/past-designs – a lookbook of my current and previous site designs. I like to experiment and then write about it.

anh version noir

Apr. 2024

Homepage, but it's a noir comic.

Fonts: Tiempos Text

Homepage screenshot, showing the title 'Anh Version Noir', and the first panel.

Version 6 Redesign

Dec. 2023

Full site redesign.

Fonts: Be Vietnam Pro Woodland Space Mono

A blog post. The page design features a dark brown palette, with large yellow title text.

Comic Anhs

May 2023

Homepage redesign with a series of four-panel comics (May 2023–Apr 2024).

Fonts: Poppy Fineliner

My website. It has a regular header with the page title as 'Comic Anhs', subtitled 'a personal website. an experiment'. There's a cut-off comic underneath titled 'Recordkeeping'.
introducing various parts of my website

About Me

May 2023

About page, where I introduce myself as different versions of myself. Currently in use.

Fonts: Inconsolata

Web page screenshot of a window formatted to look like a messaging client. On the left sidebar is a list of contexts: 'anhbot', 'artist', 'personal, and 'professional', all with different avatars. The right side is a chat window for 'Personal', where there are a couple of messages of me introducing myself, written in informal language.
A direct message list.

Bloop

Nov. 2022

Homepage redesign with chat bubbles (Nov 2022—May 2023).

A photo of pink clouds. Next to it is a short bio where I introduce myself and my site, styled to look like text bubbles.
an introduction to myself, like i am texting you

The Book

May 2022

Major redesign of the overall site (May 2022–Dec 2023), as well as a fancy little homepage.

Fonts: Tiempos Text Tiempos Headline Inconsolata

The homepage. There's a hidden feature here.
Journal page.

Dark mode again, in pink and green

Mar. 2022

Site redesign.

Fonts: Be Vietnam Pro Neue Machina Space Mono

Anh Visual Novel

Nov. 2021

Visual novel homepage—riffing on my url ‘anhvn.’ My first weird experiment.

Fonts: Inconsolata

Trendy light mode

Nov. 2021

Site redesign. I finally bought a license to Tiempos Text, one of my favourite serif fonts, and tried out light mode.

Fonts: Tiempos Text Tiempos Headline Hatton Inconsolata

Dark mode

??? 2021

Site redesign. Very olde.

Fonts: Span Inter Inconsolata

The Original

Fall 2020

The original site design upon launch.

Fonts: Span Trade Gothic Next Odisseia