Testimonial marquee editorial, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/pattern/testimonial-marquee-editorial.html Interactive (https://patternpaste.com/interactive/) Marquee (https://patternpaste.com/interactive/marquee/) Catalogue access Needs plugin (https://patternpaste.com/docs/install-pattern-paste/) # Testimonial marquee editorial Eight client quotes set large in one slow line across an inverted band, with no card behind them: a drawn dot between voices, and a small round photograph with the name under each quote. Includes replaceable example images. Needs the companion plugin, which comes with your access; without it, or without motion, the heading is followed by the eight quotes as a plain stack. States no colour and no font of its own. Start here ## What you change first - The quotes. Three or four lines fit an item; for longer ones raise Item height in the block's Motion settings. - The photographs. Select an image and choose Replace. - The names and companies, one line beside each photograph. - The lede. It says what the pointer does, because a control nobody knows about is a control nobody uses. - Speed if 0.35 is too slow for your quotes, and Separator if you would rather the voices ran without the dot. - The heading level. The heading is an h2; change the level if your page needs another. The signature moment ## The quotes are type, not cards Most testimonial sections put every quote in a box. This one takes the boxes away: the quotes run as one line of large type across a band in your ink, a dot of the same ink between them, and the only thing under each is a small photograph and a name. It reads like a sentence the page is saying, not a wall of reviews, and at 0.35 it is the slowest marquee in the catalogue, because a quote at this size has to be read, not scanned. Theme handoff ## What comes from where ### From your theme Everything you can see. The band is your contrast and the type your base, so it is inverted in every theme: dark in a light theme, light in a dark one. The separator dot is the block's, drawn in the same ink at 55 per cent. The heading is your large size, the lede your medium, the names your small, all in your theme's face; text measured against the band in every stock theme. ### Set by this pattern The display size of the quotes, a bare clamp(1.375rem, 2vw, 1.75rem) rather than a preset, because the size of the quotes is the composition. The 380 by 200px item, the 56px gap, the 2.25rem round photographs and the speed. 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 Eight client quotes set large in one slow line across an inverted band, a drawn dot between each voice, with the pointer driving them. ### The signature moment: the quotes are type, not cards Most testimonial sections put every quote in a box. This one takes the boxes away: the quotes run as one line of large type across a band in your ink, a dot of the same ink between them, and the only thing under each is a small photograph and a name. It reads like a sentence the page is saying, not a wall of reviews, and at 0.35 it is the slowest marquee in the catalogue, because a quote at this size has to be read, not scanned. ### Why this is not testimonial-marquee testimonial-marquee is volume: twelve voices on cards in two rows running against each other, a crowd. This one is one row and eight voices with no plate, so each quote gets the room a pull quote gets. Use the first when the number of people is the proof; use this when the words are. It is also not testimonial-statement or testimonial-band, which hold one quote still. Here no single quote carries the section. Make it yoursVariations and the edits to make first ### What you change first - The quotes. Three or four lines fit an item; for longer ones raise Item height in the block's Motion settings. - The photographs. Select an image and choose Replace. - The names and companies, one line beside each photograph. - The lede. It says what the pointer does, because a control nobody knows about is a control nobody uses. - Speed if 0.35 is too slow for your quotes, and Separator if you would rather the voices ran without the dot. - The heading level. The heading is an h2; change the level if your page needs another. Theme behaviourInheritance, fixed decisions and contrast ### What it inherits from your theme Everything you can see. The band is your contrast and the type your base, so it is inverted in every theme: dark in a light theme, light in a dark one. The separator dot is the block's, drawn in the same ink at 55 per cent. The heading is your large size, the lede your medium, the names your small, all in your theme's face; text measured against the band in every stock theme. ### What it decides for itself The display size of the quotes, a bare clamp(1.375rem, 2vw, 1.75rem) rather than a preset, because the size of the quotes is the composition. The 380 by 200px item, the 56px gap, the 2.25rem round photographs and the speed. Technical notesBlock mechanics, responsive behaviour and constraints ### Why the numbers are what they are - One row, eight voices. Eight quotes at 380px plus the 56px gap run well past a 1920px frame, so the loop never shows its seam, and every voice is real copy. - 380 by 200px per quote. A marquee item with a stated width wraps its words, so each quote breaks over three or four lines at display size and one whole quote still fits a 390px phone. A longer quote wants a taller Item height, since the item clips what does not fit. - Speed 0.35. Slower than the card version's 0.5: bigger type, fewer words a second, the same reading time. ### What needs the plugin The running, the pointer control and the tap-to-stop. With the plugin inactive, or with motion switched off in the block's inspector, the heading is followed by the eight quotes as a plain stack, each with its photograph and name. A reader who asks for reduced motion always gets the still line, and the row can always be stopped with a tap, Enter or Space. ### Included images The copied markup includes Pattern Paste example portraits. The public image URLs keep the examples visible after pasting. Select an image and choose Replace to use your own Media Library files. See image credits (https://patternpaste.com/image-credits/) for the sources and licenses. Pasting an image URL does not import a Media Library attachment. 14KB of core-block markup, 5 blocks (group, heading, image, paragraph, patternpaste/marquee), 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. #### Use it for - Studio and agency home pages - A band between a hero and the work - Restaurants, makers and small brands with loyal customers - Editorial and publishing sites - Landing pages wanting proof without cards #### 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)Stats Stat callout A high-impact framed spotlight plaque: a central marquee figure and bold executive statement sit above a ruled three-part corroboration shelf enclosed within the same 1px currentColor architectural frame. States no colour and no font of its own. (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/stat-callout.html)Pricing Pricing cover menu A screen-height cover with three plans set on it like a restaurant menu: a heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour over the photograph, a display headline in the lower left and a narrow ruled price list in the right-hand column, each plan a name and its price on one line and a sentence beneath, hairline rules between, one button under the list. The list drops beneath the headline on a phone. Includes a replaceable example photograph and placeholder prices. 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/pricing-cover-menu.html) #### Before you paste Install the Pattern Paste plugin first, then paste. This section embeds one of its blocks: the plugin comes with your access, downloads from your account, and takes a minute. Paste without it and the section arrives as a plain stack of your headings, text and images, with none of the motion. How to install it (https://patternpaste.com/docs/install-pattern-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, patternpaste/marquee Core only NO Chains 8, deepest 2 rungs currentColor no color base, black, contrast, white spacing 50, 70 font-size large, medium, small Continue exploring ## Next in Interactive Explore all 36 interactive patterns (https://patternpaste.com/interactive/)Also in Testimonials (https://patternpaste.com/patterns/testimonials/) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Testimonials Testimonials Needs plugin ### Testimonial marquee Twelve client quotes, each with a small round photograph, the name and the company, running two rows deep in opposite directions with the pointer driving them. 5 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/testimonial-marquee.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Editorial Editorial Needs plugin ### Case scrollspy anatomy A case study told as a photo essay: a compact masthead, then four sections that each open on a large captioned photograph and several paragraphs of story, ending in a results ledger. 7 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/case-scrollspy-anatomy.html) Shot in Twenty Twenty-Five Single articles Single articles Needs plugin ### Handbook scrollspy directory A reference directory: twelve entries in a narrow reading column beside a wide, unnumbered index of their titles that stays in view and marks the entry being read. 6 blocks Open preview (https://patternpaste.com/pattern/handbook-scrollspy-directory.html)