Reticle

# Reticle

## Philosophy

Reticle is a registration light-table for serious works-on-paper tools — print archives, edition planning, conservation desks, and contemporary-art catalogs. The interface is a dark glass table: black ink draws the structure, printed crop marks register every sheet to the column grid, and one cobalt cross-hair — the reticle — locks onto the plate that leads the issue. Colour is a register mark, never a fill. Where the source brief asked for an editorial ink atelier with electric accents, Reticle answers it as the conservator's light-table rather than the magazine page: luminous off-white plates floating on near-black glass, aligned by their own trim marks, with the single electric signal reserved for the cross-hair that finds the lead.

### Values

- {"name":"Registration is the work","description":"Every plate is a sheet laid on backlit glass and aligned by its own crop marks; the trim is the structure before any fill or surface."}
- {"name":"The reticle calls the lead","description":"A single cobalt cross-hair targets the one plate that leads the issue — a signal under five percent of the surface, never a coloured field."}
- {"name":"Ink-first authority","description":"Black is the primary drawing instrument on the luminous sheets; type, rules, marks, and counts feel printed, not decorated with colour."}
- {"name":"Light-table materiality","description":"The ground is a warm near-black glass; sheets read as backlit transparencies, so alignment reads at a glance against a faint register grid."}
- {"name":"Gesture under control","description":"A rough rotated brush stroke breaks a plate edge to keep the human hand visible under the grid, never reducing readability."}
- {"name":"Fine-art seriousness","description":"Disciplined, curatorial, alive with the tension between hand gesture and registration precision — never playful, retro, or decorative."}

### Anti-Values

- {"name":"Rainbow creativity","description":"Never use multiple saturated accents at once or turn the table into a palette sampler."}
- {"name":"Template minimalism","description":"Never rely on bordered, soft-shadow cards; identity comes from crop-mark registration, the reticle, and the dark light-table."}
- {"name":"Crypto gloss","description":"No gradient buttons, glassy panels, neon glow, or inflated rounded cards."}
- {"name":"Decorative illustration","description":"Linework must function as registration, frame, or compositional tension — never cute ornament."}

### Visual Character

- Luminous off-white plates float on a warm near-black light-table ground, each registered by four L-shaped crop-mark corners instead of a full border.
- The lead plate carries cobalt crop marks plus a cross-hair reticle pinned at its top-left origin and a short cobalt underline under one display word.
- Plates overlap at slight offsets on a faint 64px register grid so alignment reads like separation sheets on backlit glass.
- Section headers are registration bands — a mono number, a condensed-caps label, and a dashed tick-rule — not double-rule magazine dividers.
- Counts are circled register marks; the lead count is ringed in cobalt. Coordinates and folios are set in mono.

## Tokens

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#16140F` |
| surface | `#221F18` |
| surface_2 | `#2B2719` |
| plate | `#F2EEE3` |
| plate_2 | `#E6E0D1` |
| text | `#EDE8DC` |
| text_on_plate | `#1A1712` |
| ink | `#1A1712` |
| muted | `#9A9384` |
| muted_on_plate | `#6E6654` |
| border | `#3A3528` |
| rule_plate | `#1A1712` |
| accent | `#2D6CFF` |
| on_accent | `#F2EEE3` |
| accent_2 | `#B7E400` |
| accent_3 | `#F23B2E` |
| success | `#5FB07A` |
| warning | `#E0A93B` |
| error | `#F2624E` |
| info | `#2D6CFF` |

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 17px
- **Body Font**: IBM Plex Sans
- **Heading Font**: Newsreader
- **Label Font**: IBM Plex Sans Condensed
- **Mono Font**: IBM Plex Mono
- **Heading Weight**: 400
- **Heading Transform**: none
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.012em
- **Line Height**: 1.5
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500;600&family=IBM+Plex+Sans+Condensed:wght@400;500;600;700&family=IBM+Plex+Sans:wght@400;500;600&family=Newsreader:ital,opsz,wght@0,18..72,400;0,18..72,500;1,18..72,400;1,18..72,500&display=swap

### Radii

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

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.35)
- **Md**: 6px 6px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.30)

### Spacing

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: light-table
- **Card Style**: Luminous off-white plate (#F2EEE3) registered by four L-shaped ink crop-mark corners — no full border; the lead plate gets cobalt corners plus a reticle cross-hair. A dark plate variant (#221F18) sits on the table for margin and material notes. Flat offset block shadow, never a glow.
- **Bg Pattern**: register-grid
- **Paper Texture**: A faint 64px register grid in low-opacity off-white runs across the warm near-black light-table ground; sheets read as backlit transparencies on the glass.

