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Civic Arcade Pluralism

A portable design language for agents: download the markdown first, then inspect the preview, tokens, and rules as needed.

Download DESIGN.md

Portable DESIGN.md source of truth for most agents and apps.

the spec

specification

philosophy
summary
A postmodern product language for civic decision tools that turns Memphis geometry and historic facade quotations into a disciplined digital operating surface: playful, plural, high-chroma, but organized around usable review workflows rather than decorative chaos.
values
Plural forms held by a strict interaction gridVisual wit that clarifies workflow ownership and stateHigh-chroma civic optimism with off-white breathing roomHistoric quotation translated into interface structureProduct surfaces that feel authored, not themed
anti-values
×Generic white SaaS cards with color accents pasted on top×Random Memphis confetti that does not organize hierarchy×Soft arbitrary radii or mixed corner systems×Postmodern references that make controls harder to read
tokens
borders4 items
accent width
6px
character
black construction-line borders with checker keys and colored side rails for state
default width
3px
style
solid
colors12 items
accent
#F6D800
background
#F8F3E8
border
#171313
error
#C9152D
info
#6B5BFF
muted
#6B625B
primary
#0057D9
secondary
#E11931
success
#12A879
surface
#FFFBEF
text
#171313
warning
#F6B400
motion3 items
duration
160ms
easing
cubic-bezier(.2,.9,.2,1)
philosophy
controls nudge diagonally by the same 4px offset as their color shadows, making interaction feel like sliding printed blocks into register
radii5 items
full
9999px
lg
10px
md
6px
none
0
sm
0
shadows3 items
lg
8px 8px 0 #E11931
md
5px 5px 0 #0057D9
sm
3px 3px 0 #171313
spacing2 items
base
8px
scale
4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64
surfaces3 items
bg pattern
thin mint grid with isolated lemon disk and lilac arch underlays used only to define zones
card style
3px black bordered slab, clipped 6px pseudo-corners, colored ownership tab on one edge
treatment
off-white civic slabs over sparse mint grid fields with controlled geometric zoning
typography8 items
base size
16px
body font
Atkinson Hyperlegible
google fonts url
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Atkinson+Hyperlegible:wght@400;700&family=Oswald:wght@500;700&family=Space+Mono:wght@400;700&display=swap
heading font
Oswald
letter spacing
-0.01em
line height
1.48
mono font
Space Mono
scale ratio
1.25
rules
composition
Build the screen around one dominant artifact: a civic proposal board with offset slabs for agenda, map, vote ledger, and review queue. Memphis references must form zones and state markers rather than float as confetti.
density
Balanced density: content panels may be information-rich, but every bright panel needs adjacent off-white spacing and no more than three dominant brights in a viewport.
hierarchy
Use Oswald for large public-facing declarations, Atkinson Hyperlegible for task content, and Space Mono for codes, statuses, and numeric ledgers. Important items gain colored side rails and checker keys before extra font weight.
signature patterns
Checkerboard corner keys appear only on selected or system-critical slabs, changing from black/off-white to cobalt/lemon when the item becomes active.Clipped-corner controls carry a 4px directional color offset; hover and pressed states translate the control toward that offset instead of fading.Facade-arch underlays sit behind major navigation and summary zones, quoting postmodern architecture while preserving plain readable foreground panels.Color side-tabs encode ownership across cards, table rows, and dialog sections, giving each workflow actor a visible structural rail.
layout
breakpoints

mobile 375px, tablet 768px, desktop 1200px and above

grid
Twelve-column desktop grid with 24px gutters and controlled half-cell offsets; tablet collapses to six columns and mobile to one column with tabs becoming horizontal chips.
whitespace
Use off-white margins as silence between chroma blocks; leave at least 24px between unrelated slabs and keep bright underlays behind no more than one third of the viewport.
guidance
do
  • Anchor every playful move to navigation, ownership, status, or hierarchy.
  • Keep cobalt, cherry, and lemon as the primary bright trio, using mint and lilac mostly as underlay or quiet support.
  • Use black borders and mono labels consistently so plural forms still feel like one system.
  • Make responsive layouts re-stack into clear proposal-reading order.
avoid
  • Do not scatter Memphis shapes as decorative filler without workflow meaning.
  • Do not use generic blurred shadows, glassmorphism, or soft SaaS cards.
  • Do not let more than three bright colors dominate the same surface.
  • Do not mix rounded pills, blobs, and sharp cards without the clipped-corner rule.
katagami spec
# Civic Arcade Pluralism

## Philosophy

A postmodern product language for civic decision tools that turns Memphis geometry and historic facade quotations into a disciplined digital operating surface: playful, plural, high-chroma, but organized around usable review workflows rather than decorative chaos.

