# Minimal Footer

> A quiet, logo-led minimal brand footer — a Fraunces display wordmark with an accent full stop, an italic hanging-quote credo, three slim data-driven link columns, a compact underline subscribe, and a hairline social bottom bar after a skeleton shimmer. Editorial identity, no glow.

- Category: Footer
- Frameworks: Vanilla, React + CSS, React + Tailwind
- Design system: Sienna
- Dark mode: yes
- Access: premium (Atheros AI Pass)
- Tags: navigation, newsletter, social
- Page: https://builder.atheros.ai/components/minimal-footer
- Preview: https://d17nmjscumqk5d.cloudfront.net/builder/templates/tpl_builder_minimal_footer/preview-9b7143d04eeb.webp

## Features

- The active browser design contract controls the footer; systems that specify `none` remain flat, and the submit button uses its changing visible label as its accessible name.
- Populated first paint: the brand block, subscribe, three nav columns, and social row ship fully rendered in the static HTML (no skeleton, no artificial fetch latency); the JS then re-renders the same content atomically over it from the in-file data arrays with no flicker
- Logo-led brand block: a crimson Tabler typography mark built at runtime beside a Fraunces display wordmark ("Kern") set at the 144 optical size with an accent full stop — the footer's whole left column
- Italic Fraunces credo beneath the wordmark with a hanging crimson opening quote and an inline closing quote — an editorial epigraph in place of a plain blurb
- Refined serif column headers: uppercase Fraunces at overline size with generous 0.18em tracking and a short hairline rule beneath each
- Compact underline subscribe with an italic serif invitation label, client-side email validation, an inline `aria-live` error line, a fake-latency "Subscribing…" state, and a green "Subscribed ✓" success morph that resets after 2.5s
- Three slim nav columns (Resources, Company, Legal) rendered from a data array with `createElement`/`textContent` — each an `aria-label`led `<nav>` landmark
- Nav link hover shifts the label to ink and slides a 1px crimson underline in via `transform: scaleX`
- Official Tabler brand social icons (Instagram, LinkedIn, X) built at runtime, with an accent tint and a soft rose wash on hover — no movement, the icon stays put
- Tidy hairline bottom bar: auto-updating copyright left, three small social icon buttons right — no status chrome, no extra badges
- Flat editorial-minimal identity: warm paper page under a white footer plate in light, warm plum-black surfaces in dark — no glows, no halos, no gradients
- One confident accent — crimson rose `#C0396B` in light, lifted rose `#E06E97` in dark — on the logo mark, subscribe pill, underline slides, and icon hovers

## Accessibility

- **Landmarks** — `<footer>` contentinfo, one `aria-label`led `<nav>` per column, `<main>` page area
- **Form label** — Visible italic `<label for="subscribe-email">` above the input
- **Validation** — `aria-live="polite"` error line referenced by `aria-describedby`, `aria-invalid` on the input
- **Social links** — `aria-label` + `rel="noopener"` per link, decorative SVGs `aria-hidden="true"`
- **Focus indicators** — Global `:focus-visible` ring, accent underline + box-shadow replacement on the input
- **Reduced motion** — `prefers-reduced-motion: reduce` disables all animations
- **Viewport** — `100dvh` for mobile-safe viewport height

## Keyboard shortcuts

- `Enter` — Submit the newsletter form

## Common questions

**Which frameworks is Minimal Footer available in?**

Minimal Footer ships as Vanilla, React + CSS and React + Tailwind — HTML, CSS, JS and React source you can copy, download or clone into Atheros AI Builder.

**Is Minimal Footer free?**

Minimal Footer is a premium component. Anyone can preview it; the source, downloads and AI customisation are included with Atheros AI Pass.

**Does Minimal Footer support dark mode?**

Yes. Minimal Footer ships light and dark themes, both drawn from the Sienna design system's tokens. Switch the preview to dark mode to compare them.

## Get the code

Preview Minimal Footer live, then sign in to copy or download the source, apply another design system, or ask the AI assistant to change it: https://builder.atheros.ai/components/minimal-footer

Every component on https://builder.atheros.ai is also reachable from Claude Code, Cursor and Codex through the Atheros MCP server (paid plans). Component index: https://builder.atheros.ai/llms-components.txt