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 2px
- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Style**: crop-mark
- **Character**: Containers are registered by L-shaped crop-mark corner brackets rather than full borders. Inputs use an inset ink box-shadow; section bands use a dashed tick-rule; the lead plate's crop marks turn cobalt.

### Motion

- **Duration**: 170ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(0.2,0,0,1)
- **Philosophy**: Snappy and mechanical, like a sheet being laid onto the table and registered. The settled state is the default and renders with no JavaScript; reveals are added on top behind a gating class and respect prefers-reduced-motion.

## Rules

### Composition

- Build screens as a registration board: plates laid on a dark light-table, aligned by crop marks to a faint register grid, with asymmetric overlapping spans.
- Register every container with four L-shaped crop-mark corners before any fill or surface; the trim is the layout material.
- Reserve cobalt for the reticle and one primary action per view; keep every accent under five percent of the surface.
- Circle counts as register marks; ring the lead count in cobalt rather than boxing it as a metric card.
- Let one rough rotated brush-gesture stroke break a plate edge to keep the human hand visible without breaking alignment.

### Hierarchy

- Plate titles and the masthead use Newsreader at display scale with tight tracking — a museum wall-label voice.
- Nav, section bands, labels, and counts use IBM Plex Sans Condensed uppercase with wide tracking, or IBM Plex Mono for coordinates.
- Body copy uses IBM Plex Sans at 17px, ink on the luminous sheet or light on the dark table.
- The lead plate carries cobalt crop marks plus a cross-hair reticle at its top-left origin — colour as signal, not fill.
- Section headers are registration bands (mono number + condensed-caps label + dashed tick-rule), never double-rule card titles.

### Density

Medium-density registration workspace: large Newsreader plate titles and circled counters balanced by compact mono coordinates, condensed-caps labels, and tightly registered ledger rows on luminous sheets.

### Signature

- Crop-mark corner brackets register every plate instead of a full border.
- A cobalt cross-hair reticle locks onto the lead plate at its grid origin; cobalt stays under five percent.
- Plates overlap at slight offsets on a faint 64px register grid like separation sheets on a backlit light-table.
- Counts are circled register marks; the lead is ringed cobalt; coordinates and folios are set in mono.
- A rough rotated brush-gesture stroke and a short cobalt underline break the grid in chosen places for the human hand.

## Layout

### Grid

Desktop uses a 12-column board at max-width 1360px with 24px gutters; plates take asymmetric 7/5, 8/4 spans and may overlap at slight offsets over a 64px register grid.

### Whitespace

The dark light-table is the negative space: warm near-black glass crossed by a faint register grid, with luminous off-white plates registered by crop marks and dark plates for margin notes.

### Density

Medium-density registration desk: large Newsreader titles, compact mono coordinates, circled counters, and ruled ledger rows that hold dense edition-planning data without feeling like a SaaS dashboard.

### Responsive

From ~390px mobile to 2560px+ ultra-wide. At 1080px collapse asymmetric spans to a single column and reduce title scale; on mobile stack all plates, hide non-essential nav and table columns, make controls full width, and never overflow horizontally; on ultra-wide cap and centre the contained content while only the full-bleed hero spans 100vw.

### Breakpoints

- **Desktop**: 1081px and up: 12-column board with overlapping plates
- **Tablet**: 681px-1080px: single-column stacked plates, rail collapses into a top bar
- **Mobile**: 680px and below: single column, stacked full-width controls, hidden secondary columns
- **Ultrawide**: 2200px and up: content cap 1600px, only the hero spans 100vw

## Guidance

### Do

- Use the warm near-black light-table (#16140F) as the ground; let luminous off-white plates read as backlit sheets.
- Register every plate with L-shaped crop-mark corners before adding any fill, surface, or border.
- Keep cobalt as the lead signal and focus colour; keep cobalt, chartreuse, and vermilion each under five percent.
- Lock the lead plate with a cross-hair reticle at its grid origin and a short cobalt underline under one display word.
- Pair Newsreader display titles with condensed-caps labels and mono coordinates; body at 17px.
- Style every input, select, checkbox, radio, switch, slider, button, and table with the ink-rule + cobalt-focus system.
- Circle counts as register marks; ring the lead count in cobalt; let plates overlap at slight offsets on the register grid.
- Keep radius at 0px for plates and 9999px only for reticle dots and circled counters.

