Case-link options

Contact sheet first — all six at a glance, rest beside hover. The full-size cards in context follow below.

pillvalue & step
rest View case --ink #161616 — L* 7.2
1 View case #212121 — L* 12.7, +5.5 · barely there
2 View case #262626 — L* 15.2, +7.9 · one clear grade
3 View case #2e2e2e — L* 18.9, +11.7 · a touch more
4 View case --ink-2 #4a4a4a — L* 31.5, +24.2 · the bench default
5 View case --ink-3 #6e6e6e — L* 46.4, +39.2 · what the live CTA does today
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A View View ring + label — current
B View case View case text, rule sweeps in
C View case View case solid pill
D View case View case outlined pill, fills
E View case View case mono caption; the card is the target
F View case View case rule across the card

Each option in its real card context. Left column is at rest, right column has the hover state forced on with .is-hover, which mirrors every :hover rule — so one screenshot shows both. Tokens are copied from index.html, so nothing here invents a value.

A

Current — arrow in a ring

The control. Ring fills to --ink-2, arrow nudges 3px, label and its underline darken. The 44px ring carries the touch target alone.

rest

ViewRyt — a redesign for 3× conversion

A D2C supplement landing page was losing money on ads. I rebuilt it with identical copy.

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ViewRyt — a redesign for 3× conversion

A D2C supplement landing page was losing money on ads. I rebuilt it with identical copy.

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B

Text, with a rule that sweeps in

Ring dropped. The underline is a drawn line that grows from the left on hover instead of a static border, so the motion is the affordance. Quietest option; keeps the eye on the headline.

rest

ViewRyt — a redesign for 3× conversion

A D2C supplement landing page was losing money on ads. I rebuilt it with identical copy.

View case
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ViewRyt — a redesign for 3× conversion

A D2C supplement landing page was losing money on ads. I rebuilt it with identical copy.

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C

Solid pill — the existing CTA idiom

Reuses .cta a verbatim, so the site would have exactly one button shape. Loudest: three filled pills stacked down the work section start competing with the closing CTA, which is meant to be the only one.

rest

ViewRyt — a redesign for 3× conversion

A D2C supplement landing page was losing money on ads. I rebuilt it with identical copy.

View case
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ViewRyt — a redesign for 3× conversion

A D2C supplement landing page was losing money on ads. I rebuilt it with identical copy.

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D

Outlined pill that fills on hover

Same pill geometry as C but hollow at rest, so it stays secondary to the closing CTA and still fills to ink under the cursor.

rest

ViewRyt — a redesign for 3× conversion

A D2C supplement landing page was losing money on ads. I rebuilt it with identical copy.

View case
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ViewRyt — a redesign for 3× conversion

A D2C supplement landing page was losing money on ads. I rebuilt it with identical copy.

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E

Whole card is the target

The link demotes to a mono caption and the card takes the affordance — it lifts on hover. Biggest hit area by far, and it matches the tile behaviour in the closing grid. Costs the explicit button.

rest

ViewRyt — a redesign for 3× conversion

A D2C supplement landing page was losing money on ads. I rebuilt it with identical copy.

View case
hover

ViewRyt — a redesign for 3× conversion

A D2C supplement landing page was losing money on ads. I rebuilt it with identical copy.

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F

Rule across the card

The link spans the measure as a rule with the arrow parked at the far end; on hover the rule goes to ink and the arrow runs. Reads as "continue" rather than as a button, and it gives the card a baseline.

rest

ViewRyt — a redesign for 3× conversion

A D2C supplement landing page was losing money on ads. I rebuilt it with identical copy.

View case
hover

ViewRyt — a redesign for 3× conversion

A D2C supplement landing page was losing money on ads. I rebuilt it with identical copy.

View case