"Editorial Card Meta"
Category labels inside an article card are structured metadata for scanning.
Should flag
"A Single Kicker Still Flags"
One tracked uppercase label above one heading is enough. No repetition required.
"Standard Tracking Kicker"
Uppercase at 12px with 0.08em tracking is the most common authored kicker and must flag.
Preview sequence
"Kicker Above An H3"
Subsection headings get no eyebrow either.
Access window
"Kicker Above An H4"
The ban runs down to h4.
"Sub Hero Heading"
A 32px h1 is below hero scale, so this pair belongs to the general ban.
"Small Caps Kicker"
Small-caps styling is the same label in a different costume.
Field studies
"Heading Role Kicker"
Elements carrying a heading role are headings for this rule.
Device walkthrough
"Relative Kicker Ceiling"
A 15px tracked label over a 44px heading is as small, relative to it, as a 12px one over a 32px heading.
Hear from our client
"Eyebrow In A Framer Wrapper"
The label's type lives on a p inside a bare div, and the heading leads its own wrapper.
Practical agency support
"Section Title In A Panel"
A section's own h2 in a painted side panel is no card title, and its eyebrow still flags.
Beyond plans
"Display Title In A Band"
An h3 set at display size across a feature band is a section title too, and its eyebrow still flags.
Early adopter rate
"Plain Label Over A Large Card Title"
A tracked label set as plain text over a 26px title in a painted panel is the panel's eyebrow and still flags.
What we offer
"Pill In Flow Over A Large Card Title"
A filled pill in the panel's flow over a 26px title reads as the panel's eyebrow too, and still flags.
Analytics
"Absolute Eyebrow In A Card"
An eyebrow placed absolutely inside the card's padding, in the card's colour, is no badge, and it still flags over a 40px title.
Should pass
"Breadcrumb Trail Outside Nav"
A path with separators is wayfinding, not a kicker, even without a nav wrapper.
"Dateline Above Headline"
Editorial category-and-date meta lines are content metadata.
"Figure Caption Label"
"Limitation Of Liability"
Legal and document numbering identifies the clause; it is not decoration.
"Indemnification Clause"
Statutory references keep their marker.
"Chapter Numbering Passes"
Spelled-out chapter numbering is document structure, like legal numbering.
"Application Panel Context"
Context labels inside application panels describe state, not decoration.
"Page Title After Nav"
A navigation landmark preceding the page title is chrome, not a kicker.
"48%"
Growth yoyStat callouts put the small label below the number. That direction is legal.
"Sentence Case Lead In"
Not uppercase, not small-caps: an ordinary standfirst.
"Label Too Large For Its Heading"
A 15px label over a 24px heading reads as a subheading, not a kicker.
"Untracked Caps Label"
Uppercase without tracking lacks the kicker styling signature.
"Intentional Brand Label"
Deliberate brand systems can opt out with an explicit marker.
"Hero Owned By Hero Rule"
Hero-scale h1 eyebrows stay with hero-eyebrow-chip; this rule stands down.
"Garden Suite"
Category labels inside sibling cards are metadata for comparison.
"Sea Loft"
The label is useful because the user is scanning sibling cards.
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Step 01
"Step Indicator"
Step indicators in ordered flows are sequence markers.
The Future Media
"Press Card Source"
A white press card names its source over the headline; the label is the card's metadata, as it is in an article card.
Most popular
"Badge On A Pricing Card"
A badge straddling the top edge of a pricing card names the card, not the section, at a 24px title.