Regenerative Earth Materials

# Regenerative Earth Materials

## Philosophy

Regenerative Earth Materials translates clay, sienna, terracotta, umber, moss, oat, and stone neutrals into a digital product language for stewardship work: warm mineral surfaces, grounded botanical accents, and low-chroma support roles make operational software feel cultivated rather than extracted.

### Values

- Treat color as material provenance: every token should feel like fired clay, soil, mineral dust, oat fiber, moss, or weathered stone rather than abstract brand paint.
- Make sustainability visible through restraint, reuse, and repair logic: muted surfaces, durable edges, measured accent use, and useful environmental state labels.
- Translate 2026 regenerative visual language into accessible UI roles with warm backgrounds, grounded accents, low-chroma system feedback, and clear contrast hierarchy.
- Balance earth and ocean research directions by letting teal appear as a small water-cycle intelligence channel, never as a dominant synthetic SaaS blue.
- Prefer calm operational credibility for climate, materials, supply-chain, agriculture, circular-commerce, and ecological data products.

### Anti-Values

- No glossy eco-tech gradients, neon sustainability badges, generic leaf mascots, white SaaS dashboards, or high-saturation greenwashing.
- No monochrome beige wash that erases hierarchy; mineral neutrals must become distinct token ladders with readable roles.
- No decorative texture that compromises legibility, focus states, table scanning, or mobile responsiveness.

### Visual Character

- Layer oat and clay background panels with CSS radial mineral blooms and faint repeating soil-strata lines, keeping texture opacity below eight percent behind content.
- Use left-edge terracotta fired-slip borders on primary cards and dialogs, paired with square-notched corner masks made with clip-path polygons.
- Build token ladders as visible stacked swatches and status chips: umber for text, moss for regenerative progress, sienna for active controls, teal for water or info.
- Give controls a low-radius ceramic form with 1px stone borders, inset warm highlights, and focus rings that combine moss outer glow with dark umber outline.
- Compose screens as stewardship workbenches: wide inventory tables, sample cards, field notes, and compact metric ledgers separated by generous oat gutters.

## Tokens

### Borders

- **Accent Width**: 4px
- **Character**: weathered stone edges, notched card corners, and fired terracotta accent rails for active or high-value surfaces
- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Style**: solid with occasional double-rule separators for ledger modules

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| accent | `#C8754A` |
| background | `#F2E8D7` |
| border | `#B9A88F` |
| error | `#8F3E32` |
| info | `#3E6F6A` |
| muted | `#8C806F` |
| primary | `#9A4F2F` |
| secondary | `#5F6F46` |
| success | `#536B3D` |
| surface | `#E6D3B8` |
| text | `#33271D` |
| warning | `#B46834` |

### Motion

- **Duration**: 180ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(0.22, 0.61, 0.36, 1)
- **Philosophy**: Small tactile state changes only: controls settle like placed ceramic tags; avoid floating, bouncing, or glossy reveal effects.

### Radii

- **Full**: 9999px
- **Lg**: 14px
- **Md**: 8px
- **None**: 0
- **Sm**: 4px

### Shadows

- **Lg**: 0 2px 0 rgba(51,39,29,0.22), 0 28px 60px rgba(84,58,34,0.18)
- **Md**: 0 1px 0 rgba(51,39,29,0.20), 0 18px 34px rgba(84,58,34,0.13)
- **Sm**: 0 1px 0 rgba(51,39,29,0.18), 0 8px 18px rgba(84,58,34,0.08)

### Spacing

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

### Surfaces

- **Bg Pattern**: Radial clay blooms plus repeating-linear-gradient horizontal strata at very low opacity.
- **Card Style**: Stone-bordered cards with terracotta fired-slip accent rails, clipped notched corners, low radius, and restrained shadows.
- **Treatment**: Warm oat and clay panels with faint mineral grain, soil-strata linework, and matte ceramic inset highlights.

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 16px
- **Body Font**: Source Sans 3
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fraunces:opsz,wght@9..144,600;9..144,700&family=Source+Sans+3:wght@400;500;600;700&family=Fragment+Mono&display=swap
- **Heading Font**: Fraunces
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.012em
- **Line Height**: 1.52
- **Mono Font**: Fragment Mono
- **Scale Ratio**: 1.22

## Rules

### Composition

Use a stewardship workbench instead of a generic dashboard: one broad material-ledger table, a left sample rail, a warm field-note panel, and compact metric ledgers arranged on a 12-column grid with oat gutters.

