Wedding photography · Built in 5 days
Plate sequence, pure black, single typeface.
Bookings 8 months out
Open the live site
Fonts
EB Garamond only
Palette
Coal / Bone / Brass
Photos
Full-bleed, no filter, warm against dark
The brief
Most wedding photography sites are a card grid of thumbnails on a white background with a navigation that hides everything good behind dropdowns. Hadley Park shoots quiet weddings; the brand needed to feel like the printed photo book she sends each client - dark, considered, one plate at a time.
The decisions
01 · Typography
EB Garamond ONLY. No sans, no mono, no script. Italic for voice statements and plate titles, small-caps for labels, old-style figures for the plate counter. The single-typeface system is the most distinct architectural choice in the portfolio - every other brand uses a multi-family stack.
02 · Palette
Coal black #0A0A0A as the dominant ground, bone text #EAE6E0, smoke for secondary labels, brass accent #B89968 for divider lines and emphasis moments. This is the only dark-bg site in the portfolio. Grain overlay uses screen blend mode (the other sites use multiply) so it lifts highlights instead of deepening shadows.
03 · Photo treatment
Full-bleed, no border, no filter, no desaturation. The warm wedding photography IS the brand's only colour and reads naturally against the coal black. Each plate gets a small-caps label, italic title caption, and an old-style 'NN / total' counter underneath.
04 · Voice
First-person quiet observer. 'I shoot quiet weddings. I do not direct. I notice.' Sentence fragments. Specific. Lists what she does AND what she does not do as the brand identity. The opening essay block uses a brass drop-cap on the very first letter.
Craft moments
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Every Ostra site starts the same way: a 3-question brief and an honest conversation about what makes your business actually different. The result looks nothing like the others.