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Blog index layouts: a featured hero post with a responsive post grid, and an editorial list with larger typography.

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Aurora Journal

Latest from the journal

Essays on design systems, engineering, and the craft of calm software.

Featured

Engineering

Designing for density: how we rebuilt the Aurora dashboard grid

Eighteen months of customer sessions taught us that power users don't want less on screen — they want better hierarchy. This is the system that got us there.

Amara OkaforJul 10, 2026 · 12 min read

Design systems

A practical guide to design tokens at scale

Naming, aliasing, and the governance that keeps forty squads on one palette.

PNPriya Natarajan · Jul 8, 2026 · 9 min read

Engineering

Shipping dark mode without shipping regressions

Semantic tokens, visual tests, and a two-week bake kept 214 screens honest.

MCMarcus Chen · Jul 2, 2026 · 7 min read

Customer stories

How Northwind cut onboarding time by 40%

The retail analytics team replaced four internal tools with one workspace.

EFElena Fischer · Jun 26, 2026 · 6 min read

Accessibility

The anatomy of an accessible data table

Focus order, header scopes, and the screen-reader script we test each release.

SRSofia Ramos · Jun 19, 2026 · 11 min read

Product

Aurora 2.4: workflows, webhooks, and a faster editor

Automations graduate from beta, plus a rebuilt canvas that renders 3× faster.

DODaniel Osei · Jun 12, 2026 · 5 min read

Growth

Pricing experiments we ran so you don't have to

A year of experiments on trials, seats, and annual switches — with raw numbers.

HBHannah Blake · Jun 5, 2026 · 8 min read

Featured grid

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A featured hero post above a responsive three-column post grid.

The Aurora Journal

Notes on building calm software

Long-form writing from the team — published monthly, no fluff, no filler.

EngineeringJul 10, 202612 min read

Designing for density: how we rebuilt the Aurora dashboard grid

Eighteen months of customer sessions taught us that power users don't want less on screen — they want better hierarchy. This is the system that got us there.

AOAmara Okafor

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Design systemsJul 8, 20269 min read

A practical guide to design tokens at scale

Naming is governance: aliases, semantic layers, and the review rules that let forty squads ship from one palette without collisions.

PNPriya Natarajan

Read article

AccessibilityJun 19, 202611 min read

The anatomy of an accessible data table

Focus order, header scopes, and the screen-reader walkthrough we run on every release. Accessible tables are not harder — they are decided earlier.

SRSofia Ramos

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GrowthJun 5, 20268 min read

Pricing experiments we ran so you don't have to

Twelve months of experiments on trials, seat tiers, and annual switching — including the two tests that backfired and what they taught us.

HBHannah Blake

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Editorial list

light

An editorial list layout with larger typography and horizontal cards.

API Reference

Catalog metadata for this block. Install copies the source into your project.

npx cronus-ui add blog

Field	Type	Default	Description
`slug`*	`string`	`"blog"`	Registry item id. Passed to cronus-ui add.
`name`*	`string`	`"Blog"`	Display name shown in the gallery.
`description`*	`string`	`"Blog index layouts: a featured hero post with a responsive post grid, and an editorial list with larger typography."`	Short summary of what the block covers.
`variants`	`{ id: string; name: string; description: string }[]`	`["grid", "list"]`	Alternate layouts. Install a look with npx cronus-ui add <slug>--<id>. Omitted when the block has a single default.

Variants

Every published look for this block.

Id	Name	Description
`grid`	Featured grid	A featured hero post above a responsive three-column post grid.
`list`	Editorial list	An editorial list layout with larger typography and horizontal cards.