Dragée

# Dragée

## Philosophy

Dragée seals an interface like a thin candy glaze: pale, cool, mostly opaque reading surfaces with translucent misted edges, a single sweeping gloss band, and tiny droplet accents that light up only to orient attention while readable hierarchy is preserved.

### Values

- Legibility comes before material effects; translucent panels use milky fill, strong text, and generous spacing.
- Restraint creates freshness through cool mist neutrals, pale rain aqua, and at most three diluted candy accents.
- Surface roles are explicit through blur, opacity, outline weight, and inset gloss rather than many colours.
- Rounded geometry feels like a thin candy shell: continuous corners, a hairline gloss arc, and a clipped highlight band.

### Anti-Values

- No rainbow translucency, neon glow, loud gradients, or multi-colour glass competing with content.
- No generic pastel SaaS dashboard, cheerful blobs, emoji decoration, or childish candy-store cues.
- No low-contrast glassmorphism where a background pattern bleeds through small text.
- No pure-white default wash; the ground is a deliberate cool misted teal-white.

## Tokens

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#EEF4F4` |
| surface | `#FFFFFF` |
| surface_2 | `#F6FAFA` |
| text | `#1B2A2D` |
| muted | `#5E6F72` |
| border | `#D6E6E6` |
| accent | `#E7A9B8` |
| accent_2 | `#7FB8BD` |
| accent_3 | `#C7A35D` |
| on_accent | `#1B2A2D` |
| success | `#6F9C87` |
| warning | `#C7A35D` |
| error | `#B56D73` |
| info | `#7CAEB4` |
| primary | `#E7A9B8` |
| secondary | `#F6FAFA` |

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 17px
- **Body Font**: Afacad
- **Heading Font**: Fraunces
- **Mono Font**: Fragment Mono
- **Heading Weight**: 600
- **Heading Transform**: none
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.02em
- **Line Height**: 1.55
- **Scale Ratio**: 1.25
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Afacad:wght@400;500;600;700&family=Fragment+Mono&family=Fraunces:opsz,wght@9..144,500..800&display=swap

### Radii

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

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 1px 2px rgba(27,42,45,.04), 0 8px 18px rgba(127,184,189,.10)
- **Md**: 0 18px 50px rgba(85,124,128,.13), inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.80)
- **Lg**: 0 34px 90px rgba(93,132,136,.17), inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.88)

### Spacing

- **Base**: 8px
- **Scale**: [4,8,12,16,24,32,48,64,88,112]

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: Milky rgba(255,255,255,.74-.92) surfaces over #EEF4F4 with backdrop-filter blur(8px-14px), never transparent under body text.
- **Card Style**: Large rounded shells use 24px, hairline aqua rims (outline, not border), a top-left gloss band, and low cool shadows; reading cards stay near-solid white.
- **Bg Pattern**: Static rainline field from faint vertical linear-gradients plus pale aqua and lychee radial blooms at 6-10% opacity.

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Style**: Hairline rims via outline:1px solid rgba(127,184,189,.34) or rgba(27,42,45,.08), offset -1px; never hard gray.
- **Character**: Borders behave like condensation rims: near-invisible on neutral surfaces, slightly brighter on active candy-shell edges.

### Motion

- **Duration**: 180ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(.2,.8,.2,1)
- **Philosophy**: Humidity-soft responses only: shell highlights slide ~2px, droplets fill softly, focus rings appear immediately without bounce. Respect prefers-reduced-motion.

## Rules

### Composition

One dominant candy-shell panel carries the task, milky trays and clear chips support it, and full-width rainline strips break the grid with asymmetry and broad margins.

### Hierarchy

Hierarchy is made by opacity and role before colour: solid reading shells, translucent mist trays, outlined clear chips, and tiny droplet accents for active states.

### Density

Low-to-medium density with tight 4-12px control clusters and 64-112px gaps between major groups for clean rain air.

### Signature

Candy-shell gloss bands and clipped corner arcs on primary shells; fading rainline separators; tiny lychee/aqua/yuzu droplet markers paired with labels; surface roles encoded as .shell, .mist-tray, and .clear-chip.