### Density

Medium density with tables and chips allowed, but each dense module needs quiet oat margins and visible strata separators so the screen feels cultivated, not crowded.

### Hierarchy

Headings use Fraunces for earthy authority, operational labels use Source Sans 3 semibold uppercase, and numeric trace data uses Fragment Mono inside small clay or stone chips.

### Signature Patterns

- Apply terracotta left rails and clipped polygon corner notches to cards, sheets, dialogs, and table containers that represent material batches.
- Render palette roles as stacked mineral swatch ladders with tiny token labels, showing background, surface, border, text, accent, moss, and teal support states.
- Use low-opacity strata backgrounds and radial clay blooms only on large surfaces, never directly under small body text or form controls.
- Mark ecological status with low-chroma chips that combine a stone border, colored seed dot, and mono trace code rather than saturated filled badges.
- Use double-rule umber separators in tables and ledgers to evoke field notebooks, sample trays, and material provenance records.

## Layout

### Breakpoints

mobile <= 640px, tablet 641px-980px, desktop >= 981px; the ledger becomes stacked batch cards on mobile while token ladders stay visible.

### Density

Operationally medium: many real artifacts are present, but low-chroma support colors and quiet margins prevent alert fatigue.

### Grid

Desktop uses a 12-column max-width 1240px workbench grid; sample cards span 3 columns, the material ledger spans 6, and field notes span 3 with intentional asymmetry.

### Responsive

Preserve the scene order as sample intake, regenerative metrics, material ledger, field notes, then token ladder; do not collapse into equal marketing cards.

### Whitespace

Use broad oat gutters of 24-48px around modules and tighter 8-12px spacing inside chips, fields, and rows to preserve workbench calm.

## Guidance

### Do

- Use clay, sienna, terracotta, umber, moss, oat, stone, and restrained teal as tokenized roles with clear contrast and named product meaning.
- Design plausible regenerative product scenes: material-passport ledgers, soil sample intake, circular inventory, water-cycle notes, and supplier stewardship tasks.
- Keep texture behind large panels only and verify that tables, forms, chips, and dialog content remain crisp at mobile and desktop sizes.
- Use moss for regenerative success/progress, sienna or terracotta for primary action, teal for water/info, and umber for durable text hierarchy.
- Maintain visible focus rings and explicit labels; do not rely on color alone for status chips or table alerts.

### Don't

- Do not make every surface brown; token ladders must separate background, surface, border, text, accent, warning, success, and info roles.
- Do not use glossy gradients, glass cards, floating neon leaves, generic carbon dashboards, or stock sustainability illustrations.
- Do not place grain or strata texture under small labels, form inputs, or table numerals where it reduces readability.
- Do not let oceanic teal dominate the direction; it is a support role for water-cycle intelligence and information states.

### Accessibility

Core text on oat background and clay surfaces meets AA contrast; status chips include icon/dot and text; focus states use both moss glow and umber outline; table rows retain readable 16px text.

### Usage Context

Best for regenerative agriculture platforms, circular materials marketplaces, climate procurement tools, responsible supply-chain ledgers, ecological monitoring systems, and material-passport software.

---
version: "alpha"
name: "Regenerative Earth Materials"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  accent: "#C8754A"
  background: "#F2E8D7"
  border: "#B9A88F"
  error: "#8F3E32"
  info: "#3E6F6A"
  muted: "#8C806F"
  primary: "#9A4F2F"
  secondary: "#5F6F46"
  success: "#536B3D"
  surface: "#E6D3B8"
  text: "#33271D"
  warning: "#B46834"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Fraunces"
    fontSize: "1.816rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.012em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Fraunces"
    fontSize: "1.488rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.012em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "Source Sans 3"
    fontSize: "16px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.52
    letterSpacing: "-0.012em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "Fragment Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  full: "9999px"
  lg: "14px"
  md: "8px"
  none: "0px"
  sm: "4px"
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"
---

# Regenerative Earth Materials

## Overview

Regenerative Earth Materials translates clay, sienna, terracotta, umber, moss, oat, and stone neutrals into a digital product language for stewardship work: warm mineral surfaces, grounded botanical accents, and low-chroma support roles make operational software feel cultivated rather than extracted.

