Path · b2bdev.pathpep.com · 30 Aug 2026

Move one link, gain the fold.

Both stages are drawn at 1280 × 800 — the viewport where the catalog band is currently invisible — at the page's real measurements and typefaces. The dashed line is the fold. Everything below it, nobody sees without scrolling.

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“Forgot password?” sits between the password field and Sign In — so tabbing from the field you just finished typing in lands on it before the submit button. The catalog band starts at y=820, twenty pixels past the fold.

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fold — 1280 × 800
01 /Reworked−44px · band deleted

“Forgot password?” moves onto the password label row and comes off blue. Everything below lifts 44px. The reclaimed space carries a full-width outlined catalog button — outlined, never filled, so it stays under the cream Apply. The 200px band is gone and the frame closes on the rule that already exists.

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band deleted — frame closes on the hero rule at y=819
fold — 1280 × 800
Catalog visibility0 px48 px Fully above the fold at 1280×800, with 16px to spare. It was entirely invisible.
Page height removed−200 px The band, its negative margins, its #a2a2a2 border and the third surface treatment.
Blues on the page3 → 1 Sign In only, at #0070cc — 5.01:1 instead of the failing 3.39:1.
02 /How minimal seven treatments · hover each

Same structure throughout — Apply wide and transparent on top, the two utilities below. The only thing that changes is the stroke. They run loudest to quietest.

the ribbon, as sampled
the same twelve stops, desaturated to hairline weight
00 / where we are now
full ribbon · 1.5px · blurred bloom behind
01 / one travelling light
flat hairline · a single white segment drifts · no colour, no bloom
02 / a temperature edge
cool to warm across the stroke · completely still · nothing animates
03 / plain at rest, colour on intent
identical to the buttons below until you reach for it
04 / the palette, desaturated
all twelve stops at hairline weight · 14s drift · no bloom
05 / blue, like Sign In
both blues in one frame — this is the only way to judge it
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06 / the blue as a stroke, not a fill
ties to Sign In by colour without copying its weight · brightens on hover

My pick is 04 if you want it silent and 03 if you want a moment. 04 keeps the palette at a weight you have to look for, and is the quietest one where Apply still reads as the primary. 03 is plain until intent, then gives you the full ribbon. 01 is motion without colour. A note on 02: it is the most restrained and I built it as the floor of the ladder — but with no motion and no colour the wide button ends up looking exactly like the two utilities beneath it, which inverts the hierarchy the whole layout exists to create. I raised the base stroke on all five from 18% to 42% white for that reason; below roughly that, minimal starts costing you the hierarchy.

On 05, the blue one. Stage 05 renders Sign In above it deliberately — two filled blues in one frame is the only honest way to judge it. What you get is a page with two identical primaries: a returning distributor has to read both to find theirs. It is defensible on the grounds that they serve different people, but it spends the page's strongest signal twice. If you want the blue connection without the cost, 06 carries the same hue as a stroke — related to Sign In, clearly subordinate to it. Both blues here are #0070cc, not #008cff; the current one fails AA at 3.39:1, so shipping two of them would double a failure rather than just repeat a colour.