Marginalia

Marginalia is a free magazine website template for Framer that helps independent publishers launch an issue-based magazine that reads like print and feels alive on screen. Every issue gets its own cover, colour and editor's letter. Publish a new issue in the CMS and the whole site follows it.

Perfect for

• Independent magazines and quarterlies moving from print to the web

• Newsletter writers who want a real home for their archive

• City guides, cultural venues and studios publishing seasonal editions

What makes it different

• A real magazine cover: large issue title, colour-wipe reveal and a live local-time dateline.

• Every back issue on show: a 3D ring of past covers; hover one and the page takes its colour.

• Built for long reading: sticky contents, margin notes, pull quotes and a progress bar.

• Paper / Ink theme switch, remembered per visitor.

Built for publishers who sell

• Membership page with three tiers and paywall-ready stories

• Podcast with audio player and transcripts, events with RSVP, a print store

• Command-K search, issue switcher, footnote popovers, sponsor units

What's included

• 22 pages and 7 CMS collections with sample issues, stories, episodes and events

• Working newsletter, subscribe and pitch forms

• A hidden Read me guide, CSV files for every collection

• Tested on desktop, tablet and phone in both themes; respects reduced motion

Needs a Framer Pro plan to publish (7 CMS collections). Questions: vexorastudio02@gmail.com.