Editorial wedding photographer website design: Solace
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Solace is our editorial wedding photographer website design: a sunlit, magazine-style site with a giant letter-spaced wordmark, capital headlines that slip into italic, and warm, airy photos that drift and overlap as you scroll. On the demo it is dressed as Marisol Vega Photography, a fictional wedding, portrait and quinceañera photographer in Houston, Texas. The photographer, her clients and her venues are made up, so you can judge the design on its own.
What does Solace look like?
Solace looks like a printed magazine spread. Under a slim white menu bar, the photographer's name runs almost edge to edge in widely spaced capitals, with a one-line description of what she does and where right below it. Then two tall photos meet in the middle, with a crest monogram, the word Photography and the founding year centered over the seam. The pages are paper white, with lots of air between sections.
The details stay quiet: hairline rules, tiny tracked capitals for the menu and buttons, and outlined buttons with a thin arrow. There is one dark photo moment, the inquiry band, one black and white band, and one slate teal footer.
What colors does Solace use?
Solace keeps its grounds light and lets the photos bring the color. Paper is the default page, white and cream alternate under it, ink brown sets the type, near black sits under photo bands, and slate teal is used for the footer and nowhere else. Neighboring sections never share a background. Text on the teal footer is ink brown, because white on that teal does not pass contrast.
Paper
#fcfbf9
Page background
White
#ffffff
Menu bar, alternate sections, photo mounts
Cream
#f4f2ec
Alternate sections and cards
Ink brown
#251f18
Text and solid buttons
Near black
#070707
Photo bands and overlays
Slate teal
#869d9f
Footer band only
What fonts does Solace use?
Solace uses four typefaces: Kinfolk for the wordmark and headlines, Red Hat Display for the menu, labels and buttons, Albert Sans for body copy, and EB Garamond italic for tag lines and accent words. Kinfolk, from Tropical Type, draws capitals only and comes in one weight, so every serif line reads in caps. Small connecting words like the or and switch to EB Garamond italic, which gives headlines such as the MUSIC STOPS their editorial rhythm.
Wordmark and headlines
Kinfolk
A high-contrast serif in capitals, set huge and spaced wide for the name.
Nav, labels and buttons
Red Hat Display
Small capitals, widely tracked.
Body
Albert Sans
Clean and open, easy on long paragraphs.
Italic accents
EB Garamond
Italic only: one word per headline, plus tag lines and credits.
The statement: Kinfolk capitals with one italic word, and a photo that scrolls up over it.
How is the Solace home page laid out?
The Solace home page runs in thirteen sections after the menu bar:
- The giant wordmark with the one-line description under it.
- The split two-photo hero with the crest monogram.
- A statement in big capitals, with a portrait that scrolls up over it and two side photos drifting in from the edges.
- What I do: the services as a huge, thin list over a soft-focus photo, with three tilted photo prints beside it.
- Kind words: round client thumbnails, a quote and a rating line.
- A photographer intro with two overlapping photos.
- The portfolio: a wide photo band, then a staggered grid of frames.
- The wedding experience on cream, as a short list of three points.
- Service cards with photos at staggered heights.
- A black and white band featuring one journal story.
- A quiet row of two more journal stories.
- The inquiry: crossfading photos behind the title, and the full form on a paper panel.
- The slate teal footer, with photos floating above the photographer's name and Instagram link.
The services as one huge, thin list, with tilted prints drifting beside it.
The slate teal footer is the only cool color on the page.
On a phone, the wordmark still fills most of the width, the description sits under it, and the check availability button is on the first screen. Photos stack with deliberate overlaps instead of full-width boxes one after another.
On a phone the hero photos overlap instead of sitting side by side.
Why does this design suit a wedding photographer?
A photographer's site should let the photos carry the color, and Solace is built around that. Paper, cream and white keep the page light. Ink brown instead of black softens the type. A giant, widely spaced capital serif with one italic word does the luxury, and the slate teal footer is the only cool note, so the page ends calm.
The motion is part of the editorial feel: photos drift slowly and overlap the way prints do on a table. It stays subtle, with no bouncing and no moving text, and it turns off for anyone who has asked their device for reduced motion. Every section still shows in full without it.
Can I get a website like Solace?
Yes, in its feel, never as a copy. Our templates are a direction to start from, and every site we build is custom: send us a site you love, or point at Solace, and we build yours around your name, your photos and your services. Solace is not sold as a template.
Every site comes with:
- A custom, high-end website
- F-Stop CRM included
- Booking built in
- Edits whenever you need them
- The auto blog uploader
- Search set up for Google and AI answers
- Your own portal (analytics and change requests)
- Real support
Read how working with us goes, or see pricing. When you are ready, Inquire now.
For a warmer, desert version of the same big capitals, read about Sienna. For a planner's take in black and white, see Ivory.
