Hero

A split panel that opens a page — copy on one side, a full-bleed image on the other. It owns the page's only h1.

When to use it

HeroBlock and Page Header are two compositions, not two crops of the same one. Page Header stacks a banner above the title and suits an editorial article. Hero juxtaposes the copy and the image, and suits a page that has to sell something: a service, a commitment, an offer.

Both render the page's only h1. Every other block hardcodes an h2, so exactly one of the two belongs on a page — and it belongs at the top, not in the body.

Props

HeroBlock

HeroAction

Examples

Highlights and a footnote

The optional line of checked points under the actions — checked items and a fine-print footnote, both at the measured 70% white.

Options this block does not have

No ratio. The panel crops its image, so the prop would change nothing a different source file cannot already express.

No tone. Only the navy ground is offered, and it is the one the gradient and the contrast ratios were measured against. Three grounds would be three contrast audits for one requirement.

Contrast

The secondary copy — highlights and footnote — renders at 70% white. On a gradient the worst case is the light end, not the dark one: 70% measures 8.40:1 against blue-950 and 5.43:1 against blue-900, both clear of the 4.5:1 that AA asks for body text. Full white stays above 9:1 across the whole ramp, so the gradient costs nothing in legibility.