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PORTFOLIO BUILDER FOR INDEPENDENT DESIGNERS
Your work deserves better than a template.
Kern turns a folder of your best work into a portfolio site with a real point of view — no themes to fight, no builder to learn, no code to maintain. Publish in an afternoon, then get back to the work itself.
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11 min
Median time from first upload to a portfolio live on your own domain.
8,400
Independent designers and small studios publishing with Kern today.
Zero
Config files, build steps, or plugins to keep alive between projects.
WHAT YOU GET
Zero config is not the same as zero taste.
Typography that was set, not defaulted.
Every layout ships with a considered type scale, optical spacing, and a pairing chosen by people who argue about this for a living. Change one setting and the whole system stays in proportion — your work never fights the frame around it.
01
Drop in your work
Drag in a folder of images, case studies, or Figma frames. Kern reads their real dimensions and builds the grid around your work instead of cropping it to fit a theme.
02
Make it unmistakably yours
Adjust palette, type, and rhythm from a single panel. Every change is system-wide, so nothing drifts out of alignment while you experiment your way to the right answer.
03
Publish, then forget it
One click puts it on your own domain with SSL, share previews, and quiet analytics. Nothing to deploy, nothing to patch, nothing to break at two in the morning.
CASE STUDY
“I’d rebuilt my site every year and never once finished it. Kern had fourteen case studies live before I could talk myself out of it again.”
Mara Kessler
Brand & identity designer, Rotterdam
Put your work somewhere worth linking to.
Start free, publish when it feels ready, and keep the domain you already own.
$12/mo once you publish