## Layout

### Grid

Desktop uses a 12-column max-width 1180px grid with a 7/5 hero split; tablet collapses to 6 columns; mobile becomes one column.

### Whitespace

88-112px outer section spacing, 48-64px between panels, 4-12px between labels and values.

### Density

Airy low-to-medium density for a greenhouse misting workflow.

### Responsive

Stacks to one column on mobile; full-bleed hero spans 100vw; contained content caps at 1180px and centres on ultra-wide; grid children use minmax(0,1fr) so nothing overflows.

### Breakpoints

- **Mobile**: <= 640px
- **Tablet**: 641px-980px
- **Desktop**: >= 981px

## Guidance

### Do

- Keep body text on near-solid or heavily milky surfaces and verify contrast before adding translucency.
- Use at most three diluted candy accents (lychee, rain aqua, one yuzu) like highlighters.
- Name container roles explicitly and vary blur, opacity, and outline strength by reading priority.
- Keep one candy-shell radius family: 24px shells, 16px chips, 9999px droplets.
- Let one dominant shell panel carry the primary task instead of equal-weight cards.
- Use full-width rainline separators as quiet grid breaks; make one button clearly primary.

### Don't

- Do not use rainbow refraction, neon cyan, saturated candy gradients, or multi-hue glass panels.
- Do not place small muted text directly on transparent blur over patterned backgrounds.
- Do not create three equal cards in a row; make one panel dominant and vary supporting modules.
- Do not rely on colour alone for state; pair every droplet accent with label text.
- Do not mix container radii; large shells stay at 24px.
- Do not use hard gray borders, give a card a single accent edge, or trap navigation in a floating pill bar.

### Accessibility

Maintain WCAG AA contrast, keep core reading surfaces at least 88% white opacity, and provide visible aqua focus rings.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

glace-atelier

### Summary

Subjects sealed in a thin glossy translucent candy shell: a milky frosted casing with one clean gloss band, an aqua condensation rim, diluted lychee/aqua tints, and a single yuzu droplet accent on a matte cool near-white backdrop. The glaze is the technique, never the subject.

### Subjects

- skincare and wellness instruments
- rounded greenhouse and misting hardware
- smooth single-form still-life objects
- condensation and dew macro studies

### Usage

One full-bleed candy-glaze hero per landing, with milky negative space where an overlay panel sits; feature crops in the same technique. Avoid rainbow refraction, neon glow, and saturated multi-hue glass.

---
version: "alpha"
name: "Dragée"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  bg: "#EEF4F4"
  surface: "#FFFFFF"
  surface_2: "#F6FAFA"
  text: "#1B2A2D"
  muted: "#5E6F72"
  border: "#D6E6E6"
  accent: "#E7A9B8"
  accent_2: "#7FB8BD"
  accent_3: "#C7A35D"
  on_accent: "#1B2A2D"
  success: "#6F9C87"
  warning: "#C7A35D"
  error: "#B56D73"
  info: "#7CAEB4"
  primary: "#E7A9B8"
  secondary: "#F6FAFA"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Fraunces"
    fontSize: "2.075rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Fraunces"
    fontSize: "1.66rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "Afacad"
    fontSize: "17px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.55
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "Fragment Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  none: "0px"
  sm: "16px"
  md: "24px"
  lg: "24px"
  xl: "24px"
  full: "9999px"
spacing:
  base: "8px"
  xs: "4px"
  sm: "8px"
  md: "12px"
  lg: "16px"
  xl: "24px"
  2xl: "32px"
  3xl: "48px"
  4xl: "64px"
  step-8: "88px"
  step-9: "112px"
components:
  color-reference-bg:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.bg}"
  color-reference-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
  color-reference-surface_2:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface_2}"
  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-accent_2:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent_2}"
  color-reference-accent_3:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent_3}"
  color-reference-on_accent:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.on_accent}"
  color-reference-success:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.success}"
  color-reference-warning:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.warning}"
  color-reference-error:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.error}"
  color-reference-info:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.info}"
  color-reference-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
  color-reference-secondary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.secondary}"
  button-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
    textColor: "#000000"
    typography: "{typography.label-md}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  card-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  input-default:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    height: "44px"
---

# Dragée

## Overview

Dragée seals an interface like a thin candy glaze: pale, cool, mostly opaque reading surfaces with translucent misted edges, a single sweeping gloss band, and tiny droplet accents that light up only to orient attention while readable hierarchy is preserved.

