LatestDispatchBanner rebuilt from the three-column horizontal row into
an editorial card that reads as something to engage with, not a
database row.
New layout:
- Meta row (1fr / auto): tracked 'LATEST DISPATCH · {relative}' +
kind pill on the left; 'All dispatches →' tracked link on the right.
- 30px serif headline beneath, max-width 720px so a real title can
breathe across two lines if needed.
- Body grid (1fr / auto): the prose on the left, an author block on
the right. Prose splits into two paragraphs — p1 in primary text,
p2 in muted (--on-surface-variant) ending in an ellipsis if the
source extends beyond what was rendered. Author block has a small
'Jonathan / team' stack alongside a 36px serif italic initial in
an ink-coloured circle, plus a terracotta 'Read full dispatch →'
CTA with a 1px terracotta bottom border.
Kind pills get per-kind tinted backgrounds (decision → indigo, update
→ copper, behind_the_scenes → walnut, note → terracotta) matching the
established kind-pigment mapping.
splitExcerpt helper added to src/lib/format.ts:
- Prefers a markdown \\n\\n paragraph break (admin-controllable);
- Falls back to the first sentence boundary past character 120;
- Returns [first, null] when no good split exists — banner renders
just p1 in that case and skips p2 entirely.
Admin: the excerpt field on /admin?tab=dispatches grows from a
single-line input to a 4-row textarea with the spec'd helper text
nudging admins to write 2-4 sentences with a blank-line break.
Seed: the decision dispatch's excerpt rewritten as the spec's
two-paragraph block so the new layout has real content to render.
Body stays unchanged.
Mobile: the body collapses to single-column; the author block jumps
above the prose with order: -1, so the byline reads first on small
screens and the text flows freely below it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jonathan Hvid
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