### Values

- Treat color as material provenance: every token should feel like fired clay, soil, mineral dust, oat fiber, moss, or weathered stone rather than abstract brand paint.
- Make sustainability visible through restraint, reuse, and repair logic: muted surfaces, durable edges, measured accent use, and useful environmental state labels.
- Translate 2026 regenerative visual language into accessible UI roles with warm backgrounds, grounded accents, low-chroma system feedback, and clear contrast hierarchy.
- Balance earth and ocean research directions by letting teal appear as a small water-cycle intelligence channel, never as a dominant synthetic SaaS blue.
- Prefer calm operational credibility for climate, materials, supply-chain, agriculture, circular-commerce, and ecological data products.

### Anti-Values

- No glossy eco-tech gradients, neon sustainability badges, generic leaf mascots, white SaaS dashboards, or high-saturation greenwashing.
- No monochrome beige wash that erases hierarchy; mineral neutrals must become distinct token ladders with readable roles.
- No decorative texture that compromises legibility, focus states, table scanning, or mobile responsiveness.

### Visual Character

- Layer oat and clay background panels with CSS radial mineral blooms and faint repeating soil-strata lines, keeping texture opacity below eight percent behind content.
- Use left-edge terracotta fired-slip borders on primary cards and dialogs, paired with square-notched corner masks made with clip-path polygons.
- Build token ladders as visible stacked swatches and status chips: umber for text, moss for regenerative progress, sienna for active controls, teal for water or info.
- Give controls a low-radius ceramic form with 1px stone borders, inset warm highlights, and focus rings that combine moss outer glow with dark umber outline.
- Compose screens as stewardship workbenches: wide inventory tables, sample cards, field notes, and compact metric ledgers separated by generous oat gutters.

## 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 | `#C8754A` |
| background | `#F2E8D7` |
| border | `#B9A88F` |
| error | `#8F3E32` |
| info | `#3E6F6A` |
| muted | `#8C806F` |
| primary | `#9A4F2F` |
| secondary | `#5F6F46` |
| success | `#536B3D` |
| surface | `#E6D3B8` |
| text | `#33271D` |
| warning | `#B46834` |

## 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**: Source Sans 3, 16px, weight 400, line-height 1.52.
- **Label-Md**: Fragment 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 <= 640px, tablet 641px-980px, desktop >= 981px; the ledger becomes stacked batch cards on mobile while token ladders stay visible.

### Density

Operationally medium: many real artifacts are present, but low-chroma support colors and quiet margins prevent alert fatigue.

### Grid

Desktop uses a 12-column max-width 1240px workbench grid; sample cards span 3 columns, the material ledger spans 6, and field notes span 3 with intentional asymmetry.

### Responsive

Preserve the scene order as sample intake, regenerative metrics, material ledger, field notes, then token ladder; do not collapse into equal marketing cards.

### Whitespace

Use broad oat gutters of 24-48px around modules and tighter 8-12px spacing inside chips, fields, and rows to preserve workbench calm.

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Lg**: 0 2px 0 rgba(51,39,29,0.22), 0 28px 60px rgba(84,58,34,0.18)
- **Md**: 0 1px 0 rgba(51,39,29,0.20), 0 18px 34px rgba(84,58,34,0.13)
- **Sm**: 0 1px 0 rgba(51,39,29,0.18), 0 8px 18px rgba(84,58,34,0.08)

## Shapes

### Rounded

- **Full**: `9999px`
- **Lg**: `14px`
- **Md**: `8px`
- **None**: `0px`
- **Sm**: `4px`

### Surfaces

- **Bg Pattern**: Radial clay blooms plus repeating-linear-gradient horizontal strata at very low opacity.
- **Card Style**: Stone-bordered cards with terracotta fired-slip accent rails, clipped notched corners, low radius, and restrained shadows.
- **Treatment**: Warm oat and clay panels with faint mineral grain, soil-strata linework, and matte ceramic inset highlights.

