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What to change first
The six bodies: the wordmark, the name, the line on what it covers, and the number with its label. Keep six, or three, so the rows stay full.
The signature moment
Every mark closes on a number you can check
Each cell runs from a short wordmark on a solid plate down to a ruled foot holding the member number, the registration or the year. The number is set as large as the body's name, clamp(1.25rem, 1.6vw, 1.5rem), so the cell reads as a claim and its receipt rather than as a badge wall. The cells are closed on every side by a single hairline (each cell draws its top and left, the ledger its right and bottom), and each foot's rule runs the full width of its cell and sits at the cell's bottom whatever the name wraps to, so the feet of a row line up into one continuous rule. Six cells read as one ruled record. It survives colourlessness because it is rule and repetition, not colour.
Theme handoff
What comes from where
From your theme
- The ground is
baseand all type iscontrast, each a two-rung chain, at 4.5:1 or better in the stock themes. - The wordmark plates invert:
contrastground,basetext. - The label starts on
role-labeland falls through tocontrast; the rules arecurrentColor. - The heading is off the type ladder on purpose, a bare
clamp(2.5rem, 5vw, 4.75rem). Names and numbers are the second mass; the descriptions takemedium. The typeface is your theme's.
Set by this pattern
- The ledger is a grid with a 20rem minimum column and no column count: three across on a desktop, two on a tablet, one on a phone. Six cells fill every row at each of those.
- The marks are type, not logo files, so there is nothing to crop and no real body's logo is imitated. Use a body's own mark only where its rules allow.
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
The trade bodies, schemes and awards behind a local business, set as a ledger of six ruled cells under a display heading. Each cell is a wordmark, the body's name, one line on what it covers and the number that proves it. The bodies in the demonstration copy are fictional: replace them with your own.
The signature moment: every mark closes on a number you can check
Each cell runs from a short wordmark on a solid plate down to a ruled foot holding the member number, the registration or the year. The number is set as large as the body's name, clamp(1.25rem, 1.6vw, 1.5rem), so the cell reads as a claim and its receipt rather than as a badge wall. The cells are closed on every side by a single hairline (each cell draws its top and left, the ledger its right and bottom), and each foot's rule runs the full width of its cell and sits at the cell's bottom whatever the name wraps to, so the feet of a row line up into one continuous rule. Six cells read as one ruled record. It survives colourlessness because it is rule and repetition, not colour.
Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first
What to change first
The six bodies: the wordmark, the name, the line on what it covers, and the number with its label. Keep six, or three, so the rows stay full.
Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast
What it inherits from your theme
- The ground is
baseand all type iscontrast, each a two-rung chain, at 4.5:1 or better in the stock themes. - The wordmark plates invert:
contrastground,basetext. - The label starts on
role-labeland falls through tocontrast; the rules arecurrentColor. - The heading is off the type ladder on purpose, a bare
clamp(2.5rem, 5vw, 4.75rem). Names and numbers are the second mass; the descriptions takemedium. The typeface is your theme's.
What it decides for itself
- The ledger is a grid with a 20rem minimum column and no column count: three across on a desktop, two on a tablet, one on a phone. Six cells fill every row at each of those.
- The marks are type, not logo files, so there is nothing to crop and no real body's logo is imitated. Use a body's own mark only where its rules allow.
Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints
The Styled look
bone-and-brick states warm bone #f2ede4, near-black #1f1c19 type and rules, and the wordmark plates and numbers in brick red #9c3b22 (5.9:1 on the bone), with Georgia names and heading over Arial. It is for a builder or a heating engineer.
Questions
Accreditations ledger: common questions
Does Accreditations ledger need a plugin?
No. It is built only from core WordPress blocks (column, columns, group, heading and paragraph), so it pastes into the block editor with nothing to install.
Will Accreditations ledger match my theme?
Choose by variation. Ledger takes your theme’s palette; Bone and brick brings its own colours.
How many variations does Accreditations ledger have?
2: Ledger and Bone and brick. Each is its own markup; choose one in the toolbar above the preview before you copy.
Is Accreditations ledger free?
It is included with a subscription, with every Core Pattern and variation. 56 Core Patterns are free to copy without one.
Which WordPress version does it need?
Requires a block theme on WordPress 7.0. Classic themes and page builders are outside our supported setup. Adaptive patterns use the block theme’s colour, spacing and typography presets; styled variations declare their own colours or type.
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: Bone and brick
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