Mixed-Media Inked Visual Essay

npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table

:root {
  --background: #E9E3D7;
  --foreground: #11100E;
  --card: #FBF8F0;
  --card-foreground: #11100E;
  --popover: #FBF8F0;
  --popover-foreground: #11100E;
  --primary: #0B0A08;
  --primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --secondary: #F3EFE6;
  --secondary-foreground: #111111;
  --muted: #6D6760;
  --muted-foreground: #11100E;
  --accent: #8C7A64;
  --accent-foreground: #ffffff;
  --destructive: #8A2F24;
  --border: #27231F;
  --input: #27231F;
  --ring: #8C7A64;
  --chart-1: #0B0A08;
  --chart-2: #F3EFE6;
  --chart-3: #8C7A64;
  --chart-4: #4F6A50;
  --chart-5: #A8792A;
  --sidebar: #FBF8F0;
  --sidebar-foreground: #11100E;
  --sidebar-primary: #0B0A08;
  --sidebar-primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-accent: #536879;
  --sidebar-accent-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-border: #27231F;
  --sidebar-ring: #8C7A64;
  --radius: 16px;
}

.dark {
  --background: #0f1115;
  --foreground: #f8fafc;
  --card: #181b22;
  --card-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --popover: #181b22;
  --popover-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --primary: #0B0A08;
  --primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --secondary: #252a33;
  --secondary-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --muted: #252a33;
  --muted-foreground: #a1a1aa;
  --accent: #8C7A64;
  --accent-foreground: #ffffff;
  --destructive: #8A2F24;
  --border: #303642;
  --input: #303642;
  --ring: #8C7A64;
  --chart-1: #0B0A08;
  --chart-2: #F3EFE6;
  --chart-3: #8C7A64;
  --chart-4: #4F6A50;
  --chart-5: #A8792A;
  --sidebar: #181b22;
  --sidebar-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --sidebar-primary: #0B0A08;
  --sidebar-primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-accent: #8C7A64;
  --sidebar-accent-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-border: #303642;
  --sidebar-ring: #8C7A64;
  --radius: 16px;
}

import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge";
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
import {
  Card,
  CardContent,
  CardDescription,
  CardFooter,
  CardHeader,
  CardTitle,
} from "@/components/ui/card";
import { Input } from "@/components/ui/input";
import { Tabs, TabsList, TabsTrigger } from "@/components/ui/tabs";

export function MixedMediaInkedVisualEssayShadcnKit() {
  return (
    <section className="grid gap-4 rounded-[var(--radius)] border bg-background p-4 text-foreground">
      <div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-4">
        <div>
          <Badge variant="outline">shadcn/ui</Badge>
          <h2 className="mt-3 text-2xl font-semibold tracking-tight">Mixed-Media Inked Visual Essay</h2>
          <p className="mt-1 max-w-xl text-sm text-muted-foreground">
            Use the Katagami registry theme, then compose these shadcn primitives
            with the language-specific component recipes.
          </p>
        </div>
        <Button>Apply theme</Button>
      </div>

      <Tabs defaultValue="components">
        <TabsList>
          <TabsTrigger value="components">Components</TabsTrigger>
          <TabsTrigger value="states">States</TabsTrigger>
          <TabsTrigger value="export">Export</TabsTrigger>
        </TabsList>
      </Tabs>

      <Card>
        <CardHeader>
          <CardTitle>Component recipe</CardTitle>
          <CardDescription>
            Replace this starter content with the agent-authored product scene
            from components.md and preview-shots.json.
          </CardDescription>
        </CardHeader>
        <CardContent className="grid gap-3 sm:grid-cols-[1fr_auto]">
          <Input defaultValue="Tokenized shadcn surface" aria-label="Recipe name" />
          <Button variant="secondary">Preview state</Button>
        </CardContent>
        <CardFooter className="justify-between">
          <Badge>Ready</Badge>
          <Button variant="outline">Copy recipe</Button>
        </CardFooter>
      </Card>
    </section>
  );
}

