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Sheet 5 Pattern library · atlas of 40 plates

UI Patterns

A UI pattern library built for coding agents. 40 patterns, each shipping a copy-paste prompt that rebuilds it inside your own codebase — plus a live preview and the source behind it.

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Every pattern, three ways

Preview

The pattern running live in an isolated frame, in whichever theme you are reading in.

Source

Its markup, styles and behaviour, plus a single runnable file carrying its own palette.

Prompt

A written spec that rebuilds the pattern from scratch — including why each decision is the way it is. Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, or any coding agent.

The prompts are the point. Each one is written to survive being handed to an agent with no other context: it names the surfaces the pattern belongs on, spells out the constraint that makes it work, and calls out the failure it exists to prevent. Nothing here is a dependency you install.

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All patterns

40 patterns
Pl. 01 · B4

Data displayAdded 2026-08-11

Windowed schedule grid

Rows of resources against a fixed time window, where each block is sized by its overlap with the window rather than by its own duration.

scheduletimelinegridflexbox
Pl. 02 · B4

Data displayAdded 2026-08-11

Benchmark progress bar

Places a raw figure on a scale of external benchmarks instead of printing it plain.

progressbenchmarkscss-onlydata-viz
Pl. 03 · B4

Data displayAdded 2026-08-11

Cross-highlight matrix

A two-axis lookup table with both headers sticky, hover lighting the full row and column at once, and a durable click-to-pin selection for touch.

tablematrixstickyaccessibility
Pl. 04 · B4

Data displayAdded 2026-08-11

Left-truncating paths

Shortens a long path by dropping whole segments from the left, because the tail is what tells two paths apart.

truncationpathstext-overflowbreadcrumbs
Pl. 05 · B4

Data displayUpdatedAdded 2026-08-21

Shape-mark sequence

A sequence compressed into a row of small marks whose shape carries the state.

steppersparklineseriestruncation
Pl. 06 · B4

Data displayAdded 2026-08-21

Linked month bars

A month-by-month volume timeline built from plain divs where every aggregate row links to the filtered view that produced it.

timelinedrill-downcss-onlydata-viz
Pl. 07 · B4

Data displayAdded 2026-08-21

Glass vial meter

A vertical potion-vial meter whose liquid fills a wide bulb first and then rises into a narrow neck — all CSS, no images.

meterskeuomorphiccss-onlyreduced-motion
Pl. 08 · B4

Data displayAdded 2026-09-12

Partitioned stage bar

Progress for work with several possible endings, drawn as a census rather than a fraction.

progressstacked-barbatchlegend
Pl. 09 · B4

Data displayAdded 2026-09-12

Term-by-term derivation

A computed figure shown with the audit trail behind it — the number is the product and the derivation is the receipt.

explainabilitycalculatordisclosureformula
Pl. 10 · B4

Data displayUpdatedAdded 2026-09-12

Plan preview tree

A dry run shown as a before-and-after tree with counts now, after, and the difference.

dry-rundifftreepreview
Pl. 11 · B4

Data displayAdded 2026-09-12

Uniform slot shell

One card shell many independent sources render through, where the shell does the capping.

dashboardwidgetscardsempty-state
Pl. 12 · B5

LayoutUpdatedAdded 2026-08-11

Object-shaped cards

Where a record stands for a physical thing, the card is drawn as that thing — nine variations in pure gradients.

cardscss-onlygradientsvariations
Pl. 13 · B5

LayoutAdded 2026-08-11

Adaptive tile mosaic

A container with no artwork draws one from up to four member tiles, grid tracks following tile count.

css-gridcss-onlyno-assetscards
Pl. 14 · B5

LayoutUpdatedAdded 2026-08-11

Ground-scrimmed artwork

Text printed over unreviewed artwork, scrimmed to an alpha that can be written down rather than guessed.

layoutcss-onlygradientscontrast
Pl. 15 · B5

LayoutUpdatedAdded 2026-08-21

Hairline stat strip

Stat tiles joined by hairlines that are grid gap, not borders.

statscss-gridcss-onlyhairline
Pl. 16 · B5

LayoutAdded 2026-08-21

Annotated transcript

Conversation bubbles with a speaker-colored spine and a fixed metadata gutter.

conversationgutterstatus-rolescontrast
Pl. 17 · B5

LayoutAdded 2026-08-21

Cork notice board

Pinned paper notes on a cork board where every texture is layered CSS gradients.

skeuomorphicgradientsno-assetscards
Pl. 18 · B5

LayoutUpdatedAdded 2026-09-12

Hotspot marker layer

Markers at percentage coordinates over a fixed-aspect picture, turning into a list when too narrow.

