diff --git a/pattern-library/source/sass/06-examples/00-page.scss b/pattern-library/source/sass/06-examples/00-page.scss
index dcd7046b8..148d2b755 100644
--- a/pattern-library/source/sass/06-examples/00-page.scss
+++ b/pattern-library/source/sass/06-examples/00-page.scss
@@ -9,6 +9,85 @@
   padding: size(2) size(1);
 }
 
+/**
+ * A wider shell for an example that has to show two things beside each
+ * other, such as what a reader typed and what came back.
+ *
+ * 800px is a comfortable measure for reading a column of prose, which is
+ * what most examples are. It is far too narrow once a page puts two
+ * columns or a table of controls inside it, because the columns then
+ * halve it and every control in them collapses and truncates.
+ *
+ * Everything inside takes the full width. Prose that would otherwise run
+ * to an unreadable measure goes in c-eg-intro or c-eg-columns below,
+ * which divide the width into readable columns rather than leaving half
+ * the page empty.
+ */
+.c-eg-page--wide {
+  max-width: 1400px;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The notes an example opens with, laid across the width rather than
+ * stacked down the left of it.
+ *
+ * A wide page fits three columns of prose beside each other, so what an
+ * example has to say before it starts takes one band and the example
+ * itself is on screen without scrolling. Each column keeps a readable
+ * measure because the columns divide the width, rather than one
+ * paragraph stretching across all of it.
+ */
+.c-eg-intro {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: 1fr;
+  gap: 0 size(2);
+  margin-bottom: size(2);
+
+  @include respond-to(md) {
+    grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
+  }
+
+  @include respond-to(xl) {
+    grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
+  }
+
+  > p {
+    margin-top: 0;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The head of an example, being the logo beside the title and the line
+ * that says what the example is for.
+ *
+ * The logo sits beside the words rather than above them, because a logo
+ * on its own line costs every reader the height of it before anything
+ * they came for.
+ */
+.c-eg-masthead {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: size(0) size(3);
+  margin-bottom: size(2);
+
+  > img {
+    flex: 0 0 auto;
+  }
+
+  &__words {
+    flex: 1 1 20rem;
+
+    > :first-child {
+      margin-top: 0;
+    }
+
+    > :last-child {
+      margin-bottom: 0;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 .c-eg-page__title {
   @include make-text-heading-2();
 }
diff --git a/pattern-library/source/sass/06-examples/08-fields.scss b/pattern-library/source/sass/06-examples/08-fields.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e180cbd8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pattern-library/source/sass/06-examples/08-fields.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+/**
+ * Fields for an example that takes input, rather than one that only
+ * shows what an engine returned.
+ *
+ * Almost every example we ship reports data and asks for nothing, so the
+ * system grew a rich set of ways to display a result and nothing for a
+ * reader to type into. An example that does take input was left composing
+ * .b-input with whatever it could find, which reads as a different
+ * control on the same page. These are the two fields such an example
+ * needs, being a single line control and a multi line editor, sharing one
+ * treatment so they look like a set.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * What both fields share on top of the design system input. The border
+ * softens and the corners round, so a field reads as an area to work in
+ * rather than as a bordered rectangle, and a focus ring says which field
+ * holds the caret.
+ *
+ * The ring is on :focus-visible, so a keyboard user gets it and a
+ * pointer user clicking straight into the field does not.
+ */
+@mixin make-example-field {
+  @include make-input();
+  border-color: $colour-grey-light;
+  border-radius: $rounded;
+  background-color: $colour-grey-lighter;
+
+  &:focus-visible {
+    outline: 2px solid $colour-blue;
+    outline-offset: 1px;
+    border-color: $colour-blue;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * A single line control, being a text box or a list. Filling its
+ * container is not enough on its own, because a control in a narrow
+ * table column would collapse to the column and truncate what it holds,
+ * so it asks for a width the column has to give it.
+ */
+.c-eg-control {
+  @include make-example-field();
+  width: 100%;
+  min-width: size(11);
+}
+
+/**
+ * A table of fields, being one row for each thing a reader sets.
+ *
+ * Everything inside it is one size. The system sizes each piece for the
+ * place it usually appears, so a control carries the body size it needs
+ * standing alone in a form, and the code face is a step smaller because
+ * it usually sits inside running prose. Put the two in one row with
+ * ordinary cell text and a reader sees three sizes and reads three
+ * different things rather than one row.
+ *
+ * The control also loses its form padding, because a row of them is
+ * dense by nature and padding sized for a lone box makes the table tall
+ * enough to scroll for no reason.
