Thumb layouts
Rather than drawing twenty thumbnails, there are three layouts and a set of category skins. Any layout takes any category — that's what keeps a channel with eight content types looking like one channel. Combine: thumb thumb-l-center thumb-travel
face / screen
Field notes
I rebuilt my site from nothing
SwarnılA · split — copy left, subject right. The default.
one strong image
Episode 07
The build is the story
SwarnılB · centre + line effect — image behind, copy centred, hairlines bracketing the title. Needs a short title and a quiet middle.
full-bleed still
Build log · 04
Making it fast, then proving it
C · band — photo fills the frame, copy in a ruled band. The most legible at 120px and the easiest to keep consistent across a series.
The line effect, three weights
Hairline
Signal
Double
.thumb-rules · -signal · -craft · -2 — one weight per upload run