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Card

Cards are surfaces that display content and actions on a single topic. They should be easy to scan for relevant and actionable information. Elements, like text and images, should be placed on them in a way that indicates hierarchy.

This is a card

Anatomy

Legend

  1. Card container
  2. Card border
  3. Card shadow

Usage guidelines

Padding

When using the card component, text content should have padding, and the image should be full bleed to the container.


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Card Title

Simple paragraph about this picture.


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Card Title

Simple paragraph about this picture.


Specs

Size

Cards will take up the content width and height or can be set to take on the container full width and height.


Component Checklist

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Accessibility

Visual information required to identify components and states (except inactive components) has a contrast ratio to meet WCAG 2.0 level AA. This exclude text contrast requirements. Unless disabled text should always be accessbile.

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States are defined

Includes all interactive states that are applicable (hover, down, focus, keyboard focus, disabled).

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Specs are defined

Sizing, spacing, and other visual styles have been outline in documentation and the coded component has been VQA to match

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Works with all supported color themes

Considerations have been made to think in darkmode, lightmode, button themes and other applicable themes

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Options are defined

Includes relevant options (variant, style, size, orientation, optional iconography, decorations, selection, error state, etc.)

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Behaviors are defined

Includes guidelines for keyboard focus, layout (wrapping, truncation, overflow), animation, interactions, etc.

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Design component created

A equivalent design component as been created matching as best as possible to properties found in the coded component.

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All web screen sizes

Component can scale for all platforms mobile, tablet, and desktop.

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Works on Homepage sizes

Component has an opinion on how it scales on Homepage columns and other modular layouts.

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Works in apps

Component can be used in iOS and Andriod or has an equivalent app component

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Keyboard interactions

Follows WCAG 2.0 standards for keyboard accessibility guidelines and includes a description of the keyboard interactions.

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Design tokens

All design attributes (color, typography, layout, animation, etc.) are available as design tokens.

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Web Vitals

Meets minimum requirements to ensure minimal impact to Web vitals. (Skeleton loads, Animations, Avoid layout shift, etc.)