### Values

- Plural forms held by a strict interaction grid
- Visual wit that clarifies workflow ownership and state
- High-chroma civic optimism with off-white breathing room
- Historic quotation translated into interface structure
- Product surfaces that feel authored, not themed

### Anti-Values

- Generic white SaaS cards with color accents pasted on top
- Random Memphis confetti that does not organize hierarchy
- Soft arbitrary radii or mixed corner systems
- Postmodern references that make controls harder to read

### Visual Character

- Screens use a 12-column modular grid with deliberate half-cell offsets, so major panels step like a playful city elevation while controls remain aligned inside each module.
- Primary surfaces are off-white slabs with 3px black borders, cobalt or cherry side-tabs, and small checkerboard corner keys that mark ownership and active state.
- Interactive controls use a single committed geometry: squared rectangles with 6px clipped pseudo-corners and one-directional 4px color shadow offsets instead of soft drop shadows.
- Backgrounds combine sparse mint grid lines, oversized lemon disks, and lilac arch fragments as structural zones behind content rather than scattered decoration.
- Typography pairs condensed display headlines with a readable humanist sans body and compact mono labels, creating distinct voices for proclamations, work text, and system codes.

## Tokens

### Borders

- **Accent Width**: 6px
- **Character**: black construction-line borders with checker keys and colored side rails for state
- **Default Width**: 3px
- **Style**: solid

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| accent | `#F6D800` |
| background | `#F8F3E8` |
| border | `#171313` |
| error | `#C9152D` |
| info | `#6B5BFF` |
| muted | `#6B625B` |
| primary | `#0057D9` |
| secondary | `#E11931` |
| success | `#12A879` |
| surface | `#FFFBEF` |
| text | `#171313` |
| warning | `#F6B400` |

### Motion

- **Duration**: 160ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(.2,.9,.2,1)
- **Philosophy**: controls nudge diagonally by the same 4px offset as their color shadows, making interaction feel like sliding printed blocks into register

### Radii

- **Full**: 9999px
- **Lg**: 10px
- **Md**: 6px
- **None**: 0
- **Sm**: 0

### Shadows

- **Lg**: 8px 8px 0 #E11931
- **Md**: 5px 5px 0 #0057D9
- **Sm**: 3px 3px 0 #171313

### Spacing

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

### Surfaces

- **Bg Pattern**: thin mint grid with isolated lemon disk and lilac arch underlays used only to define zones
- **Card Style**: 3px black bordered slab, clipped 6px pseudo-corners, colored ownership tab on one edge
- **Treatment**: off-white civic slabs over sparse mint grid fields with controlled geometric zoning

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 16px
- **Body Font**: Atkinson Hyperlegible
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Atkinson+Hyperlegible:wght@400;700&family=Oswald:wght@500;700&family=Space+Mono:wght@400;700&display=swap
- **Heading Font**: Oswald
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.01em
- **Line Height**: 1.48
- **Mono Font**: Space Mono
- **Scale Ratio**: 1.25

## Rules

### Composition

Build the screen around one dominant artifact: a civic proposal board with offset slabs for agenda, map, vote ledger, and review queue. Memphis references must form zones and state markers rather than float as confetti.

### Density

Balanced density: content panels may be information-rich, but every bright panel needs adjacent off-white spacing and no more than three dominant brights in a viewport.

### Hierarchy

Use Oswald for large public-facing declarations, Atkinson Hyperlegible for task content, and Space Mono for codes, statuses, and numeric ledgers. Important items gain colored side rails and checker keys before extra font weight.

### Signature Patterns

- Checkerboard corner keys appear only on selected or system-critical slabs, changing from black/off-white to cobalt/lemon when the item becomes active.
- Clipped-corner controls carry a 4px directional color offset; hover and pressed states translate the control toward that offset instead of fading.
- Facade-arch underlays sit behind major navigation and summary zones, quoting postmodern architecture while preserving plain readable foreground panels.
- Color side-tabs encode ownership across cards, table rows, and dialog sections, giving each workflow actor a visible structural rail.

## Layout

### Breakpoints

mobile 375px, tablet 768px, desktop 1200px and above

### Grid

Twelve-column desktop grid with 24px gutters and controlled half-cell offsets; tablet collapses to six columns and mobile to one column with tabs becoming horizontal chips.

