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Ground-scrimmed artwork
Text printed over unreviewed artwork, scrimmed to an alpha that can be written down rather than guessed.
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A row of stat tiles joined by hairlines that are grid gap, not borders — the container paints the border color and the tiles paint the surface, so separators never double up or break when the row wraps — in a reporting form and in a second form where each tile is the filter for the list beneath it.
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Aug 21, 2026
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Reporting only — the figures are the whole job.
Same strip, working as the filter. Press a tile to narrow the list; press it again to clear.
Showing all 6 downloads.
<p class="hss-cap">Reporting only — the figures are the whole job.</p>
<div class="hss-strip">
<div class="hss-tile"><span class="l">Documents</span><span class="v">1,482</span><span class="s">this period</span></div>
<div class="hss-tile"><span class="l">Median time</span><span class="v">3.2s</span><span class="s">last 24h</span></div>
<div class="hss-tile"><span class="l">Clean runs</span><span class="v">98.4%</span><span class="s">no retries</span></div>
<div class="hss-tile"><span class="l">Quality score</span><span class="v none">—</span><span class="s">not rated yet</span></div>
</div>
<p class="hss-cap">Same strip, working as the filter. Press a tile to narrow the list; press it again to clear.</p>
<div class="hss-strip five" data-hss-filter>
<button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-status="All" aria-pressed="true"><span class="l">All</span><span class="v">6</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button>
<button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-status="Queued" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">Queued</span><span class="v">2</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button>
<button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-status="Downloading" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">Downloading</span><span class="v">1</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button>
<button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-status="Done" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">Done</span><span class="v">2</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button>
<button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-status="Failed" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">Failed</span><span class="v">1</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button>
</div>
<ul class="hss-list" data-hss-list>
<li data-status="Done">Bicycle drivetrain teardown<span class="st">Done</span></li>
<li data-status="Downloading">Kiln firing, part three<span class="st">Downloading</span></li>
<li data-status="Queued">Field recording — marsh at dawn<span class="st">Queued</span></li>
<li data-status="Done">Lathe restoration, episode 12<span class="st">Done</span></li>
<li data-status="Failed">Sourdough hydration tests<span class="st">Failed</span></li>
<li data-status="Queued">Bookbinding: the long stitch<span class="st">Queued</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="hss-status" data-hss-status aria-live="polite">Showing all 6 downloads.</p>Colors come from shared theme tokens — --surface, --ink, --border, --accent and friends — so this CSS carries no palette of its own. Use Runnable file to copy the tokens along with it.
.hss-strip {
display: grid;
gap: 1px;
background: var(--border);
border: 1px solid var(--border);
border-radius: var(--radius);
overflow: hidden;
grid-template-columns: 1fr;
}
@container (min-width: 21rem) { .hss-strip { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr); } }
@container (min-width: 42rem) { .hss-strip { grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr); } }
.hss-tile { background: var(--surface); padding: 14px 16px; display: grid; gap: 4px; }
.hss-tile .l { font: 500 0.8125rem/1.3 ui-monospace, monospace; letter-spacing: .06em; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--dim); }
.hss-tile .v { font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; color: var(--ink); }
.hss-tile .v.none { color: var(--dim); }
button.hss-tile[aria-pressed="true"] {
background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 14%, var(--surface));
}strip.querySelectorAll('button').forEach((tile) => {
tile.addEventListener('click', () => {
const already = tile.getAttribute('aria-pressed') === 'true'
const filter = already ? 'All' : tile.dataset.status
tiles.forEach((other) => other.setAttribute('aria-pressed', String(other.dataset.status === filter)))
items.forEach((item) => { item.hidden = filter !== 'All' && item.dataset.status !== filter })
})
})Build a strip of statistic tiles that reads as one joined instrument panel rather than a row of floating cards.
The separators between tiles must not be borders. Make the container a CSS grid with gap: 1px and give the container itself the border color as its background; each tile then paints the surface color on top. The 1px of container showing through the gap is the hairline. This is the entire pattern: real borders double where two tiles meet and leave a stray edge when auto-fit wraps the row, and a gap physically cannot do either.
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