Timeline cover years

A full-bleed core/cover that carries a whole history: a heavy veil of your theme's contrast colour over the photograph, a display headline in the lower left, and a rail of six years running down the right side of the cover.

The years are not a list under the headline; they are a rail laid on the picture. A two-pixel vertical rule runs the height of the cover, and at every year a hairline branches off it, so each date hangs from the spine like a station on a line. The year figures are large, the event lines small, and the heavy stack on the right answers a single heavy headline low on the left. It is structure, not decoration, and it holds in greyscale.

• Paper veil: the veil is base at 80% and every word and rule contrast, the photograph a pale ghost behind ink.

Inherits: every colour (veil contrast, type and rules base), the typeface, the spacing scale. Decides: the veil's opacity, the type ramp, the measures, the column split. The cover states its own text colour chain so core's white cover text rule never applies.

Type sits on the image only because the veil makes the ground a known quantity: contrast at dimRatio 80 under base type. The event lines are body size, so they need the full 4.5:1, not the 3:1 allowed to large display type; the checker composites the veil over a white and a black photograph and the worse ground has to pass. Lower the veil below 80 and that stops being true.

• The headline is display: a bare clamp(2.75rem, 6.5vw, 8.5rem), off the theme's ladder, because its size is the composition; at 1920 it is 136px, held to a clamp(18rem, 42vw, 46rem) measure so it breaks into a block.
• The year figures are paragraphs at a bare clamp(2.25rem, 4.6vw, 6rem), line-height 1: they are labels whose size is the rail, not headings.
• Event lines and the standfirst are body copy on medium; "Our history" is a label with its own clamp() floored at 15px.
• Hierarchy comes from size and the rules alone: nothing is set in capitals.
• The heading states its size and colour chain and nothing else.

• The cover's height comes from the rail: six entries set it, never vh.
• The inside is a two-column core/columns, 56% and 44%, both columns bottom-aligned, so the headline sits at the foot while the rail fills the height. Below 782px the columns stack and the rail drops beneath the headline.
• The rail is a vertical flex group with a left border; each entry is a group with a top border starting at that border. Rules are currentColor, always the colour of the type.
• Gaps are spacing presets; side padding on the inner groups is zero.

The photograph: choose Replace on the cover. Then the headline and the six entries; duplicate or delete an entry group to change the count. The last entry has no bottom padding, so the rail ends on its event line.

A short row on your theme's paper under the cover, a label and one paragraph at a 34rem measure, so the cover reads as a section and shows where it ends.

The copied markup includes a WordPress Photo Directory example photograph. The public image URL keeps the example visible after pasting. Select the cover and choose Replace to use your own Media Library file. See image credits for the source and license. Pasting an image URL does not import a Media Library attachment.