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Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism

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the spec

specification

philosophy
summary
Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism is a quiet reading-first Katagami language for dew-fresh product and editorial interfaces. It treats the page like a milky sheet of Japanese stationery: warm off-white space carries the work, typography explains the system, and translucent lychee, soda, and mint accents appear only as small pieces of refracted candy. The language is youthful without becoming toy-like because softness is expressed through air, tone, and material honesty rather than cartoons, rainbow color, or excessive blur.
values
Reading before decoration: every screen should be understandable as an editorial page before it is admired as an interface.Milky purity: backgrounds and containers use warm white tonal shifts that feel clean, fresh, and uncoated rather than sterile.Controlled sweetness: lychee blush and pale soda blue appear as sparse functional accents, never as a full pastel palette.Legibility over blur: translucent effects keep text on opaque or high-contrast fields and reserve glass for edges, chips, and highlights.Material honesty: surfaces suggest dew, film, and thin packaging through borders, inset light, and tone instead of fake heavy glassmorphism.Youthful calm: the mood is fresh and gentle, but structure remains disciplined, modular, and MUJI-like.
anti-values
×Rainbow gradients, neon glow, gamer chroma, or any palette that turns freshness into spectacle.×Toy-like childishness: oversized bubbles, gummy shadows, stickers, mascots, and confetti are excluded.×Generic pastel SaaS: large lavender-blue cards, stock dashboard rhythm, and decorative blobs are avoided.×Blurred illegibility: no text sits on busy transparency or low-contrast candy color.
tokens
borders4 items
accent width
2px
character
warm translucent rice-paper borders with occasional top-edge candy hairline in lychee or soda
default width
1px
style
solid
colors12 items
accent
#B8D7C2
background
#FBF8F1
border
#E9E1D6
error
#F1D2D0
info
#86B7CF
muted
#6f6257
primary
#DFA9B4
secondary
#BFDCEB
success
#D8E8D7
surface
#FFFDF8
text
#45423D
warning
#D6A85A
motion3 items
duration
180ms
easing
cubic-bezier(.2,.7,.2,1)
philosophy
motion is a small settling breath: opacity and 2px translate only, no bouncing candy behavior
radii5 items
full
9999px
lg
24px
md
24px
none
0
sm
16px
shadows3 items
lg
0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.98) inset, 0 18px 44px rgba(69,66,61,0.07)
md
0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.95) inset, 0 8px 22px rgba(69,66,61,0.055)
sm
0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.92) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(69,66,61,0.04)
spacing2 items
base
8px
scale
4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96
surfaces3 items
bg pattern
nearly invisible vertical editorial ruling and a few 1px dew glints, never full decorative pattern
card style
1px warm rice-paper border, 24px radius, soft inset dew line, optional tiny candy bead anchored to one corner
treatment
tone-based milky containers: #FFFDF8 over #FBF8F1 with translucent white inset highlights and no smoky glass behind text
typography8 items
base size
16px
body font
Sarabun
google fonts url
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fraunces:opsz,wght@9..144,500;9..144,600&family=Sarabun:wght@300;400;500;600&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500&display=swap
heading font
Fraunces
letter spacing
-0.02em
line height
1.58
mono font
IBM Plex Mono
scale ratio
1.22
rules
composition
Use asymmetry with discipline: a slim context rail, a central editorial article column, and a right-side surface column may exist on desktop, but mobile collapses into one clear reading sequence. Keep hero copy left aligned and let empty milky space occupy at least a third of the desktop viewport. Align chips and metadata to text baselines rather than floating decoratively.
density
Low-to-medium density with generous gutters and quiet pauses; the language should feel like a carefully edited magazine page, not a component inventory. Interfaces may contain many data points only if they are grouped into soft editorial sections with clear labels.
hierarchy
Create hierarchy through type scale, weight, line length, and whitespace first. Candy color may mark one active item, one status, or one micro highlight per section. Primary actions are quiet filled lychee pills; secondary actions are text or bordered milky controls. Long-form text always receives the highest contrast.
signature patterns
Dewline cards: every important surface has a 1px white inset top highlight plus a warm paper border, creating elevation without visible dark shadow.Candy bead anchors: tiny translucent circular or pill accents sit on one card corner or beside a label to signal freshness without decorating the whole layout.Milky reading rail: navigation and metadata live in a narrow off-white vertical rail separated by tone and hairline borders, preserving editorial calm.Soda-rule hierarchy: pale blue hairlines and blush active markers replace heavy dividers, tabs, and filled dashboard panels.
layout
breakpoints

mobile <= 640px; tablet 641-980px; desktop >= 981px; large editorial frame maxes at 1180px and stays centered.

density
Airy editorial density with approximately 64-96px desktop section spacing, because the identity depends on quiet pauses and readable sequence rather than visual abundance.
grid
Desktop uses a 12-column grid inside a 1180px max-width frame with 24px gutters: 2 columns for the rail, 6 for reading, 4 for supporting surfaces. Tablet becomes 6 columns; mobile is a single column with preserved 24px page margins.
responsive

On smaller viewports the rail becomes a horizontal quiet index, support cards follow the article, and candy beads remain small so they never compete with text.