{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "mixed-media-inked-visual-essay",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Mixed-Media Inked Visual Essay shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#E9E3D7",
      "foreground": "#11100E",
      "card": "#FBF8F0",
      "card-foreground": "#11100E",
      "popover": "#FBF8F0",
      "popover-foreground": "#11100E",
      "primary": "#0B0A08",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#F3EFE6",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#6D6760",
      "muted-foreground": "#11100E",
      "accent": "#8C7A64",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#8A2F24",
      "border": "#27231F",
      "input": "#27231F",
      "ring": "#8C7A64",
      "chart-1": "#0B0A08",
      "chart-2": "#F3EFE6",
      "chart-3": "#8C7A64",
      "chart-4": "#4F6A50",
      "chart-5": "#A8792A",
      "sidebar": "#FBF8F0",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#11100E",
      "sidebar-primary": "#0B0A08",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#536879",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#27231F",
      "sidebar-ring": "#8C7A64",
      "radius": "16px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#0B0A08",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#8C7A64",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#8A2F24",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#8C7A64",
      "chart-1": "#0B0A08",
      "chart-2": "#F3EFE6",
      "chart-3": "#8C7A64",
      "chart-4": "#4F6A50",
      "chart-5": "#A8792A",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#0B0A08",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#8C7A64",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#8C7A64",
      "radius": "16px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019dde35-fb23-7c90-a7cf-c38ccf8495f8",
    "slug": "mixed-media-inked-visual-essay",
    "componentManifest": [
      "button",
      "card",
      "input",
      "textarea",
      "select",
      "dialog",
      "sheet",
      "tabs",
      "badge",
      "separator",
      "checkbox",
      "switch",
      "slider",
      "tooltip",
      "dropdown-menu",
      "table"
    ],
    "installCommand": "npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table",
    "nativeTokenNames": {
      "colors": [
        "accent",
        "background",
        "border",
        "error",
        "info",
        "muted",
        "primary",
        "secondary",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "text",
        "warning"
      ],
      "typography": [
        "base_size",
        "body_font",
        "google_fonts_url",
        "heading_font",
        "letter_spacing",
        "line_height",
        "mono_font",
        "scale_ratio"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "radii": [
        "full",
        "lg",
        "md",
        "none",
        "sm"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "borders": [
        "accent_width",
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ]
    }
  }
}

# Mixed-Media Inked Visual Essay shadcn/ui Components

Artifact: `component-recipes-v1`
Author: `katagami-ui-projection`
Language ID: `en-019dde35-fb23-7c90-a7cf-c38ccf8495f8`
Slug: `mixed-media-inked-visual-essay`

## Intent

Mixed-Media Inked Visual Essay is a design language for art-directed editorial interfaces that feel drawn, revised, and assembled under a curator's lamp. It crosses the confidence of ink drawing with the precision of digital fine art: charcoal black linework cuts through bone-white space, graphite washes hold atmosphere, and muted gallery tones create the restraint of a serious visual essay. The language favors visible authorship over seamless neutrality. It treats every screen as a page-spread where annotation, metaphor, and composition explain an argument as much as the copy does.

## Required primitives

- button
- card
- input
- textarea
- select
- dialog
- sheet
- tabs
- badge
- separator
- checkbox
- switch
- slider
- tooltip
- dropdown-menu
- table

Install with `npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table`.

