# Cover interval > A short full-bleed band of looping video set between two text sections, almost empty on purpose: a 20% veil of your contrast colour over the clip and one small ink plate on the bottom-right edge carrying a tracked label and one line. The video cover remains empty for your own clip; the still-image variation includes an example photograph. States no colour and no font of its own. Ships with a paragraph of essay copy above and below, so the band reads as a break in a page. Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/cover-interval.html Section: Cover Access: Included in Pattern Paste access. Needs: Requires a block theme on WordPress 7.0 to 7.1. 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. Blocks: cover, group, paragraph Keywords: cover, video, interval, break, loop, banner, plate ## Variations (4) ### Ink plate (the default) Identical markup in every theme. Choose a short, silent, looping clip in the cover's media picker; core writes the video with autoplay muted loop playsinline, so it plays inline on a phone without a tap. The plate is your contrast, its type your base, and it sits on the bottom edge at the right gutter. Nothing else is in the band. ### Charcoal and saffron This variation states its own colours and states its own type: identical in every theme. States charcoal on warm paper around the interval and a saffron Helvetica Neue label on a contrast plate whose fallbacks match the palette. ### Paper plate Identical markup in every theme. The plate inverts: your base as the ground, your contrast as the type. Still a clip; for footage that is mostly dark, where an ink plate would sink into it. ### Still Identical markup in every theme. The same band on a photograph instead of a clip. Choose an image in the cover's media picker; the veil, the plate and the type are byte for byte the same. --- ## The signature moment: near-emptiness The band is 22rem tall and holds one thing, and that thing is small. A cover usually asks to be read; this one asks to be passed through, the way a blank spread or a plate section works in a printed book. The plate is held to 20rem by a constrained wrapper with `justifyContent: right`, the cover has no top, bottom or left padding of its own, so the plate is flush with the bottom edge, and its right padding is `max(0px, 50vw - 640px)`: nothing at all up to 1280, and above that the inset that holds the plate to the right edge of a 1280px column, so it stays the same distance from the essay measure instead of running out to the corner of a wide window. The scale collision is the point: a full viewport of moving image against a plate the size of a museum label, with nothing in between. ## The rule this pattern follows **Type never sits on a photograph, and a clip is a photograph that changes.** Its luminance is unknowable frame to frame, so every word here is on a plate whose ground is a `contrast` chain and whose type is a `base` chain, and the contrast is measured as type on a guaranteed pair. The veil over the clip is decoration; it may recede without loss, and at 20% it mostly does. ## What it inherits, what it decides Inherits: every colour (the plate is `contrast`, its type `base`, the veil `contrast` at 20%), the typeface, the spacing scale (the plate's padding is `spacing|30` by `spacing|40`, so it is tighter in a theme with a tight scale). Decides: the proportion of the type (a 13px to 14px uppercase label at 0.2em tracking and 600 weight, a 15px line at 1.5 under it), the plate's 20rem width, the cover's 22rem minimum height, its right inset above 1280, `contentPosition: bottom right`, and the cover's element order. The cover states its own text colour (`base`) so that core's `:where()` rule, which would otherwise paint any text in it `#fff`, never fires. Each paragraph on the plate states its colour as well, so a theme's element style cannot pull it off the plate's pair. ## What a buyer changes first The clip. The cover ships EMPTY, which is valid in the editor: click the cover, choose a short, silent video from the media library. Core writes the `