Dex Harlan — Free Portfolio Template for Framer

Dex Harlan is a free five-page portfolio template for Framer aimed at brand designers and creative freelancers. It ships Home, Work, Work detail, Contact, and a 404, all static, with no CMS collections. Remix it when you want a credible Toronto-style identity portfolio without wiring collections on day one. Skip it if you publish new case studies often and want each project to be a CMS entry instead of duplicated frames. JORGE is the dark CMS portfolio path for that job. More free Framer templates live on the hub, or narrow the field on the portfolio shortlist.

Who should remix Dex Harlan?

Dex Harlan matches a solo brand designer who already has four to six strong cases and wants each one to breathe on its own URL. Packaging, visual identity, and campaign boards get room on Work detail without fighting a blog or agency pricing page. Freelancers pitching studios in Toronto, London, or anywhere else will recognize the tone: confident type, work-first navigation, contact when someone is ready to talk.

Pass if you are a photographer or product designer who lives inside CMS galleries. You will resent duplicating Work detail every time a client signs off. Studios that need Services, Pricing, or Hiring should not start here. Teams that want a dark editorial system with CMS case studies should remix JORGE instead. If you only need one scroll, Ferio remains the faster fork, but Dex Harlan is for people who want discrete project URLs.

What Dex Harlan looks like

The demo positions Dex Harlan as an independent brand designer, and the layout follows that brief: strong hero, work index, then case pages that let identity systems and mockups stay large. Palette and type stay modern and neutral so client color can pop in photography. It reads closer to a small design studio site than a developer CV or illustration toy box.

Animation is present but not theatrical. Transitions support the work rather than competing with it, which helps on mobile when art directors flip through cases on the train. The honest fight is maintenance. Static Work detail pages look great until you have twelve projects and no collection to add the thirteenth in five minutes.

Pages included in Dex Harlan

Five pages, named as Framer lists them:

• Home: positions the designer, surfaces featured work, and routes visitors into the portfolio
• Work: grid or list of selected projects with enough context to pick a case
• Work detail: long-form case layout for identity, packaging, or campaign storytelling
• Contact: inquiry path for new projects and collaborations
• 404: branded dead end when someone mistypes a project slug

Work plus Work detail is the core loop. Contact and 404 round out a complete small-business portfolio without agency furniture.

What is distinctive about Dex Harlan

• Static case study depth. Work detail is built for brand narratives, not a generic CMS stub you still have to design.
• Complete small sitemap. Contact and 404 are included, which many four-page portfolios skip.
• Creative-category fit. Tagged for portfolio work, but the preview copy is explicitly brand and identity oriented.
• No CMS tax. Faster remix when you only need to swap images and copy on a handful of frames.
• Five-page balance. More structure than a one-pager, less weight than an eighteen-page agency kit.

Platform SEO, analytics, and responsive breakpoints come with Framer. They are not differentiators for Dex Harlan.

When to remix Dex Harlan, and when to skip

Remix Dex Harlan when you want a free portfolio with separate project URLs and you are fine updating cases by hand for the next few launches. It is a solid default for brand designers who outgrew a one-page scroll but do not want CMS setup yet.

Skip it when case studies should publish like blog posts. Choose JORGE. Skip it when you are still browsing niches and want comparisons first on the portfolio shortlist. When you are done shortlisting, bounce back to free Framer templates on the hub.