A London venture capital firm

Phoenix Court

Ink, paper, one yellow, and a monogram that never sits still.

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Overview

Phoenix Court backs founders from their first cheque to their biggest rounds, across LocalGlobe, Latitude, Solar and Basecamp. We designed and built their new site, and moved everything from the old one across.

What we did
Design
Development
CMS
Content migration
Sector
Venture capital
Year
2026
Built with
Next.js, Storyblok, Tailwind
The footer sets the name at 15.8vw and lets the page edge clip it.
The footer sets the name at 15.8vw and lets the page edge clip it.

Typography

Graphik

One family, three weights. Tight and heavy for headlines, quiet for everything else, so the photography can carry the page.

Graphik type specimen

Colour

Ink, paper and one yellow

The site is black and white with a single yellow for action. Each fund keeps its own colour, used sparingly.

Select a colour to copy it and try it on the page.

The site

Every line on the grid

Hairline rules hung off a 12-column grid, and photos that drift at their own depth.

Photography from the Phoenix Court community.

Details

Small things, done properly

  1. 01

    Nothing left behind

    447 old links mapped to their new homes before launch.

  2. 02

    Rules from the grid

    Every line runs in from the page edge to a column, worked out from the 12-column maths.

  3. 03

    Photo clouds

    Scattered photos drift at their own depth as you scroll, on spring-damped parallax.

  4. 04

    Edit, then preview

    Storyblok with live draft previews, so the team sees changes before they publish.