### Don't

- Do not give a plate a single lone accent edge, or fill an area with cobalt, chartreuse, or vermilion.
- Do not box the nav into a pill or rounded card, and never nest plates inside plates.
- Do not use gradient text or buttons, pastel washes, glassmorphism, glow, or rounded SaaS cards.
- Do not reach for the oversized italic-serif AI-default headline, or use random radii such as 8px, 12px, 20px.
- Do not let gesture strokes reduce readability or make controls look unfinished.
- Do not use default browser styles for selects, checkboxes, switches, sliders, or focus states.
- Do not mix multiple display fonts or use rejected LLM-default fonts like Poppins, Montserrat, DM Sans, or Space Grotesk.

### Accessibility

Light text on the dark table and ink on the luminous sheets both clear WCAG AA; never place small text on a saturated accent field. Every control carries a visible 2px cobalt focus ring, touch targets are at least 44px, and symbolic marks carry text labels. The fully-rendered state is visible with no JavaScript and motion respects prefers-reduced-motion.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

reglure

### Summary

Black pen-and-ink plates rendered in confident contour and crosshatch, laid as luminous off-white sheets on a dark light-table and registered by printed crop marks, with one small cobalt cross-hair as the only colour. Imagery functions as registered plate, frame, or compositional tension — never decorative illustration.

### Subjects

- conservator's light-table with overlapping separation sheets
- works-on-paper plates: heron etching, botanical leaf study, contact strip
- crop marks, registration cross-hairs, and trim brackets
- torn proofs and galley sheets aligned to a column grid
- studio desk and archive material on backlit glass

### Usage

One full-bleed landing hero in the Réglure technique composed for a dark light-table with a quiet lower third for overlay; elsewhere keep imagery to plate previews, margins, and contact sheets. End every prompt with NO text, NO letters, NO logos.

---
version: "alpha"
name: "Reticle"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  bg: "#16140F"
  surface: "#221F18"
  surface_2: "#2B2719"
  plate: "#F2EEE3"
  plate_2: "#E6E0D1"
  text: "#EDE8DC"
  text_on_plate: "#1A1712"
  ink: "#1A1712"
  muted: "#9A9384"
  muted_on_plate: "#6E6654"
  border: "#3A3528"
  rule_plate: "#1A1712"
  accent: "#2D6CFF"
  on_accent: "#F2EEE3"
  accent_2: "#B7E400"
  accent_3: "#F23B2E"
  success: "#5FB07A"
  warning: "#E0A93B"
  error: "#F2624E"
  info: "#2D6CFF"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Newsreader"
    fontSize: "2.075rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.012em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Newsreader"
    fontSize: "1.66rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.012em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "IBM Plex Sans"
    fontSize: "17px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
    letterSpacing: "-0.012em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "IBM Plex Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  none: "0px"
  sm: "0px"
  md: "16px"
  lg: "24px"
  pill: "9999px"
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-bg:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.bg}"
  color-reference-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
  color-reference-surface_2:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface_2}"
  color-reference-plate:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.plate}"
  color-reference-plate_2:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.plate_2}"
  color-reference-text:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.text}"
  color-reference-text_on_plate:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.text_on_plate}"
  color-reference-ink:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.ink}"
  color-reference-muted:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.muted}"
  color-reference-muted_on_plate:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.muted_on_plate}"
  color-reference-border:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.border}"
  color-reference-rule_plate:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.rule_plate}"
  color-reference-accent:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent}"
  color-reference-on_accent:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.on_accent}"
  color-reference-accent_2:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent_2}"
  color-reference-accent_3:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent_3}"
  color-reference-success:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.success}"
  color-reference-warning:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.warning}"
  color-reference-error:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.error}"
  color-reference-info:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.info}"
  button-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent}"
    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"
---

# Reticle

## Overview

Reticle is a registration light-table for serious works-on-paper tools — print archives, edition planning, conservation desks, and contemporary-art catalogs. The interface is a dark glass table: black ink draws the structure, printed crop marks register every sheet to the column grid, and one cobalt cross-hair — the reticle — locks onto the plate that leads the issue. Colour is a register mark, never a fill. Where the source brief asked for an editorial ink atelier with electric accents, Reticle answers it as the conservator's light-table rather than the magazine page: luminous off-white plates floating on near-black glass, aligned by their own trim marks, with the single electric signal reserved for the cross-hair that finds the lead.

