Michael Wandelmaier. Three candy pills, one whisper-weight serif, and almost nothing else.
- Design tools
- Dark theme
- 7 colors
- 3 typefaces
A designer's portfolio reads as an after-hours editorial gallery: an almost-black canvas hosts oversized hairline serif headlines (Canela Web at weight 100) that fill the viewport like poster type, while three candy-coloured pill shapes — coral, apricot, grass green — sit alongside the words like adhesive labels on a curator's wall. The sans counterpart (PolySans, also weight 100) is reserved for small all-caps tags and UI chrome, set with an unusually wide 0.2em tracking that makes even 12px labels feel like printed specimen text. The page is deliberately monochrome and quiet everywhere except for those three filled pills, which function as the only bursts of colour on the entire site — used as category labels, not as actions. The only true interactive surface is a green pill with a down-arrow. There are no shadows, no gradients, no decorative borders; hierarchy is built entirely through type scale, white space, and the contrast between vast dark areas and tight white text blocks.

Michael Wandelmaier design system
Brand1
Green action color for filled buttons, selected navigation states, and focused conversion moments.
Accent2
Red wash for highlight backgrounds, decorative bands, and soft emphasis behind content. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color
Orange wash for highlight backgrounds, decorative bands, and soft emphasis behind content.
Neutrals4
Page background, card surface, image masking — the entire site lives on this near-black canvas. True black, not charcoal; the void is the design
List separators with a barely-perceptible warm cast — gives the hairline rules a paper-like tone against the cold black background
Medium-contrast borders, control outlines, and structural separators.
Neutral form states, badge text, and quiet UI feedback where color should stay understated. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color
Try a pairing
Pick any two colors from the palette to check whether text stays readable on top.
Aa
Inkwell on Meadow
6.84 : 1 contrast
- Body textPasses AA 4.5
- Large textPasses AA 3
- StrictFails AAA 7











