Gallery darkroom wall, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-darkroom-wall.html Core Patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Gallery (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/gallery/) Free Standard # Gallery darkroom wall A selected-work wall on a dark slab: ten photographs hung in three bands, a wide frame beside a tall one, then a staggered trio of columns where portrait and landscape frames interlock, then the first band mirrored, every band ending level. Each frame carries a contact-sheet caption, its number on the left and client, place and year on the right, with a label and heading above and a text link to the full index below. On a phone the frames stack in order. ## All patterns Search patterns Loading patterns… The signature moment ## Every frame numbered like a contact sheet, the portrait and landscape frames interlocking so each band ends level Three bands of core/columns. The first is a wide 3:2 frame beside a tall 3:4 one at two thirds and one third, so both are the same height. The middle band is three equal columns, each a portrait (4:5) over a landscape (4:3) or the reverse, alternating across the row like a checkerboard: every column adds up to the same height, so the band ends level. The last band mirrors the first, the wide frame changing sides. Under every photograph a caption row sets the frame number on the left and client, place and year on the right, in small capitals. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme - The typeface. - Your colours. - Your spacing. 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 selected-work wall for a photographer or a studio: ten photographs hung on a dark slab in three bands, each captioned the way a contact sheet is. It sits in the gallery section beside stagger-pairs (pairs that swap sides on a light page), ragged-grid (every frame its own proportion) and wall-labels (five frames to one baseline): none of them numbers every frame or interlocks portrait and landscape frames so each band ends level. ### The signature moment: every frame numbered like a contact sheet, the portrait and landscape frames interlocking so each band ends level Three bands of core/columns. The first is a wide 3:2 frame beside a tall 3:4 one at two thirds and one third, so both are the same height. The middle band is three equal columns, each a portrait (4:5) over a landscape (4:3) or the reverse, alternating across the row like a checkerboard: every column adds up to the same height, so the band ends level. The last band mirrors the first, the wide frame changing sides. Under every photograph a caption row sets the frame number on the left and client, place and year on the right, in small capitals. On a phone each band stacks, so the ten frames read in number order at full width with their captions. Nothing is cropped by a grid track and no row can end short, because the bands are columns, not an auto-filled grid. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits from your theme - The typeface. No font family is stated; the heading takes the theme's xx-large rung with a display clamp behind it, captions and label are small tracked capitals in your body face. - Your colours. The wall is your contrast colour and every caption, label, heading and the link is your base colour, stated on each block so a theme with a dark slab keeps it legible (4.5:1 wherever the pair allows, measured on the painted values). The label's mark and the hairline above the link are currentColor. - Your spacing. Vertical rhythm is on your spacing presets; the gutters between frames are fixed at 0.75rem so the wall reads as one hang. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### The Folio look The free Folio set's wall: darkroom black #141517, frame numbers in bone #efe9df, facts in silver #b9bcc2 monospace, a safelight #c8432b mark on the label, a Helvetica heading and a bone underlined link to the index. ### Photographs Ten CC0 photographs from the WordPress.org Photo Directory, linked from pd.w.org: a staircase, a palace front, dried flowers, a room by tall windows, a temple courtyard, a pendant light, a wooded shore, a cane cabinet, a film camera and a cove. Replace them with your own; every frame keeps its ratio. Questions ## Gallery darkroom wall: common questions Does Gallery darkroom wall 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 Gallery darkroom wall match my theme? Choose by variation. Dark wall takes your theme’s palette; Folio brings its own colours. How many variations does Gallery darkroom wall have? 2: Dark wall and Folio. 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 Gallery darkroom wall free? Yes. It is one of 62 free Core Patterns: copy it and it is yours to keep and edit. Back to Core Patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) ### Free pattern Copy it and paste it straight into the block editor. It is yours to keep and edit. Read the markup #### 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)Editorial Article footer The close of an article: a portrait of the author beside their name, the biography under both inside a currentColor slip held to the middle half of the measure, and the previous and the next post hanging off the two outer edges so the section reads as a doorway rather than a footer. The name, the biography and the two neighbours are dynamic core blocks, so they are the post's own and the preview here is sample data; the portrait is an ordinary image block you swap for your author's own. The previous and next links only resolve on a single post template, which is where this pattern belongs. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/article-footer.html)Contact Contact cover ledger A full-bleed contact cover: a display heading in the top left, and a ruled ledger of address, hours, phone and email in the far lower-right corner, label left and value right between hairline rules, with the photograph running between them. A heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour keeps every line legible whatever photograph you choose. The ledger drops under the heading 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. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/contact-cover-ledger.html) #### Before you paste 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. 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/). ## Specifications Section Gallery Access Free Plugin None, core blocks only Variations 2 Colour From your theme or its own palette Type From your theme or its own type Motion None Blocks button, buttons, column, columns, group, heading, image, paragraph Presets color 4, spacing 4, font-size 1 WordPress 7.0+ Continue exploring ## Next in Gallery Explore all 29 Gallery patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/gallery/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Gallery No plugin needed ### Cross currents Two offset rows compare four distinct photographs beneath a three-part editorial introduction. Gallery Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-cross-currents.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Gallery No plugin needed ### Gallery ledger A gallery set as an index rather than a grid: four ruled rows, each with a small numeral in the left margin, one panoramic 21:9 frame in the middle and a title with a tracked meta line on the right. Gallery Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-ledger.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Gallery No plugin needed ### The long way round Five travel photographs make a still filmstrip with alternating landscape and portrait frames, each with its own caption. Gallery Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/gallery-long-way-round.html)