Feature portrait pair, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/feature-portrait-pair.html Library (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Features (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/features/) Catalogue access Standard # Feature portrait pair Two generous portrait photographs, each with an inset paper caption overlapping its foot and a large editorial feature heading. Start here ## What to change first - Choose two complementary photos. - Give each feature a short heading and a sentence. - Rename the shared eyebrow and numbered labels. The signature moment ## Portrait images with overlapping captions Two 4:5 photographs carry inset captions that rise over their lower edges. The responsive grid becomes one column when two readable tracks no longer fit; each caption retains a small image overlap. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme Typefaces, heading leading, the medium body-text size, spacing rhythm, and button shape and colours come from the theme. Base and contrast chains end in WordPress's guaranteed white and black presets. Eyebrows use the optional label role before falling back to contrast. ### Set by this pattern The photograph's crop, the overlap, a 1240px outer measure, fluid side padding and the text panel's reading measure. All visible copy sits on opaque base or contrast panels. Photographs are reviewed CC0 images from the WordPress Photo Directory and travel with the copied pattern. 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 Two generous portrait photographs, each with an inset paper caption overlapping its foot and a large editorial feature heading. ### The signature moment: portrait images with overlapping captions Two 4:5 photographs carry inset captions that rise over their lower edges. The responsive grid becomes one column when two readable tracks no longer fit; each caption retains a small image overlap. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### What to change first - Choose two complementary photos. - Give each feature a short heading and a sentence. - Rename the shared eyebrow and numbered labels. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits from your theme Typefaces, heading leading, the medium body-text size, spacing rhythm, and button shape and colours come from the theme. Base and contrast chains end in WordPress's guaranteed white and black presets. Eyebrows use the optional label role before falling back to contrast. ### What it decides for itself The photograph's crop, the overlap, a 1240px outer measure, fluid side padding and the text panel's reading measure. All visible copy sits on opaque base or contrast panels. Photographs are reviewed CC0 images from the WordPress Photo Directory and travel with the copied pattern. ### Display type The two feature headings are display type tuned to the width of the portrait panels, using a bare clamp. Body paragraphs follow the medium ladder with a 1.6 line-height; uppercase labels use a fluid 15–16px size. Headings state their own ink colour and inherit their face and leading. ### Contrast Copy targets 4.5:1; large display headings target 3:1. Opaque panels keep image detail out of the text background. The verification sheet measures all three authoring themes. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### Responsive behaviour Two 4:5 photographs carry inset captions that rise over their lower edges. The responsive grid becomes one column when two readable tracks no longer fit; each caption retains a small image overlap. The section has fluid horizontal padding and no fixed height. Check long replacement headings at 390px as well as desktop. ### Blocks and editing Core blocks only; no companion plugin, custom CSS or script is required. Replace the photos through the Image block and update their alt text. Set real destinations on the action links before publishing. 8.2KB of core-block markup, 4 blocks (group, heading, image, paragraph), and nothing else: paste it into the block editor and it becomes editable blocks wearing your theme. Start free trial to copy (https://patternpaste.com/account/#plan) What you copy is yours forever. Cancel whenever. Back to the library (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Catalogue access ### £70 a year Save £50 Or £10 a month All patterns, variations and theme downloads. What you copy is yours forever. Cancel whenever. Start with three days of full access on sign-up, no card. Start free trial (https://patternpaste.com/account/#plan) Sign in (https://patternpaste.com/account/) Everything you copy is yours to keep, forever, on any site; access to the rest of the library runs while you subscribe. Cancel any time; access runs to the end of the period you have paid for, and there is no pro-rata refund. 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 Hero Hero aperture An opening section on your theme's own paper: a tracked line, a display headline, one short paragraph on a reading measure, and then a picture that stops short of the edge on every side. The signature is the margin: the image is a window cut in the page rather than a band across it, and the paper around it is what you notice. A small opaque plate in the picture's bottom-right corner carries the caption, so no type ever sits on the photograph. The still-image version includes an example photograph; select your own clip for the video version. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/hero-aperture.html)How it works Steps cards Four photographic process cards with level tops and descending feet. Each plate carries a replaceable WordPress image, a tracked step label, a short title and one sentence. The grid stretches the cards while their bottom margins draw the stair, reflowing into pairs and then a single column as the page narrows. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/steps-cards.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 group, heading, image, paragraph Core only yes Chains 26, deepest 3 rungs currentColor no color base, black, contrast, role-label, white spacing 30, 40, 50, 70 font-size medium Continue exploring ## Next in Features Explore all 20 Features patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/features/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Features Features Standard ### Feature plate inset An enclosing plate container nesting two contrasting sub-cards with distinct internal padding and structural dividing rules. 6 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/feature-plate-inset.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Features Features Standard ### Feature quadrant hub A 2x2 feature matrix divided by continuous structural intersecting rules with numbered corner indices, giving equal structural presence to four core pillars. 5 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/feature-quadrant-hub.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Features Features Standard ### Feature rows A feature set as four full-width ruled rows in which the hierarchy is upside down: the section heading is the smallest type in the band, a tracked line above the first rule, and each of the four points is set at the size a section heading usually gets, with its explanation beside it as a footnote in a narrow right-hand column. 5 blocks · 1 variation Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/feature-rows.html) Night statements (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/feature-rows.html#variant=night-statements)