## Token cues

Colors:

{
  "primary": "#0B0A08",
  "secondary": "#F3EFE6",
  "accent": "#8C7A64",
  "background": "#E9E3D7",
  "surface": "#FBF8F0",
  "text": "#11100E",
  "muted": "#6D6760",
  "border": "#27231F",
  "error": "#8A2F24",
  "success": "#4F6A50",
  "warning": "#A8792A",
  "info": "#536879"
}

Typography:

{
  "heading_font": "Fraunces",
  "body_font": "Newsreader",
  "mono_font": "Fragment Mono",
  "base_size": "16px",
  "scale_ratio": 1.28,
  "line_height": 1.55,
  "letter_spacing": "-0.02em",
  "google_fonts_url": "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fraunces:opsz,wght,SOFT,WONK@9..144,500..900,20..80,0..1&family=Newsreader:opsz,wght@6..72,300..700&family=Fragment+Mono:ital@0;1&display=swap"
}

## Visual character to preserve

- Large bone-white page fields interrupted by irregular charcoal ink panels using clip-path polygons and rough outline offsets.
- Graphite wash textures built from layered radial gradients, multiply blending, and low-opacity paper grain overlays.
- Expressive hand-drawn divider lines made with SVG strokes, dashed borders, and rotated annotation rules.
- Editorial essay grid with oversized pull-quote numerals, margin notes, and staggered image-text panels.
- Digital fine-art framing through thin gallery mat borders, caption plaques, and restrained muted wash accents.

## ShadSync visual profile

{
  "family": "paper-collage",
  "material": "paper",
  "contour": "blob",
  "border": "dashed",
  "underlay": true,
  "grain": true,
  "stickerBadges": true,
  "motion": "lift-rotate",
  "density": "balanced",
  "accents": [
    "primary",
    "accent",
    "secondary",
    "muted"
  ]
}

## Signature component recipes

### Button
Use `Button` for primary, secondary, outline, and ghost actions. Primary actions must expose the language's strongest contrast pair, while secondary and ghost actions should preserve the surface treatment instead of falling back to default neutral SaaS styling.

### Card
Use `Card`, `CardHeader`, `CardContent`, `CardFooter`, and `CardAction` as the main composition frame. Cards should demonstrate the language's surface, border, hierarchy, and density rules rather than appearing as generic rounded rectangles.

### Input and Textarea
Use `Input` and `Textarea` with visible focus rings, field labels, validation states, and the language's rhythm. Forms should show real product content, not placeholder-only controls.

### Select, Tabs, and Table
Use `Select`, `Tabs`, and `Table` to prove navigation, filtering, and dense data states. The table should show row rhythm, separators, hover/focus states, and an empty or status state when the language calls for it.

### Dialog and Sheet
Use `Dialog` for centered decisions and `Sheet` for contextual editing. Both should inherit the language's spacing, border, overlay, and motion rules.

## Preview shots

- `application-shell`: dashboard or workspace shell with navigation, cards, forms, and state badges.
- `detail-editor`: focused editing flow using input, textarea, select, switch/checkbox, dialog or sheet, and action buttons.
- `data-operations`: table-heavy operational view with tabs, dropdown menu affordances, badges, and destructive/empty states.
- Each preview shot must include a renderable `scene` payload with concrete headline, description, actions, and rows/fields/stats for the UI preview.

## Implementation contract

- Start from local `ui/src/components/ui` shadcn-style primitives; do not create a second component system.
- Apply `/katagami/shadcn/mixed-media-inked-visual-essay/registry-theme.json` variables, then use these recipes for composition and state design.
- Preserve Katagami token names as source metadata; shadcn semantic names are only the export surface.
- Do: Use black linework as a structural system for grids, dividers, connectors, and emphasis.; Let muted washes support hierarchy behind important panels while keeping text on high-contrast bone surfaces.; Choose editorial scenes: visual essays, critical portfolios, investigative explainers, cultural reviews, or artist notebooks.; Make every decorative mark carry meaning as annotation, framing, evidence, or metaphor.; Use mono type sparingly for coordinates, captions, source labels, and stamped actions.; Preserve imperfect human rhythm through slight rotations, offset borders, and uneven drawn rules.; Keep accessibility high by placing all long text on clean light surfaces with strong charcoal contrast.
- Do not: Do not turn the language into a generic sketchy whiteboard style.; Do not use bright illustration palettes, candy gradients, or playful cartoon color.; Do not center every card in a symmetrical dashboard grid.; Do not rely on stock icons when linework and typographic marks can carry the metaphor.; Do not place body copy over busy wash textures.; Do not over-round panels; square editorial framing is the default.; Do not add texture without also using it to reinforce depth, grouping, or narrative sequence.

