Minimalist portfolio template V2
Last Updated on July 16, 2026 by Editorial Team
Another cool minimalist portfolio template from Louis Blythe, new version of this portfolio template.
The freebie contains one .SKETCH file with 3 templates.
Look closely at the three screens and a pattern emerges: this is a template built around photography-led storytelling rather than dense grids of buttons and widgets.
The homepage opens with a full-bleed landscape shot, a soft serif headline like “Lost In Lagos Portugal” laid over the image, and a short block of body copy underneath that reads almost like a travel journal entry.
Scroll further and you land on a photographer’s bio section, an about page with a short introduction (“Howdy, my name is Louis, I am a photographer from Sydney, Australia”) sitting next to an asymmetric photo grid mixing landscape and portrait orientations.
Then there’s a project index page built on tidy three-column thumbnails, each one paired with a repeated title treatment and a short caption, which is clearly meant for browsing a body of work rather than reading long-form text.
Color is used sparingly and deliberately throughout. Most of the layout sits on white or near-white space so the photography can carry the visual weight, and the one spot of real color is a purple-to-blue gradient panel used as a call-to-action band, complete with faint circular line-art and a “Like what you see? Let’s chat” prompt and button.
That gradient section reappears at the bottom of more than one screen, which suggests it’s meant to function as a consistent closing module across the whole site rather than a one-off decoration.
Typography leans on a light serif for display headlines and a plain sans-serif for body copy and navigation, which is what gives the whole template its editorial, gallery-catalog feel rather than a typical agency-website look.
Where This Template Works Best
This is a strong fit for anyone whose work is fundamentally visual: photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, stylists, travel writers, or design studios that shoot a lot of their own reference imagery.
The oversized hero images and generous white space mean it’s built to showcase a handful of strong photos rather than a hundred small icons, so it suits portfolios with a curated, edited body of work over ones that need to list dozens of quick projects.
It also reads well as a personal site or freelance landing page, since the about section is written in a first-person, conversational tone that invites a direct introduction rather than a corporate mission statement.
If you shoot travel, landscape, or lifestyle photography in particular, the template’s pacing (full-width scene, then story, then gallery) mirrors how a photo essay is usually laid out, so very little restructuring is needed.
Adapting The Layout To Your Own Work
Because the three templates share consistent type styles and spacing, the easiest way to adapt this is to treat the hero image, the bio block, and the gradient CTA panel as swappable modules.
Start by replacing the hero photography with your own highest-impact image, ideally one with enough negative space or a darker area where the headline text can sit without losing legibility.
Keep the headline short, two or three words work best given how the type is set large and centered over the image.
For the about page, resize your grid photos to match the existing aspect ratios so the layout stays balanced when you drop in new work.
On the gradient CTA sections, you can recolor the background to match your own brand palette; because the circular line-art sits on a flat gradient, a simple color swap will carry through cleanly without needing to redraw anything.
When building out your own project index, keep captions short and consistent, one line about the client or theme is enough, since the layout is designed for scanning thumbnails quickly rather than reading dense descriptions.
Pair the finished site with a matching resume or press kit that reuses the same serif and sans-serif combination, so a visitor moving from your portfolio to a PDF or case study feels like they’re still in the same visual world.