### Values

- Legibility comes before material effects; translucent panels use milky fill, strong text, and generous spacing.
- Restraint creates freshness through cool mist neutrals, pale rain aqua, and at most three diluted candy accents.
- Surface roles are explicit through blur, opacity, outline weight, and inset gloss rather than many colours.
- Rounded geometry feels like a thin candy shell: continuous corners, a hairline gloss arc, and a clipped highlight band.

### Anti-Values

- No rainbow translucency, neon glow, loud gradients, or multi-colour glass competing with content.
- No generic pastel SaaS dashboard, cheerful blobs, emoji decoration, or childish candy-store cues.
- No low-contrast glassmorphism where a background pattern bleeds through small text.
- No pure-white default wash; the ground is a deliberate cool misted teal-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 | `#EEF4F4` |
| surface | `#FFFFFF` |
| surface_2 | `#F6FAFA` |
| text | `#1B2A2D` |
| muted | `#5E6F72` |
| border | `#D6E6E6` |
| accent | `#E7A9B8` |
| accent_2 | `#7FB8BD` |
| accent_3 | `#C7A35D` |
| on_accent | `#1B2A2D` |
| success | `#6F9C87` |
| warning | `#C7A35D` |
| error | `#B56D73` |
| info | `#7CAEB4` |
| primary | `#E7A9B8` |
| secondary | `#F6FAFA` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: Fraunces, 2.075rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Fraunces, 1.66rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Afacad, 17px, weight 400, line-height 1.55.
- **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`
- **Step-8**: `88px`
- **Step-9**: `112px`

### Grid

Desktop uses a 12-column max-width 1180px grid with a 7/5 hero split; tablet collapses to 6 columns; mobile becomes one column.

### Whitespace

88-112px outer section spacing, 48-64px between panels, 4-12px between labels and values.

### Density

Airy low-to-medium density for a greenhouse misting workflow.

### Responsive

Stacks to one column on mobile; full-bleed hero spans 100vw; contained content caps at 1180px and centres on ultra-wide; grid children use minmax(0,1fr) so nothing overflows.

### Breakpoints

- **Mobile**: <= 640px
- **Tablet**: 641px-980px
- **Desktop**: >= 981px

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 1px 2px rgba(27,42,45,.04), 0 8px 18px rgba(127,184,189,.10)
- **Md**: 0 18px 50px rgba(85,124,128,.13), inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.80)
- **Lg**: 0 34px 90px rgba(93,132,136,.17), inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.88)

## Shapes

### Rounded

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: Milky rgba(255,255,255,.74-.92) surfaces over #EEF4F4 with backdrop-filter blur(8px-14px), never transparent under body text.
- **Card Style**: Large rounded shells use 24px, hairline aqua rims (outline, not border), a top-left gloss band, and low cool shadows; reading cards stay near-solid white.
- **Bg Pattern**: Static rainline field from faint vertical linear-gradients plus pale aqua and lychee radial blooms at 6-10% opacity.

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Style**: Hairline rims via outline:1px solid rgba(127,184,189,.34) or rgba(27,42,45,.08), offset -1px; never hard gray.
- **Character**: Borders behave like condensation rims: near-invisible on neutral surfaces, slightly brighter on active candy-shell edges.

## Components

### Composition

One dominant candy-shell panel carries the task, milky trays and clear chips support it, and full-width rainline strips break the grid with asymmetry and broad margins.

### Hierarchy

Hierarchy is made by opacity and role before colour: solid reading shells, translucent mist trays, outlined clear chips, and tiny droplet accents for active states.

### Density

Low-to-medium density with tight 4-12px control clusters and 64-112px gaps between major groups for clean rain air.