## Copy-paste component example

This generated starter proves the import shape. Production Katagami agents should replace it with a language-specific product composition.

```tsx
import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge";
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
import {
  Card,
  CardContent,
  CardDescription,
  CardFooter,
  CardHeader,
  CardTitle,
} from "@/components/ui/card";
import { Input } from "@/components/ui/input";
import { Tabs, TabsList, TabsTrigger } from "@/components/ui/tabs";

export function MixedMediaInkedVisualEssayShadcnKit() {
  return (
    <section className="grid gap-4 rounded-[var(--radius)] border bg-background p-4 text-foreground">
      <div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-4">
        <div>
          <Badge variant="outline">shadcn/ui</Badge>
          <h2 className="mt-3 text-2xl font-semibold tracking-tight">Mixed-Media Inked Visual Essay</h2>
          <p className="mt-1 max-w-xl text-sm text-muted-foreground">
            Use the Katagami registry theme, then compose these shadcn primitives
            with the language-specific component recipes.
          </p>
        </div>
        <Button>Apply theme</Button>
      </div>

      <Tabs defaultValue="components">
        <TabsList>
          <TabsTrigger value="components">Components</TabsTrigger>
          <TabsTrigger value="states">States</TabsTrigger>
          <TabsTrigger value="export">Export</TabsTrigger>
        </TabsList>
      </Tabs>

      <Card>
        <CardHeader>
          <CardTitle>Component recipe</CardTitle>
          <CardDescription>
            Replace this starter content with the agent-authored product scene
            from components.md and preview-shots.json.
          </CardDescription>
        </CardHeader>
        <CardContent className="grid gap-3 sm:grid-cols-[1fr_auto]">
          <Input defaultValue="Tokenized shadcn surface" aria-label="Recipe name" />
          <Button variant="secondary">Preview state</Button>
        </CardContent>
        <CardFooter className="justify-between">
          <Badge>Ready</Badge>
          <Button variant="outline">Copy recipe</Button>
        </CardFooter>
      </Card>
    </section>
  );
}
```

## Layout notes

{
  "density": "Medium density with high negative space: content clusters are concise while illustrated panels and annotations get room to breathe, preserving the visual essay rhythm.",
  "grid": "Desktop uses a 12-column editorial grid with 24px gutters and a 1360px max width; main essay spans 7 columns, annotation rail spans 2, evidence cards span 3. Tablet collapses to 6 columns; mobile becomes one column with annotation notes inline.",
  "breakpoints": "Mobile 0-639px, tablet 640-1023px, desktop 1024px and above; at each breakpoint panels stack before text becomes cramped.",
  "whitespace": "Whitespace is treated like gallery wall: wide margins, interrupted gutters, and deliberate blank zones around inked metaphors rather than uniformly distributed padding.",
  "responsive": "At desktop the screen is a spread with a side rail; tablet forms a stacked feature and two-column evidence grid; mobile preserves the art direction by turning annotations into caption strips below each panel."
}

