<div class="div-minimal-surface">
  <p class="div-minimal-text">The studio was empty when she arrived — not empty between occupants, but empty in the original sense, before anything had been placed there.</p>
  <div class="div-minimal-v1" role="separator"></div>
  <p class="div-minimal-text">Restraint is not the same as emptiness. The most demanding discipline in any art is knowing what to remove.</p>
  <div class="div-minimal-v2" role="separator"><span></span><span></span><span></span></div>
  <p class="div-minimal-text">He worked slowly. The longer he looked at something, the more it revealed, and the less quickly he could move on.</p>
  <div class="div-minimal-v3" role="separator">
    <span class="div-minimal-rule"></span>
    <em>§</em>
    <span class="div-minimal-rule"></span>
  </div>
  <p class="div-minimal-text">The typeface had been designed in 1932 for a publication that ran for eleven issues before the war interrupted everything.</p>
</div>

@keyframes div-mn-open { from { transform: scaleX(0); } to { transform: scaleX(1); } }
@keyframes div-mn-fade { from { opacity: 0; } to { opacity: 1; } }
.div-minimal-surface {
  background: #f9f8f6;
  padding: 36px 40px;
  border-radius: 12px;
}
.div-minimal-text {
  font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif;
  font-size: 14px;
  font-weight: 300;
  line-height: 1.9;
  color: #3a3834;
  margin: 0;
}
/* v1 — hairline draws slowly open */
.div-minimal-v1 {
  height: 0.5px;
  margin: 34px 0;
  background: #cac7c2;
  transform: scaleX(0);
  transform-origin: center;
  animation: div-mn-open 1.8s cubic-bezier(.16,1,.3,1) 0.1s both;
}
/* v2 — three dots fade in one by one */
.div-minimal-v2 {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
  align-items: center;
  margin: 34px 0;
  padding: 0 22%;
}
.div-minimal-v2 span {
  width: 3px;
  height: 3px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: #9a9690;
  animation: div-mn-fade 0.7s ease both;
}
.div-minimal-v2 span:nth-child(1) { animation-delay: 0.2s; }
.div-minimal-v2 span:nth-child(2) { animation-delay: 0.65s; }
.div-minimal-v2 span:nth-child(3) { animation-delay: 1.1s; }
/* v3 — section mark between fine rules */
.div-minimal-v3 {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 20px;
  margin: 34px 0;
}
.div-minimal-rule {
  flex: 1;
  height: 0.5px;
  background: #cac7c2;
  transform: scaleX(0);
  animation: div-mn-open 1.2s cubic-bezier(.16,1,.3,1) 0.3s both;
}
.div-minimal-v3 .div-minimal-rule:first-child { transform-origin: right; }
.div-minimal-v3 .div-minimal-rule:last-child  { transform-origin: left; animation-delay: 0.35s; }
.div-minimal-v3 em {
  flex-shrink: 0;
  font-family: Georgia, serif;
  font-style: normal;
  font-size: 12px;
  color: #b0ada8;
  white-space: nowrap;
  animation: div-mn-fade 0.9s ease 0.9s both;
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .div-minimal-v1, .div-minimal-rule { animation: none; transform: scaleX(1); }
  .div-minimal-v2 span, .div-minimal-v3 em { animation: none; opacity: 1; }
}