The stele
The upright inscribed slab: a decree, an honour, a grave marker.
A stele is already what a pull quote is — one statement, set apart, cut into a surface. Two things here are real rather than drawn. It is lit by the page's own sun: `sky` publishes the angle and length of every shadow in the document and until now nothing read them, so the slab's shadow swings with the hour along with everything else. And it is justified the way an inscription is — a cutter filling a line to the edge of a stone opens the letters, never the word gaps, so the block reads as an even grey with no rivers.
Integration
<link rel="stylesheet" href="anthemion.css">
<script type="module" src="anthemion.js"></script>
<anthemion-stele taper="5" pitch="13" track="4">
They drew the thing we could not describe.
</anthemion-stele>Slot
A pull quote, an epigraph opening a project, or a client's testimonial.
Custom properties
--stele-ground
Budget
- Never two in one viewport. A sanctuary of steles is a stoneyard.
- Under about forty words. Past that it stops being an inscription and becomes a paragraph in a box.
- It wants a sky above it. Without one the shadow falls back to a flat default and the light stops agreeing with the rest of the page.
Restraint is the aesthetic, and it does not survive being applied generously. These limits are the specification, not advice.