{
  "artifact": "katagami:shadcn-preview-shots",
  "version": "preview-shots-v1",
  "generator": "katagami-ui-compatibility-projection",
  "generatedBy": "katagami-ui-projection",
  "requiresVisualProfile": true,
  "schema": "katagami:shadcn-preview-shots/renderable-v1",
  "renderable": true,
  "language": {
    "id": "en-019dde35-fb23-7c90-a7cf-c38ccf8495f8",
    "name": "Mixed-Media Inked Visual Essay",
    "slug": "mixed-media-inked-visual-essay"
  },
  "installCommand": "npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table",
  "primitives": [
    "button",
    "card",
    "input",
    "textarea",
    "select",
    "dialog",
    "sheet",
    "tabs",
    "badge",
    "separator",
    "checkbox",
    "switch",
    "slider",
    "tooltip",
    "dropdown-menu",
    "table"
  ],
  "identityNotes": [
    "Large bone-white page fields interrupted by irregular charcoal ink panels using clip-path polygons and rough outline offsets.",
    "Graphite wash textures built from layered radial gradients, multiply blending, and low-opacity paper grain overlays.",
    "Expressive hand-drawn divider lines made with SVG strokes, dashed borders, and rotated annotation rules.",
    "Editorial essay grid with oversized pull-quote numerals, margin notes, and staggered image-text panels.",
    "Digital fine-art framing through thin gallery mat borders, caption plaques, and restrained muted wash accents."
  ],
  "visualProfile": {
    "family": "paper-collage",
    "material": "paper",
    "contour": "blob",
    "border": "dashed",
    "underlay": true,
    "grain": true,
    "stickerBadges": true,
    "motion": "lift-rotate",
    "density": "balanced",
    "accents": [
      "primary",
      "accent",
      "secondary",
      "muted"
    ]
  },
  "shots": [
    {
      "id": "application-shell",
      "title": "Application shell",
      "viewport": "desktop",
      "primitives": [
        "button",
        "card",
        "input",
        "select",
        "tabs",
        "badge",
        "separator",
        "table"
      ],
      "composition": "A real product workspace with navigation, summary cards, filtering controls, and one dense content region.",
      "mustShow": [
        "primary and secondary actions",
        "card hierarchy",
        "filterable state",
        "table or list density"
      ],
      "avoid": [
        "component inventory walls",
        "placeholder-only content",
        "generic rounded SaaS chrome"
      ],
      "scene": {
        "eyebrow": "workspace spread",
        "headline": "Mixed-Media Inked Visual Essay launch room",
        "description": "A product team workspace where navigation, filters, metrics, and dense rows carry the language's visible structure.",
        "primaryAction": "Apply theme",
        "secondaryAction": "Review states",
        "stats": [
          {
            "label": "components",
            "value": "16",
            "tone": "accent"
          },
          {
            "label": "states",
            "value": "ready"
          },
          {
            "label": "density",
            "value": "balanced",
            "tone": "warning"
          }
        ],
        "rows": [
          {
            "label": "Primary flow",
            "value": "mapped",
            "status": "active"
          },
          {
            "label": "Token coverage",
            "value": "semantic",
            "status": "synced"
          },
          {
            "label": "Responsive proof",
            "value": "queued",
            "status": "review"
          }
        ],
        "statuses": [
          "Active",
          "Synced",
          "Draft"
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "detail-editor",
      "title": "Detail editor",
      "viewport": "tablet",
      "primitives": [
        "button",
        "card",
        "input",
        "textarea",
        "select",
        "checkbox",
        "switch",
        "slider",
        "dialog",
        "sheet"
      ],
      "composition": "A focused editing flow with form fields, validation, confirmation, and a contextual side panel.",
      "mustShow": [
        "focus ring",
        "error or destructive state",
        "dialog or sheet treatment",
        "written guidance content"
      ],
      "avoid": [
        "unstyled browser controls",
        "floating cards inside cards",
        "missing labels"
      ],
      "scene": {
        "eyebrow": "editing flow",
        "headline": "Language recipe editor",
        "description": "A focused form proving labels, validation, toggles, panel rhythm, and action hierarchy.",
        "primaryAction": "Save recipe",
        "secondaryAction": "Open sheet",
        "fields": [
          {
            "label": "Component family",
            "value": "Narrative cards"
          },
          {
            "label": "State treatment",
            "value": "Visible focus + validation"
          },
          {
            "label": "Motion",
            "value": "Small lift, no opacity-only fade"
          }
        ],
        "statuses": [
          "Focus",
          "Invalid",
          "Confirmed"