whitespace
Whitespace is the primary material. Leave large warm off-white fields around headings, between groups, and inside cards; do not fill empty space with illustrations or blobs.
guidance
do
  • Start with black-gray editorial typography on milky white before adding any accent color.
  • Use lychee blush for one active or primary moment, soda blue for informational rules, and mint/calamansi only for tiny success or freshness cues.
  • Keep translucent material at edges, chips, and highlights while placing all text on solid warm surfaces.
  • Prefer 1px borders, inset white highlights, and tonal layers over shadows.
  • Use generous line-height, narrow reading measures, and aligned metadata to reinforce editorial structure.
  • Let empty space remain empty; the absence of ornament is part of the sweetness.
  • Use small rounded pills and 24px cards consistently, avoiding arbitrary radius changes.
avoid
  • Do not use rainbow palettes, neon gradients, or loud multicolor backgrounds.
  • Do not make gummy buttons, cartoon stickers, mascots, oversized bubbles, or toy-like controls.
  • Do not put body text over blur, transparency, images, or candy color.
  • Do not default to generic pastel SaaS dashboards with many equal cards.
  • Do not add decorative blobs or illustrations simply to fill space.
  • Do not use heavy drop shadows, black glass, or high-chroma purple-blue gradients.
  • Do not exceed three accent families: lychee, soda, and mint/calamansi.
katagami spec
# Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism

## Philosophy

Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism is a quiet reading-first Katagami language for dew-fresh product and editorial interfaces. It treats the page like a milky sheet of Japanese stationery: warm off-white space carries the work, typography explains the system, and translucent lychee, soda, and mint accents appear only as small pieces of refracted candy. The language is youthful without becoming toy-like because softness is expressed through air, tone, and material honesty rather than cartoons, rainbow color, or excessive blur.

### Values

- Reading before decoration: every screen should be understandable as an editorial page before it is admired as an interface.
- Milky purity: backgrounds and containers use warm white tonal shifts that feel clean, fresh, and uncoated rather than sterile.
- Controlled sweetness: lychee blush and pale soda blue appear as sparse functional accents, never as a full pastel palette.
- Legibility over blur: translucent effects keep text on opaque or high-contrast fields and reserve glass for edges, chips, and highlights.
- Material honesty: surfaces suggest dew, film, and thin packaging through borders, inset light, and tone instead of fake heavy glassmorphism.
- Youthful calm: the mood is fresh and gentle, but structure remains disciplined, modular, and MUJI-like.

### Anti-Values

- Rainbow gradients, neon glow, gamer chroma, or any palette that turns freshness into spectacle.
- Toy-like childishness: oversized bubbles, gummy shadows, stickers, mascots, and confetti are excluded.
- Generic pastel SaaS: large lavender-blue cards, stock dashboard rhythm, and decorative blobs are avoided.
- Blurred illegibility: no text sits on busy transparency or low-contrast candy color.

### Visual Character

- A 12-column editorial grid with a narrow left reading rail, wide milky negative space, and content cards aligned to long text measures rather than dashboard tiles.
- Warm off-white body background layered with tone-based surface containers using 1px translucent borders and almost no cast shadow.
- Sparse candy accents rendered as tiny pill chips, hairline top glints, and small corner beads in lychee blush, soda blue, and mint only.
- Typography uses soft humanist sans headings, calm serif reading passages, low-chroma gray text, and consistent -0.02em tracking for a refined editorial texture.
- Depth is created with inset dew highlights, white overlays, and tonal separation while keeping all readable text on solid milky surfaces.

## Tokens

### Borders

- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Character**: warm translucent rice-paper borders with occasional top-edge candy hairline in lychee or soda
- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Style**: solid

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| accent | `#B8D7C2` |
| background | `#FBF8F1` |
| border | `#E9E1D6` |
| error | `#F1D2D0` |
| info | `#86B7CF` |
| muted | `#6f6257` |
| primary | `#DFA9B4` |
| secondary | `#BFDCEB` |
| success | `#D8E8D7` |
| surface | `#FFFDF8` |
| text | `#45423D` |
| warning | `#D6A85A` |

### Motion

- **Duration**: 180ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(.2,.7,.2,1)
- **Philosophy**: motion is a small settling breath: opacity and 2px translate only, no bouncing candy behavior

### Radii

- **Full**: 9999px
- **Lg**: 24px
- **Md**: 24px
- **None**: 0
- **Sm**: 16px

### Shadows

- **Lg**: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.98) inset, 0 18px 44px rgba(69,66,61,0.07)
- **Md**: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.95) inset, 0 8px 22px rgba(69,66,61,0.055)
- **Sm**: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.92) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(69,66,61,0.04)

### Spacing

- **Base**: 8px
- **Scale**: [4,8,12,16,24,32,48,64,96]

### Surfaces

- **Bg Pattern**: nearly invisible vertical editorial ruling and a few 1px dew glints, never full decorative pattern
- **Card Style**: 1px warm rice-paper border, 24px radius, soft inset dew line, optional tiny candy bead anchored to one corner
- **Treatment**: tone-based milky containers: #FFFDF8 over #FBF8F1 with translucent white inset highlights and no smoky glass behind text

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 16px
- **Body Font**: Sarabun
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fraunces:opsz,wght@9..144,500;9..144,600&family=Sarabun:wght@300;400;500;600&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500&display=swap
- **Heading Font**: Fraunces
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.02em
- **Line Height**: 1.58
- **Mono Font**: IBM Plex Mono
- **Scale Ratio**: 1.22

## Rules

### Composition

Use asymmetry with discipline: a slim context rail, a central editorial article column, and a right-side surface column may exist on desktop, but mobile collapses into one clear reading sequence. Keep hero copy left aligned and let empty milky space occupy at least a third of the desktop viewport. Align chips and metadata to text baselines rather than floating decoratively.

