Profile cards — Portrait column beside text

A persistent portrait column beside a short identity, followed by a full-width current-focus strip. Use it when a person and one current project deserve equal attention.

1440 × 480

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Pattern notes

When to use
Use for a person with a recognisable portrait and one current work item. Pick profile-card-cover-avatar for a broad contextual cover. Variations: replace current focus with a short availability note, link to a publication, or put the portrait on the right.
Hierarchy
Read the 14px eyebrow, 18px semibold name, 14px role and 14px short biography alongside the portrait. The footer adds the current focus before View work. Slots: eyebrow up to 2 words, name up to 18 characters, role up to 16, biography up to 9 words and current focus up to 5 words.
Responsive
The two columns persist at all widths. At 640px the root grows from 288px to 400px and the portrait from 112px to 144px. Upper-region height stays 224px; the current-focus strip stays full width. The biography wraps more tightly on mobile.
Layout
A 288px bordered card (w-72), 400px from 640px (sm:w-[25rem]), with 8px rounded-lg corners. The upper h-56 224px grid has a 112px portrait column and a minmax(0,1fr) text column with p-4 16px padding; the portrait column becomes 144px at 640px. The portrait fills its column edge to edge with a rounded top-left corner. A p-4 footer follows under a 1px hairline, containing a 12px label, a 14px focus sentence and a 14px text link.
States
View work changes from neutral-900 to neutral-600 on hover and shows a 2px neutral-900 focus-visible outline offset 2px. Its arrow is decorative. Portrait and text are static; no open, selected or disabled states.
Desktop wireframe
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│┌──────────────┐   Eyebrow                                │
││              │   Taylor Brooks                          │
││    Image     │   Role or specialty                      │
││              │   Short biography                        │
│└──────────────┘                                          │
│──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│
│Current focus                                             │
│Short project summary                                     │
│[View work ->]                                            │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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