Testimonial trio

The quotes are deliberately unequal lengths and the cards are bottom-aligned, so the boxes step down across the row while their feet and their attribution rules run dead level. Every three-up testimonial section in the wild does the opposite: it either stretches the boxes to equal height, which leaves a pool of dead space under the short quote, or it trims the copy until all three are the same length, which is how testimonials come to sound written by one person.

This one keeps the real lengths. What holds the row together is the bottom edge: three feet on one line, three hairlines above three names on the same line, and above that a stepped top edge that tells you at a glance the three people said different amounts. Density contrast across one row, drawn with a single alignment decision and no colour at all.

The mechanism is core's own: the columns are vertically aligned to the bottom, so each column is as tall as its card and the row's baseline is its floor. It costs nothing, and below 782px, where core stacks the columns, the row becomes three cards down the page and the alignment quietly stops mattering.