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "data-operations",
      "title": "Data operations",
      "viewport": "mobile",
      "primitives": [
        "button",
        "tabs",
        "badge",
        "dropdown-menu",
        "table",
        "tooltip",
        "separator"
      ],
      "composition": "A compact operational view proving row rhythm, stacked actions, menu states, badges, and empty/destructive states.",
      "mustShow": [
        "responsive reflow",
        "dense row styling",
        "menu affordance",
        "status badge system"
      ],
      "avoid": [
        "desktop-only tables",
        "text overflow",
        "default shadcn spacing without Katagami character"
      ],
      "scene": {
        "eyebrow": "operations",
        "headline": "Compact review queue",
        "description": "A narrow viewport scene with rows, menus, tooltips, badges, and destructive affordances.",
        "primaryAction": "Resolve",
        "secondaryAction": "Filter",
        "rows": [
          {
            "label": "Button hierarchy",
            "value": "approved",
            "status": "ok"
          },
          {
            "label": "Table rhythm",
            "value": "needs pass",
            "status": "watch"
          },
          {
            "label": "Empty state",
            "value": "designed",
            "status": "done"
          }
        ],
        "statuses": [
          "Queued",
          "Blocked",
          "Done"
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "componentRecipes": [
    {
      "primitive": "button",
      "intent": "Prove action hierarchy, focus, disabled, and destructive states."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "card",
      "intent": "Carry the language surface, border, elevation, and density rules."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "input",
      "intent": "Show labels, focus rings, validation, and spacing rhythm."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "textarea",
      "intent": "Show longer guidance, validation copy, and writing density."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "select",
      "intent": "Show filtering, selection contrast, and menu trigger styling."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "dialog",
      "intent": "Show centered decision states and overlay treatment."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "sheet",
      "intent": "Show contextual side panels and responsive editing."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "tabs",
      "intent": "Show navigational structure and active/inactive contrast."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "badge",
      "intent": "Show compact status vocabulary and semantic colors."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "separator",
      "intent": "Show section rhythm without generic gray dividers."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "checkbox",
      "intent": "Show binary selection with visible focus and checked states."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "switch",
      "intent": "Show settings toggles and on/off contrast."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "slider",
      "intent": "Show numeric adjustment with track/thumb styling."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "tooltip",
      "intent": "Show concise explanation styling above compact controls."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "dropdown-menu",
      "intent": "Show action menus, destructive items, and grouped choices."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "table",
      "intent": "Show dense operational data, separators, row states, and responsive behavior."
    }
  ],
  "qualityRules": {
    "do": [
      "Use black linework as a structural system for grids, dividers, connectors, and emphasis.",
      "Let muted washes support hierarchy behind important panels while keeping text on high-contrast bone surfaces.",
      "Choose editorial scenes: visual essays, critical portfolios, investigative explainers, cultural reviews, or artist notebooks.",
      "Make every decorative mark carry meaning as annotation, framing, evidence, or metaphor.",
      "Use mono type sparingly for coordinates, captions, source labels, and stamped actions.",
      "Preserve imperfect human rhythm through slight rotations, offset borders, and uneven drawn rules.",
      "Keep accessibility high by placing all long text on clean light surfaces with strong charcoal contrast."
    ],
    "dont": [
      "Do not turn the language into a generic sketchy whiteboard style.",
      "Do not use bright illustration palettes, candy gradients, or playful cartoon color.",
      "Do not center every card in a symmetrical dashboard grid.",
      "Do not rely on stock icons when linework and typographic marks can carry the metaphor.",
      "Do not place body copy over busy wash textures.",
      "Do not over-round panels; square editorial framing is the default.",
      "Do not add texture without also using it to reinforce depth, grouping, or narrative sequence."
    ]
  }
}