Plate
The picture takes its own turn at the full measure — no float, no re-flow. The zero rung, and what you get by not choosing.
Plate
Full page preview ↗The picture takes its own turn at the full measure — no float, no re-flow. The zero rung, and the arrangement you get by not choosing one.
A plate is the picture given its own turn in the flow. The column keeps its measure, the text keeps its rhythm, and the reader stops at the picture on the way past rather than reading around it.
Nothing here is doing anything clever, which is the point: a figure that needs no arrangement should not be given one.
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<img src="/assets/img/everlasting.jpg" alt="A field of colour, laid down in oil and cold wax" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="img-fluid mk-rounded-md">
<figcaption>Everlasting, 2026.</figcaption>
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<p>A plate is the picture given its own turn in the flow. The column keeps its measure, the text keeps its rhythm, and the reader stops at the picture on the way past rather than reading around it.</p>
<p>Nothing here is doing anything clever, which is the point: a figure that needs no arrangement should not be given one.</p>
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</section>arrangement: plate
image: /assets/img/everlasting.jpg
alt: A field of colour, laid down in oil and cold wax
caption: Everlasting, 2026.
body: <p>A plate is the picture given its own turn in the flow. The column keeps its measure, the text keeps its rhythm, and the reader stops at the picture on the way past rather than reading around it.</p><p>Nothing here is doing anything clever, which is the point: a figure that needs no arrangement should not be given one.</p>When to reach for it
Reach for a plate when the picture deserves a stop. It is the arrangement with the fewest opinions: the column keeps its measure above and below, the reader looks up from the sentence, looks at the photograph, and comes back to a line exactly as long as the one they left.
How it works
Nothing floats and nothing is pulled. A figure is already a block at the width of the column it is in, so a plate is what the browser does when the system stays out of the way. The only rules it carries are the shared ones — the image fills the column, the caption sits under it at the small size.
Where it steps down
None, and that is worth stating plainly: a plate is the arrangement every other one will fall back TO. It works at every band width, which is why the axis defaults here when an unknown value arrives from the CMS.