### Whitespace

Use off-white margins as silence between chroma blocks; leave at least 24px between unrelated slabs and keep bright underlays behind no more than one third of the viewport.

## Guidance

### Do

- Anchor every playful move to navigation, ownership, status, or hierarchy.
- Keep cobalt, cherry, and lemon as the primary bright trio, using mint and lilac mostly as underlay or quiet support.
- Use black borders and mono labels consistently so plural forms still feel like one system.
- Make responsive layouts re-stack into clear proposal-reading order.

### Don't

- Do not scatter Memphis shapes as decorative filler without workflow meaning.
- Do not use generic blurred shadows, glassmorphism, or soft SaaS cards.
- Do not let more than three bright colors dominate the same surface.
- Do not mix rounded pills, blobs, and sharp cards without the clipped-corner rule.
DESIGN.md
---
version: "alpha"
name: "Civic Arcade Pluralism"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  accent: "#F6D800"
  background: "#F8F3E8"
  border: "#171313"
  error: "#C9152D"
  info: "#6B5BFF"
  muted: "#6B625B"
  primary: "#0057D9"
  secondary: "#E11931"
  success: "#12A879"
  surface: "#FFFBEF"
  text: "#171313"
  warning: "#F6B400"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Oswald"
    fontSize: "1.953rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.01em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Oswald"
    fontSize: "1.563rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.01em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "Atkinson Hyperlegible"
    fontSize: "16px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.48
    letterSpacing: "-0.01em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "Space Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  full: "9999px"
  lg: "10px"
  md: "6px"
  none: "0px"
  sm: "0px"
spacing:
  base: "8px"
  xs: "4px"
  sm: "8px"
  md: "12px"
  lg: "16px"
  xl: "24px"
  2xl: "32px"
  3xl: "48px"
  4xl: "64px"
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: "#ffffff"
    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"
---

# Civic Arcade Pluralism

## Overview

A postmodern product language for civic decision tools that turns Memphis geometry and historic facade quotations into a disciplined digital operating surface: playful, plural, high-chroma, but organized around usable review workflows rather than decorative chaos.

### Values

- Plural forms held by a strict interaction grid
- Visual wit that clarifies workflow ownership and state
- High-chroma civic optimism with off-white breathing room
- Historic quotation translated into interface structure
- Product surfaces that feel authored, not themed

### Anti-Values

- Generic white SaaS cards with color accents pasted on top
- Random Memphis confetti that does not organize hierarchy
- Soft arbitrary radii or mixed corner systems
- Postmodern references that make controls harder to read

### Visual Character

- Screens use a 12-column modular grid with deliberate half-cell offsets, so major panels step like a playful city elevation while controls remain aligned inside each module.
- Primary surfaces are off-white slabs with 3px black borders, cobalt or cherry side-tabs, and small checkerboard corner keys that mark ownership and active state.
- Interactive controls use a single committed geometry: squared rectangles with 6px clipped pseudo-corners and one-directional 4px color shadow offsets instead of soft drop shadows.
- Backgrounds combine sparse mint grid lines, oversized lemon disks, and lilac arch fragments as structural zones behind content rather than scattered decoration.
- Typography pairs condensed display headlines with a readable humanist sans body and compact mono labels, creating distinct voices for proclamations, work text, and system codes.

## 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 | `#F6D800` |
| background | `#F8F3E8` |
| border | `#171313` |
| error | `#C9152D` |
| info | `#6B5BFF` |
| muted | `#6B625B` |
| primary | `#0057D9` |
| secondary | `#E11931` |
| success | `#12A879` |
| surface | `#FFFBEF` |
| text | `#171313` |
| warning | `#F6B400` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: Oswald, 1.953rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Oswald, 1.563rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Atkinson Hyperlegible, 16px, weight 400, line-height 1.48.
- **Label-Md**: Space 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`

### Breakpoints

mobile 375px, tablet 768px, desktop 1200px and above

### Grid

Twelve-column desktop grid with 24px gutters and controlled half-cell offsets; tablet collapses to six columns and mobile to one column with tabs becoming horizontal chips.

### Whitespace

Use off-white margins as silence between chroma blocks; leave at least 24px between unrelated slabs and keep bright underlays behind no more than one third of the viewport.