+ */
+.c-eg-fields {
+  .c-eg-control,
+  .b-text--code {
+    font-size: inherit;
+  }
+
+  .c-eg-control {
+    padding: size(-3) size(-2);
+  }
+
+  /* A table aligns to the top, which is right where a cell holds a
+     paragraph and the row is as tall as the longest one. Here the tall
+     cells are controls, which centre what they hold, so a name aligned
+     to the top sits above the control beside it and nothing in the row
+     lines up. */
+  .c-eg-table__cell {
+    vertical-align: middle;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Output printed exactly as something produced it, such as a message a
+ * caller would meet or a canonical form.
+ *
+ * It scrolls sideways rather than stretching what is around it. A long
+ * line inside a bare pre widens its container, and in a page laid out in
+ * columns that pushes everything else out of shape, which is worse than
+ * a scrollbar.
+ */
+.c-eg-pre {
+  @include make-text-code();
+  background-color: $colour-grey-lighter;
+  border-radius: $rounded;
+  padding: size(0);
+  margin: 0 0 size(2);
+  max-width: 100%;
+  overflow-x: auto;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The same block for output that is prose rather than structure, such as
+ * a message. Prose is easier to read wrapped, whilst something with
+ * meaningful indentation is not, which is why this is a choice rather
+ * than the default.
+ */
+.c-eg-pre--wrap {
+  white-space: pre-wrap;
+  word-break: break-word;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A row of controls that belong together, such as a label, a list to
+ * choose from and the button that acts on it.
+ *
+ * c-eg-button-row sets margins and nothing else, which is all a row of
+ * buttons needs, and it leaves a control filling the line on its own so
+ * the button beside it falls underneath. This lays the row out.
+ */
+.c-eg-controls {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: size(0);
+  margin: size(1) 0 size(2);
+
+  /* A control in a row sizes to what it holds rather than filling the
+     line, which is the opposite of what it does in a table cell or a
+     column, so the row stays a row. */
+  .c-eg-control {
+    width: auto;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * A multi line editor for something structured, such as a script, a
+ * configuration block or a request body. It adds to the single line
+ * control only what many lines need.
+ */
+.c-eg-editor {
+  @include make-example-field();
+  @include make-text-code();
+
+  width: 100%;
+  min-height: 340px;
+
+  /* make-input sets 1.2, which is right for one line of prose and too
+     tight for many lines of indented code. */
+  line-height: 1.5;
+
+  /* Only the height can be dragged. A reader widening one editor in a
+     two column layout would push the other out of the grid. */
+  resize: vertical;
+
+  /* The formats these examples show are indented two spaces, so a tab
+     that jumps eight columns makes pasted content look wrong. */
+  tab-size: 2;
+
+  /* Lines scroll sideways rather than wrap, because wrapping a
+     structured format hides the indentation that carries its meaning. */
+  white-space: pre;
+  overflow: auto;
+}
diff --git a/pattern-library/source/sass/06-examples/09-result.scss b/pattern-library/source/sass/06-examples/09-result.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3475355b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pattern-library/source/sass/06-examples/09-result.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/**
+ * The answer an example exists to give, at the weight that deserves.
+ *
+ * An example computes one thing, and everything else on its page is
+ * there to explain that one thing. So the answer is what a reader looks
+ * for first and what they come back to after every change they make.
+ * Reported at the size of ordinary body text it reads as one more
+ * paragraph among the paragraphs explaining it, and a reader has to hunt
+ * for the part they came for.
+ *
+ * Put this above whatever a reader changes rather than below it, so that
+ * changing something and seeing what it did takes no scrolling.
+ */
+
+.c-eg-result {
+  background-color: $colour-grey-lighter;
+  border-radius: $rounded;
+  padding: size(2) size(3);
+  margin: size(1) 0 size(3);
+}
+
+/* What the answer is the answer to, said quietly above it, because the
+   reader already knows and only needs reminding. */
+.c-eg-result__label {
+  @include make-text-heading-caps();
+  display: block;
+  margin: 0 0 size(-2);
+}
+
+/* The answer itself. It carries the code face because what an example
+   returns is a value rather than prose, and a size that makes it the
+   first thing on the page a reader sees. */
+.c-eg-result__value {
+  @include make-text-code();
+  font-size: size(7);
+  line-height: 1.1;
+  color: $colour-black;
+  margin: 0;
+
+  /* A value can be a long string, and stretching the panel to fit one
+     would push the page out of shape. */
+  word-break: break-word;
+}
+
+/* How the answer should be read, said quietly below it. */
+.c-eg-result__note {
+  margin: size(0) 0 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Where the example has no answer to give. The surface carries it rather
+ * than the value, because there is no value to colour, and a reader
+ * scanning for the answer needs to see at a glance that there is not
+ * one.
+ */
+.c-eg-result--none {
+  background-color: $colour-pink-light;
+  border: 1px solid $colour-red;
+
+  .c-eg-result__value {
+    @include make-text-default();
+    font-weight: $font-weight-bold;
+    color: $colour-red;
+  }
+}