### Density

Low-to-medium density with generous gutters and quiet pauses; the language should feel like a carefully edited magazine page, not a component inventory. Interfaces may contain many data points only if they are grouped into soft editorial sections with clear labels.

### Hierarchy

Create hierarchy through type scale, weight, line length, and whitespace first. Candy color may mark one active item, one status, or one micro highlight per section. Primary actions are quiet filled lychee pills; secondary actions are text or bordered milky controls. Long-form text always receives the highest contrast.

### Signature Patterns

- Dewline cards: every important surface has a 1px white inset top highlight plus a warm paper border, creating elevation without visible dark shadow.
- Candy bead anchors: tiny translucent circular or pill accents sit on one card corner or beside a label to signal freshness without decorating the whole layout.
- Milky reading rail: navigation and metadata live in a narrow off-white vertical rail separated by tone and hairline borders, preserving editorial calm.
- Soda-rule hierarchy: pale blue hairlines and blush active markers replace heavy dividers, tabs, and filled dashboard panels.

## Layout

### Breakpoints

mobile <= 640px; tablet 641-980px; desktop >= 981px; large editorial frame maxes at 1180px and stays centered.

### Density

Airy editorial density with approximately 64-96px desktop section spacing, because the identity depends on quiet pauses and readable sequence rather than visual abundance.

### Grid

Desktop uses a 12-column grid inside a 1180px max-width frame with 24px gutters: 2 columns for the rail, 6 for reading, 4 for supporting surfaces. Tablet becomes 6 columns; mobile is a single column with preserved 24px page margins.

### Responsive

On smaller viewports the rail becomes a horizontal quiet index, support cards follow the article, and candy beads remain small so they never compete with text.

### Whitespace

Whitespace is the primary material. Leave large warm off-white fields around headings, between groups, and inside cards; do not fill empty space with illustrations or blobs.

## Guidance

### Do

- Start with black-gray editorial typography on milky white before adding any accent color.
- Use lychee blush for one active or primary moment, soda blue for informational rules, and mint/calamansi only for tiny success or freshness cues.
- Keep translucent material at edges, chips, and highlights while placing all text on solid warm surfaces.
- Prefer 1px borders, inset white highlights, and tonal layers over shadows.
- Use generous line-height, narrow reading measures, and aligned metadata to reinforce editorial structure.
- Let empty space remain empty; the absence of ornament is part of the sweetness.
- Use small rounded pills and 24px cards consistently, avoiding arbitrary radius changes.

### Don't

- Do not use rainbow palettes, neon gradients, or loud multicolor backgrounds.
- Do not make gummy buttons, cartoon stickers, mascots, oversized bubbles, or toy-like controls.
- Do not put body text over blur, transparency, images, or candy color.
- Do not default to generic pastel SaaS dashboards with many equal cards.
- Do not add decorative blobs or illustrations simply to fill space.
- Do not use heavy drop shadows, black glass, or high-chroma purple-blue gradients.
- Do not exceed three accent families: lychee, soda, and mint/calamansi.

### Accessibility

Maintain WCAG AA for text by using #45423D or darker on milky surfaces. Treat blush and soda as supporting color, never sole information carriers. Interactive targets should be at least 44px high, focus states use a 2px soda outline with offset, and reduced-motion users receive instant state changes.

### Usage Context

Best for calm consumer productivity, wellness commerce, editorial knowledge products, boutique packaging systems, youth-oriented reading apps, and fresh product storytelling where softness must remain credible and legible.
DESIGN.md
---
version: "alpha"
name: "Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  accent: "#B8D7C2"
  background: "#FBF8F1"
  border: "#E9E1D6"
  error: "#F1D2D0"
  info: "#86B7CF"
  muted: "#6f6257"
  primary: "#DFA9B4"
  secondary: "#BFDCEB"
  success: "#D8E8D7"
  surface: "#FFFDF8"
  text: "#45423D"
  warning: "#D6A85A"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Fraunces"
    fontSize: "1.816rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Fraunces"
    fontSize: "1.488rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "Sarabun"
    fontSize: "16px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.58
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "IBM Plex Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  full: "9999px"
  lg: "24px"
  md: "24px"
  none: "0px"
  sm: "16px"
spacing:
  base: "8px"
  xs: "4px"
  sm: "8px"
  md: "12px"
  lg: "16px"
  xl: "24px"
  2xl: "32px"
  3xl: "48px"
  4xl: "64px"
  step-8: "96px"
components:
  color-reference-accent:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent}"
  color-reference-background:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.background}"
  color-reference-border:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.border}"
  color-reference-error:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.error}"
  color-reference-info:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.info}"
  color-reference-muted:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.muted}"
  color-reference-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
  color-reference-secondary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.secondary}"
  color-reference-success:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.success}"
  color-reference-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
  color-reference-text:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.text}"
  color-reference-warning:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.warning}"
  button-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
    textColor: "#000000"
    typography: "{typography.label-md}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  card-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  input-default:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    height: "44px"
---

# Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism

## Overview

Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism is a quiet reading-first Katagami language for dew-fresh product and editorial interfaces. It treats the page like a milky sheet of Japanese stationery: warm off-white space carries the work, typography explains the system, and translucent lychee, soda, and mint accents appear only as small pieces of refracted candy. The language is youthful without becoming toy-like because softness is expressed through air, tone, and material honesty rather than cartoons, rainbow color, or excessive blur.

