The 58%-wide/no-muted-bg rewrite left a large visible gap between
the photo and the quote on wide viewports, and its very wide 4.9:1
photo crop needed heavy object-cover zooming to fill a narrower
column. Reverted to the exact structure already shipped and working
on /not-found (w-[45%] column, 40px edge gradient into bg-muted) —
the only real change kept is a fixed h- instead of min-h-, which is
what actually fixed the original height-mismatch complaint.
Also re-cropped the photo twice: first to match 404-testimonial-
photo.jpg's 2.65:1 aspect ratio (avoids the aggressive cropping/zoom
a too-wide source needs to fill a taller column), then pushed the
top edge down further after finding the crop still included a few
residual pixels of a cream/shadow boundary line from the source
mockup — invisible in a downscaled preview but a visible seam once
the browser scales the 126px-tall source up 2-3x via object-cover.
Also overflows the image 4px past its container (-inset-1 instead of
inset-0) as a defensive measure against sub-pixel gaps in general.
Marco
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