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Lithos UI — free, open-source neo-brutalist React library
I built and maintain Lithos UI, a free, open-source neo-brutalist React component library.
It just shipped its first npm release — 16 components, 10 full page-section templates — with a distribution model I'm genuinely proud of: install it as a package, or copy-paste the raw source into your own project for full code ownership. Both are first-class, documented paths, not one treated as the "real" way.
100% free, no paid tier, ever — sustained by contributors and sponsors rather than a monetized product tier.
If you're building a product and want a design system with real structural guarantees (not just a Tailwind theme), or you're looking to contribute to something with an active, well-documented contributor process, I'd love to connect.
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For Sienna Rhodes, I designed the homepage around one idea: the portfolio should come first.
Photography clients usually want to know one thing before they read about your process, your packages, or even who you are: Do I connect with your work?
So instead of opening with a traditional introduction, the homepage leads directly into the portfolio and lets the imagery make the first impression. The supporting copy and details come later, once the work has already created that initial connection.
I’m curious where other designers and photographers land on this. Do you prefer a portfolio-first homepage, or do you think the photographer’s story should come first?
Portfolio first, every time for photography. Nobody hires off a process paragraph, they hire because one image stopped them scrolling. The story matters, but it lands harder after the work has already made the case. That start here slider does the pitch by itself.