Split Hero with Product Panel
Copy on the left, a drawn product panel on the right — the default hero for anything with an interface to show, with no image asset to host and no layout shift while it loads.
A serif display headline over a 60-character standfirst and a real byline, with one text link and no competing CTAs — the hero for publications and essays, where the writing is the product.
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Every product makes a claim about how its user should think. Most make it by accident. A short case for treating layout as a position rather than a container.
Rendered live in your current theme — this is the same component whose source is below, not a screenshot of it.
/**
* <HeroEditorial> — a masthead, not a landing page.
*
* For publications, essays, launch announcements and anything where the
* writing *is* the product. It borrows the things print does well: a rule
* above the headline, a serif display face, a measure that stops around 60
* characters, and no buttons competing with the first sentence.
*
* The only interactive element is a single text link. A hero with two
* gradient CTAs is telling the reader they are a lead; this one is telling
* them they are a reader, and the restraint is the design.
*
* `font-serif` resolves to whatever the project's serif stack is, so this
* inherits a real typeface where one is configured and Georgia where one
* is not — either way it reads as editorial rather than as a UI.
*
* `<time>` carries a machine-readable `dateTime`. It is the one piece of
* metadata here that something other than a human will want to parse.
*/
import * as React from 'react'
import { ArrowRight } from 'lucide-react'
export interface HeroEditorialProps {
kicker?: string
heading?: string
standfirst?: string
authorName?: string
/** ISO date for `<time dateTime>`. */
publishedAt?: string
/** Human-facing date. Defaults to a formatting of `publishedAt`. */
publishedLabel?: string
readingTime?: string
linkLabel?: string
linkHref?: string
className?: string
}
export function HeroEditorial({
kicker = 'Field notes',
heading = 'The interface is the argument.',
standfirst =
'Every product makes a claim about how its user should think. Most make it by accident. A short case for treating layout as a position rather than a container.',
authorName = 'Ada Whitfield',
publishedAt = '2026-03-14',
publishedLabel = '14 March 2026',
readingTime = '9 min read',
linkLabel = 'Read the essay',
linkHref = '#',
className = '',
}: HeroEditorialProps) {
return (
<section className={`relative ${className}`}>
<div className="mx-auto w-full max-w-3xl px-4 py-20 sm:px-6 lg:px-8 lg:py-28">
{kicker ? (
<>
<span className="text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.18em] text-primary">
{kicker}
</span>
<hr aria-hidden className="mt-4 border-t border-border/60" />
</>
) : null}
<h1 className="mt-8 text-balance font-serif text-4xl font-normal leading-[1.1] tracking-tight sm:text-5xl lg:text-6xl">
{heading}
</h1>
<p className="mt-6 max-w-[60ch] text-pretty font-serif text-lg leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground sm:text-xl">
{standfirst}
</p>
{/* -- Byline ---------------------------------------------------- */}
<div className="mt-10 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-3 gap-y-1 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
<span className="font-medium text-foreground">{authorName}</span>
<span aria-hidden>·</span>
<time dateTime={publishedAt}>{publishedLabel}</time>
{readingTime ? (
<>
<span aria-hidden>·</span>
<span>{readingTime}</span>
</>
) : null}
</div>
<a
href={linkHref}
className="group mt-8 inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-semibold underline decoration-primary/40 decoration-2 underline-offset-[6px] transition-colors hover:decoration-primary focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-ring focus-visible:ring-offset-4 focus-visible:ring-offset-background"
>
{linkLabel}
<ArrowRight
aria-hidden
className="h-4 w-4 transition-transform group-hover:translate-x-0.5 rtl:rotate-180 rtl:group-hover:-translate-x-0.5"
/>
</a>
</div>
</section>
)
}
bg-card, text-muted-foreground) — it inherits your theme instead of overriding it.Drop it at components/hero-editorial.tsx and import it where you need the section:
import { HeroEditorial } from '@/components/hero-editorial'8 of this block’s props are simple enough to drive from here. Change them and the block below re-renders — it is the same component whose source is above, not a mock of it. Everything else it accepts is in the table underneath.