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Lg**: 8px 8px 0 #E11931
- **Md**: 5px 5px 0 #0057D9
- **Sm**: 3px 3px 0 #171313

## Shapes

### Rounded

- **Full**: `9999px`
- **Lg**: `10px`
- **Md**: `6px`
- **None**: `0px`
- **Sm**: `0px`

### Surfaces

- **Bg Pattern**: thin mint grid with isolated lemon disk and lilac arch underlays used only to define zones
- **Card Style**: 3px black bordered slab, clipped 6px pseudo-corners, colored ownership tab on one edge
- **Treatment**: off-white civic slabs over sparse mint grid fields with controlled geometric zoning

### Borders

- **Accent Width**: 6px
- **Character**: black construction-line borders with checker keys and colored side rails for state
- **Default Width**: 3px
- **Style**: solid

## Components

### Composition

Build the screen around one dominant artifact: a civic proposal board with offset slabs for agenda, map, vote ledger, and review queue. Memphis references must form zones and state markers rather than float as confetti.

### Density

Balanced density: content panels may be information-rich, but every bright panel needs adjacent off-white spacing and no more than three dominant brights in a viewport.

### Hierarchy

Use Oswald for large public-facing declarations, Atkinson Hyperlegible for task content, and Space Mono for codes, statuses, and numeric ledgers. Important items gain colored side rails and checker keys before extra font weight.

### Signature Patterns

- Checkerboard corner keys appear only on selected or system-critical slabs, changing from black/off-white to cobalt/lemon when the item becomes active.
- Clipped-corner controls carry a 4px directional color offset; hover and pressed states translate the control toward that offset instead of fading.
- Facade-arch underlays sit behind major navigation and summary zones, quoting postmodern architecture while preserving plain readable foreground panels.
- Color side-tabs encode ownership across cards, table rows, and dialog sections, giving each workflow actor a visible structural rail.

