Photographic Year Ledger

Feature254: Photographic Year Ledger

A timeline set as a ruled ledger: year, photograph and story on one row, repeated down the page. The CTA sits in the header beside the heading, so the sequence ends on the last entry.

Installation

Swap YOUR_EMAIL and YOUR_KEY for the email and license key on your account. Find your license key on your account page.

Radix flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r/feature254?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/feature254?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/feature254.tsx plus the badge7 eyebrow and button12 pill button it uses.

Quick start

The installed file exports feature254Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working section in one line.

import { Feature254, feature254Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/feature254";

export default function Page() {
  return <Feature254 {...feature254Demo} />;
}

Then replace the demo with your own props. Written out, a trimmed setup looks like this:

import { Feature254 } from "@/components/beste/block/feature254";

export default function Page() {
  return (
    <Feature254
      badge={{ label: "How it grew" }}
      heading="The same system, photographed every two years."
      description="A brand is not finished when it launches."
      entries={[
        {
          year: "2018",
          title: "One shop, one sign",
          description: "The first identity fitted on a single fascia and a paper bag.",
          src: "/history/2018.jpg",
          alt: "Coffee bag against a plain wall",
        },
        {
          year: "2020",
          title: "Packaging that had to travel",
          description: "Wholesale meant the bag had to work on someone else's shelf.",
          src: "/history/2020.jpg",
          alt: "Coffee packaging on concrete",
        },
      ]}
      button={{ label: "See where it goes next", href: "/studio" }}
    />
  );
}

Props

type TimelineEntry = {
  year: string;
  title: string;
  description: string;
  src: string;
  alt: string;
};

type ActionButton = {
  label: string;
  href: string;
};

Behavior notes

• Rows use md:grid-cols-[minmax(0,8rem)_minmax(0,20rem)_1fr], so the year column stays narrow, the photograph keeps a fixed maximum width and the story takes whatever is left. The ledger reads as columns, not as three equal thirds.
• Years are set with tabular-nums, which keeps every date the same width and the column optically straight.
• Every row opens on border-t py-8, so the sequence is ruled rather than boxed, and adding an entry never changes the rhythm.
• Rows are md:items-start, so a short story sits level with the top of its photograph instead of floating in the middle of a tall row.
• Below md the three parts stack in source order (year, picture, story), which is the reading order the ledger implies.
• The CTA lives in the header on the heading's baseline, so the section can end on the most recent entry rather than on a button.
• Photographs hold aspect-[4/3] at every width and carry no hover treatment, keeping the ledger a record rather than a gallery of links.