Verger

# Verger

## Philosophy

A cut-paper storybook language that lays every workflow out as an illustrated orchard journey — warm paper panels lifted on offset shadows, dotted milestone paths, and sticker-like controls, all resting on an airy sky-blue ground.

### Values

- narrative clarity through scene-making
- human warmth over sterile efficiency
- playful guidance with production-grade readability

### Anti-Values

- cold dashboard severity
- techno-futurist abstraction
- flat anonymous component grids

### Visual Character

- Every major surface is a cut-paper cut-out: a solid warm fill, a thick forest-green marker outline, one offset paper-shadow block down-and-right, and a cream highlight patch tucked in a corner.
- Sequences are drawn as a dotted journey path between circular milestone markers — done markers fill leaf-green, the current step fills marigold — so the interface always shows where you are.
- Section titles carry a hand-drawn marigold underline sweep rendered in SVG, never a plain heading floating alone.
- Buttons and badges rest with a slight tilt and settle upward on hover, like rearrangeable illustrated stickers lifted off the page.
- Illustration moments are built from circles, leaves, clouds and sunbursts in the system palette with thick outlines, on an airy sky-blue paper ground rather than white.

## Tokens

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#DCEEF6` |
| surface | `#FFF6EC` |
| surface2 | `#FCE9D8` |
| text | `#1E3429` |
| muted | `#5E7268` |
| border | `#2C5A45` |
| accent | `#E59A24` |
| on_accent | `#1E3429` |
| leaf | `#3C7C58` |
| peach | `#F2A977` |
| success | `#3C7C58` |
| warning | `#D08A1E` |
| error | `#C9543F` |
| info | `#5F9DC2` |

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 17px
- **Body Font**: Nunito
- **Heading Font**: Baloo 2
- **Mono Font**: IBM Plex Mono
- **Heading Weight**: 800
- **Heading Transform**: none
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.02em
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Baloo+2:wght@500;600;700;800&family=Nunito:wght@400;500;600;700;800&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500;600&display=swap

### Radii

- **Sm**: 16px
- **Md**: 24px
- **Lg**: 36px
- **Full**: 9999px

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 4px 5px 0 #2C5A45
- **Md**: 7px 9px 0 #2C5A45, 0 18px 30px rgba(28,76,57,.16)
- **Lg**: 10px 13px 0 #2C5A45, 0 28px 50px rgba(28,76,57,.20)

### Spacing

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: paper
- **Card Style**: Warm cream or peach paper cut-outs over an airy sky-blue ground, ringed by a thick forest-green marker outline, lifted on one offset paper-shadow block with a cream highlight patch in a corner.
- **Bg Pattern**: dots

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 3px
- **Accent Width**: 3px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: A uniform deep forest-green marker outline ringing every paper cut-out; never a single accent edge on one side.

### Motion

- **Duration**: 220ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1)
- **Philosophy**: snappy; controls settle from a resting tilt, sections reveal on scroll, settled state renders with no JS

## Rules

### Composition

Compose screens as illustrated story scenes on a sky-blue ground: a prominent hero or scene region, a dotted journey path for any sequence, and staggered paper modules arranged like a picture-book spread.

### Hierarchy

Lead with rounded Baloo display headlines under a hand-drawn underline, then concise Nunito copy, then sticker-like controls and mono numeric callouts.

### Density

Moderate density with roomy gutters and clustered controls so the interface feels active but never cramped.

### Signature

The paper lift + journey path: cut-paper cut-outs with a marker outline and one offset shadow, sequenced along a dotted path between circular milestone markers.

## Layout

### Grid

Desktop uses a wide narrative board with one prominent scene region and staggered secondary modules; tablet compresses to two columns; mobile collapses to a single illustrated reading flow.

### Whitespace

Generous outer padding and airy vertical rhythm so paper scenes breathe around functional blocks; always pad above titles.

### Density

moderate

### Responsive

minmax(0,1fr) columns and min-width:0 children so grids never overflow; journey paths stack to a vertical list on mobile; non-essential nav and table columns hide below 600px; only the hero spans 100vw.

### Breakpoints

- **Desktop**: 1440
- **Tablet**: 900
- **Mobile**: 600

## Guidance

### Do

- Pair dense areas with a soft illustrative anchor or a journey marker.
- Keep the marker outline and one offset shadow consistent so surfaces feel hand-arranged.
- Write copy as a guide walking the reader through the chapter.
- Reserve marigold for the single highlight and leaf-green for the primary action.

