Editorial typography and the warm palette that changed everything

Threw out the default Next.js styling and rebuilt the entire visual identity in one pass — editorial typography, warm color palette, and intentional spacing. The site had been functional but generic. The overhaul gave it a personality: large serif headings, tight tracking, generous whitespace, and a palette that leans warm instead of the cold blue-gray that every developer portfolio defaults to. Also pushed the quantization data — the inverted ladder where Q4 beats Q8 beats F16 — into the benchmark charts, which gave the Gemma 4 page its first genuinely surprising visual. The design system commit was the moment the site stopped looking like a template and started looking like mine.