### Values

- Reading before decoration: every screen should be understandable as an editorial page before it is admired as an interface.
- Milky purity: backgrounds and containers use warm white tonal shifts that feel clean, fresh, and uncoated rather than sterile.
- Controlled sweetness: lychee blush and pale soda blue appear as sparse functional accents, never as a full pastel palette.
- Legibility over blur: translucent effects keep text on opaque or high-contrast fields and reserve glass for edges, chips, and highlights.
- Material honesty: surfaces suggest dew, film, and thin packaging through borders, inset light, and tone instead of fake heavy glassmorphism.
- Youthful calm: the mood is fresh and gentle, but structure remains disciplined, modular, and MUJI-like.

### Anti-Values

- Rainbow gradients, neon glow, gamer chroma, or any palette that turns freshness into spectacle.
- Toy-like childishness: oversized bubbles, gummy shadows, stickers, mascots, and confetti are excluded.
- Generic pastel SaaS: large lavender-blue cards, stock dashboard rhythm, and decorative blobs are avoided.
- Blurred illegibility: no text sits on busy transparency or low-contrast candy color.

### Visual Character

- A 12-column editorial grid with a narrow left reading rail, wide milky negative space, and content cards aligned to long text measures rather than dashboard tiles.
- Warm off-white body background layered with tone-based surface containers using 1px translucent borders and almost no cast shadow.
- Sparse candy accents rendered as tiny pill chips, hairline top glints, and small corner beads in lychee blush, soda blue, and mint only.
- Typography uses soft humanist sans headings, calm serif reading passages, low-chroma gray text, and consistent -0.02em tracking for a refined editorial texture.
- Depth is created with inset dew highlights, white overlays, and tonal separation while keeping all readable text on solid milky surfaces.

## Colors

Use the YAML color tokens as the normative palette. The prose below names the roles agents should preserve when generating UI.

| Token | Value |
|-------|-------|
| accent | `#B8D7C2` |
| background | `#FBF8F1` |
| border | `#E9E1D6` |
| error | `#F1D2D0` |
| info | `#86B7CF` |
| muted | `#6f6257` |
| primary | `#DFA9B4` |
| secondary | `#BFDCEB` |
| success | `#D8E8D7` |
| surface | `#FFFDF8` |
| text | `#45423D` |
| warning | `#D6A85A` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: Fraunces, 1.816rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Fraunces, 1.488rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Sarabun, 16px, weight 400, line-height 1.58.
- **Label-Md**: IBM Plex Mono, 0.75rem, weight 600, line-height 1.

## Layout

### Spacing Tokens

- **Base**: `8px`
- **Xs**: `4px`
- **Sm**: `8px`
- **Md**: `12px`
- **Lg**: `16px`
- **Xl**: `24px`
- **2xl**: `32px`
- **3xl**: `48px`
- **4xl**: `64px`
- **Step-8**: `96px`

### Breakpoints

mobile <= 640px; tablet 641-980px; desktop >= 981px; large editorial frame maxes at 1180px and stays centered.

### Density

Airy editorial density with approximately 64-96px desktop section spacing, because the identity depends on quiet pauses and readable sequence rather than visual abundance.

### Grid

Desktop uses a 12-column grid inside a 1180px max-width frame with 24px gutters: 2 columns for the rail, 6 for reading, 4 for supporting surfaces. Tablet becomes 6 columns; mobile is a single column with preserved 24px page margins.

### Responsive

On smaller viewports the rail becomes a horizontal quiet index, support cards follow the article, and candy beads remain small so they never compete with text.

### Whitespace

Whitespace is the primary material. Leave large warm off-white fields around headings, between groups, and inside cards; do not fill empty space with illustrations or blobs.

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Lg**: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.98) inset, 0 18px 44px rgba(69,66,61,0.07)
- **Md**: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.95) inset, 0 8px 22px rgba(69,66,61,0.055)
- **Sm**: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.92) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(69,66,61,0.04)

## Shapes

### Rounded

- **Full**: `9999px`
- **Lg**: `24px`
- **Md**: `24px`
- **None**: `0px`
- **Sm**: `16px`

### Surfaces

- **Bg Pattern**: nearly invisible vertical editorial ruling and a few 1px dew glints, never full decorative pattern
- **Card Style**: 1px warm rice-paper border, 24px radius, soft inset dew line, optional tiny candy bead anchored to one corner
- **Treatment**: tone-based milky containers: #FFFDF8 over #FBF8F1 with translucent white inset highlights and no smoky glass behind text

### Borders

- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Character**: warm translucent rice-paper borders with occasional top-edge candy hairline in lychee or soda
- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Style**: solid

## Components

### Composition

Use asymmetry with discipline: a slim context rail, a central editorial article column, and a right-side surface column may exist on desktop, but mobile collapses into one clear reading sequence. Keep hero copy left aligned and let empty milky space occupy at least a third of the desktop viewport. Align chips and metadata to text baselines rather than floating decoratively.

