Marginalia

Marginalia is a portfolio for people who draw. Cream paper, soft and wonky Fraunces headlines, handwritten notes in Caveat, doodled arrows and stars, sticker badges and project cards that sit slightly crooked on a masonry wall until you point at them. The work is the color.

It is built on the Symelo portfolio foundation, so projects are a real content type with their own fields, and everything below works without a page builder:

• Projects: a Projects menu with disciplines and industries, client, year, role, duration, location, tools, a shop link, a summary, galleries in four layouts, a before/after slider, the challenge / approach / outcome of the case study, results, credits, a client quote, a map and the next project. Values are edited with the free Secure Custom Fields plugin (the theme offers to install it) and keep showing without it.
• A masonry wall: project grids lay out as polaroids with tape and numbered stickers, in varying heights, straightening up on hover.
• Filterable work: discipline chips drawn as wobbly pills, search and sort; the grid updates without a reload, keeps the address shareable and works without JavaScript.
• Commissions: an availability sticker in the header and hero, a "Open for commissions" band with three steps, an inquiry form that fills in the project a visitor came from, and a Shop prints call to action.
• Handwritten details: section notes, gallery captions and numbers are set in Caveat; doodles are inline SVG in your colors, so they follow every style variation and the dark scheme.
• Galleries: Masonry and Carousel gallery styles and a lightbox with captions, swipe and keyboard support.
• Motion: gentle floating stickers, a wiggle on hover and staggered reveals; all of it off for visitors who prefer reduced motion.
• Light and dark: a switch in the header that remembers the visitor's choice, and three style variations: Ink (dark), Risograph (fluo pink and blue on warm print paper) and Sunday (sunflower yellow), each with its own night or day partner.

Templates: blog home, single post, page, archive, search (projects, posts and pages together), 404, the project page, the projects archive, discipline and industry archives, plus the custom templates Landing page, Wide and Case study. Template parts: header, header over a hero image, footer and a minimal footer.

About fifty patterns: three heroes (a collage of polaroids, your name with handwritten notes, and a masonry wall with a floating introduction), a sticker ticker, selected work, the project index, the filterable grid, services, process, the studio in numbers, clients, awards, speech-bubble testimonials, questions, galleries, forms, journal lists, the commission band, the print shop and full pages for Home, Work, About and Contact.

The demo content (Appearance → Import demo) installs a complete portfolio with nine projects, disciplines, industries, clients, awards and the Home, Work, About and Contact pages.