hotspotspointer-eventsaspect-ratiocontainer-query
Pl. 19 · B5

LayoutAdded 2026-09-12

Line-art empty states

Inline drawings for empty surfaces stroked in the inherited text colour.

empty-statesvgcurrentcolorillustration
Pl. 20 · B5

LayoutAdded 2026-09-12

Column-flow wall

Cards flowing down columns instead of across rows, with the reading-order cost stated plainly.

masonrycolumnsbreak-insidereading-order
Pl. 21 · A5

InteractionAdded 2026-08-11

Scroll edge shadows

An inset shadow shown only on the edge that has more content behind it.

scrollingaffordancelistsoverflow
Pl. 22 · A5

InteractionAdded 2026-08-11

Frozen-batch deck

A one-card-at-a-time review queue whose batch is snapshotted at mount.

queuereview-flowanimationkeyboard
Pl. 23 · A5

InteractionUpdatedAdded 2026-08-11

Controls beside the anchor

Per-card controls over a fully-linked card without nesting interactive elements in the anchor.

cardsaccessibilitykeyboardfocus-within
Pl. 24 · A5

InteractionUpdatedAdded 2026-08-11

Pluggable canvas visualizer

One canvas, a registry of draw modes, each mode owning its entire frame.

canvasvisualizationregistryanimation
Pl. 25 · A5

InteractionUpdatedAdded 2026-08-21

Roving-grid board

A dense grid of state cells that is one tab stop with arrow-key navigation.

keyboardroving-tabindexaccessibilitystates
Pl. 26 · A5

InteractionAdded 2026-08-21

Section rail

Sticky vertical rail on wide screens, wrapping tab row on narrow ones, from the same markup.

navigationtocresponsivearia-current
Pl. 27 · A5

InteractionAdded 2026-08-21

Ledge-press buttons

Buttons on a solid ledge shadow that travel down onto it when pressed.

buttonsskeuomorphicpresstokens
Pl. 28 · A5

InteractionUpdatedAdded 2026-09-12

Guarded control

A blocked control stays focusable, carries the reason as text, and refuses in its handler.

aria-disableddisabledpreconditionskeyboard
Pl. 29 · A5

InteractionUpdatedAdded 2026-09-12

Polled job card

One card for every state a background job passes through.

progresspollingbackground-jobindeterminate
Pl. 30 · A5

InteractionAdded 2026-09-12

Entry-transform motion

FLIP-style motion between two rendered states when the old DOM is already gone.

animationtransitionsreflowreduced-motion
Pl. 31 · A5

InteractionUpdatedAdded 2026-09-12

Slot-first picker

Assignment that starts at the destination slot, then narrows the catalogue.

assignmentpickeraria-pressedfiltering
Pl. 32 · C5

FormsAdded 2026-08-28

Undo toast

A destructive action with no confirm dialog, held behind a toast and committed when it expires.

undotoastdestructivearia-live
Pl. 33 · C5

FormsNewAdded 2026-09-28

Blast-radius confirm

A confirm dialog that names everything a delete cascades and blocks dismissal while it runs.

confirm-dialogdestructivecascadedialog-element
Pl. 34 · C5

FormsUpdatedAdded 2026-08-28

Batch action bar

A bar that exists only while something is selected, states the count in words, caps at five actions.

selectionbulk-actionstoolbarcheckbox
Pl. 35 · C5

FormsAdded 2026-09-12

Filtered to zero

The three empty states a list actually has, written as three different screens.

empty-statefiltersearchzero-results
Pl. 36 · C5

FormsAdded 2026-09-12

Parsed query chips

A search box that echoes back how it read the text as removable chips.

searchquery-syntaxchipsfacets
Pl. 37 · C5

FormsAdded 2026-09-12

Compound-value picker

One grouped select whose value carries both the kind and the id.

selectoptgrouppolymorphicforms
Pl. 38 · B6

ColorUpdatedAdded 2026-08-11

Ground-referenced color

Colors solved against the page's own ground token so they invert correctly between themes.

colorcontrastcolor-mixaccessibility
Pl. 39 · B6

ColorUpdatedAdded 2026-08-21

Single-property color variants

One custom property carries the hue; border, fill, spine and dot derive from it.

colorcolor-mixcustom-propertiestheming
Pl. 40 · B6

ColorUpdatedAdded 2026-09-12

Controls on an unknown fill

Opaque controls, a gradient-darkened fill, and a two-tone focus ring on a surface whose colour arrives from outside.

contrastbrand-colorfocus-ringopacity