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Northline Studio

Brand & product design — Oslo / Berlin

We design the parts people actually touch.

A two-person studio working with founders on identity, product interfaces, and the systems that keep them consistent as the team grows.

01

Identity

Naming, wordmarks, and the rules that keep a brand recognisable at 16 pixels and on a billboard.

02

Product interface

Onboarding, dashboards, and the flows that decide whether someone stays past the first session.

03

Design systems

Tokens, components, and documentation your engineers will actually keep using after we leave.

They rebuilt our onboarding in six weeks. Activation went up 34% and support tickets halved.
Mira Halvorsen — CEO, Tally

Two slots open for Q1.

Tell us what you are building and where it is stuck.

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About this preview

What the Retro - 90s Web style is doing

The authenticity comes from HTML-era defaults rather than from a filter: Times New Roman, navy background, yellow text, and beveled borders built from four different border colours on one element. Links are underlined and blue-violet, because that was the only affordance the browser gave you. Centred everything is not a stylistic choice here, it is a reconstruction of what the platform did by default.

Stylesheet
114 lines · 34 rules
Typeface
system fonts only
Built with
four-colour bevels · default serif · centred blocks

Where it breaks: Readability is genuinely poor: yellow on navy at this size passes contrast but the serif at 15px on a modern high-DPI screen looks broken.