Founder Letter

About79: Founder Letter

A founder letter: an opening line that settles in word by word above the body paragraphs, a portrait drifting inside its frame beside it, and a ruled foot carrying the signature on one side and a pill action on the other.

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/about79?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/about79?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/about79.tsx plus the button22 sliding-marker pill and the text1 word stagger it uses.

Quick start

The installed file exports about79Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working founder letter in one line.

import { About79, about79Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/about79";

export default function Page() {
  return <About79 {...about79Demo} />;
}

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

import { About79 } from "@/components/beste/block/about79";

export default function Page() {
  return (
    <About79
      eyebrow="A letter from the founder"
      lead="I started this practice because I could not find one I wanted to sit in."
      paragraphs={[
        "Every room I visited was either a clinic or a sales pitch.",
        "I wanted something in between, run by people who had done the long training.",
      ]}
      signature={{ name: "Julia Jacklin", role: "Founder" }}
      button={{ label: "Come and sit in it", href: "/visit", tone: "dark" }}
      image={{ src: "/team/julia.jpg", alt: "Portrait of the founder" }}
    />
  );
}

Props

type ActionButton = {
  label: string;
  href: string;
  tone?: "primary" | "light" | "dark" | "outline";
};

Behavior notes

• The lead runs through Text1 with a tightened stagger of 0.04s, faster than the component's own default, because a sentence this long would otherwise still be assembling itself by the time the reader has moved on.
• The paragraphs wait on 0.3 + lead.split(" ").length * 0.04, the same arithmetic the stagger uses, so the body arrives exactly as the last word of the lead lands however long that sentence is.
• The lead is a p, not a heading. It is the opening sentence of a letter, and promoting it to an h2 would put a full sentence into the page outline.
• The portrait drifts a short -8% to 8% against a 1.18 scale. A face reads as unstable when it travels as far as a landscape band does.
• The photograph starts at blur(24px) and clears on decode, with a complete check on mount so a cached image is not left blurred waiting for an event that already fired.
• The foot is one border-t row that stacks below sm and splits to justify-between above it, so the signature and the action never crowd each other on a phone.
• The whole foot is skipped when neither signature nor button is given, so the letter ends on its last paragraph without a stray rule.