Team lead portrait, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/team-lead-portrait.html Library (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/) Team (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/team/) Catalogue access Standard # Team lead portrait One person opens the section: a tall 2:3 portrait beside their name one rung under the section heading and two lines about them, with three colleagues held in a hairline strip beneath. The weight is deliberate, so the page is about a founder rather than about a row. Example portraits are included, generated and nobody real; replace them with photographs of your own people. States no colour and no font of its own. Start here ## What you change first - Who opens it. The lead is whoever the page is about, which is not automatically the most senior person. - The two lines. They are the only place in the team section where anybody gets a voice. - The three below. The strip is a core/columns of three. - The pictures. Point every frame at your media library. The signature moment ## The section is allowed to rank somebody Most team sections are egalitarian by construction: one grid, one frame size, one type size, everybody the same. That is a decision, and it is often the wrong one. A practice with a name over the door reads as evasive when the person whose name it is arrives fourth in a row of six. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme - Typeface. - Palette. - Spacing scale. - The rules. ### Set by this pattern - The 38/62 split, and that it collapses in that order. - The lead's name is a ladder heading, not display type. - The crop, and it is the same crop for everybody. - The frames include example portraits, generated and nobody real. - Type never sits on a photograph. - Three across in the strip, guaranteed rather than reasoned about. - Scale collision at the bottom of each small frame. - No links. 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 One person opens the section. A tall 2:3 frame sits in a 38% column against their name, their role and two lines of copy, and the three people who work with them are held in a hairline strip underneath. It is the team section for a studio with a founder the page is really about. ### The signature moment: the section is allowed to rank somebody Most team sections are egalitarian by construction: one grid, one frame size, one type size, everybody the same. That is a decision, and it is often the wrong one. A practice with a name over the door reads as evasive when the person whose name it is arrives fourth in a row of six. So this one puts the weight where the page actually puts it. The lead's frame is one tall picture next to a column of type; the name is set one rung under the section heading, which is the largest any person's name gets in this catalogue; and two sentences say something that could only be said about them. Everything below is the ordinary strip: three equal frames, three names, three tracked roles, held between one hairline above and one below. The rank is carried by proportion, not by decoration. Take the colour away, take the typeface away, and the composition still says who the studio is built around, because the only thing doing the saying is how much room each person gets. The rules are currentColor, so they follow the theme's text colour wherever it lands, including a dark style variation, and cannot resolve to nothing. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### What you change first - Who opens it. The lead is whoever the page is about, which is not automatically the most senior person. A head of practice opening a services page is a better section than a founder opening it out of habit. - The two lines. They are the only place in the team section where anybody gets a voice. Say something specific enough that it could not be said about the other three. - The three below. The strip is a core/columns of three. Copy a column for a fourth, delete one for a pair, and step the name size down a notch if you go to four, because four columns at 820px leave roughly 175px each. - The pictures. Point every frame at your media library. They do not have to be shot to 2:3; the crop is applied for you. They do have to be shot in roughly the same light, because the strip puts three of them side by side with nothing between them to excuse a mismatch. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits from your theme - Typeface. The pattern states no font family. The lead's name, the three names, the tracked roles and the lede all arrive in your serif or your sans. - Palette. The ground is your base and every piece of text is your contrast, both as fallback chains ending on a colour WordPress itself guarantees. There is no third colour in the section. - Spacing scale. Section padding, the gap between the lead and the strip, the gutters between people and the air inside the band are core spacing presets, so the density moves with your theme's rhythm. - The rules. Both hairlines are currentColor, never a colour we chose. ### What it decides for itself - The 38/62 split, and that it collapses in that order. The portrait column is 38% and the copy column 62%. Below 782px core stacks them, so the picture arrives first and the name follows it, which is the reading order the section was built for. - The lead's name is a ladder heading, not display type. It takes the x-large rung as a chain with a tuned clamp() behind it, one step under the section's xx-large h2. A name set as display type would outrank the section it sits in, and a team section is not a hero. - The crop, and it is the same crop for everybody. Every frame is aspectRatio: 2/3 with scale: cover, the lead's included, so the one large picture and the three small ones are the same photograph shape at two sizes rather than two different ideas. - The frames include example portraits, generated and nobody real. Their public image URLs travel with the copied pattern. Choose Replace to select photographs of your own people, keeping the crop and layout already set. - Type never sits on a photograph. Names, roles and the two lines of copy are beside or below the frames, on the section's own ground. A portrait's luminance is as unknowable as an accent's, because the buyer chooses the image. - Three across in the strip, guaranteed rather than reasoned about. The strip is a core/columns of three, not a wrapping flex row. Core gives a column flex-grow:1; flex-basis:0; min-width:0, so three never wrap above 782px and core stacks them one per line below it. - Scale collision at the bottom of each small frame. The name is at reading size with slightly tight tracking; the role directly under it is small, bold, uppercase and tracked wide. The two lines are deliberately unlike each other, which is where a colourless design gets its designed feeling. - No links. Nothing in the section is tappable. An inline link's height comes from the font's em box, which a pattern stating no font cannot raise to a 44px target, so that is the buyer's decision to make with their own type. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### Included images The copied markup includes example portraits, generated and nobody real. The public image URLs keep the examples visible after pasting. Select an image or cover and choose Replace to use photographs of your own people. See image credits (https://patternpaste.com/image-credits/) for the sources. Pasting an image URL does not import a Media Library attachment. 13KB of core-block markup, 6 blocks (column, columns, 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 column, columns, group, heading, image, paragraph Core only yes Chains 30, deepest 3 rungs currentColor yes color base, black, contrast, role-label, white spacing 20, 30, 40, 60, 80 font-size large, medium, x-large, xx-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 introduction and face grid An introduction occupies one side of the section, opposite a compact responsive grid of nine square portraits and names. 6 blocks · 1 variation Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/team-intro-face-grid.html) Section colours (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/team-intro-face-grid.html#variant=section-colours) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Team Team Standard ### Team numbered profiles Three numbered profiles set oversized index marks beside portraits and focused biographies on an inverted section ground. 6 blocks · 1 variation Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/team-numbered-profiles.html) Section colours (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/team-numbered-profiles.html#variant=section-colours) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Team Team Standard ### Team oval portraits Four tall oval portraits sit above numbered name-and-role captions, bringing a softer silhouette to a tightly measured team row. 4 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/team-oval-portraits.html)