### Values

- {"name":"Registration is the work","description":"Every plate is a sheet laid on backlit glass and aligned by its own crop marks; the trim is the structure before any fill or surface."}
- {"name":"The reticle calls the lead","description":"A single cobalt cross-hair targets the one plate that leads the issue — a signal under five percent of the surface, never a coloured field."}
- {"name":"Ink-first authority","description":"Black is the primary drawing instrument on the luminous sheets; type, rules, marks, and counts feel printed, not decorated with colour."}
- {"name":"Light-table materiality","description":"The ground is a warm near-black glass; sheets read as backlit transparencies, so alignment reads at a glance against a faint register grid."}
- {"name":"Gesture under control","description":"A rough rotated brush stroke breaks a plate edge to keep the human hand visible under the grid, never reducing readability."}
- {"name":"Fine-art seriousness","description":"Disciplined, curatorial, alive with the tension between hand gesture and registration precision — never playful, retro, or decorative."}

### Anti-Values

- {"name":"Rainbow creativity","description":"Never use multiple saturated accents at once or turn the table into a palette sampler."}
- {"name":"Template minimalism","description":"Never rely on bordered, soft-shadow cards; identity comes from crop-mark registration, the reticle, and the dark light-table."}
- {"name":"Crypto gloss","description":"No gradient buttons, glassy panels, neon glow, or inflated rounded cards."}
- {"name":"Decorative illustration","description":"Linework must function as registration, frame, or compositional tension — never cute ornament."}

### Visual Character

- Luminous off-white plates float on a warm near-black light-table ground, each registered by four L-shaped crop-mark corners instead of a full border.
- The lead plate carries cobalt crop marks plus a cross-hair reticle pinned at its top-left origin and a short cobalt underline under one display word.
- Plates overlap at slight offsets on a faint 64px register grid so alignment reads like separation sheets on backlit glass.
- Section headers are registration bands — a mono number, a condensed-caps label, and a dashed tick-rule — not double-rule magazine dividers.
- Counts are circled register marks; the lead count is ringed in cobalt. Coordinates and folios are set in mono.

## Colors

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

| Token | Value |
|-------|-------|
| bg | `#16140F` |
| surface | `#221F18` |
| surface_2 | `#2B2719` |
| plate | `#F2EEE3` |
| plate_2 | `#E6E0D1` |
| text | `#EDE8DC` |
| text_on_plate | `#1A1712` |
| ink | `#1A1712` |
| muted | `#9A9384` |
| muted_on_plate | `#6E6654` |
| border | `#3A3528` |
| rule_plate | `#1A1712` |
| accent | `#2D6CFF` |
| on_accent | `#F2EEE3` |
| accent_2 | `#B7E400` |
| accent_3 | `#F23B2E` |
| success | `#5FB07A` |
| warning | `#E0A93B` |
| error | `#F2624E` |
| info | `#2D6CFF` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: Newsreader, 2.075rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Newsreader, 1.66rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: IBM Plex Sans, 17px, weight 400, line-height 1.5.
- **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`

### Grid

Desktop uses a 12-column board at max-width 1360px with 24px gutters; plates take asymmetric 7/5, 8/4 spans and may overlap at slight offsets over a 64px register grid.

### Whitespace

The dark light-table is the negative space: warm near-black glass crossed by a faint register grid, with luminous off-white plates registered by crop marks and dark plates for margin notes.

### Density

Medium-density registration desk: large Newsreader titles, compact mono coordinates, circled counters, and ruled ledger rows that hold dense edition-planning data without feeling like a SaaS dashboard.