### Don't

- Fall back to hard-edged grey enterprise tables as the dominant surface.
- Use glossy realism, 3D skeuomorphism, or photographic hero images.
- Flatten cards to identical borderless rectangles with sterile spacing and neutral type.
- Default the ground to white.

### Accessibility

High contrast forest ink on warm paper and sky ground; 17px+ body; SVG icons and carets, never symbol glyphs; every form control explicitly styled; respects prefers-reduced-motion.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

foldspring

### Summary

Layered cut-paper collage in the Foldspring technique: subjects built from torn paper shapes with thick marker outlines and offset paper-shadows, in warm peach / marigold / cream over a sky-blue paper ground.

### Subjects

- orchard rows and apple trees
- rolling paper hills
- journey paths and milestone markers
- paper clouds and sunbursts
- crew and harvest scenes

### Usage

One full-bleed cut-paper hero per landing; smaller paper vignettes anchor dense sections. Always end image prompts with 'NO text, NO letters, NO logos.'

---
version: "alpha"
name: "Verger"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  bg: "#DCEEF6"
  surface: "#FFF6EC"
  surface2: "#FCE9D8"
  text: "#1E3429"
  muted: "#5E7268"
  border: "#2C5A45"
  accent: "#E59A24"
  on_accent: "#1E3429"
  leaf: "#3C7C58"
  peach: "#F2A977"
  success: "#3C7C58"
  warning: "#D08A1E"
  error: "#C9543F"
  info: "#5F9DC2"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Baloo 2"
    fontSize: "2.075rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Baloo 2"
    fontSize: "1.66rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "Nunito"
    fontSize: "17px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "IBM Plex Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  sm: "16px"
  md: "24px"
  lg: "36px"
  full: "9999px"
spacing:
  base: "8px"
  xs: "4px"
  sm: "8px"
  md: "12px"
  lg: "16px"
  xl: "24px"
  2xl: "32px"
  3xl: "48px"
  4xl: "64px"
components:
  color-reference-bg:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.bg}"
  color-reference-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
  color-reference-surface2:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface2}"
  color-reference-text:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.text}"
  color-reference-muted:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.muted}"
  color-reference-border:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.border}"
  color-reference-accent:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent}"
  color-reference-on_accent:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.on_accent}"
  color-reference-leaf:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.leaf}"
  color-reference-peach:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.peach}"
  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"
---

# Verger

## Overview

A cut-paper storybook language that lays every workflow out as an illustrated orchard journey — warm paper panels lifted on offset shadows, dotted milestone paths, and sticker-like controls, all resting on an airy sky-blue ground.

### Values

- narrative clarity through scene-making
- human warmth over sterile efficiency
- playful guidance with production-grade readability

### Anti-Values

- cold dashboard severity
- techno-futurist abstraction
- flat anonymous component grids

### Visual Character

- Every major surface is a cut-paper cut-out: a solid warm fill, a thick forest-green marker outline, one offset paper-shadow block down-and-right, and a cream highlight patch tucked in a corner.
- Sequences are drawn as a dotted journey path between circular milestone markers — done markers fill leaf-green, the current step fills marigold — so the interface always shows where you are.
- Section titles carry a hand-drawn marigold underline sweep rendered in SVG, never a plain heading floating alone.
- Buttons and badges rest with a slight tilt and settle upward on hover, like rearrangeable illustrated stickers lifted off the page.
- Illustration moments are built from circles, leaves, clouds and sunbursts in the system palette with thick outlines, on an airy sky-blue paper ground rather than white.

## 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 | `#DCEEF6` |
| surface | `#FFF6EC` |
| surface2 | `#FCE9D8` |
| text | `#1E3429` |
| muted | `#5E7268` |
| border | `#2C5A45` |
| accent | `#E59A24` |
| on_accent | `#1E3429` |
| leaf | `#3C7C58` |
| peach | `#F2A977` |
| success | `#3C7C58` |
| warning | `#D08A1E` |
| error | `#C9543F` |
| info | `#5F9DC2` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: Baloo 2, 2.075rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Baloo 2, 1.66rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Nunito, 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`

### Grid

Desktop uses a wide narrative board with one prominent scene region and staggered secondary modules; tablet compresses to two columns; mobile collapses to a single illustrated reading flow.

### Whitespace

Generous outer padding and airy vertical rhythm so paper scenes breathe around functional blocks; always pad above titles.

### Density

moderate

### Responsive

minmax(0,1fr) columns and min-width:0 children so grids never overflow; journey paths stack to a vertical list on mobile; non-essential nav and table columns hide below 600px; only the hero spans 100vw.

