Rebuilding Voxel Guide as a custom Laravel application.

Direction A

Midnight

Dark editorial. A serif display against near-black, hairline rules, wide gutters, and imagery doing all the colour work. Reads like a design annual — the showcase becomes the product rather than a grid of links.

Type: Instrument Serif · Manrope · JetBrains Mono
Best if: you want the site to feel curated and authored, and to stand apart from every other WordPress-adjacent directory.

Direction B

Canvas

Light and tactile. Warm paper ground, chunky rounded surfaces, a hot orange against the brand teal, and a search box as the centre of gravity. Filtering moves to a left rail so the grid stays dense.

Type: Bricolage Grotesque · Onest · Chivo Mono
Best if: you want warmth and approachability, and expect most visitors to arrive looking for something specific.

Selected direction — carried furthest, with a snippet page and the four-step submission wizard.

Direction C

Signal

A professional tool rather than a brochure. Persistent app-shell sidebar, 1px structure, tabular numbers, and real information density. The product page is a commerce surface with licensing tiers, not a marketing page.

Type: Archivo · Public Sans · IBM Plex Mono
Best if: the marketplace and vendor tooling are the point, and you want the same shell to serve browsing and selling. Ships light and dark — try the toggle.