# Cover seam stamp

> Two full-height photographs side by side at full bleed with no gap: the left under a heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour carrying an eyebrow, display headline, lede and button, the right clean. A round plain-colour stamp with a short phrase and a large figure sits across the seam, half on each photograph; on a phone the two stack and the stamp sits on the horizontal seam. Includes replaceable example photographs. States no colour and no font of its own.

Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/cover-seam-stamp.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: button, buttons, cover, group, heading, paragraph
Keywords: cover, hero, photo, split, stamp, circle, badge, seam

## Variations (2)

### Ink veil, paper stamp (the default)

Identical markup in every theme.

An 80% veil of your contrast under your base type on the left photograph, the right untouched, and the stamp your base under your contrast.

### Clubhouse and cream

This variation states its own colours and states its own type: identical in every theme.

A golf club look: a deep green veil over the lane with cream type, a cream stamp in green, a pale gold pill button, and a Georgia headline over Avenir Next.


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## The signature moment: a stamp sits on the seam of two photographs

The stamp is a `core/cover` painted solid by a full veil, `aspectRatio` 1 at
50% radius, in a row after the two photographs, pulled up over them by a
negative margin. It is
centred on the page, which is the seam, and its centre sits 24rem above the
foot of the pair. The clean photograph is never shorter than 24rem, so on a
phone, where the pair stacks, the same margin puts the stamp exactly on the
horizontal seam. The pair is a wrapping flex row whose two covers are each
`max(50%, min(100%, calc((52rem - 100%) * 999)))` wide: half the row from
832px up, the whole row below it. On a wide screen the pair is 48rem tall, and the stamp sits
half on each photograph at mid-height. Being a later cover, it paints above
both; an ordinary group would slide under them.

## Why type on the photograph is permitted here

The left photograph sits under an 80% veil of your `contrast` with your `base`
as the type; below 80 that stops being guaranteed. The headline is display
type, a bare `clamp()` from 44px to 92px, because its size is the composition.
The stamp is your `base` under your `contrast`; its figure is a paragraph at
display size, its phrase and footnote labels in `small`. Nothing sits on the
clean photograph. The copy keeps clear of the stamp: its column stops short of
the seam by more than the stamp's radius, and it carries extra space at its
foot for the phone, where the stamp laps up into it.

## What it inherits, what it decides

Inherits: every colour, the typeface, the spacing scale. Decides: the 80%
veil, the 48rem height, the 24rem floor of the clean photograph, the stamp's
size (160px to 240px) and the display ramp.

## What a buyer changes first

The two photographs, then the stamp: three short lines, the middle one a
figure of two to four characters.

## Included images

The copied markup includes WordPress Photo Directory example photographs. The public image URLs
keep the examples visible after pasting. Select an image or cover and choose
**Replace** to use your own Media Library files. See [image credits](/image-credits/)
for the sources and licenses. Pasting an image URL does not import a Media Library
attachment.