Rails, bands and spacers

A General Translation landing page is one ruled column. The column draws its two lines once, the bands inside it close each seam with one rule, hatch spacers sit between the bands, and each section opens with a head: a heading and one lead. The production mirror at /d/production rebuilds the shipped site page for page, and every number on this page comes from its stylesheets and the toolchain engine under them.

The page skeletonCopy Anchor Link

Add, remove and reorder the parts of a page, then move the width between 390 and 1440 pixels. Each part stands at the height the engine's numbers give it at that width, and the plate checks every seam for one owner.

Rail picks the column: 1104 pixels for the production mirror, or 1170 for the toolchain engine and the hub's own article. Rules switches between the shipped ownership, where a section gives up its bottom rule to a spacer or a band under it, and a page where every part draws its own edges. A doubled seam is marked in the accent on the skeleton and in the list of parts. Measures tints each part's padding, and the readout under the skeleton lists the numbers at the current width. Text is drawn as bars, so the skeleton reads at any scale.

The columnCopy Anchor Link

The wrapper draws both lines with its own border-inline, and a band inside it draws no side rails. A full-bleed band sits outside the wrapper and draws the pair from its own inner column at the same two x positions, so each line runs through the band unbroken. On production pages a registration cross sits where each seam meets a line: 9 pixels across, at 38 percent ink in light and 34 percent in dark.

Bands and spacersCopy Anchor Link

Every value below is a clamp() of the viewport width, so a band's padding moves continuously between the breakpoints. The columns give the resolved values at four widths.

The production spacer (.v0-hatch) is a 45 degree diagonal, 1 pixel in every 8 at 8.5 percent ink, between two rules it draws itself. The section above it gives up its bottom rule, and the spacer gives up its own bottom rule to a band below it, whose top rule closes that seam. The hub article's spacer is 42 pixels at minus 45 degrees and draws its bottom rule only, because every section of that article closes itself with its own bottom rule.

The head and the Cta rowCopy Anchor Link

A head is a heading and at most one lead in a ruled box. The plate sets the production heads in real type at the width the slider gives and reads the heading's lines back: two at most, and one at desktop on production pages unless an authored break splits it.

Cta Row shows the hero's two buttons. The solid face with the ring is the page's primary action, and the outline face sits beside it. The two sit in equal columns as wide as the wider label, and at 620 pixels and under they fill the column up to 440 pixels, half the row each when both labels fit.

Import and propsCopy Anchor Link

The shipped site renders every button through gt-cloud's Cta; the mirror on this site writes the same tc-btn faces directly.

import Cta from '@/components/landing/shared/Cta';

<Cta ring href={SIGN_IN_HREF}>Get Started</Cta>;
<Cta variant='outline' href='/docs'>Read the Docs</Cta>;

Labels are Title Case, with short function words lowercase after the first: Get Started, Get a Demo, Talk to Us, Read the Docs.

The line lawCopy Anchor Link

Every seam is drawn once, by one owner. The plate draws one junction a pixel at a time, at about 20 times its size: the column's left line, a section above and a hatch spacer below. Each pixel is composited by the browser from the shell's own token alphas, so the plate reads the same in both themes. The inset at the corner is the same crop at its real size.

Seam picks who draws the rule. Spacer and Section are the two shipped arrangements, and the other three are the defect classes the line auditor (scripts/lint/lines.mjs) reports. Clip Ground turns off background-clip: padding-box, so the spacer's diagonals run under its own rule.