Treatments
Surface treatments
Surface treatments are the tonal gradients, film grain, and scrims that give dark grounds the depth of a lit film frame, used wherever a photograph is not yet available and, as scrims, over photographs that carry text.
Biographical Films
Every life holds a great story.
Hero light, layered. Tonal gradient (a soft pool of light upper right, falling to near-black) + grain + side scrim. The stand-in for the hero before a photograph is chosen.
1. Tonal light. bf-tx-hero: three soft radial pools over a warm vertical gradient.
2. Grain. bf-tx-grain: a 1px dot on a 3px grid at 6% white. Adds film texture over any dark ground.
3. Scrims. bf-tx-scrim-side (72% to 25% black, left to right) and bf-tx-scrim-top (behind a header).
4. Film frame. bf-tx-film: a 160° warm-gray gradient for a player before its poster loads.
Few get a great storyteller.
5. Panel. bf-tx-panel: a 170° gradient for menu and quote panels beside black.
6. Panel + grain. Treatments stack; grain always goes on top, under any text.
Guidelines
Provide: a container with bf-tx plus one ground class (bf-tx-hero, bf-tx-film, or bf-tx-panel); add bf-tx-grain for texture and a scrim element when text sits on top.
- Tonal light (
bf-tx-hero): the homepage hero stand-in and any large dark band that needs depth. Light pools upper right so left-aligned type sits in the darker area. - Grain (
bf-tx-grain): 1px dots on a 3px grid at 6% white. Use on tonal grounds and on the black film bands; never on the light theme or over photographs. - Scrims (
bf-tx-scrim-side,bf-tx-scrim-top): over photographs and tonal grounds wheneverwhitetext sits on them, so the copy holds 4.5:1. The top scrim sits behind a transparent header. - Film frame (
bf-tx-film): the ground of a video player before its poster loads, and of film cards awaiting a still. - Panel (
bf-tx-panel): secondary panels beside black, such as a full-screen menu's image side or a quote panel.
Order of layers, bottom to top: ground, grain, scrim, content.
Do: keep every treatment warm and neutral. Don't: tint them with amber or any color, add more than one pool of "light" per frame, animate them, or use them in place of real photography once it exists. In Wix Studio, build the grounds as section backgrounds with CSS gradients (or a single exported image), and the grain as a tiled 3px PNG at 6% opacity.
