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Date in figures

One date made the headline: a dark slab with a small label and heading over the day, month and year as three equal figures at monumental size, each with a small word beneath and a hairline between them, then one line of place and an Add to your calendar button.

The three figures stay side by side on a phone.

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Manrope typefacergb(255, 255, 255) ground1280px viewport

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What to change first

  1. The figures and their words.
  2. The calendar link. It is a Google Calendar template URL with the date, time and place in it; edit its text, dates and location, or upload an .ics file to your Media Library and link to that instead.
  3. The place line.

The signature moment

The date is the headline, split into three ruled figures

Three flex cells that never wrap, each selfStretch: fill, so the figures share the width equally at every size, 19, 06 and 27, with a hairline down the left edge of the second and third cells. The cells carry no padding of their own (the padding is on the group inside), so the rules run the full height of the row. On a phone the figures stay three across at about 72px, with their words at 14px.

Theme handoff

What comes from where

From your theme

  • Typeface.
  • Palette.

Set by this pattern

  • The figures.
  • The heading.

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

A save-the-date section where the date itself is the headline. A dark slab carries a small label and heading, then the day, month and year as three equal figures at monumental size, each with a small word beneath it, then one line of place and an Add to your calendar button. It sits in the stats section beside stat-monument (one figure at scale), stat-row (metrics on a baseline), events-date-tiles (many calendar leaves) and specials-today-band (today as a text band): none splits one date into its three parts.

The signature moment: the date is the headline, split into three ruled figures

Three flex cells that never wrap, each selfStretch: fill, so the figures share the width equally at every size, 19, 06 and 27, with a hairline down the left edge of the second and third cells. The cells carry no padding of their own (the padding is on the group inside), so the rules run the full height of the row. On a phone the figures stay three across at about 72px, with their words at 14px.

Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first

What to change first

  1. The figures and their words.
  2. The calendar link. It is a Google Calendar template URL with the date, time and place in it; edit its text, dates and location, or upload an .ics file to your Media Library and link to that instead.
  3. The place line.
Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast

What it inherits from your theme

  • Typeface. The base states no font family.
  • Palette. An inverted slab: your contrast colour as the ground, your base colour for every word and figure, currentColor rules. Labels on the slab start at base, never a ground role. The button inverts back to a base fill with contrast type, so it still reads as the lit thing.

What it decides for itself

  • The figures. clamp(4.5rem, 1rem + 14vw, 12rem): about 72px on a phone, 192px on a laptop. Off the ladder, because their size is the composition.
  • The heading. The x-large rung, italic.
Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints

The Vow look

Part of the Vow Pattern Set, a couple's whole wedding website in one design language: wisteria white #f7f5fb ground, midnight #1f2240 ink, dusk #555a78 muted ink, card white #ffffff on a wisteria hairline #d9d3e6, peony #a8365a labels on light grounds and pale peony #f2b8c9 on the midnight slab. Names and headings are Didot at 400 with an italic ampersand; body, labels and buttons are Gill Sans. Buttons are square midnight rectangles or underlined peony links; cards and photographs are square. 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, heading, paragraph, buttons, button. No countdown, no script.

Questions

Date in figures: common questions

Does Date in figures need a plugin?

No. It is built only from core WordPress blocks (button, buttons, group, heading and paragraph), so it pastes into the block editor with nothing to install.

Will Date in figures match my theme?

Choose by variation. Dark slab takes your theme’s palette; Vow brings its own colours.

How many variations does Date in figures have?

2: Dark slab and Vow. Each is its own markup; choose one in the toolbar above the preview before you copy.

Is Date in figures free?

It is included with a subscription, with every Core Pattern and variation. 62 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

9.4KB of core-block markup, 5 blocks (button, buttons, group, heading, paragraph), and nothing else: paste it into the block editor and it becomes editable blocks wearing your theme.

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