# Monochrome portfolio image rail

> A dark portfolio index presents project imagery as narrow vertical grayscale strips across the middle of the screen, with a condensed wordmark, understated navigation, contact links and a small tick-mark index.

- Kind: Website
- Live website: https://www.aristidebenoist.com
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/ref-aristide-portfolio-2021-2913/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/ref-aristide-portfolio-2021-2913/agent.txt
- Authorship: Not stated
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: not stated
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Portfolios; monochrome, minimal, image rail, negative space, condensed typography, dark, editorial
- Preview: a flip-through of inspected screenshots; open the live work to experience its motion and interactions.
- Shared by Aristide Benoist / Jon Way in Website: https://www.awwwards.com/sites/aristide-portfolio-2021
- Prompt fidelity: Unavailable in this entry. The recreation brief is written by Reference.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

## Recreating this website

This is a visual reference. No original creator prompt is available. The following brief was written by Reference after inspecting the work.

Crop varied images into equal-height, narrow vertical strips with uniform gaps to create a rhythmic contact-sheet band. Surround that band with substantial negative space and place secondary information at the viewport corners, contrasting a condensed identity mark with small utility text. For a new subject, replace the imagery and labels, selecting crops with recognizable silhouettes and enough tonal separation to remain legible against the dark background.

1. Open the live work or source and inspect the frame images below.
2. Adapt its layout, hierarchy, palette, and interaction patterns to the user's own content and brand.
3. Compare the result against the reference. Use your own assets and credit the original creator.

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the captured walkthrough frames, not by the creator.

Minimal, dark portfolio presentation with a horizontal gallery of image panels.

- Color: Black and charcoal backgrounds with muted gray, monochrome imagery and small pale text.
- Type: Small, condensed-looking uppercase branding and navigation; other text is very small.
- Framing: Large areas of negative space surround a centered horizontal strip of narrow image panels. Small labels sit near the top and bottom edges.
- Structure: A compact header with a wordmark at upper left and small navigation, a central gallery, and tiny footer details.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the captured walkthrough: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aristide-portfolio-2021-2913/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aristide-portfolio-2021-2913/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 2.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aristide-portfolio-2021-2913/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 4.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aristide-portfolio-2021-2913/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 6.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aristide-portfolio-2021-2913/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 8.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aristide-portfolio-2021-2913/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 10.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aristide-portfolio-2021-2913/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 12.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aristide-portfolio-2021-2913/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 14.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aristide-portfolio-2021-2913/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 16.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aristide-portfolio-2021-2913/f9.webp

## Links

- Visit site: https://www.aristidebenoist.com
- Original post: https://www.awwwards.com/sites/aristide-portfolio-2021
- Source and design credit: https://www.awwwards.com/sites/aristide-portfolio-2021