Stat row

Four key figures across one band on a tonal wash: a short masthead, then a row of four cells, each one a figure at display size with its unit beside it, a hairline beneath, and one wide-tracked label under that. A source note closes the section. Core blocks only, so there is nothing to install and nothing to keep updated.

The four figures have unequal digit counts and four different units, and they still sit on one line across the whole band. That lock is the pattern.

It is built rather than drawn, because copy-paste markup carries no CSS of its own and none of the alignment tools that would normally do this job (align-items: baseline, a grid row, a subgrid) can be expressed in a block attribute. So the alignment is a property of the composition:

• The figure is always the first block in its cell, and all four figures carry identical typography. Equal columns start at the same y, so identical first line boxes put every baseline at the same height. Nothing has to be measured or nudged, and the lock survives a buyer editing the copy.
• Nothing sits above a figure. No eyebrow, no rule, no icon. Anything above one cell's figure that is a different height in another cell would break the row, so that slot is kept empty by design.
• The line-height on the figures is 0.85, which pulls the paragraph's box bottom down to within a pixel or two of the baseline in any face the buyer's theme sets. That is what lets the hairline below it act as the baseline: at margin-top: 0 the rule lands where the digits sit, not where the line box happens to end.
• The hairline makes the lock visible. Four collinear rules across the band are the datum the eye reads the row by, and they are the reason the alignment is noticed rather than merely correct.
• The unit is a separate block, not part of the figure's text. It sits in a nowrap flex row with the figure, aligned to the same bottom edge, so it can never wrap away from its number and never widens the figure's own line. It is set small, uppercase and lightly tracked with a 0.35rem gap: tight against the figure without touching it. Its own line-height is tuned so its baseline lands on the same rule.

The figures carry no colour of their own beyond your contrast chain. Weight, size and tracking do the hierarchy, so the section still reads as data in a theme with a full palette and in one with none.

Both patterns set numerals large, and that is where the resemblance ends.

• feature-grid uses numerals as structure. 01, 02, 03 are index labels promoted to display size; they hang *below* a rule that acts as a header, and each introduces a heading and a paragraph of copy. Remove the copy and the numerals have nothing to index.
• stat-row uses numerals as data. Each figure is a measured value with a unit, it sits *on* its rule rather than under one, there is no heading and no sentence inside any cell, and the four cells are read across the row rather than down a list. The row is dense where the band is airy, and the tonal wash and the closing source note frame it as a report rather than a set of features.

If a future variation ever makes a single figure the whole composition, that belongs to error-404 and not here.

1. The numbers and the labels. Keep each figure to four glyphs or fewer so it stays on one line at tablet width, and keep labels to two or three words.
2. The units. They are separate blocks, so a unit can be deleted outright and the figure keeps its position. A prefix unit, a currency symbol for example, works by dragging the unit block ahead of the figure inside the same row.
3. The count. Delete a cell for three across, which is the other composition this band is drawn for. Five will crowd the figures at this measure; at that point step the figure size down.
4. The source note. It is what makes the row read as reported rather than asserted. If you delete it, delete the eyebrow too, or the masthead is left top-heavy.

• Typeface. The pattern states no font family anywhere. The figures, the labels and the heading all take whatever your theme sets, serif or sans. The baseline lock does not depend on the face, which is why the line-height is tuned rather than the position.
• Palette. The wash is your base-2 where your theme has one, falling back to your base and then to a colour WordPress itself guarantees. Text is your contrast on the same terms. No accent slug appears anywhere in the section, in any rung, because an accent's brightness is unknowable and this band is entirely text on a ground.
• The hairlines. Drawn in the separator's own currentColor, so they follow your text colour wherever your theme puts it, including in a dark style.
• Spacing scale. Band padding, the gutters and the gap under each rule use the core spacing presets, so the section breathes at your theme's rhythm.

• Proportion. The figure scale, the negative tracking on it, the 0.85 line height and the small tracked label are the pattern's own. That ramp is the design.
• The grid. Four equal cells, full-bleed ground, 1240px constrained inner. Below 782px WordPress stacks the cells to one column; each cell is self-contained, so a stacked stat keeps its figure, its rule and its label together and the section becomes a legible list rather than a broken row.
• One tone for all text. Labels are not set in a lighter grey, because the only slugs that could supply one have unknowable brightness. Size, weight and tracking carry the hierarchy instead.

Off the theme's ladder on purpose, because the size is the composition:

• paragraph at clamp(3rem, 7vw, 4.75rem)