Testimonial marquee

Twelve short client quotes, each with a small round photograph, running two rows deep in opposite directions past a band, with the pointer driving them.

Every other testimonial section in the catalogue picks its quotes and holds them still. This one is the crowd: twelve voices, never all on screen at once, the top row running one way and the bottom row the other, so the band reads as a room of people talking rather than one block sliding past. Point at the left of the band and the voices run back; hold the middle and they stop, so one can be read; push right and they hurry. On a phone a finger swipes a row along.

testimonial-slider-proof gives three long quotes a card each and lets the reader step through them; it is for the quotes that have to be read in full. testimonial-ratings lays six out still, to be compared. This one is volume: many voices, each a sentence or two, where the number of people saying it is the point. If a single quote has to carry the sale, use the slider.

It is also not logo-marquee-strip. That is one quiet row of marks; this is two rows of people, with a face and a name on every card.

1. The quotes. Four lines fit a card: a quote longer than that is cut at the card's foot, so if yours are longer, raise Item height in the block's Motion settings.
2. The photographs. Select an image and choose Replace, or select the block and use "Fill items from media library" to deal twelve at once.
3. The names and companies, one line under each quote.
4. The heading and the lede. The lede says what the pointer does, because a control nobody knows about is a control nobody uses; take the sentence out and you have taken the control out.
5. Speed, Top speed and Still band if the band feels too slow or too eager.
6. The heading level. The heading is an h2; change the level if your page needs another.

Everything you can see. The band's ground is your base, the ink your contrast, and the card behind each quote is the block's plate: your own ink mixed down to seven per cent, with a hairline of the same at sixteen. The quote is your body size (medium), the name your small size, the heading your x-large, all in your theme's face. The eyebrow and the names reach for role-label and fall back to contrast. Nothing states a colour or a family; text measured at 16:1 against the ground in Twenty Twenty-Five.

The card size (360 by 200px), the 24px gap, the 3.5rem round photograph and the slow speed. The photograph's circle is a border radius on the image block.

• A stated card, 360 by 200px. A marquee item with a stated width is a card whose words wrap inside it, so each quote is a real sentence or two, three or four lines at your body size. 360px keeps one whole card on a 390px phone; 200px holds four lines and the name. A longer quote wants a taller Item height, since the card clips what does not fit.
• Speed 0.5, the slowest of the marquee composites, because a quote has to be read before it leaves the frame, where a logo only has to be recognised.
• Twelve cards dealt six to a row: enough that the loop does not visibly repeat inside a 1920px frame, few enough that every voice is real copy.

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 twelve quotes as a plain stack, each with its photograph and name. Nothing you typed lives in a block setting. A reader who asks for reduced motion always gets the still band, and every row can always be stopped with a tap, Enter or Space.

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 for the sources and licenses. Pasting an image URL does not import a Media Library attachment.