### Density

Low-to-medium density with generous gutters and quiet pauses; the language should feel like a carefully edited magazine page, not a component inventory. Interfaces may contain many data points only if they are grouped into soft editorial sections with clear labels.

### Hierarchy

Create hierarchy through type scale, weight, line length, and whitespace first. Candy color may mark one active item, one status, or one micro highlight per section. Primary actions are quiet filled lychee pills; secondary actions are text or bordered milky controls. Long-form text always receives the highest contrast.

### Signature Patterns

- Dewline cards: every important surface has a 1px white inset top highlight plus a warm paper border, creating elevation without visible dark shadow.
- Candy bead anchors: tiny translucent circular or pill accents sit on one card corner or beside a label to signal freshness without decorating the whole layout.
- Milky reading rail: navigation and metadata live in a narrow off-white vertical rail separated by tone and hairline borders, preserving editorial calm.
- Soda-rule hierarchy: pale blue hairlines and blush active markers replace heavy dividers, tabs, and filled dashboard panels.

## shadcn/ui Usage

When the target app uses shadcn/ui, copy DESIGN.md with shadcn instead of the plain DESIGN.md. It contains the same Katagami design-language source plus the shadcn/ui primitives, imports, theme variables, component recipes, and preview-shot guidance.

DESIGN.md with shadcn: `/language/en-019e0a7c-d84b-7d72-88db-78b3882d8479/DESIGN.with-shadcn.md`.

The shadcn page also exposes optional machine-readable files for automation, but the human-facing handoff is DESIGN.md with shadcn.

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

Use these primitives in shadcn apps:
- button
- card
- input
- textarea
- select
- dialog
- sheet
- tabs
- badge
- separator
- checkbox
- switch
- slider
- tooltip
- dropdown-menu
- table

Implementation rule for agents: import shadcn primitives from `@/components/ui/*`, apply the generated CSS variables first, then compose the language-specific recipes from the companion MD. Katagami remains the source of truth; shadcn names are the implementation surface.

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do Start with black-gray editorial typography on milky white before adding any accent color.
- Do Use lychee blush for one active or primary moment, soda blue for informational rules, and mint/calamansi only for tiny success or freshness cues.
- Do Keep translucent material at edges, chips, and highlights while placing all text on solid warm surfaces.
- Do Prefer 1px borders, inset white highlights, and tonal layers over shadows.
- Do Use generous line-height, narrow reading measures, and aligned metadata to reinforce editorial structure.
- Do Let empty space remain empty; the absence of ornament is part of the sweetness.
- Do Use small rounded pills and 24px cards consistently, avoiding arbitrary radius changes.
- Don't Do not use rainbow palettes, neon gradients, or loud multicolor backgrounds.
- Don't Do not make gummy buttons, cartoon stickers, mascots, oversized bubbles, or toy-like controls.
- Don't Do not put body text over blur, transparency, images, or candy color.
- Don't Do not default to generic pastel SaaS dashboards with many equal cards.
- Don't Do not add decorative blobs or illustrations simply to fill space.
- Don't Do not use heavy drop shadows, black glass, or high-chroma purple-blue gradients.
- Don't Do not exceed three accent families: lychee, soda, and mint/calamansi.

### Accessibility

Maintain WCAG AA for text by using #45423D or darker on milky surfaces. Treat blush and soda as supporting color, never sole information carriers. Interactive targets should be at least 44px high, focus states use a 2px soda outline with offset, and reduced-motion users receive instant state changes.

