Web Design
Lineup basketball hero
A minimalist landing page hero for a sports scouting platform, featuring a dramatic low-key silhouette of a basketball player and bold, lower-case typography.
About
Lineup is the fourth piece in my Sports Hero Exploration series — a Framer website concept for a sports scouting platform. A dramatic low-key silhouette of a basketball player, bold lowercase typography, near-black throughout.
No face. No detail. Just form against darkness.
What I Find Inspiring About This
A scouting platform is about potential before proof — finding a player before the world knows their name. A silhouette fits that perfectly. No face, no detail. Just the shape of a jump, the extension of an arm. Reducing a figure to pure form makes the viewer project — any player could be in that silhouette. That's not a limitation, it's the point.
The lowercase type counters the darkness deliberately. Aggressive imagery with softer typography creates unexpected tension — serious about talent without needing to shout.
Four sports in. Each one keeps teaching me something the last one didn't.
