Menu single sheet, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/menu-single-sheet.html Core Patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Listings (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/listings/) Catalogue access Standard # Menu single sheet Today's menu as a single printed card. A narrow centred sheet sits on a full-width ground of the opposite colour; at its head the venue in small capitals, the day of the week at display size and the date beneath, then each course between hairline rules, every dish centred as its name, a one-line description and its price. A note and one button close the card. Nothing sits beside anything else, so it reads the same on a phone as on a wide screen. States no colour and no font of its own. ## All patterns Search patterns Loading patterns… Start here ## What to change first The day and date each morning, then the dishes and prices. Duplicate a dish group to add one; duplicate a course with the rule above it to add a course. The signature moment ## The weekday is the headline The day is the biggest thing on the card. A menu printed each morning leads with when it is for, so the heading is the weekday, a bare clamp(3.25rem, 7vw, 6.5rem), with the date beneath it and the venue small above. That scale collision, a huge "Thursday" over dish names at clamp(1.25rem, 1.6vw, 1.5rem), is what makes it read as today's sheet rather than a standing menu, and it survives colourlessness. The card is never wider than 36rem, so the ground around it frames it like paper on a table. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme - The outer ground is contrast and the card is base with contrast type, each a two-rung chain; no text sits on the outer ground. - The course labels start on role-label and fall through to contrast. - The rules between courses are separators painted contrast, run across the card's measure. - Dish names are on no ladder rung on purpose, set a step above body so the dishes are the second mass; descriptions take medium. - The button is your theme's filled button; the typeface is your theme's. ### Set by this pattern - Every block is centred in a vertical flex stack, so nothing needs to collapse on a phone: the card simply fills the width less the side gutter. 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 Today's menu as one printed card: a narrow sheet centred on a full-width ground of the opposite colour. The venue sits at the head in small capitals, the day of the week at display size and the date under it, then the courses between hairline rules, each dish centred as its name, one line of description and its price. A note and one button close the card. ### The signature moment: the weekday is the headline The day is the biggest thing on the card. A menu printed each morning leads with when it is for, so the heading is the weekday, a bare clamp(3.25rem, 7vw, 6.5rem), with the date beneath it and the venue small above. That scale collision, a huge "Thursday" over dish names at clamp(1.25rem, 1.6vw, 1.5rem), is what makes it read as today's sheet rather than a standing menu, and it survives colourlessness. The card is never wider than 36rem, so the ground around it frames it like paper on a table. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### What to change first The day and date each morning, then the dishes and prices. Duplicate a dish group to add one; duplicate a course with the rule above it to add a course. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits from your theme - The outer ground is contrast and the card is base with contrast type, each a two-rung chain; no text sits on the outer ground. - The course labels start on role-label and fall through to contrast. - The rules between courses are separators painted contrast, run across the card's measure. - Dish names are on no ladder rung on purpose, set a step above body so the dishes are the second mass; descriptions take medium. - The button is your theme's filled button; the typeface is your theme's. ### What it decides for itself - Every block is centred in a vertical flex stack, so nothing needs to collapse on a phone: the card simply fills the width less the side gutter. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### The Styled look aubergine-and-wine is a wine bar: a champagne #f3e9d2 card on deep aubergine #2b1624, aubergine type (14:1) and wine red #7b1e3a labels, prices and rules (8.3:1), with an italic Didot weekday over Baskerville, small plates above wines by the glass. Questions ## Menu single sheet: common questions Does Menu single sheet need a plugin? No. It is built only from core WordPress blocks (button, buttons, group, heading, paragraph and separator), so it pastes into the block editor with nothing to install. Will Menu single sheet match my theme? Choose by variation. Daily sheet takes your theme’s palette; Aubergine and wine brings its own colours. How many variations does Menu single sheet have? 2: Daily sheet and Aubergine and wine. Each is its own markup; choose one in the toolbar above the preview before you copy. Is Menu single sheet free? It is included with a subscription, with every Core Pattern and variation. 56 Core Patterns are free to copy without one. Which WordPress version does it need? 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. 20KB of core-block markup, 6 blocks (button, buttons, group, heading, paragraph, separator), and nothing else: paste it into the block editor and it becomes editable blocks wearing your theme. Subscribe to copy it, £119 a year (https://patternpaste.com/account/#plan) What you copy is yours forever. Cancel whenever. Back to Core Patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Catalogue access ### £119 a year All patterns, variations and theme downloads. What you copy is yours forever. Cancel whenever. Subscribe, £119 a year (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 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)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)Call to action CTA band A full-bleed closing band that inverts the page: a contrast ground carrying base text, one centred statement, one action. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/cta-band.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/) ## Specifications Section Listings Access Subscription 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, group, heading, paragraph, separator Presets color 5, spacing 6, font-size 1 WordPress 7.0+ Continue exploring ## Next in Listings Explore all 6 Listings patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/listings/)Also in Pricing (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/pricing/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Listings No plugin needed ### Menu course columns A restaurant menu in three course columns. Listings Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/menu-course-columns.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Listings No plugin needed ### Careers vacancies Open roles as ruled rows for a local employer: the role and its team at the left, then the hours, then the pay set larger than body text, and an Apply button at the right, so the terms are read before the click. Listings Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/careers-vacancies.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Listings No plugin needed ### Listing cards Six priced items as a grid of cards, each a 4:3 frame over a title set deliberately small and a figure set at display size under it, closed by a hairline and one tracked action. Listings Preview pattern (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/listing-cards.html)