# Frieze band > Five portrait frames butted edge to edge with no gutter between them, running the full width of the page as one continuous band, with a constrained intro above and a small tracked caption line below. Includes replaceable example images, and each is cropped to 4:5. States no colour and no font of its own. Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/frieze-band.html Section: Gallery 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: column, columns, group, image, paragraph Keywords: gallery, frieze, band, full width, edge to edge, strip, five up ## Variations (2) ### Paper frieze (the default) Identical markup in every theme. The band runs the whole width of the page on your base colour, with your contrast as the type above and below it. The five frames touch: there is no gap between them at any width, so they read as one long picture. On a phone they stack and the seam turns vertical. ### Ink frieze Identical markup in every theme. The ground inverts: your contrast colour behind the intro and the caption, your base as the type. The five frames are unchanged, so the photographs read as hung against a dark wall. --- ## The signature moment: no gutter at all Every other gallery in the library separates its frames. This one refuses to. The `core/columns` carries `"blockGap":"0"`, so the five columns touch, and the run sits in its own `align: full` group with zero padding rather than in the constrained inner, so the first frame starts at the left edge of the viewport and the fifth ends at the right. The five photographs stop reading as five cards and start reading as one horizontal object spanning the page, and the only white in the section is the strip above the band and the strip below it. It survives colourlessness because **the device is the absence of a gap**. There is no rule, no wash and no border doing the work: what makes the band read as one object is that nothing separates its parts, and a theme cannot recolour nothing. Whatever the buyer's `base` and `contrast` resolve to, the band still runs edge to edge and the seams still vanish. At 390px core stacks the columns and the gutterless seam turns through ninety degrees: the `blockGap` of `0` applies to the row axis as well, so the five frames sit directly on top of one another with no gap and no shadow between them, a vertical butt-join instead of a horizontal one. The strip is still one continuous object, now portrait rather than landscape, and still bleeds to both edges because the run's group keeps its zero padding at every width. The intro and the caption keep their clamp gutters, so the two constrained things stay inset and the one full-bleed thing stays full-bleed, which is the same reading the desktop gives. ## What it inherits, what it decides Inherits: every colour (the band's ground is a `base` chain, all three lines of type a `contrast` chain, and the variation swaps the pair), the typeface, and the spacing scale (`spacing|70` above and below the section, `spacing|50` between the intro and the band, `spacing|30` between the band and its caption, `spacing|20` between the label and the line). Decides: the frame count and the crop (five images at `aspectRatio: "4/5"` with `"scale":"cover"`, so whatever the buyer uploads is cropped to the same portrait proportion and the run stays a single unbroken rectangle), the zero gutter, the 1240px measure for the intro and the caption, the clamp gutters `clamp(1.25rem, 4vw, 4rem)` that the run itself does not get, and the proportion of the type: a 13px tracked caps label, a 15px to 17px line at 1.5, and a fixed 13px tracked caps caption, which is an incidental label rather than copy and is kept under thirty characters for that reason. The structure is what makes the bleed work. The outer group is `align: full` with a constrained inner at 1240px and **no side padding of its own**; the intro and the caption are ordinary constrained children that carry the clamp gutters as their own padding; the run is a second `align: full` group with `padding: 0` on all four sides and a `default` layout, so its `core/columns` child fills it completely. Putting the columns in the constrained inner instead, or leaving the gutters on the outer group, would inset the band by the gutter and the frieze would become a wide row of pictures like any other. ## What a buyer changes first The photographs. **All five image blocks include example photographs**; choose Replace to select an image from your media library, and the 4:5 crop and the `object-fit: cover` are already set, so nothing has to be resized to make the band line up. Pick images that share a light level rather than five unrelated subjects; with no gutter, a run of five is read as one picture, and one frame much lighter than its neighbours reads as a hole in the band rather than as a different photograph. The copy is the second thing. The label reads best under thirty characters in caps, the line under about seventy, and the caption is a tag on the band rather than a sentence: keep it short, because it is set at 13px and anything longer wants to be body copy at a readable size instead. Adding or removing a frame is the third. The columns block distributes its children evenly, so six or four frames need no other change; below four the frames grow tall enough that the band stops reading as a strip. ## Variations - **Ink frieze**: the ground inverts. The band's ground becomes a `contrast` chain and all three lines of type a `base` chain, so the intro and the caption sit on ink and the five photographs read as hung against a dark wall. The frieze itself is identical to the base: same five frames, same crop, same zero gutter. One axis moves, and it is the colour relationship, which is the only colour move that arrives in every theme: `base` and `contrast` are the two universal slugs, and inversion between them is visible wherever a theme has a palette at all. ## 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.