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Card Catalogue FAQ

Questions filed like a library card catalogue: pull a topic's drawer and its index cards rise out of it; lift a card to read the answer on its ruled face.

The prompt

Written for the variant you picked above: Oak

Build an FAQ for many questions sorted by topic, styled as a library card catalogue. The topics are drawer fronts in a wooden cabinet (a darker frame with 6px gaps; each front has a vertical grain made from repeating gradients, a brass label plate with the topic in serif small caps and its count in mono, and a brass half-ring handle). The fronts are a tablist; the chosen drawer is 'pulled': it moves 5px toward you, scales 2.5% and casts a shadow onto the cabinet. Under the cabinet, the drawer's inside: a dark tray with shadowed side walls. Its index cards stand in it as a stack of cream cards showing only their heading row — a red mono call number ('BIL 02') and the question in serif. Changing drawer re-mounts the cards so they rise out of the tray, staggered 55ms. Opening a card (button with aria-expanded) lifts it 3px with a deeper shadow, draws the red header rule under the question and reveals its face with a grid-rows transition: the answer is set on blue ruled lines whose spacing equals the line height, so the text sits on the rules like a typed card. One card is open at a time. Arrow keys move between drawers; #billing and #billing-2 deep-link to a drawer and a card. Selected variant — Oak: theme="paper" (oak): light oak drawer fronts and cabinet on a warm paper page (#f3efe7).

Notes

Interaction
Choose a drawer (click or ←/→) to see its cards; open a card to read its answer. Deep links open a drawer and card.
Motion
Drawer pull 420ms; cards rise 560ms staggered 55ms; card lift and face reveal 420–480ms.
Accessibility
Drawers are tabs with roving tabindex controlling one tabpanel; cards are headings containing buttons with aria-expanded/aria-controls; closed faces are inert. The call numbers are decorative. Reduced motion removes the rise and lift.
Responsive
Drawers wrap to as many columns as fit (two under 480px); card headings stack the call number above the question.

Featured

01Glassbreak ButtonA solid plate that fractures from one impact point, cracks racing outward as the shards drift apart.04Liquid GlassA capsule of glass that bends what's behind it, carries a specular highlight around its rim toward your pointer, and squashes like a drop of liquid when pressed.07Phosphor Glass ButtonA liquid-glass pill that senses you coming: its rim light turns to face the cursor and the pill leans in to meet it.08Iris ShutterAn async button with a camera iris for a status light — blades close and turn while it works, then open onto the result.
81Atmosphere CardSmoked-glass link cards: colour pooled in the corners, slow contour currents underneath, a field that leans toward you.93Eclipse Event CardAn editorial event plate with an oversized date and an orbital eclipse bleeding in from the right, alive with slow drift.94Specimen CardAn object mounted under glass: hover lifts the pane with a sweep of reflection and swings out a paper catalogue tag.
95Silk FieldDomain-warped light that pours like liquid silk, with an optional glass lens that refracts the flow under your cursor.106IsobarA living weather map — contour lines traced over a drifting pressure field, with your cursor as a system of its own.
151Prompt ComposerA chat composer where attached files tuck into its top edge like tabs in a folder — they rise from behind it when added and sink back when removed. Send turns into stop while the reply streams.157Aura FieldA writing field where colour only exists while the AI is touching your text: the edge becomes a turning band of light and the words are rewritten in place, one by one, out of a soft blur.
205Halftone CTAA tall CTA banner where slow gold paint drifts beneath a fixed halftone grid, visible only through the dots.
212Nocturne Sign-inA single quiet column on near-black with a breathing seam of frost light behind it — email, password, magic link, nothing more.222Sigil Sign-inA split sign-in whose left half grows a geometric mark from your email — the same address always draws the same sigil.
275Voices CarouselA testimonial exhibition: one large quote at a time on frosted glass, crossfading between voices without ever resizing.
279Feral TitleA brutal condensed wordmark — heartbeat in the dark, letters slam in, a gash tears through and the word bleeds.
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