### Usage Context

Best for calm consumer productivity, wellness commerce, editorial knowledge products, boutique packaging systems, youth-oriented reading apps, and fresh product storytelling where softness must remain credible and legible.
shadcn/ui theme
```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "lychee-soda-editorial-minimalism",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#FBF8F1",
      "foreground": "#45423D",
      "card": "#FFFDF8",
      "card-foreground": "#45423D",
      "popover": "#FFFDF8",
      "popover-foreground": "#45423D",
      "primary": "#DFA9B4",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#BFDCEB",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#6f6257",
      "muted-foreground": "#45423D",
      "accent": "#B8D7C2",
      "accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "destructive": "#F1D2D0",
      "border": "#E9E1D6",
      "input": "#E9E1D6",
      "ring": "#B8D7C2",
      "chart-1": "#DFA9B4",
      "chart-2": "#BFDCEB",
      "chart-3": "#B8D7C2",
      "chart-4": "#D8E8D7",
      "chart-5": "#D6A85A",
      "sidebar": "#FFFDF8",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#45423D",
      "sidebar-primary": "#DFA9B4",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#86B7CF",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#E9E1D6",
      "sidebar-ring": "#B8D7C2",
      "radius": "24px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#DFA9B4",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#B8D7C2",
      "accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "destructive": "#F1D2D0",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#B8D7C2",
      "chart-1": "#DFA9B4",
      "chart-2": "#BFDCEB",
      "chart-3": "#B8D7C2",
      "chart-4": "#D8E8D7",
      "chart-5": "#D6A85A",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#DFA9B4",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#B8D7C2",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#B8D7C2",
      "radius": "24px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019e0a7c-d84b-7d72-88db-78b3882d8479",
    "slug": "lychee-soda-editorial-minimalism",
    "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": {
      "borders": [
        "accent_width",
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "colors": [
        "accent",
        "background",
        "border",
        "error",
        "info",
        "muted",
        "primary",
        "secondary",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "text",
        "warning"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ],
      "radii": [
        "full",
        "lg",
        "md",
        "none",
        "sm"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "typography": [
        "base_size",
        "body_font",
        "google_fonts_url",
        "heading_font",
        "letter_spacing",
        "line_height",
        "mono_font",
        "scale_ratio"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```
in the wild

embodiments

the full element showcase
embodiment · lychee-soda-editorial-minimalism
DESIGN.md

at a glance

Palette

Typography

headline-lgFraunces · 29px · 700

The quick brown fox jumps

headline-mdFraunces · 24px · 600

The quick brown fox jumps

body-mdSarabun · 16px · 400

The quick brown fox jumps

label-mdIBM Plex Mono · 12px · 600

The quick brown fox jumps

Components

New
Card title

Components rendered with this language’s tokens — colors, type, and rounded corners as specified.

Spacing

  • base8px
  • xs4px
  • sm8px
  • md12px
  • lg16px
  • xl24px
  • 2xl32px
  • 3xl48px
  • 4xl64px
  • step-896px

Shape

full9999px
lg24px
md24px
none0px
sm16px
shadcn/ui

implementation kit

needs agent-authored kitcompatibility fallback
shadcn compatibility only
The generated theme variables are available, but the polished shadcn component recipes and shots have not been authored by the Katagami agent yet.
fallbackprimitives render
Compatibility proof
Local shadcn-style primitives accept the generated theme variables.
primaryaccentsurfacemutedwarningerror
table rhythm
buttonok
cardok
inputok
recommendedcompatibility fallback

DESIGN.md with shadcn

Copy this when the target app uses shadcn/ui. It packages the Katagami DESIGN.md context with the install list, theme variables, component recipes, preview-shot contract, and starter TSX in one Markdown companion.

advanced implementation filesoptional machine-readable theme, CSS, TSX starter, recipes, and preview contract
shadcn add
npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table
theme css
:root {
  --background: #FBF8F1;
  --foreground: #45423D;
  --card: #FFFDF8;
  --card-foreground: #45423D;
  --popover: #FFFDF8;
  --popover-foreground: #45423D;
  --primary: #DFA9B4;
  --primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --secondary: #BFDCEB;
  --secondary-foreground: #111111;
  --muted: #6f6257;
  --muted-foreground: #45423D;
  --accent: #B8D7C2;
  --accent-foreground: #111111;
  --destructive: #F1D2D0;
  --border: #E9E1D6;
  --input: #E9E1D6;
  --ring: #B8D7C2;
  --chart-1: #DFA9B4;
  --chart-2: #BFDCEB;
  --chart-3: #B8D7C2;
  --chart-4: #D8E8D7;
  --chart-5: #D6A85A;
  --sidebar: #FFFDF8;
  --sidebar-foreground: #45423D;
  --sidebar-primary: #DFA9B4;
  --sidebar-primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-accent: #86B7CF;
  --sidebar-accent-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-border: #E9E1D6;
  --sidebar-ring: #B8D7C2;
  --radius: 24px;
}

.dark {
  --background: #0f1115;
  --foreground: #f8fafc;
  --card: #181b22;
  --card-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --popover: #181b22;
  --popover-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --primary: #DFA9B4;
  --primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --secondary: #252a33;
  --secondary-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --muted: #252a33;
  --muted-foreground: #a1a1aa;
  --accent: #B8D7C2;
  --accent-foreground: #111111;
  --destructive: #F1D2D0;
  --border: #303642;
  --input: #303642;
  --ring: #B8D7C2;
  --chart-1: #DFA9B4;
  --chart-2: #BFDCEB;
  --chart-3: #B8D7C2;
  --chart-4: #D8E8D7;
  --chart-5: #D6A85A;
  --sidebar: #181b22;
  --sidebar-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --sidebar-primary: #DFA9B4;
  --sidebar-primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-accent: #B8D7C2;
  --sidebar-accent-foreground: #111111;
  --sidebar-border: #303642;
  --sidebar-ring: #B8D7C2;
  --radius: 24px;
}
tsx starter
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 LycheeSodaEditorialMinimalismShadcnKit() {
  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">Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism</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>
  );
}
theme JSONcompatibility fallback
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "lychee-soda-editorial-minimalism",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#FBF8F1",
      "foreground": "#45423D",
      "card": "#FFFDF8",
      "card-foreground": "#45423D",
      "popover": "#FFFDF8",
      "popover-foreground": "#45423D",
      "primary": "#DFA9B4",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#BFDCEB",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#6f6257",