## 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-019e6677-38d1-7773-8006-b41c8b822f61/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 Anchor every playful move to navigation, ownership, status, or hierarchy.
- Do Keep cobalt, cherry, and lemon as the primary bright trio, using mint and lilac mostly as underlay or quiet support.
- Do Use black borders and mono labels consistently so plural forms still feel like one system.
- Do Make responsive layouts re-stack into clear proposal-reading order.
- Don't Do not scatter Memphis shapes as decorative filler without workflow meaning.
- Don't Do not use generic blurred shadows, glassmorphism, or soft SaaS cards.
- Don't Do not let more than three bright colors dominate the same surface.
- Don't Do not mix rounded pills, blobs, and sharp cards without the clipped-corner rule.
shadcn/ui theme
```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "civic-arcade-pluralism",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Civic Arcade Pluralism shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#F8F3E8",
      "foreground": "#171313",
      "card": "#FFFBEF",
      "card-foreground": "#171313",
      "popover": "#FFFBEF",
      "popover-foreground": "#171313",
      "primary": "#0057D9",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#E11931",
      "secondary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "muted": "#6B625B",
      "muted-foreground": "#171313",
      "accent": "#F6D800",
      "accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "destructive": "#C9152D",
      "border": "#171313",
      "input": "#171313",
      "ring": "#F6D800",
      "chart-1": "#0057D9",
      "chart-2": "#E11931",
      "chart-3": "#F6D800",
      "chart-4": "#12A879",
      "chart-5": "#F6B400",
      "sidebar": "#FFFBEF",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#171313",
      "sidebar-primary": "#0057D9",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#6B5BFF",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#171313",
      "sidebar-ring": "#F6D800",
      "radius": "6px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#0057D9",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#F6D800",
      "accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "destructive": "#C9152D",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#F6D800",
      "chart-1": "#0057D9",
      "chart-2": "#E11931",
      "chart-3": "#F6D800",
      "chart-4": "#12A879",
      "chart-5": "#F6B400",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#0057D9",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#F6D800",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#F6D800",
      "radius": "6px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019e6677-38d1-7773-8006-b41c8b822f61",
    "slug": "civic-arcade-pluralism",
    "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 · civic-arcade-pluralism
DESIGN.md

at a glance

Palette

Typography

headline-lgOswald · 31px · 700

The quick brown fox jumps

headline-mdOswald · 25px · 600

The quick brown fox jumps

body-mdAtkinson Hyperlegible · 16px · 400

The quick brown fox jumps

label-mdSpace 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

Shape

full9999px
lg10px
md6px
none0px
sm0px
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: #F8F3E8;
  --foreground: #171313;
  --card: #FFFBEF;
  --card-foreground: #171313;
  --popover: #FFFBEF;
  --popover-foreground: #171313;
  --primary: #0057D9;
  --primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --secondary: #E11931;
  --secondary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --muted: #6B625B;
  --muted-foreground: #171313;
  --accent: #F6D800;
  --accent-foreground: #111111;
  --destructive: #C9152D;
  --border: #171313;
  --input: #171313;
  --ring: #F6D800;
  --chart-1: #0057D9;
  --chart-2: #E11931;
  --chart-3: #F6D800;
  --chart-4: #12A879;
  --chart-5: #F6B400;
  --sidebar: #FFFBEF;
  --sidebar-foreground: #171313;
  --sidebar-primary: #0057D9;
  --sidebar-primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-accent: #6B5BFF;
  --sidebar-accent-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-border: #171313;
  --sidebar-ring: #F6D800;
  --radius: 6px;
}

.dark {
  --background: #0f1115;
  --foreground: #f8fafc;
  --card: #181b22;
  --card-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --popover: #181b22;
  --popover-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --primary: #0057D9;
  --primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --secondary: #252a33;
  --secondary-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --muted: #252a33;
  --muted-foreground: #a1a1aa;
  --accent: #F6D800;
  --accent-foreground: #111111;
  --destructive: #C9152D;
  --border: #303642;
  --input: #303642;
  --ring: #F6D800;
  --chart-1: #0057D9;
  --chart-2: #E11931;
  --chart-3: #F6D800;
  --chart-4: #12A879;
  --chart-5: #F6B400;
  --sidebar: #181b22;
  --sidebar-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --sidebar-primary: #0057D9;
  --sidebar-primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-accent: #F6D800;
  --sidebar-accent-foreground: #111111;
  --sidebar-border: #303642;
  --sidebar-ring: #F6D800;
  --radius: 6px;
}
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 CivicArcadePluralismShadcnKit() {
  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">Civic Arcade Pluralism</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 JSONstored + verified
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "cssVars": {
    "dark": {
      "accent": "#F6D800",
      "accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "border": "#303642",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "chart-1": "#0057D9",
      "chart-2": "#E11931",
      "chart-3": "#F6D800",
      "chart-4": "#12A879",
      "chart-5": "#F6B400",
      "destructive": "#C9152D",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "input": "#303642",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#0057D9",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "radius": "6px",
      "ring": "#F6D800",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-accent": "#F6D800",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#0057D9",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-ring": "#F6D800"
    },
    "light": {
      "accent": "#F6D800",
      "accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "background": "#F8F3E8",
      "border": "#171313",
      "card": "#FFFBEF",
      "card-foreground": "#171313",
      "chart-1": "#0057D9",
      "chart-2": "#E11931",
      "chart-3": "#F6D800",
      "chart-4": "#12A879",
      "chart-5": "#F6B400",
      "destructive": "#C9152D",
      "foreground": "#171313",
      "input": "#171313",
      "muted": "#6B625B",
      "muted-foreground": "#171313",
      "popover": "#FFFBEF",
      "popover-foreground": "#171313",
      "primary": "#0057D9",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "radius": "6px",
