Specimen

Specimen sets your studio like a printed type specimen: warm paper, black ink, one vermilion accent, oversized grotesk headlines, hairline rules, numbered sections and mono labels. 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 live 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.
• The project index: every project as a numbered row (title, client, disciplines, year) between hairlines. With a mouse, the row's cover image follows the pointer; on touch screens it shows as a thumbnail, and keyboard focus shows it too.
• Filterable work: discipline chips set as mono tags, search and sort; the grid updates without a reload, keeps the address shareable and works without JavaScript.
• Case studies: a giant title, a mono facts row, the summary as a lede, the cover or featured video edge to edge, a sticky facts column with the live link and "Start a similar project", numbered sections, results as huge numbers, the gallery, before/after, the quote, credits in columns, the map and a full-width link to the next project.
• Your studio: an availability badge ("Available for work from …") in the header, the hero and the footer; studio details, clients as a marquee, awards as an index table, services as a numbered list.
• Forms: a project inquiry form (it fills in the project a visitor came from), contact, collaboration request and newsletter forms. Messages are stored in the dashboard and emailed to you.
• Video: a background-video showreel hero (a bundled loop with a poster), featured videos for projects and posts, YouTube and Vimeo embeds that load only after a click.
• Galleries: Masonry and Carousel gallery styles and a lightbox with captions, swipe and keyboard support.
• Motion: clip and word reveals for big type, staggered grids, marquees for clients and disciplines; 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 five style variations: Paper (the default), Blueprint, Night, Kraft and Mono, 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.

More than fifty patterns: six heroes (the specimen statement, the project index, the showreel, the latest project, a split portrait and a disciplines marquee), selected work, the project index, the filterable grid, spotlight, services, process, the studio in numbers, clients, awards, testimonials, questions, galleries, video sections, forms, journal lists, calls to action, social links and full pages for Home, Work, Studio, Contact and a Landing page.

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