In-house · my own project

The site I built for my own writing life. To the same standard I sell.

The Last Romantic is my essay home: thirty-plus longform pieces across four themed worlds, each with its own designed reading room. It wraps a hosted newsletter in a fully custom site, so the delivery rails stay and the identity is mine, with the same machine-readable layer underneath that every client build gets.

Project: The Last Romantic · thelastromantic.co
Shape: Custom site wrapping a hosted newsletter
Captured: 2026-08-26
What it shows: Design range: four distinct worlds inside one coherent system, longform typography built for reading, and the machine layer (structured data, llms.txt, crawler policy) applied to a writing property.

The Last Romantic site, opening screen — The live site · captured 2026-08-26 · opens thelastromantic.co

33 Longform essays served natively on the custom site

4 Themed worlds, each with its own designed reading room

01 Why it exists

Hosted newsletter platforms are excellent at delivery and terrible at identity: every writer gets the same page. The Last Romantic keeps the delivery rails and replaces the surface with custom typography, essay indexes, four worlds with their own moods, and structured data that lets machines read the catalogue. It’s the proof behind a claim I make to every client: I ship for myself exactly what I sell.

02 The build, screen by screen

REAL CLIENT WORK captured 2026-08-26

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