### Signature

Candy-shell gloss bands and clipped corner arcs on primary shells; fading rainline separators; tiny lychee/aqua/yuzu droplet markers paired with labels; surface roles encoded as .shell, .mist-tray, and .clear-chip.

## 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-019ef9da-7013-7963-90d8-70db82a1c0a3/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 Keep body text on near-solid or heavily milky surfaces and verify contrast before adding translucency.
- Do Use at most three diluted candy accents (lychee, rain aqua, one yuzu) like highlighters.
- Do Name container roles explicitly and vary blur, opacity, and outline strength by reading priority.
- Do Keep one candy-shell radius family: 24px shells, 16px chips, 9999px droplets.
- Do Let one dominant shell panel carry the primary task instead of equal-weight cards.
- Do Use full-width rainline separators as quiet grid breaks; make one button clearly primary.
- Don't Do not use rainbow refraction, neon cyan, saturated candy gradients, or multi-hue glass panels.
- Don't Do not place small muted text directly on transparent blur over patterned backgrounds.
- Don't Do not create three equal cards in a row; make one panel dominant and vary supporting modules.
- Don't Do not rely on colour alone for state; pair every droplet accent with label text.
- Don't Do not mix container radii; large shells stay at 24px.
- Don't Do not use hard gray borders, give a card a single accent edge, or trap navigation in a floating pill bar.

### Accessibility

Maintain WCAG AA contrast, keep core reading surfaces at least 88% white opacity, and provide visible aqua focus rings.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

glace-atelier

### Summary

Subjects sealed in a thin glossy translucent candy shell: a milky frosted casing with one clean gloss band, an aqua condensation rim, diluted lychee/aqua tints, and a single yuzu droplet accent on a matte cool near-white backdrop. The glaze is the technique, never the subject.

### Subjects

- skincare and wellness instruments
- rounded greenhouse and misting hardware
- smooth single-form still-life objects
- condensation and dew macro studies

### Usage

One full-bleed candy-glaze hero per landing, with milky negative space where an overlay panel sits; feature crops in the same technique. Avoid rainbow refraction, neon glow, and saturated multi-hue glass.

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "dragee",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Dragée shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#EEF4F4",
      "foreground": "#1B2A2D",
      "card": "#FFFFFF",
      "card-foreground": "#1B2A2D",
      "popover": "#FFFFFF",
      "popover-foreground": "#1B2A2D",
      "primary": "#E7A9B8",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#F6FAFA",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#5E6F72",
      "muted-foreground": "#1B2A2D",
      "accent": "#E7A9B8",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#B56D73",
      "border": "#D6E6E6",
      "input": "#D6E6E6",
      "ring": "#E7A9B8",
      "chart-1": "#E7A9B8",
      "chart-2": "#F6FAFA",
      "chart-3": "#E7A9B8",
      "chart-4": "#6F9C87",
      "chart-5": "#C7A35D",
      "sidebar": "#FFFFFF",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#1B2A2D",
      "sidebar-primary": "#E7A9B8",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#7CAEB4",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#D6E6E6",
      "sidebar-ring": "#E7A9B8",
      "radius": "24px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#E7A9B8",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#E7A9B8",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#B56D73",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#E7A9B8",
      "chart-1": "#E7A9B8",
      "chart-2": "#F6FAFA",
      "chart-3": "#E7A9B8",
      "chart-4": "#6F9C87",
      "chart-5": "#C7A35D",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#E7A9B8",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#E7A9B8",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#E7A9B8",
      "radius": "24px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019ef9da-7013-7963-90d8-70db82a1c0a3",
    "slug": "dragee",
    "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",
        "muted",
        "on_accent",
        "primary",
        "secondary",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "surface_2",
        "text",
        "warning"
      ],
      "typography": [
        "base_size",
        "body_font",
        "google_fonts_url",
        "heading_font",
        "heading_transform",
        "heading_weight",
        "letter_spacing",
        "line_height",
        "mono_font",
        "scale_ratio"
      ],
      "radii": [
        "full",
        "lg",
        "md",
        "none",
        "sm",
        "xl"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "borders": [
        "accent_width",
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```