Read out of the component’s own type and signature, so this cannot drift from the source below. Every prop has a default — the component renders standalone before you pass it anything.
| Prop | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|
kicker | string | 'Field notes' |
heading | string | 'The interface is the argument.' |
standfirst | string | — |
authorName | string | 'Ada Whitfield' |
publishedAtISO date for `<time dateTime>`. | string | '2026-03-14' |
publishedLabelHuman-facing date. Defaults to a formatting of `publishedAt`. | string | '14 March 2026' |
readingTime | string | '9 min read' |
linkLabel | string | 'Read the essay' |
linkHref | string | '#' |
className | string | '' |
The same block rendered once to markup, wrapped as a file your framework compiles. Tailwind classes are framework-agnostic, so the design transfers intact — the behaviour does not.
<!--
Editorial Masthead Hero — markup from the Hoverlab catalog.
This is the block rendered once to HTML and wrapped as a component
file. It is not a port of the React source: the Tailwind classes carry
the design, which is the part that took the work, and they are the same
in every framework.
This block has no interactive behaviour, so nothing is missing.
-->
<section class="relative ">
<div class="mx-auto w-full max-w-3xl px-4 py-20 sm:px-6 lg:px-8 lg:py-28">
<span class="text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.18em] text-primary">Field notes</span>
<hr aria-hidden="true" class="mt-4 border-t border-border/60" />
<h1 class="mt-8 text-balance font-serif text-4xl font-normal leading-[1.1] tracking-tight sm:text-5xl lg:text-6xl">The interface is the argument.</h1>
<p class="mt-6 max-w-[60ch] text-pretty font-serif text-lg leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground sm:text-xl">Every product makes a claim about how its user should think. Most make it by accident. A short case for treating layout as a position rather than a container.</p>
<div class="mt-10 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-3 gap-y-1 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
<span class="font-medium text-foreground">Ada Whitfield</span>
<span aria-hidden="true">·</span>
<time dateTime="2026-03-14">14 March 2026</time>
<span aria-hidden="true">·</span>
<span>9 min read</span>
</div>
<a href="#" class="group mt-8 inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-semibold underline decoration-primary/40 decoration-2 underline-offset-[6px] transition-colors hover:decoration-primary focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-ring focus-visible:ring-offset-4 focus-visible:ring-offset-background">Read the essay<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-arrow-right h-4 w-4 transition-transform group-hover:translate-x-0.5 rtl:rotate-180 rtl:group-hover:-translate-x-0.5" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M5 12h14"></path><path d="m12 5 7 7-7 7"></path></svg></a>
</div>
</section>
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The component, its props, the design tokens it expects and the command that installs it — as one prompt. Paste it into Claude, Cursor, v0 or ChatGPT and what they build around it will match the rest of the catalog instead of inventing its own system.
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Copy on the left, a drawn product panel on the right — the default hero for anything with an interface to show, with no image asset to host and no layout shift while it loads.
A linked announcement pill over a large centered headline, dual CTAs and a wordmark strip — the hero for a product with nothing to screenshot yet.
Centered copy above a screenshot in window chrome, masked at the bottom so a tall image never dictates the height of the fold. Wraps your own img or video.
A pre-launch hero whose only ask is an email address, with pending and success states and a signup count that argues for finishing rather than starting.
A hero whose primary action is a real search form with prefilling suggestion chips — for marketplaces and directories, where sending the visitor below the fold to find the search box is the whole failure.
A drawn terminal whose install line is real, selectable text with a working copy button and a feature-detected clipboard call — the hero for anything adopted by typing rather than signing up.
A drawn phone beside two store links built as real anchors rather than badge images, so they inherit the theme, need no hosted asset and carry an accessible name that is not a filename.
Pitch on the left, a marked-up figure and blockquote on the right, so the claim and the evidence for it share the fold instead of sitting a scroll apart.
A centered hero closing on a definition list of scale numbers, with a masked grid wash behind it — for infrastructure and payments, where "how many" is the second question a buyer asks.
Copy over your own image or video, with a graded scrim and deliberately fixed light-on-dark text — because the background is a photograph in both themes, so flipping the copy would break it.
A hero whose visual is the connector list itself, marked up as a real list so a visitor can skim it for their own stack — asset-free initials tiles, no third-party marks to license.
A day strip built as a radio group rather than buttons, so arrow keys move between dates and sold-out days disable properly — the fold for anything sold by the appointment.
Names the price above the fold for single-plan and one-time products, with the former price in a real strikethrough element so it is never announced as the current one.