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Max Yinger. Midnight engineer's terminal with floating chrome artifacts.

  • Design tools
  • Dark theme
  • 4 colors
  • 3 typefaces

Yinger's personal site operates as a midnight engineer's terminal: a near-black canvas with warm bone-white type, a single hero 3D artifact floating in negative space, and text pushed aggressively to the edges of the viewport. The system is brutally compact — 4px gaps, 12px labels, 80px displays — creating a cockpit density where every pixel is load-bearing. Color is nearly absent: one warm off-white does all the work, with a whisper of pink-coral bleeding from the 3D rendering as the only chromatic punctuation. Typography is the personality: a chunky custom display face for the masthead and time, a monospaced technical face for telemetry-style labels, and a contrast face for readable prose.

Screenshot of Max Yinger
Captured from yinger.dev on October 11, 2026

Max Yinger design system

Max Yinger

Accent1

  • Accent glow on 3D rendered objects, ambient lighting bleed from the hero artifact. Never used on UI chrome — appears only as the soft pink edge-light on cubes

Neutrals3

  • Dark supporting neutral for text, icons, and strong contrast. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color

  • Secondary borders, dividers, subdued UI chrome. Warm mid-gray that registers on the dark canvas without competing with bone-white text

  • Primary text, headings, button text, all body copy. Warm off-white used at every size from 12px telemetry to 80px displays. The only color that does real work

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Midnight Carbon on Rose Quartz Bloom

11.93 : 1 contrast

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

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