Brande — Free Portfolio Template for Framer

Brande is a free four-page portfolio template for Framer with no CMS collections. It fits freelancers who need Home, Projects, Blog, and Contact on a tight sitemap, not a twelve-page agency kit. Skip it if your pitch depends on CMS case studies and a Services collection. JORGE covers that job with Works and Work Page wired to collections. Browse more free Framer templates on the hub, or compare picks on the portfolio shortlist.

Who should remix Brande?

Brande suits a solo creative who already has project shots and a few blog drafts, and wants a credible site this week. Think a brand designer shipping a client-facing portfolio before a retainer conversation, or a photographer who needs a Projects grid plus an Articles index without learning collection fields on day one. The four routes match a simple story: who you are, what you made, what you write, how to reach you.

Pass if you are a studio selling team pages, pricing tables, or awards walls. Most and Formix Co carry more agency furniture. Pass if every project needs its own long case study URL backed by CMS. Brande keeps Projects as static frames you duplicate by hand. That is faster at first and painful once you have twenty launches.

What Brande looks like

The preview reads clean and portfolio-forward: generous whitespace, neutral backgrounds, and type that stays readable when you drop in colorful client work. Sections feel like a modern creative CV rather than a dark editorial magazine. Motion stays subtle so the layout still works when you swap in bold photography.

That calm default helps trust on first visit, especially on mobile. The trade-off is personality. Loud color systems or brutalist type will fight the out-of-the-box rhythm. Plan an evening on fonts and accent color if your brand is already high contrast.

Pages included in Brande

Four pages, spelled exactly as Framer lists them:

• Home: positioning, featured work teasers, and a primary contact path
• Contact: form or details for inquiries and collaboration requests
• Projects: grid or list of selected work with room for outcomes and roles
• Blog: index for updates, process posts, or short essays

No CMS means each new project is a layout duplicate, not a form fill. That keeps the file lightweight for Framer Basic plans and static hosting.

What is distinctive about Brande

• Blog on a four-page map. Many minimal portfolios drop writing entirely. Brande keeps Blog without ballooning the sitemap.
• Projects without CMS overhead. Good when you have fewer than a dozen case studies and prefer manual curation.
• Contact as a dedicated route. Not buried in a footer modal, which helps freelancers who live on inbound email.
• Small page count. Four routes total, so stakeholders review the whole site in one sitting.
• Creative category fit. Layout assumes visual work leads; copy blocks stay secondary.

Framer SEO and analytics tooling ships with the platform. They are not why you pick Brande over another portfolio file.

When to remix Brande, and when to skip

Remix Brande when you want Projects plus Blog on a static portfolio and you are fine updating frames by hand. It is a pragmatic free file for freelancers testing positioning before they invest in CMS structure.

Skip it when case studies are the product. Move to JORGE for CMS Works and Work Page flows. Skip it when you need Services, Studio, and Recognition pages in one remix. Most is closer to that studio shape. Still comparing? Return to the portfolio shortlist or the free Framer templates hub.