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Simon Liesinger. Drafting table on bone paper.

  • Studio
  • Light theme
  • 5 colors
  • 3 typefaces

Liesingers is a gallery-wrapped-in-a-browser: a near-monochromatic editorial portfolio where a warm vermillion red is the only chromatic interruption in an otherwise graphite-and-bone-white composition. The system behaves like a printed monograph — Garamond sets the voice for headlines and body copy, while Helvetica with tabular figures handles the metadata column at the foot of the page. The grid is unapologetically wide and columnar, sections stack as full-bleed bands separated by hairline rules, and the navigation lives at the bottom rather than the top. Components are flat, borderless in the traditional sense, and rely on line weight and whitespace for structure rather than fill, shadow, or color blocks. The wireframe illustration in vermillion is the only piece of ornament — everything else earns its place as structure or text.

Screenshot of Simon Liesinger
Captured from liesingers.com on October 11, 2026

Simon Liesinger design system

Simon Liesinger

Brand1

  • Link arrows, the wireframe illustration, the only chromatic accent — a printer’s mark red, not an interface brand color

Neutrals4

  • Hardest rule weights, foot dividers, densest border lines — the purest black on the page

  • Primary text, body copy, hairline rules, column dividers — softer than pure black, reads as printed ink

  • Muted column rules, secondary divider strokes — the gray that softens the grid

  • Page canvas, card surfaces, section backgrounds — the paper of the monograph

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Ink on Vermillion

6.41 : 1 contrast

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

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