Curatorbait
Curatorbait is a one-curator gallery of websites judged on a single question: did the site make a design decision and see it through? Nothing is sponsored, and every rejected submission still gets written reasons, because a no without a why is just noise.
Why it earned its spot
The page runs cream against ink navy with one orange call to action, and the fishing conceit is carried by language alone — Keepers, Fresh catches, The whole box — rather than by decoration. Thumbnails are full-page captures instead of cropped heroes, so a site’s whole vertical rhythm is legible at a glance, and every card closes with a strip of color chips sampled from the actual pixels of the page rather than a brand guideline. A letterspaced capital wordmark and a quiet left rail of industry categories hold the density in place. It reads like a printed catalogue: small type, tight gutters, nothing competing with the work.
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