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Blueprint Card

A spec card drawn like a technical drawing: frame, dimension lines and callouts trace themselves in, and hovering a spec lights its leader.

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Design a specification card as an engineering blueprint. The card is deep navy with a faint 20px graph-paper grid and a 6px radius. When 35% of it enters the viewport (IntersectionObserver, once), its linework draws itself in a sequence: the title-block frame first (a rect plus two rules, 1.1s and 0.7s with a 0.8s delay, using stroke-dasharray/dashoffset on pathLength=1 with vector-effect: non-scaling-stroke), then every stroke in the supplied drawing (1.4s, symmetric ease), then numbered callout leaders scale in from the right, staggered 120ms apart. Below the drawing is a spec table in a mono face: numbered circular badges, small-caps keys in a dim blue, values in pale blue, dashed row dividers. Hovering or focusing a row lights its callout leader on the drawing bright white and highlights the row, so the table and drawing are visibly linked. Under reduced motion everything is simply drawn.

Notes

Interaction
Draws once on scroll into view. Hover/focus a spec row to highlight its callout leader.
Motion
Frame 1.1s, rules 0.7s (+0.8s), drawing 1.4s (+0.5s), leaders 0.5s staggered from 1.6s.
Accessibility
The drawing and leaders are aria-hidden; the specs are a real <dl> in the DOM, and rows are focusable so the linked highlight works from the keyboard. Reduced motion shows the finished drawing.
Responsive
Fluid up to 26rem; the drawing keeps its 16:10 aspect.
On touch
Draw-in is scroll-triggered; the row highlight works on tap-focus.

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