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Lambda Minimal

$39 · one-time

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Overview

Built for design studios, creative practices and independent art directors

Lambda Minimal is an editorial template for design studios and portfolios. It combines a deliberate light and dark theme, self-hosted Fraunces and Geist, MDX collections for work and journal, file-based prose pages and a token-driven design system. Alpine.js handles the few interactive pieces without taking over the site.

Publish an archive, not a grid of thumbnails

Case studies carry client, year, type, scope, recognition and credits, with a sticky info bar and a prev/next pager.

Own a real dark mode

A separate companion palette with its own accent, hairline and heading tokens — applied before first paint, so no flash.

Change one token, change the site

Colour, type size, tracking, container width and motion duration all live in theme.css.

Included pages

14 pages, listed before you buy.

Prose pages are file-based: add a Markdown file to src/content/pages and the route exists.

Marketing

  • Homestatic
  • Studiostatic
  • Servicesstatic
  • Contactstatic

Content

  • Work archivecollection
  • Case studycollection
  • Journal indexcollection
  • Journal entrycollection

Prose & utility

  • Privacyprose
  • Termsprose
  • Accessibilityprose
  • Colophonprose
  • 404static
  • Style guidenoindex

What’s inside

What Lambda Minimal gives you.

Each item below is work you do not have to do. Nothing here is a stub.

Type & tokens

Fraunces with the opsz axis intact

Self-hosted by hand with a metric-matched Georgia fallback, so display headings keep their optical size.

Token-driven design system

Every colour, size, tracking value and duration lives in @theme tokens — light and dark in lockstep.

Theme

Light + dark with no-flash boot

An inline boot script sets the theme before first paint and it survives View Transitions.

Keyboard-accessible theme toggle

Announced state, visible focus, no layout shift when it flips.

Content

MDX work collection

Two cover images per entry plus a home-spread variant, and an in-production stub for unfinished case studies.

MDX journal

Featured entry, tag filtering, author cards, related entries and per-entry hero images.

File-based prose pages

privacy.mdx becomes /privacy. Four back-of-book pages ship written and styled.

Motion & detail

Reveal-on-scroll, opt in

Add data-animate to any element; an IntersectionObserver handles the rest and honours reduced motion.

Editorial details

Drop cap on the philosophy intro, marginalia, fig captions, asymmetric featured spread, dark inversion CTA.

Technical details

Exact versions, no “latest”.

These values come from the product data, not from a marketing page. If a template has not been upgraded yet, it says so here.

Astro version
6.3.3
Template version
v1.0.0
Styling
Tailwind CSS v4
Language
TypeScript (strict)
Content
Content Collections + MDX
Rendering
Static output
Pages
14
Package manager
npm / pnpm
Released
May 28, 2026
Last updated
May 28, 2026

Changelog

Still maintained.

Recent releases only. The full history ships in the README with every purchase.

  • Initial release — work and journal collections, light and dark themes

What you receive

You know exactly what lands in your inbox.

Lemon Squeezy handles payment and delivery. Your download link and receipt arrive by email straight after purchase.

Full source code

The complete Astro project as a downloadable archive — no obfuscation, no license check at build time.

README documentation

Setup, content model, tokens, deployment and customization notes, versioned with the code.

Versioned updates

Releases are published with a version and a date. The changelog above is the same history shipped in the README.

Instant delivery

Lemon Squeezy emails the download link and receipt immediately after payment.

Re-download later

Lost the link? Email support with your order address and it gets re-sent.

License summary

  • One purchase covers one website — yours or a client’s, commercial use included.
  • Edit, restructure and rebrand the code as much as you like.
  • Reselling or redistributing the template itself is not allowed.

Support summary

  • Email support for installation, build and template bugs.
  • Documentation ships in the README, matched to your version.
  • Custom design or development work is not part of support.

FAQ

Lambda Minimal, specifically.

A complete website. Every page in the live demo is included in the download — 14 pages in total, with content, layouts and components already assembled.

Node, a package manager and comfort reading TypeScript and HTML. Content lives in typed data files and MDX; styling lives in Tailwind v4 tokens. You do not need to know Astro deeply, but you should be able to run a dev server.

Use it for one personal or commercial site, or for a client project. No reselling or redistributing the template itself. Read the full terms on the license page before you buy.

TODO(content): state exactly which demo photographs are licensed for redistribution and which are placeholders the buyer must replace. Do not publish this answer until it is confirmed.

Updates are published as versioned releases. This page always shows the current version (v1.0.0) and the date it changed. Your original download link from Lemon Squeezy points at the latest build.

Yes. The output is a fully static site, so any host that serves static files works, including all four of those.

Help with installing and running the template, and fixes for bugs in the template itself. Custom design or development work on your project is not included.

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Lambda Minimal — ready to ship.

An editorial studio site with light and dark themes, MDX work and journal collections, and a token-driven type system.

Astro 6.3.3 · v1.0.0 · updated May 28, 2026 · one-time purchase