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Grid × Banner × Cards

How cards and banners sit on the modular grid: spans, the baseline rhythm, full-bleed rows, nesting and narrow viewports.

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scenarioCards across mixed spans

Cards fill their fields edge to edge at every breakpoint; the guides show whether card edges land on column lines.

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Four columns

One line of body copy.

Four columns

Two or three lines of body copy — long enough to wrap at most widths, so the card is taller than its neighbour.

Four columns

A much longer body. Margins define a type area, the type area divides into fields, and a field is an integer number of text lines tall. The vertical gutter between two fields is exactly one line, which is what makes the arithmetic close — or should.

Three

One line of body copy.

Nine

Two or three lines of body copy — long enough to wrap at most widths, so the card is taller than its neighbour.

scenarioCards on the baseline rhythm

The same row with and without rhythm: with it, card heights should be whole raster lines and the text should seat on the drawn baseline.

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Short · no rhythm

One line of body copy.

Medium · no rhythm

Two or three lines of body copy — long enough to wrap at most widths, so the card is taller than its neighbour.

Long · no rhythm

A much longer body. Margins define a type area, the type area divides into fields, and a field is an integer number of text lines tall. The vertical gutter between two fields is exactly one line, which is what makes the arithmetic close — or should.

Short · rhythm

One line of body copy.

Medium · rhythm

Two or three lines of body copy — long enough to wrap at most widths, so the card is taller than its neighbour.

Long · rhythm

A much longer body. Margins define a type area, the type area divides into fields, and a field is an integer number of text lines tall. The vertical gutter between two fields is exactly one line, which is what makes the arithmetic close — or should.

scenarioNested grid inside a card

A grid in a card's content slot: the inner columns measure the card's content box, and the gutter matches the outer grid.

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Dashboard

Inner 3-column grid

Revenue

1,234

Orders

1,234

Refunds

1,234

Side

Two or three lines of body copy — long enough to wrap at most widths, so the card is taller than its neighbour.