About this site

Who is behind it

I play Counter-Strike at Faceit level 10, though mostly for fun rather than to grind rank, and I like skins. My day job is design, so color, contrast and how things sit next to each other is the part I actually know something about. That is the whole qualification here: I am not a market analyst, I just care how a loadout looks and I know why some combinations work and others do not.

The site started because I kept building combos for myself and had nowhere to put them. Sharing them turned out to be more useful than keeping them in screenshots on my desktop.

Why it exists

Every marketplace shows you a skin on its own, on a black background, at an angle you never see in a match. That tells you almost nothing about the only question that matters once you already own a knife or a pair of gloves: does this go with what I have?

There was no good answer to that anywhere, so this is my attempt at one. Each combo is a specific pairing, photographed in-game rather than rendered, with the price of the whole set attached instead of a single item.

How I choose the combos

I put every set together by hand, one at a time. A pairing makes it onto the site when the items hold together on two counts: the palette, and the finish. Color alone is not enough, because a matte glove next to a chrome knife still reads as two unrelated items no matter how well the shades line up. That distinction comes straight from design work, and it is the thing most loadouts get wrong.

Everything gets looked at in-game before it goes up, in a first-person view, because plenty of pairings that look right in a screenshot fall apart once the light moves. I do not add anything just to fill a category, which is why some palettes have far fewer sets than others.

Where the prices come from

Item prices are pulled from live Skinport listings and refreshed daily. The last sync was July 27, 2026. For a combo, the number shown is the cheapest possible total, the sum of the lowest available price for each item in the set, which is why it appears with a plus sign.

Real listings move constantly and vary by wear, float and pattern, so treat every number here as a starting point rather than a quote. Where a set contains an item that is not currently listed, the total falls back to a manually recorded figure so the page never shows a blank.

How the site makes money

Right now it does not. There are no affiliate deals, no sponsorships and no ads. The links out to marketplaces are plain links, put there because you need somewhere to actually buy the item, and they earn nothing.

That will probably change, and when it does it will say so here. What will not change is the order of operations: sets get chosen and checked before any link exists, and no marketplace gets a say in what appears on the site. Prices are read from public market data, not supplied by a partner.

What is coming

Full loadouts covering every slot, written guides, a glossary of the terms that trip people up, and side-by-side comparisons between the items people most often choose between. Those sections are visible in the menu, marked as coming soon, and will open as they are finished.

Corrections

If something on the site is wrong, a price that looks off, a skin filed under the wrong color, a pairing that does not hold up in-game, a direct message on any of the profiles in the footer is the quickest way to say so. Getting the details right is the entire point of the project.