Team department columns, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/team-department-columns.html Library (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Team (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/team/) Catalogue access Standard # Team department columns Three department columns each open with a large portrait and named lead, then introduce a colleague through a smaller face and short profile. Example portraits are included, generated and nobody real; replace them with photographs of your own people. Inherits your theme’s palette and typeface. Start here ## What you change first Replace the portraits, names, roles and biographies. Duplicate a complete profile group to add a person, keeping text lengths reasonably similar. Image blocks retain their chosen aspect ratio when you replace the source. The signature moment ## Three departments become parallel portrait-led columns The studio is organised horizontally by discipline: strategy, design and delivery. A large portrait introduces the lead of each discipline; a smaller square portrait introduces a colleague below. The deliberate scale difference makes responsibility clear without turning the whole section into another staff directory. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme The typeface, heading treatment and spacing scale belong to the host theme. Every colour uses a fallback chain. Text resolves to contrast on the page ground; no accent is used behind copy. Body copy targets 4.5:1 contrast; large display text has a 3:1 minimum. WordPress render checks measure the actual theme colours. 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 Three department columns each open with a large portrait and named lead, then introduce a colleague through a smaller face and short profile. ### The signature moment: three departments become parallel portrait-led columns The studio is organised horizontally by discipline: strategy, design and delivery. A large portrait introduces the lead of each discipline; a smaller square portrait introduces a colleague below. The deliberate scale difference makes responsibility clear without turning the whole section into another staff directory. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### What you change first Replace the portraits, names, roles and biographies. Duplicate a complete profile group to add a person, keeping text lengths reasonably similar. Image blocks retain their chosen aspect ratio when you replace the source. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits from your theme The typeface, heading treatment and spacing scale belong to the host theme. Every colour uses a fallback chain. Text resolves to contrast on the page ground; no accent is used behind copy. Body copy targets 4.5:1 contrast; large display text has a 3:1 minimum. WordPress render checks measure the actual theme colours. ### Display type Section headings use the x-large rung, names use large, and body copy uses medium, all with clamp fallbacks. Labels use a 0.875rem to 1rem clamp and 1.4 line height. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### What the buyer gets Three department columns each open with a large portrait and named lead, then introduce a colleague through a smaller face and short profile. The section works without the companion plugin. Replace the example people, roles and copy directly in the block editor. ### Responsive composition Core columns stack below WordPress’s mobile breakpoint. Grid layouts use minimum widths and reduce their column count as space narrows. Each person’s photograph and name stay grouped. Review the full section at 1920, 1280, 820 and 390 pixels in serif and sans themes. ### Included images The portraits are generated examples and depict nobody real. Their public image URLs travel with the copied markup. Choose Replace to use your own people. Pasting a URL does not import a Media Library attachment. See image credits (https://patternpaste.com/image-credits/). 15KB 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)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 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 48, deepest 2 rungs currentColor no spacing 20, 30, 40, 50, 70, 80 color black, contrast font-size large, medium, x-large Continue exploring ## Next in Team Explore all 14 Team patterns (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/team/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Team Team Standard ### Team cover frieze A heading row, then four tall portrait covers set edge to edge across the full width with no gutter, so the team reads as one continuous frieze. 4 blocks · 1 variation Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/team-cover-frieze.html) Title in the frieze (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/team-cover-frieze.html#variant=title-tile) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Team Team Standard ### Team founders diptych Two generous portraits sit side by side, with separate biographies and a shared studio statement beneath. 6 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/team-founders-diptych.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Team Team Standard ### Team grid Six people across two even rows of three, each a 4:5 portrait with a name, a tracked role and one line of what that person is for. 6 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/team-grid.html)