FAQ cover questions, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/faq-cover-questions.html Library (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) FAQ (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/faq/) Catalogue access Standard # FAQ cover questions A screen-height FAQ on a photograph: a heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour, a display headline in the lower left and five numbered questions in a ruled column at the lower right, each one opening in place to its answer. The questions drop beneath the headline on a phone. Includes a replaceable example photograph. States no colour and no font of its own. Ships with a short hand-off row on your theme's paper below it. The signature moment ## The questions are on the cover An FAQ is usually a list further down the page. Here the questions ARE the cover: five short numbered rows between hairline rules, sitting on the photograph opposite a headline four times their size. The headline is the weight; the ruled column is the detail; both rest on the same floor line, so opening an answer grows the column upwards into the photograph rather than pushing the page down. The scale collision and the rules hold in greyscale. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### Theme and pattern Inherits: every colour (veil contrast, type and rules base), the typeface, the spacing scale. Decides: the veil's opacity, the type ramp, the two measures, the cover's minimum height. The cover states its own text colour chain so core's :where() rule that paints cover text #fff never applies. The headline is h2: an FAQ is rarely the page's opener. 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 screen-height, full-bleed core/cover that carries a whole FAQ: a heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour over the photograph, a display headline in the lower left, and five numbered questions in a ruled column at the lower right, each a core/details that opens in place. ### The signature moment: the questions are on the cover An FAQ is usually a list further down the page. Here the questions ARE the cover: five short numbered rows between hairline rules, sitting on the photograph opposite a headline four times their size. The headline is the weight; the ruled column is the detail; both rest on the same floor line, so opening an answer grows the column upwards into the photograph rather than pushing the page down. The scale collision and the rules hold in greyscale. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### Variations - Paper veil: the veil is base at 80% and every word, rule and disclosure mark contrast, the photograph a pale ghost behind ink. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits, what it decides Inherits: every colour (veil contrast, type and rules base), the typeface, the spacing scale. Decides: the veil's opacity, the type ramp, the two measures, the cover's minimum height. The cover states its own text colour chain so core's :where() rule that paints cover text #fff never applies. The headline is h2: an FAQ is rarely the page's opener. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### Type on the photograph Type sits on the image only because the veil makes the ground known: contrast at dimRatio 80 under base type, the pairing the checker composites over a white and a black photograph. The answers are body size, so they need the full 4.5:1, not the 3:1 allowed to large display type. Lower the veil below 80 and that stops being true. Each core/details states its text colour as a chain (base on the ink veil, contrast on the paper one), so the summary's disclosure triangle, which is drawn in currentColor, is always the colour of the question beside it. ### Type and hierarchy - The headline is display: a bare clamp(3rem, 7.5vw, 9.5rem), off the theme's ladder, because its size is the composition; at 1920 it is 144px and holds the lower left. Its measure is clamp(18rem, 40vw, 38rem), so it breaks into a block and always leaves the column room beside it. - The questions are the second mass on the cover: summaries in a bare clamp(1.25rem, 1.5vw, 1.75rem), weight 600, off the ladder because the stock large rung stays near caption size at 1920; the numbers match them. Answers are body copy on medium; the two top labels have their own clamp() floored at 15px. - Hierarchy comes from size and the rules alone: nothing is set in capitals. - The headline states its size and colour chain and nothing else. ### Layout - The cover's inner stack is a vertical flex column with space-between and a minimum height of clamp(36rem, 50vw, 58rem) (never vh): the labels at the top, a bottom-aligned wrapping row at the foot. - The question column's measure is max(clamp(22rem, 36vw, 36rem), calc((600px - 100vw) * 100)): below a 600px screen the second term takes over and the column drops beneath the headline at full width. The 36rem cap is what keeps both regions on one row inside the 1320px content width. - Each row is a number and a core/details in a flex row; the number states the summary's line-height so the two share a baseline. Rules are currentColor, so they are always the colour of the type. - Every gap is a spacing preset. ### What a buyer changes first The photograph: choose Replace on the cover. Then the questions. Keep each under about 28 characters: a wrapping summary opens a 45px gap inside itself. The first question ships open; select any Details block and toggle "Open by default" to change which. Add or remove a question by duplicating or deleting its row; the last one carries the closing rule. ### The hand-off row A short row on your theme's paper under the cover, a label and one paragraph at a 34rem measure, so the cover reads as a section and shows where it ends. ### Included images The copied markup includes a WordPress Photo Directory example photograph. The public image URL keeps the example visible after pasting. Select the cover and choose Replace to use your own Media Library file. See image credits (https://patternpaste.com/image-credits/) for the source and license. 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Prices are in pounds and are the full price in the UK, the US and eleven other countries; elsewhere the checkout adds your local VAT or sales tax. The terms name every country. #### Pair with Pricing Pricing cover menu A screen-height cover with three plans set on it like a restaurant menu: a heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour over the photograph, a display headline in the lower left and a narrow ruled price list in the right-hand column, each plan a name and its price on one line and a sentence beneath, hairline rules between, one button under the list. The list drops beneath the headline on a phone. Includes a replaceable example photograph and placeholder prices. States no colour and no font of its own. Ships with a short hand-off row on your theme's paper below it. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/pricing-cover-menu.html)Tables Compare matrix A capability matrix in a core table: one row per capability, one column for each of the two plans people choose between, and a mark in every cell, with a third plan named in one line under the table instead of a fourth column that would ladder its row headers on a phone. The recommended column is announced by a two-pixel bracket that stands over it and hands off to the table's own hairlines, so nothing is filled and nothing is coloured. Three fixed columns hold roughly 117 pixels each at 390. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/compare-matrix.html)Compare Compact comparison rows A mobile-first responsive comparison layout using stacked capability cards: each row pairs a feature title and summary with a side-by-side comparison block, avoiding horizontal table scrolling on small screens. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/compare-compact-rows.html) #### Before you paste Requires a block theme on WordPress 6.7 to 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. How we test patterns (https://patternpaste.com/how-we-test/) Sample images stay in the copied blocks. Replace them in WordPress; pasting does not upload them to your Media Library. Video variations need your own clip. Image credits (https://patternpaste.com/image-credits/). #### What's inside Blocks cover, details, group, heading, paragraph Core only yes Chains 50, deepest 3 rungs currentColor yes color base, black, contrast, role-label, white font-size medium spacing 20, 30, 60, 70 Continue exploring ## Next in FAQ Explore all 13 FAQ patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/faq/)Also in Cover (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/cover/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five FAQ FAQ Standard ### FAQ cards An FAQ as a wall of bordered cards: a tracked label and a one-line lede share the header row, then six questions sit in a two-column grid, each card a 1px currentColor box with the question set large and tight at the top and the answer packed beneath it at a short measure. 5 blocks · 1 variation Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/faq-cards.html) Night cards (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/faq-cards.html#variant=night-cards) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five FAQ FAQ Standard ### FAQ dialogue An editorial interview-style FAQ. 6 blocks · 1 variation Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/faq-dialogue.html) Night dialogue (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/faq-dialogue.html#variant=night-dialogue) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five FAQ FAQ Standard ### FAQ index An editorial inquiry index structured as full-width ruled rows. 6 blocks · 1 variation Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/faq-index.html) Night index (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/faq-index.html#variant=night-index)