Actions & Inputs

Buttons and form controls with live state grid.

Buttons

<button class="btn">Default Button</button>
<button class="btn btn-primary">Primary Button</button>
<button class="btn" disabled>Disabled Button</button>

Form Controls

Identity & Media

Avatars, enhanced images, and gallery treatments.

Avatars & Profile Treatments

Tokens

--avatar-size-sm · --avatar-size-md · --avatar-size-lg
--avatar-ring-width · --avatar-ring-color · --avatar-ring-exp

Stack spacing offsets + ring swap for mixed identities.

<div class="avatar avatar--lg avatar--interactive">
  <img src="/images/profile.jpg" alt="Profile"/>
</div>
<div class="avatar-stack">...</div>

Media & Galleries

CAM

Camera Leica M11

S/S

Shutter 1/500s · f/2

LOC

Location Pacific Northwest

Download View EXIF

<figure class="enhanced-markdown-image">...</figure>
<section class="photo-grid" data-gallery>
  <figure class="gallery-card">
    <img data-gallery-image data-src="/images/profile.jpg" src="/images/profile.jpg" alt="Portrait" />
  </figure>
</section>

Data & Layout

Tables and cards for structured content.

Tables

Article Cards

Standard Post Entry

Card used on lists / archives. Auto line-clamps and supports covers.

✦ No cover provided

Featured / First Entry

First card variant with larger type for the most recent story.

<article class="post-entry">
  <div class="entry-cover"><img src="/images/profile.jpg" alt="" /></div>
  <header class="entry-header"><h2>Title</h2></header>
  <section class="entry-content"><p>Summary...</p></section>
  <footer class="entry-footer">Meta text</footer>
</article>

Meta & CTAs

Reading progress, share rail, and subscribe CTA.

<div class="post-progress" style="--progress: 68%">...</div>
<div class="post-utilities-grid">
  <section class="post-utilities post-utilities__share">...</section>
  <section class="post-utilities post-utilities__subscribe">...</section>
</div>

Utilities & Overlays

Window chrome, overflow handling, and debug hooks.

Virtual Window & Quicklook

<div class="ui-window ui-window--embed">
  <div class="ui-window__titlebar">
    <button class="ui-window__control" aria-label="Close">✕</button>
    <div class="ui-window__title">Static window demo</div>
  </div>
  <div class="ui-window__body">...</div>
</div>

Overflow & Wrap

Margin Annotations

Side labels for paragraphs, figures, and Q/A blocks — matching live article behavior.

This paragraph shows the default counter in the right gutter.

The next paragraph increments the counter automatically.

How do Q/A labels render?

A: They use the shared counter and align in the gutter.

.post-content {
  position: relative;
  padding-inline-end: var(--space-12);
}
.post-content > p::before { counter-increment: section; content: counter(section); }
.post-content > figure::before { counter-increment: image; content: 'fig. ' counter(image); }
.qa-question::before { counter-increment: q; content: 'Q' counter(q); }

Debug & Test Controls

Utility buttons to exercise global helpers: quicklook, layout shuffle, baseline grid, toast.

// Programmatic helpers
window.grantIs.openQuicklookNearest?.();
window.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('notify', { detail: 'Hello!' }));

Accessibility

WCAG 2.1 AA compliant design system.

Contrast Ratios

Focus States

Screen Reader Support

Reduced Motion

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  * {
    animation-duration: 0.01ms !important;
    transition-duration: 0.01ms !important;
  }
}

Usage Guidelines

CSS Architecture

This design system uses CSS Cascade Layers for predictable specificity:

@layer foundation, base, layout, components, utilities, overrides;

Token Usage

Always use design tokens instead of hard-coded values:

.element {
  color: var(--color-text-primary);
  padding: var(--space-4);
  font-size: var(--text-lg);
}

.element {
  color: #111827;
  padding: 1rem;
  font-size: 1.125rem;
}

Responsive Design

Typography uses fluid scaling with clamp(), but use breakpoints for layout:

/* Mobile-first approach */
.container {
  padding: var(--space-4);
}

@media (min-width: 768px) {
  .container {
    padding: var(--space-8);
  }
}

@media (min-width: 1024px) {
  .container {
    padding: var(--space-12);
  }
}

Live Stress Tests

Full-fat markdown blocks that intentionally mix nesting, RTL, code fences, and form density to catch regressions.

Live content sandbox

These are the raw markdown blocks we keep at the bottom of the page to stress the system. The curated demos above show the canonical components; this sandbox mixes them together to catch regressions.

What’s covered here

• Shortcodes and mixed media in a single flow
• Stress tests: deep nesting, long links, long code lines, RTL text
• Dense form layout used for copy/paste QA
• Oversized tables and code fence zoo

Stress Test: Typography & Lists

Paragraph with inline code const slug = "this-should-wrap-properly"; and a very long unbroken URL to check overflow: https://example.com/this/is/a/very/long/path/that/should/wrap/without/pushing/the/layout/off/the/screen/when/viewed/on/small/viewports.

1. Ordered list level 1
   1. Level 2 item with bold and italic
      1. Level 3 item with inline-code and a link.
         • Mixed bullet under an ordered list to test stacking.

Blockquote with bold, a link to Grant.is, and enough text to wrap across multiple lines to catch spacing regressions.

Table & Definition List

Term

Definition body with a second sentence to verify spacing.

Code fences (long lines)

// Long line should wrap within the content width without forcing horizontal scrollbars.
const megaLine = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'.repeat(6);
function renderHeavyNesting(node = { a: { b: { c: { d: { e: 'end' } } } } }) {
  return JSON.stringify(node);
}

  
<div class="nested"><span>Inline HTML preview</span></div>

Media & Shortcodes

Note / Collapse / QA / Quote

Images (odd sizes)

Manual gallery (mixed aspect)

Forms & Inputs

This dense form exists for regression/stress; the canonical states live in “Actions & Inputs” above.

Stress Test: Deep Nesting & RTL

Overflow & Wrapping

# very long command
tar -cvzf backup-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S).tar.gz /var/www/example-site --exclude=node_modules --exclude=.git --warning=no-file-changed --blocking-factor=256

Huge Table

Code Fence Zoo

def deeply_nested(a):
    return {"a": {"b": {"c": {"d": {"e": a}}}}}

print(deeply_nested("fin")))

{ "bad": "json", "trailing": "comma" }