Cover Plate

One photograph across the entire first screen with the text sitting on it. The work here is in the scrim: a two-stop gradient weighted toward the corner the text occupies, so the headline keeps its contrast without the picture turning into grey mud.

It includes a small script that samples the image behind the text box and reports the contrast ratio you are actually getting, so the scrim is set once per photograph instead of guessed at. Four text positions are provided: bottom left, bottom centre, dead centre, and a lower third on a slab. Art direction is built in through source elements, so portrait screens get their own crop rather than a wide landscape shot cropped down to sky.

This suits a hotel, a restaurant, a builder, anyone with a single photograph worth the whole screen. It is the wrong choice if your picture is busy across the middle, because no scrim rescues an image with detail everywhere. It is also wrong if your headline runs long. Past about eight words the text starts eating the photograph you paid for.