### Borders

- **Accent Width**: 4px
- **Character**: weathered stone edges, notched card corners, and fired terracotta accent rails for active or high-value surfaces
- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Style**: solid with occasional double-rule separators for ledger modules

## Components

### Composition

Use a stewardship workbench instead of a generic dashboard: one broad material-ledger table, a left sample rail, a warm field-note panel, and compact metric ledgers arranged on a 12-column grid with oat gutters.

### Density

Medium density with tables and chips allowed, but each dense module needs quiet oat margins and visible strata separators so the screen feels cultivated, not crowded.

### Hierarchy

Headings use Fraunces for earthy authority, operational labels use Source Sans 3 semibold uppercase, and numeric trace data uses Fragment Mono inside small clay or stone chips.

### Signature Patterns

- Apply terracotta left rails and clipped polygon corner notches to cards, sheets, dialogs, and table containers that represent material batches.
- Render palette roles as stacked mineral swatch ladders with tiny token labels, showing background, surface, border, text, accent, moss, and teal support states.
- Use low-opacity strata backgrounds and radial clay blooms only on large surfaces, never directly under small body text or form controls.
- Mark ecological status with low-chroma chips that combine a stone border, colored seed dot, and mono trace code rather than saturated filled badges.
- Use double-rule umber separators in tables and ledgers to evoke field notebooks, sample trays, and material provenance records.

## 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-019ea9a2-b6ef-77b2-b3c9-ed80e1ef2bb0/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 Use clay, sienna, terracotta, umber, moss, oat, stone, and restrained teal as tokenized roles with clear contrast and named product meaning.
- Do Design plausible regenerative product scenes: material-passport ledgers, soil sample intake, circular inventory, water-cycle notes, and supplier stewardship tasks.
- Do Keep texture behind large panels only and verify that tables, forms, chips, and dialog content remain crisp at mobile and desktop sizes.
- Do Use moss for regenerative success/progress, sienna or terracotta for primary action, teal for water/info, and umber for durable text hierarchy.
- Do Maintain visible focus rings and explicit labels; do not rely on color alone for status chips or table alerts.
- Don't Do not make every surface brown; token ladders must separate background, surface, border, text, accent, warning, success, and info roles.
- Don't Do not use glossy gradients, glass cards, floating neon leaves, generic carbon dashboards, or stock sustainability illustrations.
- Don't Do not place grain or strata texture under small labels, form inputs, or table numerals where it reduces readability.
- Don't Do not let oceanic teal dominate the direction; it is a support role for water-cycle intelligence and information states.

### Accessibility

Core text on oat background and clay surfaces meets AA contrast; status chips include icon/dot and text; focus states use both moss glow and umber outline; table rows retain readable 16px text.

### Usage Context

Best for regenerative agriculture platforms, circular materials marketplaces, climate procurement tools, responsible supply-chain ledgers, ecological monitoring systems, and material-passport software.

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "regenerative-earth-materials",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Regenerative Earth Materials shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#F2E8D7",
      "foreground": "#33271D",
      "card": "#E6D3B8",
      "card-foreground": "#33271D",
      "popover": "#E6D3B8",
      "popover-foreground": "#33271D",
      "primary": "#9A4F2F",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#5F6F46",
      "secondary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "muted": "#8C806F",
      "muted-foreground": "#33271D",
      "accent": "#C8754A",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#8F3E32",
      "border": "#B9A88F",
      "input": "#B9A88F",
      "ring": "#C8754A",
      "chart-1": "#9A4F2F",
      "chart-2": "#5F6F46",
      "chart-3": "#C8754A",
      "chart-4": "#536B3D",
      "chart-5": "#B46834",
      "sidebar": "#E6D3B8",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#33271D",
      "sidebar-primary": "#9A4F2F",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#3E6F6A",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#B9A88F",
      "sidebar-ring": "#C8754A",
      "radius": "8px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#9A4F2F",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#C8754A",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#8F3E32",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#C8754A",
      "chart-1": "#9A4F2F",
      "chart-2": "#5F6F46",
      "chart-3": "#C8754A",
      "chart-4": "#536B3D",
      "chart-5": "#B46834",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#9A4F2F",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#C8754A",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#C8754A",
      "radius": "8px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019ea9a2-b6ef-77b2-b3c9-ed80e1ef2bb0",
    "slug": "regenerative-earth-materials",
    "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"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```