      "muted-foreground": "#45423D",
      "accent": "#B8D7C2",
      "accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "destructive": "#F1D2D0",
      "border": "#E9E1D6",
      "input": "#E9E1D6",
      "ring": "#B8D7C2",
      "chart-1": "#DFA9B4",
      "chart-2": "#BFDCEB",
      "chart-3": "#B8D7C2",
      "chart-4": "#D8E8D7",
      "chart-5": "#D6A85A",
      "sidebar": "#FFFDF8",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#45423D",
      "sidebar-primary": "#DFA9B4",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#86B7CF",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#E9E1D6",
      "sidebar-ring": "#B8D7C2",
      "radius": "24px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#DFA9B4",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#B8D7C2",
      "accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "destructive": "#F1D2D0",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#B8D7C2",
      "chart-1": "#DFA9B4",
      "chart-2": "#BFDCEB",
      "chart-3": "#B8D7C2",
      "chart-4": "#D8E8D7",
      "chart-5": "#D6A85A",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#DFA9B4",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#B8D7C2",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#B8D7C2",
      "radius": "24px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019e0a7c-d84b-7d72-88db-78b3882d8479",
    "slug": "lychee-soda-editorial-minimalism",
    "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": {
      "borders": [
        "accent_width",
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "colors": [
        "accent",
        "background",
        "border",
        "error",
        "info",
        "muted",
        "primary",
        "secondary",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "text",
        "warning"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ],
      "radii": [
        "full",
        "lg",
        "md",
        "none",
        "sm"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "typography": [
        "base_size",
        "body_font",
        "google_fonts_url",
        "heading_font",
        "letter_spacing",
        "line_height",
        "mono_font",
        "scale_ratio"
      ]
    }
  }
}
component recipescompatibility fallback
# Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism shadcn/ui Components

Artifact: `component-recipes-v1`
Author: `katagami-ui-projection`
Language ID: `en-019e0a7c-d84b-7d72-88db-78b3882d8479`
Slug: `lychee-soda-editorial-minimalism`

## Intent

Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism is a quiet reading-first Katagami language for dew-fresh product and editorial interfaces. It treats the page like a milky sheet of Japanese stationery: warm off-white space carries the work, typography explains the system, and translucent lychee, soda, and mint accents appear only as small pieces of refracted candy. The language is youthful without becoming toy-like because softness is expressed through air, tone, and material honesty rather than cartoons, rainbow color, or excessive blur.

## 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:

{
  "accent": "#B8D7C2",
  "background": "#FBF8F1",
  "border": "#E9E1D6",
  "error": "#F1D2D0",
  "info": "#86B7CF",
  "muted": "#6f6257",
  "primary": "#DFA9B4",
  "secondary": "#BFDCEB",
  "success": "#D8E8D7",
  "surface": "#FFFDF8",
  "text": "#45423D",
  "warning": "#D6A85A"
}

Typography:

{
  "base_size": "16px",
  "body_font": "Sarabun",
  "google_fonts_url": "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fraunces:opsz,wght@9..144,500;9..144,600&family=Sarabun:wght@300;400;500;600&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500&display=swap",
  "heading_font": "Fraunces",
  "letter_spacing": "-0.02em",
  "line_height": 1.58,
  "mono_font": "IBM Plex Mono",
  "scale_ratio": 1.22
}

## Visual character to preserve

- A 12-column editorial grid with a narrow left reading rail, wide milky negative space, and content cards aligned to long text measures rather than dashboard tiles.
- Warm off-white body background layered with tone-based surface containers using 1px translucent borders and almost no cast shadow.
- Sparse candy accents rendered as tiny pill chips, hairline top glints, and small corner beads in lychee blush, soda blue, and mint only.
- Typography uses soft humanist sans headings, calm serif reading passages, low-chroma gray text, and consistent -0.02em tracking for a refined editorial texture.
- Depth is created with inset dew highlights, white overlays, and tonal separation while keeping all readable text on solid milky surfaces.

## ShadSync visual profile

{
  "family": "paper-collage",
  "material": "paper",
  "contour": "pebble",
  "border": "solid",
  "underlay": true,
  "grain": true,
  "stickerBadges": false,
  "motion": "still",
  "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/lychee-soda-editorial-minimalism/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: Start with black-gray editorial typography on milky white before adding any accent color.; Use lychee blush for one active or primary moment, soda blue for informational rules, and mint/calamansi only for tiny success or freshness cues.; Keep translucent material at edges, chips, and highlights while placing all text on solid warm surfaces.; Prefer 1px borders, inset white highlights, and tonal layers over shadows.; Use generous line-height, narrow reading measures, and aligned metadata to reinforce editorial structure.; Let empty space remain empty; the absence of ornament is part of the sweetness.; Use small rounded pills and 24px cards consistently, avoiding arbitrary radius changes.
- Do not: Do not use rainbow palettes, neon gradients, or loud multicolor backgrounds.; Do not make gummy buttons, cartoon stickers, mascots, oversized bubbles, or toy-like controls.; Do not put body text over blur, transparency, images, or candy color.; Do not default to generic pastel SaaS dashboards with many equal cards.; Do not add decorative blobs or illustrations simply to fill space.; Do not use heavy drop shadows, black glass, or high-chroma purple-blue gradients.; Do not exceed three accent families: lychee, soda, and mint/calamansi.

## 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 LycheeSodaEditorialMinimalismShadcnKit() {
  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">Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism</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

{
  "breakpoints": "mobile <= 640px; tablet 641-980px; desktop >= 981px; large editorial frame maxes at 1180px and stays centered.",
  "density": "Airy editorial density with approximately 64-96px desktop section spacing, because the identity depends on quiet pauses and readable sequence rather than visual abundance.",
  "grid": "Desktop uses a 12-column grid inside a 1180px max-width frame with 24px gutters: 2 columns for the rail, 6 for reading, 4 for supporting surfaces. Tablet becomes 6 columns; mobile is a single column with preserved 24px page margins.",
  "responsive": "On smaller viewports the rail becomes a horizontal quiet index, support cards follow the article, and candy beads remain small so they never compete with text.",
