Curated Reading List With Thumbnails

Blog64: Curated Reading List With Thumbnails

A curated reading list under a left-aligned header, laid out as two columns of linked rows where a wide thumbnail sits beside the article title and nothing else competes with it.

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/blog64?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/blog64?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/blog64.tsx and the badge6 component it uses for the eyebrow (installed to components/beste/component/badge6.tsx).

Quick start

The installed file exports blog64Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working reading list in one line.

import { Blog64, blog64Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/blog64";

export default function ReadingListPage() {
  return <Blog64 {...blog64Demo} />;
}

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

import { Blog64 } from "@/components/beste/block/blog64";

export default function ReadingListPage() {
  return (
    <Blog64
      eyebrow="Reading list"
      heading="Where to start"
      description="The pieces we hand to new clients and new hires, in the order we hand them over."
      posts={[
        {
          image: { src: "/covers/manual.jpg", alt: "Notes on a studio table" },
          title: "The operating manual we hand every new hire",
          href: "/essays/operating-manual",
        },
        {
          image: { src: "/covers/estimate.jpg", alt: "A printed estimate" },
          title: "Writing an estimate you can defend line by line",
          href: "/essays/estimates",
        },
      ]}
    />
  );
}

Props

type PickedPost = {
  image: PostImage;
  title: string;
  href: string;
};

type PostImage = {
  src: string;
  alt: string;
};

Behavior notes

• Rows carry a thumbnail and a title only. There is no date, category or excerpt, which is what lets twelve of them sit on a page without turning into a feed.
• Each row is a whole Link, so the thumbnail and the title are one hit target rather than two.
• The thumbnail is a fixed h-24 w-40 box with the image absolutely positioned inside it, so rows keep the same height whatever aspect ratio the source image has.
• Hovering a row eases the image up in scale and moves the title to the accent colour, both through a named group/blog64. The scale is wrapped in motion-safe, so it holds still for anyone who asked for reduced motion.
• The grid is one column below md and two above it, flowing in reading order rather than down each column.