### Responsive

From ~390px mobile to 2560px+ ultra-wide. At 1080px collapse asymmetric spans to a single column and reduce title scale; on mobile stack all plates, hide non-essential nav and table columns, make controls full width, and never overflow horizontally; on ultra-wide cap and centre the contained content while only the full-bleed hero spans 100vw.

### Breakpoints

- **Desktop**: 1081px and up: 12-column board with overlapping plates
- **Tablet**: 681px-1080px: single-column stacked plates, rail collapses into a top bar
- **Mobile**: 680px and below: single column, stacked full-width controls, hidden secondary columns
- **Ultrawide**: 2200px and up: content cap 1600px, only the hero spans 100vw

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.35)
- **Md**: 6px 6px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.30)

## Shapes

### Rounded

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: light-table
- **Card Style**: Luminous off-white plate (#F2EEE3) registered by four L-shaped ink crop-mark corners — no full border; the lead plate gets cobalt corners plus a reticle cross-hair. A dark plate variant (#221F18) sits on the table for margin and material notes. Flat offset block shadow, never a glow.
- **Bg Pattern**: register-grid
- **Paper Texture**: A faint 64px register grid in low-opacity off-white runs across the warm near-black light-table ground; sheets read as backlit transparencies on the glass.

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 2px
- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Style**: crop-mark
- **Character**: Containers are registered by L-shaped crop-mark corner brackets rather than full borders. Inputs use an inset ink box-shadow; section bands use a dashed tick-rule; the lead plate's crop marks turn cobalt.

## Components

### Composition

- Build screens as a registration board: plates laid on a dark light-table, aligned by crop marks to a faint register grid, with asymmetric overlapping spans.
- Register every container with four L-shaped crop-mark corners before any fill or surface; the trim is the layout material.
- Reserve cobalt for the reticle and one primary action per view; keep every accent under five percent of the surface.
- Circle counts as register marks; ring the lead count in cobalt rather than boxing it as a metric card.
- Let one rough rotated brush-gesture stroke break a plate edge to keep the human hand visible without breaking alignment.

### Hierarchy

- Plate titles and the masthead use Newsreader at display scale with tight tracking — a museum wall-label voice.
- Nav, section bands, labels, and counts use IBM Plex Sans Condensed uppercase with wide tracking, or IBM Plex Mono for coordinates.
- Body copy uses IBM Plex Sans at 17px, ink on the luminous sheet or light on the dark table.
- The lead plate carries cobalt crop marks plus a cross-hair reticle at its top-left origin — colour as signal, not fill.
- Section headers are registration bands (mono number + condensed-caps label + dashed tick-rule), never double-rule card titles.

### Density

Medium-density registration workspace: large Newsreader plate titles and circled counters balanced by compact mono coordinates, condensed-caps labels, and tightly registered ledger rows on luminous sheets.

### Signature

- Crop-mark corner brackets register every plate instead of a full border.
- A cobalt cross-hair reticle locks onto the lead plate at its grid origin; cobalt stays under five percent.
- Plates overlap at slight offsets on a faint 64px register grid like separation sheets on a backlit light-table.
- Counts are circled register marks; the lead is ringed cobalt; coordinates and folios are set in mono.
- A rough rotated brush-gesture stroke and a short cobalt underline break the grid in chosen places for the human hand.

## 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-019ef8d2-b25c-7ff3-80e9-9568b8aff621/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 the warm near-black light-table (#16140F) as the ground; let luminous off-white plates read as backlit sheets.
- Do Register every plate with L-shaped crop-mark corners before adding any fill, surface, or border.
- Do Keep cobalt as the lead signal and focus colour; keep cobalt, chartreuse, and vermilion each under five percent.
- Do Lock the lead plate with a cross-hair reticle at its grid origin and a short cobalt underline under one display word.
- Do Pair Newsreader display titles with condensed-caps labels and mono coordinates; body at 17px.
- Do Style every input, select, checkbox, radio, switch, slider, button, and table with the ink-rule + cobalt-focus system.
- Do Circle counts as register marks; ring the lead count in cobalt; let plates overlap at slight offsets on the register grid.
- Do Keep radius at 0px for plates and 9999px only for reticle dots and circled counters.
- Don't Do not give a plate a single lone accent edge, or fill an area with cobalt, chartreuse, or vermilion.
- Don't Do not box the nav into a pill or rounded card, and never nest plates inside plates.
- Don't Do not use gradient text or buttons, pastel washes, glassmorphism, glow, or rounded SaaS cards.
- Don't Do not reach for the oversized italic-serif AI-default headline, or use random radii such as 8px, 12px, 20px.
- Don't Do not let gesture strokes reduce readability or make controls look unfinished.
- Don't Do not use default browser styles for selects, checkboxes, switches, sliders, or focus states.
- Don't Do not mix multiple display fonts or use rejected LLM-default fonts like Poppins, Montserrat, DM Sans, or Space Grotesk.

