Start here
What to change first
- The scheme names and numbers. Type your own registration; the numbers here are invented.
- The work categories and which are covered.
- The portraits. Generated and nobody real; use your engineers' own.
- The check link. It points at
#; paste the scheme's public register page.
The signature moment
The registration number is the headline, and the card shows what the engineer is not registered for too
A registration card drawn as an object: a scheme strip, a headshot beside the name and expiry, the licence number at display size, then a ruled grid of work categories, each marked Yes or Not covered. The negative space of what is not covered is part of the card, because that is what a customer checking a register needs. A smaller second card laps the first card's foot, the lapping card the second child of a flow group so it paints on top (a vertical flex stack sized the first card from a narrower intrinsic layout and left an empty band that swallowed the lap). On a phone the prose comes first and the cards stack with a smaller lap.
Theme handoff
What comes from where
From your theme
- Typeface.
- Palette.
- Tags.
- Buttons.
Set by this pattern
- The number.
- The grid.
- The lap.
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 trust section for an electrician, a gas engineer or any trade that sends someone into a home: before a stranger rings the bell, the customer can see the card they will show and the number to check. It sits in the team section beside team-profile-cards (a face beside a biography) and among the logo sections beside accreditations-ledger (six bodies, each closing on a number) and logo-spotlight (one featured partner).
The signature moment: the registration number is the headline, and the card shows what the engineer is not registered for too
A registration card drawn as an object: a scheme strip, a headshot beside the name and expiry, the licence number at display size, then a ruled grid of work categories, each marked Yes or Not covered. The negative space of what is not covered is part of the card, because that is what a customer checking a register needs. A smaller second card laps the first card's foot, the lapping card the second child of a flow group so it paints on top (a vertical flex stack sized the first card from a narrower intrinsic layout and left an empty band that swallowed the lap). On a phone the prose comes first and the cards stack with a smaller lap.
Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first
What to change first
- The scheme names and numbers. Type your own registration; the numbers here are invented. Keep the scheme as text, never its logo.
- The work categories and which are covered.
- The portraits. Generated and nobody real; use your engineers' own.
- The check link. It points at
#; paste the scheme's public register page.
Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast
What it inherits from your theme
- Typeface. The base states no font family.
- Palette. Your page ground and text. The cards take the plate role, falling to
base, withcontrasttext; each scheme strip is an inverted band in yourcontrastcolour withbasetext. - Tags. Yes is a filled tag in your
contrastcolour; Not covered is a dashed outline, and both say so in words. - Buttons. Book is your theme's own button with 0.875rem padding; the check link is an underlined text link in the link role.
What it decides for itself
- The number. About 36px on a phone, 64px from 1280 up: sized so an eleven-character licence number fits the card on one line.
- The grid. Work categories on 7.5rem minimum columns: three across in the card on a wide screen, two on a phone.
- The lap. The second card sits
clamp(2rem, 5vw, 4rem)up over the first card's foot, which keeps a matching margin free.
Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints
The Spur look
Part of the Spur Pattern Set, an electrician and plumber in Beeston, Nottingham: switch white ground #f2f3ef, a fuse grey band #e2e7ec, card white #ffffff and a cable black slab #14181c; cable black ink, slate #4a535b for secondary copy, live blue #1747c9 labels and primary buttons, conduit hairlines #c5ccd2, and signal yellow #ffd21a kept for emergencies. Headings and figures are Arial Black at 900; body, labels and buttons Arial. Cards and buttons have 4px corners, tags 2px. Here the cards sit on the fuse grey band under cable black scheme strips, Yes in a live blue tag and Not covered in a dashed slate outline. 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, image, columns, column, buttons, button. No plugin, nothing to keep updated.
Questions
Engineer ID card: common questions
Does Engineer ID card need a plugin?
No. It is built only from core WordPress blocks (button, buttons, column, columns, group, heading, image and paragraph), so it pastes into the block editor with nothing to install.
Will Engineer ID card match my theme?
Choose by variation. Registration cards takes your theme’s palette; Spur brings its own colours.
How many variations does Engineer ID card have?
2: Registration cards and Spur. 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 Engineer ID card free?
It is included with a subscription, with every Core Pattern and variation. 62 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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