Author Note Aside

A first-person break-in-voice from the writer — indented, dashed-border margin note with a small avatar/initial and name, reading like a personal comment rather than an editorial callout or an enlarged quote from the body text.

Long-form · Astro · Subscription · commercial licence · v1.0.2 · updated 2026-10-15 · Live demo

Install

velocityx add author-note-aside

Subscription component. Run velocityx login with your key first — get one.

---
import AuthorNoteAside from '../components/velocity/author-note-aside/AuthorNoteAside.astro';
---
<AuthorNoteAside />

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
name	string	required	—
label	string	'A note from the author'	Small label above the name — defaults to “A note from the author”.
avatarSrc	string	—	—
avatarAlt	string	—	—

Files written

velocityx drops these into your project:

• components/velocity/author-note-aside/AuthorNoteAside.astro

Peer dependencies

None.

Theming

Colours come from the primary-* / accent-* Tailwind scales, so this drops into a project that is not Velocity without dragging our brand in. Install the contract once:

velocityx theme

Then set your whole brand in one place — raw RGB channels, not hex (a hex here silently breaks every opacity variant):

:root {
  --vx-brand: custom;
  --vx-primary-600: 220 38 38;
}

There is no component-level font-family anywhere in the library — your font cascade wins.

Licence

Commercial, for the duration of an active Velocity X subscription. The source is served by the licence-gated endpoint, never by the public CDN.