### Accessibility

Light text on the dark table and ink on the luminous sheets both clear WCAG AA; never place small text on a saturated accent field. Every control carries a visible 2px cobalt focus ring, touch targets are at least 44px, and symbolic marks carry text labels. The fully-rendered state is visible with no JavaScript and motion respects prefers-reduced-motion.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

reglure

### Summary

Black pen-and-ink plates rendered in confident contour and crosshatch, laid as luminous off-white sheets on a dark light-table and registered by printed crop marks, with one small cobalt cross-hair as the only colour. Imagery functions as registered plate, frame, or compositional tension — never decorative illustration.

### Subjects

- conservator's light-table with overlapping separation sheets
- works-on-paper plates: heron etching, botanical leaf study, contact strip
- crop marks, registration cross-hairs, and trim brackets
- torn proofs and galley sheets aligned to a column grid
- studio desk and archive material on backlit glass

### Usage

One full-bleed landing hero in the Réglure technique composed for a dark light-table with a quiet lower third for overlay; elsewhere keep imagery to plate previews, margins, and contact sheets. End every prompt with NO text, NO letters, NO logos.

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "reticle",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Reticle shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#16140F",
      "foreground": "#EDE8DC",
      "card": "#221F18",
      "card-foreground": "#EDE8DC",
      "popover": "#221F18",
      "popover-foreground": "#EDE8DC",
      "primary": "#EDE8DC",
      "primary-foreground": "#111111",
      "secondary": "#f4f4f5",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#9A9384",
      "muted-foreground": "#EDE8DC",
      "accent": "#2D6CFF",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#F2624E",
      "border": "#3A3528",
      "input": "#3A3528",
      "ring": "#2D6CFF",
      "chart-1": "#EDE8DC",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#2D6CFF",
      "chart-4": "#5FB07A",
      "chart-5": "#E0A93B",
      "sidebar": "#221F18",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#EDE8DC",
      "sidebar-primary": "#EDE8DC",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#111111",
      "sidebar-accent": "#2D6CFF",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#3A3528",
      "sidebar-ring": "#2D6CFF",
      "radius": "16px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#EDE8DC",
      "primary-foreground": "#111111",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#2D6CFF",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#F2624E",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#2D6CFF",
      "chart-1": "#EDE8DC",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#2D6CFF",
      "chart-4": "#5FB07A",
      "chart-5": "#E0A93B",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#EDE8DC",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#111111",
      "sidebar-accent": "#2D6CFF",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#2D6CFF",
      "radius": "16px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019ef8d2-b25c-7ff3-80e9-9568b8aff621",
    "slug": "reticle",
    "componentManifest": [
      "button",
      "card",
      "input",
      "textarea",
      "select",
      "dialog",
      "sheet",
      "tabs",
      "badge",
      "separator",
      "checkbox",
      "switch",
      "slider",
      "tooltip",
      "dropdown-menu",
      "table"
    ],
    "installCommand": "npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table",
    "nativeTokenNames": {
      "colors": [
        "accent",
        "accent_2",
        "accent_3",
        "bg",
        "border",
        "error",
        "info",
        "ink",
        "muted",
        "muted_on_plate",
        "on_accent",
        "plate",
        "plate_2",
        "rule_plate",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "surface_2",
        "text",
        "text_on_plate",
        "warning"
      ],
      "typography": [
        "base_size",
        "body_font",
        "google_fonts_url",
        "heading_font",
        "heading_transform",
        "heading_weight",
        "label_font",
        "letter_spacing",
        "line_height",
        "mono_font"
      ],
      "radii": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "none",
        "pill",
        "sm"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "paper_texture",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "borders": [
        "accent_width",
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```