      "ring": "#F6D800",
      "secondary": "#E11931",
      "secondary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar": "#FFFBEF",
      "sidebar-accent": "#6B5BFF",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#171313",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#171313",
      "sidebar-primary": "#0057D9",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-ring": "#F6D800"
    },
    "theme": {}
  },
  "meta": {
    "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",
    "languageId": "en-019e6677-38d1-7773-8006-b41c8b822f61",
    "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"
      ]
    },
    "slug": "civic-arcade-pluralism",
    "source": "katagami"
  },
  "name": "civic-arcade-pluralism",
  "title": "Civic Arcade Pluralism shadcn Theme",
  "type": "registry:theme"
}
component recipescompatibility fallback
# Civic Arcade Pluralism shadcn/ui Components

Artifact: `component-recipes-v1`
Author: `katagami-ui-projection`
Language ID: `en-019e6677-38d1-7773-8006-b41c8b822f61`
Slug: `civic-arcade-pluralism`

## Intent

A postmodern product language for civic decision tools that turns Memphis geometry and historic facade quotations into a disciplined digital operating surface: playful, plural, high-chroma, but organized around usable review workflows rather than decorative chaos.

## 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": "#F6D800",
  "background": "#F8F3E8",
  "border": "#171313",
  "error": "#C9152D",
  "info": "#6B5BFF",
  "muted": "#6B625B",
  "primary": "#0057D9",
  "secondary": "#E11931",
  "success": "#12A879",
  "surface": "#FFFBEF",
  "text": "#171313",
  "warning": "#F6B400"
}

Typography:

{
  "base_size": "16px",
  "body_font": "Atkinson Hyperlegible",
  "google_fonts_url": "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Atkinson+Hyperlegible:wght@400;700&family=Oswald:wght@500;700&family=Space+Mono:wght@400;700&display=swap",
  "heading_font": "Oswald",
  "letter_spacing": "-0.01em",
  "line_height": 1.48,
  "mono_font": "Space Mono",
  "scale_ratio": 1.25
}

## Visual character to preserve

- Screens use a 12-column modular grid with deliberate half-cell offsets, so major panels step like a playful city elevation while controls remain aligned inside each module.
- Primary surfaces are off-white slabs with 3px black borders, cobalt or cherry side-tabs, and small checkerboard corner keys that mark ownership and active state.
- Interactive controls use a single committed geometry: squared rectangles with 6px clipped pseudo-corners and one-directional 4px color shadow offsets instead of soft drop shadows.
- Backgrounds combine sparse mint grid lines, oversized lemon disks, and lilac arch fragments as structural zones behind content rather than scattered decoration.
- Typography pairs condensed display headlines with a readable humanist sans body and compact mono labels, creating distinct voices for proclamations, work text, and system codes.

## ShadSync visual profile

{
  "family": "system",
  "material": "flat",
  "contour": "default",
  "border": "solid",
  "underlay": true,
  "grain": false,
  "stickerBadges": false,
  "motion": "still",
  "density": "dense",
  "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/civic-arcade-pluralism/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: Anchor every playful move to navigation, ownership, status, or hierarchy.; Keep cobalt, cherry, and lemon as the primary bright trio, using mint and lilac mostly as underlay or quiet support.; Use black borders and mono labels consistently so plural forms still feel like one system.; Make responsive layouts re-stack into clear proposal-reading order.
- Do not: Do not scatter Memphis shapes as decorative filler without workflow meaning.; Do not use generic blurred shadows, glassmorphism, or soft SaaS cards.; Do not let more than three bright colors dominate the same surface.; Do not mix rounded pills, blobs, and sharp cards without the clipped-corner rule.

## 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 CivicArcadePluralismShadcnKit() {
  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">Civic Arcade Pluralism</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 375px, tablet 768px, desktop 1200px and above",
  "grid": "Twelve-column desktop grid with 24px gutters and controlled half-cell offsets; tablet collapses to six columns and mobile to one column with tabs becoming horizontal chips.",
  "whitespace": "Use off-white margins as silence between chroma blocks; leave at least 24px between unrelated slabs and keep bright underlays behind no more than one third of the viewport."
}
preview shotscompatibility fallback
{
  "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-019e6677-38d1-7773-8006-b41c8b822f61",
    "name": "Civic Arcade Pluralism",
    "slug": "civic-arcade-pluralism"
  },
  "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": [
    "Screens use a 12-column modular grid with deliberate half-cell offsets, so major panels step like a playful city elevation while controls remain aligned inside each module.",
    "Primary surfaces are off-white slabs with 3px black borders, cobalt or cherry side-tabs, and small checkerboard corner keys that mark ownership and active state.",
    "Interactive controls use a single committed geometry: squared rectangles with 6px clipped pseudo-corners and one-directional 4px color shadow offsets instead of soft drop shadows.",
    "Backgrounds combine sparse mint grid lines, oversized lemon disks, and lilac arch fragments as structural zones behind content rather than scattered decoration.",
    "Typography pairs condensed display headlines with a readable humanist sans body and compact mono labels, creating distinct voices for proclamations, work text, and system codes."
  ],
  "visualProfile": {
    "family": "system",
    "material": "flat",
    "contour": "default",
    "border": "solid",
    "underlay": true,
    "grain": false,
    "stickerBadges": false,
    "motion": "still",
    "density": "dense",
    "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": "Civic Arcade Pluralism 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": [
      "Anchor every playful move to navigation, ownership, status, or hierarchy.",
      "Keep cobalt, cherry, and lemon as the primary bright trio, using mint and lilac mostly as underlay or quiet support.",
      "Use black borders and mono labels consistently so plural forms still feel like one system.",
      "Make responsive layouts re-stack into clear proposal-reading order."
    ],
    "dont": [
      "Do not scatter Memphis shapes as decorative filler without workflow meaning.",
      "Do not use generic blurred shadows, glassmorphism, or soft SaaS cards.",
      "Do not let more than three bright colors dominate the same surface.",
      "Do not mix rounded pills, blobs, and sharp cards without the clipped-corner rule."
    ]
  }
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