How it looks:
- Desktop: a full-bleed strip, a little under half a screen tall, edge to edge: one repeating pattern in two tones of one colour, tiled across it, and nothing else — no words, no photo, no button, no heading. Flat. The strip is the breath between two beats on the page ground, and it recurs: the page carries it twice, the same pattern each time in a different colour of the palette, so one device marks each seam without repeating exactly. The repeat is small enough that several rows show, so it reads as fabric or wallpaper rather than as one picture; its edges are the band's edges, and the bands either side sit flat against it.
- Phone: the strip stays full width and about as tall; only the number of repeats across it changes.
Fits: a brand that owns a pattern — a repeat, a textile, a tile — or a direction that would make one from the palette; a palette with two or more colours to set it in; a page ground the strip contrasts with; the direction warm, classic or soft.
Not fit: no pattern and a direction that would not invent one; a page that already pauses on photos; the direction empty, hard-edged, typographic or photographic.



