Article

The article body: the featured image, the header (eyebrow, tags, title, byline and date), article.content in a reading column, a share row, and an optional previous/next pair. It is the only section that can render an article's text, so it is present on every article template whether or not you touch its settings. The one judgment call is the previous/next pair, because the theme also ships blog-article-nav, which does the same job with thumbnails and dates. Turn one of the two off.

Section settings

• Title display size. None — standard heading · Display S · Display M, default None — standard heading. Render the article title at the oversized display scale.
• Header alignment. Left · Center, default Left.

Display options

• Show featured image. On by default.
• Show eyebrow (blog // first tag). Off by default.
• Show date and author. On by default.
• Show tags. Off by default.
• Show share links. On by default.
• Show previous / next navigation. On by default.

Blocks

None. The section renders from its own settings.

Example use cases

A bench note, as Whirligig ships it. Title display size Display M, header alignment Left, featured image on, eyebrow on, meta on, tags on, share on, and previous/next off. The eyebrow composes the blog title with the article's first tag, so a Timbre bench note reads BENCH NOTES // METHOD above a title that scales from 3.2rem to 6.5rem. Previous/next is off here because blog-article-nav sits further down the same template and renders the same two links with thumbnails and dates.

A centred essay with no series chrome. Header alignment Center, title display size Display M, featured image on, eyebrow and tags off, meta and share on. Reach for this where articles are one-offs rather than a tagged run: with no tag to append, the eyebrow degrades to the blog name on its own, which is a label doing no work.

The short article template. Title display size None, eyebrow off, tags off, share off, previous/next on, and drop blog-article-nav and blog-posts from the template entirely. Three sections become one. The trade-off is real: the built-in pair is a direction word plus a title, with no image and no date, and it sits inside the 46rem reading column rather than spanning the page.

Notes

It has no colour scheme and no padding settings. The section paints on the body ground and takes --section-spacing for its vertical rhythm. Per-template spacing, the title clamp and the reading column are all tuned in theme-overrides.liquid under .lq-section--main, not in the editor. A merchant cannot tint an article page from the theme editor.

The reading column is 46rem and the body measure is 65ch. Wide content written into article.content, a specification table in particular, will exceed it. Give such content its own overflow-x: auto wrapper in the article HTML; nothing in the section does it for you.

The hero is cropped. It is capped at max-height: 68vh with object-fit: cover, so a portrait featured image loses its top and bottom. Shoot or crop article covers landscape. The hero also uses a raw image_tag rather than {% render 'responsive-image' %} and emits no sizes, so the browser resolves sizes to 100vw and picks close to the 3200px candidate. Acceptable for a full-bleed hero; it would not be acceptable at any narrower width.

Show eyebrow only earns its place if articles are tagged distinctly. Three of Timbre's four bench notes carry the tag Method, so three of four eyebrows read identically. One repeated label above four different articles is worse than no label.

Show tags has a contrast defect. Tag links render at --color-text at 60% alpha, which measures 4.31:1 on the stone ground at 0.6rem. AA wants 4.5:1 for text that size. The border and the type treatment are corrected in theme-overrides.liquid; the colour is not.

The section renders no audio, and that is deliberate. On the Whirligig article template the sound layer arrives below it, in listening-rail, so a note about nitriding is followed by the instruments the note is about. A merchant who deletes that rail leaves an article page with nothing to hear, on a theme whose whole claim is that you can hear things.

Verify the hero on the live theme before submission.qa/open-findings-article-imagery.md records article pages on the demo store serving zero images while the blog index served four, with the local template correct and the live template diverged. The setting is not the problem; the deployed template was.