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What to change first
- The quote and signature. Type your own words and name.
- The photographs. Select each and choose Replace.
- The link.
#team.
The signature moment
The founder's quote laps the photographs
The quote plate rides up over the bottom of an offset photo pair, so the founder's sentence reads as the caption to both pictures at once. The pair is two columns that never stack, the second photograph dropped by a clamp() top padding; the plate is the second child of a vertical flex group with a negative top margin, so it paints over the photographs and the lap never collapses. On a phone the lap shrinks to 1.5rem.
Theme handoff
What comes from where
From your theme
- Typeface.
- Palette.
- Link.
Set by this pattern
- The quote.
- The plate.
Full pattern notes
Why it works, and how it is built
Open a topic for the complete design reasoning, editing guidance and implementation notes.
Design rationaleComposition, intent and nearest alternatives
Overview
An about page opened by the founder's own words. A tall photograph and a shorter one dropped lower make an offset pair, and a plate carrying a large pull quote, a signed attribution, a short story and a link laps up over their foot. It sits in the team section beside about-stacked-plates, where the story is tucked into a frame's corner: here the quote is the headline.
The signature moment: the founder's quote laps the photographs
The quote plate rides up over the bottom of an offset photo pair, so the founder's sentence reads as the caption to both pictures at once. The pair is two columns that never stack, the second photograph dropped by a clamp() top padding; the plate is the second child of a vertical flex group with a negative top margin, so it paints over the photographs and the lap never collapses. On a phone the lap shrinks to 1.5rem.
Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first
What to change first
- The quote and signature. Type your own words and name.
- The photographs. Select each and choose Replace.
- The link.
#team.
Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast
What it inherits from your theme
- Typeface. The base states no font family.
- Palette. Your
baseground andcontrasttext. The plate triesrole-plateandrole-plate-textwith arole-rulehairline, falling back tobase,contrastandcontrast; the label triesrole-label. - Link. A transparent, underlined core button in the text colour.
What it decides for itself
- The quote. Off the ladder on purpose:
clamp(1.625rem, 3vw, 2.5rem), a paragraph rather than a heading, so its size is its hierarchy. - The plate. Capped at 46rem and set to the right.
Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints
The Crumb look
Part of the Crumb Pattern Set, one café's whole site in one design language: oat ground #f4ecdf, espresso ink #2b1d16, muted cocoa #5c4a3f, milk cards #fbf7f0 on oat hairlines #dccfbf, terracotta #b3462d labels and peach #e8a27c on the espresso slab. Headings are Georgia at 400, body, labels and buttons Helvetica; buttons are espresso pills or underlined links, cards and photographs rounded at 14px. Every text pair is measured on the ground it is painted on. Take the base for your theme's colours, or the look's Use my theme chip.
Notes
- Core blocks only: group, columns, column, paragraph, image, buttons, button. No plugin, nothing to keep updated.
- The root group sets headings and links to
currentColor, so every heading, paragraph and link inherits the group's text colour in any theme; only role-bearing text (labels, rules, plates) carries its own chain.
Included images
The copied markup includes WordPress Photo Directory example photographs. The public image URLs keep the examples visible after pasting. Select an image and choose Replace to use your own Media Library files. See image credits for the sources and licenses. Pasting an image URL does not import a Media Library attachment.
Questions
About pull quote photo: common questions
Does About pull quote photo need a plugin?
No. It is built only from core WordPress blocks (button, buttons, column, columns, group, image and paragraph), so it pastes into the block editor with nothing to install.
Will About pull quote photo match my theme?
Choose by variation. Quote over the pair takes your theme’s palette; Crumb brings its own colours.
How many variations does About pull quote photo have?
2: Quote over the pair and Crumb. Each is its own markup; choose one in the toolbar above the preview before you copy.
Can I use my own images?
Yes. Sample images stay in the copied blocks. Replace them in WordPress; pasting does not upload them to your Media Library.
Is About pull quote photo free?
It is included with a subscription, with every Core Pattern and variation. 56 Core Patterns are free to copy without one.
The markup
Core block markup and nothing else. Copy it, then paste it straight into the block editor: WordPress reads the delimiters and rebuilds the blocks.
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Variation: Crumb
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