A portfolio theme with an editorial point of view
Aurelio is a premium Astro portfolio theme built for creatives who need more than a generic gallery. It combines classical visual references with a modern static Astro stack, giving you a polished foundation for a portfolio, studio website, or high-end personal brand.
The design language is inspired by Renaissance Rome, Italian fresco paintings, plaster textures, marble proportion, and architectural symmetry. That makes Aurelio a strong fit when the work itself needs space, rhythm, and a sense of visual authority.
What is included
Aurelio includes the core pages a serious creative portfolio needs: a cinematic home page, a work index, project detail pages, journal index and detail pages, about, process, services, contact, styleguide, legal pages, RSS, and a custom 404 page.
The demo content is intentionally structured so buyers can replace it with their own profile, project case studies, journal posts, service descriptions, contact details, navigation items, and visual assets. Projects and journal entries use Astro content collections, while global settings live in clear TypeScript data files.
Motion, structure, and visual depth
The home page uses scroll-driven overlay scenes where project panels can fade, stack, and shift as the visitor moves through the page. Aurelio also includes persistent ornamental objects such as an architectural arch, a celestial halo, and a laurel branch. These elements create depth without requiring a database, CMS, or heavy application framework.
Reduced-motion preferences are respected. When a visitor has reduced motion enabled, the scroll-linked transitions and ornamental movement are disabled so the layout remains readable and usable.
Built on a static-first Astro stack
Aurelio is built with Astro 6.4, Tailwind CSS v4, TypeScript, Astro content collections, Astro assets, and Motion for lightweight interaction. The theme is designed to compile into static output and deploy cleanly to platforms like Vercel, Netlify, and Cloudflare Pages.
This is useful if you want a portfolio that feels custom but stays easy to host, maintain, and hand over. There is no required CMS, no database, and no CRM dependency in the default setup.
Customization workflow
Most day-to-day changes happen in predictable places. Site metadata, profile content, services, navigation, contact details, theme options, projects, and journal posts all live in local source files. Images are placed in the project assets folder and processed by Astro’s image pipeline during build.
Before publishing a customized site, replace the demo biography, projects, journal posts, testimonials, collaborator references, contact details, social links, Open Graph image, and legal content with real buyer content.