  "whitespace": "Whitespace is the primary material. Leave large warm off-white fields around headings, between groups, and inside cards; do not fill empty space with illustrations or blobs."
}
preview shotscompatibility fallback
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  "version": "preview-shots-v1",
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  "schema": "katagami:shadcn-preview-shots/renderable-v1",
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    "name": "Lychee Soda Editorial Minimalism",
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  },
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    "badge",
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    "checkbox",
    "switch",
    "slider",
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    "dropdown-menu",
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  ],
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    "A 12-column editorial grid with a narrow left reading rail, wide milky negative space, and content cards aligned to long text measures rather than dashboard tiles.",
    "Warm off-white body background layered with tone-based surface containers using 1px translucent borders and almost no cast shadow.",
    "Sparse candy accents rendered as tiny pill chips, hairline top glints, and small corner beads in lychee blush, soda blue, and mint only.",
    "Typography uses soft humanist sans headings, calm serif reading passages, low-chroma gray text, and consistent -0.02em tracking for a refined editorial texture.",
    "Depth is created with inset dew highlights, white overlays, and tonal separation while keeping all readable text on solid milky surfaces."
  ],
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    "material": "paper",
    "contour": "pebble",
    "border": "solid",
    "underlay": true,
    "grain": true,
    "stickerBadges": false,
    "motion": "still",
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      "primary",
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      "muted"
    ]
  },
  "shots": [
    {
      "id": "application-shell",
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        "input",
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        "tabs",
        "badge",
        "separator",
        "table"
      ],
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        "primary and secondary actions",
        "card hierarchy",
        "filterable state",
        "table or list density"
      ],
      "avoid": [
        "component inventory walls",
        "placeholder-only content",
        "generic rounded SaaS chrome"
      ],
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        "secondaryAction": "Review states",
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          {
            "label": "components",
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          },
          {
            "label": "states",
            "value": "ready"
          },
          {
            "label": "density",
            "value": "balanced",
            "tone": "warning"
          }
        ],
        "rows": [
          {
            "label": "Primary flow",
            "value": "mapped",
            "status": "active"
          },
          {
            "label": "Token coverage",
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          },
          {
            "label": "Responsive proof",
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          }
        ],
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          "Draft"
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "detail-editor",
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        "button",
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        "input",
        "textarea",
        "select",
        "checkbox",
        "switch",
        "slider",
        "dialog",
        "sheet"
      ],
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      "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",
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          {
            "label": "Component family",
            "value": "Narrative cards"
          },
          {
            "label": "State treatment",
            "value": "Visible focus + validation"
          },
          {
            "label": "Motion",
            "value": "Small lift, no opacity-only fade"
          }
        ],
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          "Confirmed"
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "data-operations",
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        "button",
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        "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"
      ],
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        "secondaryAction": "Filter",
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          {
            "label": "Button hierarchy",
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            "status": "ok"
          },
          {
            "label": "Table rhythm",
            "value": "needs pass",
            "status": "watch"
          },
          {
            "label": "Empty state",
            "value": "designed",
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          }
        ],
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        ]
      }
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    },
    {
      "primitive": "card",
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    },
    {
      "primitive": "input",
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    },
    {
      "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": [
      "Start with black-gray editorial typography on milky white before adding any accent color.",
      "Use lychee blush for one active or primary moment, soda blue for informational rules, and mint/calamansi only for tiny success or freshness cues.",
      "Keep translucent material at edges, chips, and highlights while placing all text on solid warm surfaces.",
      "Prefer 1px borders, inset white highlights, and tonal layers over shadows.",
      "Use generous line-height, narrow reading measures, and aligned metadata to reinforce editorial structure.",
      "Let empty space remain empty; the absence of ornament is part of the sweetness.",
      "Use small rounded pills and 24px cards consistently, avoiding arbitrary radius changes."
    ],
    "dont": [
      "Do not use rainbow palettes, neon gradients, or loud multicolor backgrounds.",
      "Do not make gummy buttons, cartoon stickers, mascots, oversized bubbles, or toy-like controls.",
      "Do not put body text over blur, transparency, images, or candy color.",
      "Do not default to generic pastel SaaS dashboards with many equal cards.",
      "Do not add decorative blobs or illustrations simply to fill space.",
      "Do not use heavy drop shadows, black glass, or high-chroma purple-blue gradients.",
      "Do not exceed three accent families: lychee, soda, and mint/calamansi."
    ]
  }
}
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