Swiss 16–21px) for links, buttons, and body — the hierarchy is binary, either whisper or roar. A single soft pink (#f9d9f7) provides the canvas for an abstract, organic wave-field of fluid color shapes that the headline text crashes through, creating the site's signature collision of brutalist black letterpress against liquid color. Components are minimal — pill-shaped controls, hairline borders, and almost no surface differentiation. The system feels like a print designer's portfolio disguised as a web dev portfolio: editorial in restraint, explosive in the focal pieces.

Screenshot of Martin Laxenaire
Captured from martin-laxenaire.fr on October 11, 2026

Martin Laxenaire design system

Martin Laxenaire

Accent1

  • Hero art backdrop, accent surface — the soft pink that hosts the fluid color-shape composition

Neutrals2

  • Primary text, all borders, icon strokes, the dominant UI color — every word and divider is this near-black

  • Page canvas, surface background, button fills for outlined ghost controls

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Ink Black on Blush Wash

14.54 : 1 contrast

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

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