### Breakpoints

- **Desktop**: 1440
- **Tablet**: 900
- **Mobile**: 600

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 4px 5px 0 #2C5A45
- **Md**: 7px 9px 0 #2C5A45, 0 18px 30px rgba(28,76,57,.16)
- **Lg**: 10px 13px 0 #2C5A45, 0 28px 50px rgba(28,76,57,.20)

## Shapes

### Rounded

- **Sm**: `16px`
- **Md**: `24px`
- **Lg**: `36px`
- **Full**: `9999px`

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: paper
- **Card Style**: Warm cream or peach paper cut-outs over an airy sky-blue ground, ringed by a thick forest-green marker outline, lifted on one offset paper-shadow block with a cream highlight patch in a corner.
- **Bg Pattern**: dots

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 3px
- **Accent Width**: 3px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: A uniform deep forest-green marker outline ringing every paper cut-out; never a single accent edge on one side.

## Components

### Composition

Compose screens as illustrated story scenes on a sky-blue ground: a prominent hero or scene region, a dotted journey path for any sequence, and staggered paper modules arranged like a picture-book spread.

### Hierarchy

Lead with rounded Baloo display headlines under a hand-drawn underline, then concise Nunito copy, then sticker-like controls and mono numeric callouts.

### Density

Moderate density with roomy gutters and clustered controls so the interface feels active but never cramped.

### Signature

The paper lift + journey path: cut-paper cut-outs with a marker outline and one offset shadow, sequenced along a dotted path between circular milestone markers.

## 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-019ef8e8-dc87-7f92-ad6e-c712feb71bf7/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 Pair dense areas with a soft illustrative anchor or a journey marker.
- Do Keep the marker outline and one offset shadow consistent so surfaces feel hand-arranged.
- Do Write copy as a guide walking the reader through the chapter.
- Do Reserve marigold for the single highlight and leaf-green for the primary action.
- Don't Fall back to hard-edged grey enterprise tables as the dominant surface.
- Don't Use glossy realism, 3D skeuomorphism, or photographic hero images.
- Don't Flatten cards to identical borderless rectangles with sterile spacing and neutral type.
- Don't Default the ground to white.

### Accessibility

High contrast forest ink on warm paper and sky ground; 17px+ body; SVG icons and carets, never symbol glyphs; every form control explicitly styled; respects prefers-reduced-motion.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

foldspring

### Summary

Layered cut-paper collage in the Foldspring technique: subjects built from torn paper shapes with thick marker outlines and offset paper-shadows, in warm peach / marigold / cream over a sky-blue paper ground.

### Subjects

- orchard rows and apple trees
- rolling paper hills
- journey paths and milestone markers
- paper clouds and sunbursts
- crew and harvest scenes

### Usage

One full-bleed cut-paper hero per landing; smaller paper vignettes anchor dense sections. Always end image prompts with 'NO text, NO letters, NO logos.'

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "verger",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Verger shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#DCEEF6",
      "foreground": "#1E3429",
      "card": "#FFF6EC",
      "card-foreground": "#1E3429",
      "popover": "#FFF6EC",
      "popover-foreground": "#1E3429",
      "primary": "#1E3429",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#f4f4f5",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#5E7268",
      "muted-foreground": "#1E3429",
      "accent": "#E59A24",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#C9543F",
      "border": "#2C5A45",
      "input": "#2C5A45",
      "ring": "#E59A24",
      "chart-1": "#1E3429",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#E59A24",
      "chart-4": "#3C7C58",
      "chart-5": "#D08A1E",
      "sidebar": "#FFF6EC",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#1E3429",
      "sidebar-primary": "#1E3429",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#5F9DC2",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#2C5A45",
      "sidebar-ring": "#E59A24",
      "radius": "24px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#1E3429",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#E59A24",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#C9543F",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#E59A24",
      "chart-1": "#1E3429",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#E59A24",
      "chart-4": "#3C7C58",
      "chart-5": "#D08A1E",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#1E3429",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#E59A24",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#E59A24",
      "radius": "24px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019ef8e8-dc87-7f92-ad6e-c712feb71bf7",
    "slug": "verger",
    "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",
        "bg",
        "border",
        "error",
        "info",
        "leaf",
        "muted",
        "on_accent",
        "peach",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "surface2",
        "text",
        "warning"
      ],
      "typography": [
        "base_size",
        "body_font",
        "google_fonts_url",
        "heading_font",
        "heading_transform",
        "heading_weight",
        "letter_spacing",
        "mono_font"
      ],
      "radii": [
        "full",
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "borders": [
        "accent_width",
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```