A portfolio needs your best work, organized the way you want it, connected to what you arleady use.
Northfolio is a clean platform for independent designers, photographers, writers, and developers. Stick to 5 to 15 pieces. No templates fighting your style. No shopping cart features taking up space. You get a grid, your images, embedded Figma prototypes or GitHub links and a shareable URL. Built for people in Stockholm, Toronto, Portland—anywhere clean design is just design.
Drop in your images or paste embed code. Line them up the way you want. Add titles and links if they matter to you, leave them blank if they don't. Hit publish and you're done. Most people have the whole thing live before their lunch break.
Want to rearrange the layout later? Swap things around? Rewrite a project description? You can do all of that without writing a single line of code. The grid adjusts on its own. Your domain doesn't change, links stay good, and anyone who bookmarked your stuff will find it right where they expect it.
Integrations are one-and-done. Connect your GitHub repo once and it stays connected. Embed a Figma file once. You're not constantly rebuilding your portfolio just because you pushed some code or tweaked a design.
JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF for images. Vimeo, YouTube, or wherever you're hosting video. GitHub links for code. No format hassles.
Not some half-baked toggle. The whole thing respects what you prefer without forcing you to pick it again every time you load a page.
yourname.com instead of something.northfolio.com. DNS setup takes around 10 to 15 minutes depending on whether you've done it before.
JSON file with everything—all your content, all your metadata. You're never trapped here. Walk away anytime and take it all with you.
You get what you need. Nothing extra.
Show 8 to 12 case studies in a clean grid. Embed Figma prototypes straight in — no redirects. High-res images, dark mode is on by default and you can use your own domain. Your portfolio looks like you, not like some template.
Connect your GitHub repos and your portfolio updates when you push. That's it. No maintaining two places. Add a bio, link to your CV if you want, and let the code do the talking. Five projects or fifty, whatever fits.
Full-res images from your series in a grid. Click through to see larger versions. No watermarks forced on you, no stock photo templates getting in the way. Clean background. That's all.
Link to published work, bylines if you care about them, a short bio. Searchable and shareable. Minimal enough that people actually read what you wrote instead of getting distracted by the design.
You get what you need. Nothing extra.
Two columns, three columns, weird asymmetric spacing — your call. Images don't get squashed. Text stays readable on phones, tablets, whatever. The layout bends to fit what you have, not the other way around.
No reason to send people away when you can show the prototype right there. Visitors click through your Figma work without leaving your site. No bouncing around to different tabs.
Your portfolio pulls fresh code whenever you push. No manual updates. You're not juggling two separate things that get out of sync.
It's not tacked on at the end. Built in from the start. Your portfolio checks what the visitor prefers and adjusts. Colors shift. Type stays sharp. Nothing breaks.
yourname.com isntead of yourname.northfolio.com. Point your DNS and you're done. Every plan includes it, no extra charge.
Six typeface combinations to pick from. Mix serif with sans, add monospace where it fits. The fonts you choose shape how people react to your work before they even see a single image.
Grab a JSON backup of everything. Your content, your settings, all of it. Walk away anytime and take the whole thing with you.
What makes it different.
Most portfolio sites force their own style on you. You either fight it or just accept that your work looks like everyone else's. Northfolio doesn't have a house style to fight. Pick your typeface. Add one accent color if you want one, or skip it entirely. Dark mode if that's what you're into. The platform gets out of the way and your work looks exactly how you meant it to look.
Connect your GitHub and your portfolio updates when you push new code. Embed a Figma prototype directly. No redirects, no dead links from old projects. The tools you're already using just become part of your portfolio.
Shopping carts and payment processors get in the way. You're showing your work, not running a business selling products. northfolio is just a portfolio—five pieces or fifty, your domain, done.
Up to 15 pieces. No newsletter spam. No share buttons nobody wanted in the firts place.
Most independent creatives land somewhere in that sweet spot. You've got room to demonstrate what you can do without turning the whole thing into a catalog. Get much past 15 and you're probably holding onto work you shouldn't be.
There's no fussy editor to learn. Just grab a piece and slide it where you want it. Everything reorganizes on the fly. Change the order whenever you feel like it without diving into code or waiting around for builds.
Figma prototypes drop in directly. GitHub repos stay linked and stay current. Vimeo, YouTube, your own hosted stuff—it all works. No redirect chains, no extra hoops to jump through.
Six different combinations to pick from. Mix of serifs, sans-serif options, monospace if that's your thing. Typography sets the tone before anyone even looks at an image. Pick one and move on.
Not some half-baked toggle. The whole thing respects what your visitor's system is set to. Colors shift, contrast stays sharp. It's wired in from the start, not tacked on later.
yourname.com instead of yourname.northfolio.com. Every plan includes one. Point your DNS and we take care of the rest. No upsell required.
Shopping carts, product pages, payment systems—none of that. Your portfolio stays a portfolio. Some platforms stuff in e-commerce and bloat everything down. We don't.
Download a JSON file with everything—all your content, all your metadata. Your work is yours. Walk away whenever, take it all with you.
These are actual sites built by independent creators using Northfolio. Not mockups, not staged—just what people actually made.
Drop in JPGs, PNGs, WebP, or GIFs. Video from Vimeo or YouTube works too. Got code? Link your GitHub directly. No converting files, no weird Format rules that make you shrink or re-compress everything.
Just drag things around. Your grid shifts instantly to match. Whether you've got a handful of pieces or a ton of them, the layout figures itself out without weird empty spaces or forced alignment. And none of this is locked in—you can shuffle things around anytime before you actually go live.
Link up a GitHub repo or embed a Figma prototype. Once you've connected it, the connection stays active. Push new code or update your designs and your portfolio reflects it automatically. You don't have to do anything on your end.
Six different combinations to pick from. Some serif, some sans, a monospace option in there too. Choose one and your whole protfolio adopts it. Everything feels visually connected without you having to think about it.
Pick one color for links and highlights or keep it understated. Dark mode happens automatically. Light mode is there if you want it. That single color choice ends up controlling your whole visual hierarchy and you're not drowning in decisions.
Use yourname.com instead of yourname.northfolio.com. Point your DNS and we take it from there. It's included on every plan—no extra charge, no special tier you have to unlock.
Turn it on. Your portfolio's live. That URL doesn't change. Anyone who saves it to their bookmarks will find your work waiting in the exact same spot.
Common questions
Questions we actually get from people looking at Northfolio. No fluff, just straight answers.
You own it completely. Every plan comes with one custom domain included. There's no premium version hiding better features. Just point your DNS at us and you're good. Whether it's yourname.com, yourname.studio, or whatever domain you grabbed, it'll work.
Yeah, probably. If you need way more than 15 portfolio pieces, you've outgrown what Northfolio does. That's by design. We built this for people showing their best work, not archiving everything they've ever touched. The good news is you can pull your JSON data anytime and take it elsewhere.
It stays synced without you doing anything. Connect a repo and your portfolio pulls the latest code automatically. Push a commit and it shows up on your site. Figma works the same way — you get live updates, not some old snapshot from whenever you last remembered to refresh.
Nope. No shopping carts, no product pages, no payment stuff at all. We didn't build these features in and then let you turn them off. They're just not there. You get your portfolio, custom domain, integrations and dark mode. That's it.