Dossier

# Dossier

## Philosophy

Dossier handles interface work the way a court handles evidence: cold bone-paper fields, exact custody ledgers, redaction as structural mass, and a single point of icy-blue verified light — institutional rigor in place of hacker spectacle.

### Values

- Admissibility over spectacle: every visible mark should feel like it could defend a chain of custody in court.
- Forensic calm: cold whitespace, exact labels, and patient ledger rows make the interface feel sealed and read-only.
- Provenance as ornament: hashes, timestamps, custody signatures, and verification ticks are the only decorative system.
- Redaction as mass: censorship blocks are structural weights that crop the page and create asymmetry without neon theatrics.
- Page architecture over illustration: gutters, hard crops, ink blocks, and disciplined negative space carry the identity.

### Anti-Values

- No green matrix rain, neon cyberpunk, glowing skulls, code walls, or generic hacker dashboards.
- No equal SaaS card grids, analytics charts, pricing tables, or cheerful productivity furniture.
- No mascots, anime faces, or ornamental pseudo-text.
- No rainbow or saturated gradients, glow, glass, or more than one restrained blue accent family.
- No pill cards, blur, or friendly rounded buttons; never fill all the whitespace.

## Tokens

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#EFEADD` |
| surface | `#FBF8F0` |
| text | `#0E0F11` |
| muted | `#5A5F64` |
| border | `#111111` |
| accent | `#2F6E8F` |
| on_accent | `#FBF8F0` |
| ink_mass | `#0B0D0F` |
| primary | `#0B0D0F` |
| secondary | `#2F6E8F` |
| success | `#3F7A66` |
| warning | `#9A7A2E` |
| error | `#8A2D24` |
| info | `#2F6E8F` |

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 17px
- **Body Font**: Libre Franklin
- **Heading Font**: Chivo
- **Mono Font**: Fragment Mono
- **Heading Weight**: 900
- **Heading Transform**: uppercase
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.04em
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Chivo:wght@400;500;700;900&family=Fragment+Mono:ital@0;1&family=Libre+Franklin:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap

### Radii

- **None**: 0
- **Sm**: 0
- **Md**: 0
- **Lg**: 0
- **Node**: 9999px

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 3px 3px 0 rgba(11,13,15,0.16)
- **Md**: 8px 10px 0 rgba(11,13,15,0.10)
- **Lg**: 18px 22px 0 rgba(11,13,15,0.08)

### Spacing

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

### Surfaces

- **Bg Pattern**: Low-opacity legal-rule grid, photocopy grain dots, and vertical checksum gutters printed in black.
- **Card Style**: Square frost evidence sheets with 1px black borders, clipped docket tabs, corner registration brackets, stamped metadata, and offset scanner-bed shadows.
- **Treatment**: Bone paper and frost-white sheets with subtle repeating-gradient photocopy grain; no glass, no glow.

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: Hard black evidence rules with 2px icy-blue verification ticks and occasional double-line legal dividers.

### Motion

- **Duration**: 140ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1)
- **Philosophy**: Motion behaves like a scanner lock or stamped access event — short, linear-feeling, never bouncy, never glowing. The settled page renders without JavaScript; reveals are added on top.

## Rules

### Composition

Case-desk grid, not a dashboard: one dominant exhibit sheet, one dense chain-of-custody ledger, a narrow checksum gutter rail, and a deliberately empty sealed field. Redaction bars and clipped tabs overlap panel borders; corners stay square; black masses create the asymmetry.

### Hierarchy

Legal and archival: oversized Chivo docket headings at -0.04em, Fragment Mono uppercase exhibit IDs and hash stamps, Libre Franklin body at 17px with -0.01em tracking. Black redaction outranks blue; blue only confirms provenance.

### Density

Dense ledger rows at 4-8px rhythm beside large 64-96px sealed whitespace — a case file on a cold desk, never a packed console.

### Signature

Checksum gutters, redaction mass overlays, custody ledger rows, scanner-bed offsets, and access-log stamps.

## Layout

### Grid

Desktop 12-column case desk, 24px gutters, max-width 1360px; dominant exhibit ~7 columns, ledger ~4, checksum rail ~1.4.

### Whitespace

Forensic custody space: 64-96px section gaps, 24-32px sheet padding, 4-8px row gaps; sealed fields feel intentionally untouched.

### Density

High-contrast density: compact evidence metadata and ledger rows beside large quiet sealed fields.

### Responsive

Collapse side rails to top/inline stamps, stack exhibit over ledger, keep body text 16px+ on mobile, hide non-essential nav links, never overflow horizontally.

### Breakpoints

- **Desktop**: >=1180px asymmetric desk columns + checksum rail
- **Tablet**: 720-1179px stacks exhibit over ledger, checksum rail becomes a horizontal strip
- **Mobile**: <720px single-file dossier with preserved tabs and ledgers

## Guidance

### Do

- Let one exhibit dominate; keep surrounding ledgers subordinate but denser.
- Name modules as evidence operations: hash verification, custody transfer, access petition, sealed exhibit, FOIA redaction, archive retrieval.
- Use icy blue only for provenance confirmations, focus, and checksum ticks — sparse enough to count.
- Show timestamps, signatures, access logs, and admissibility notes as the primary content.
- Make redaction blocks overlap real copy so censorship feels procedural, not decorative.
- Keep all radii square except tiny custody nodes and binder holes.

### Don't

- Do not use matrix rain, neon cyberpunk, glowing skulls, code walls, or generic hacker dashboards.
- Do not use equal SaaS card grids, analytics charts, pricing grids, or cheerful productivity patterns.
- Do not add mascots, anime faces, or ornamental pseudo-text.
- Do not use rainbow gradients, glow, glass, or more than one restrained blue accent family.
- Do not soften with pills, blur, or friendly rounded buttons; never fill all the whitespace.

### Accessibility

Maintain AA contrast with graphite text on bone paper, pair every blue verification mark with text, keep redaction non-essential to comprehension, and provide visible black or blue focus outlines on every control.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

exhibit-hand

### Summary

Full-bleed declassified evidence photostats: harsh high-contrast black-and-white photocopy, coarse halftone grain, solid black redaction bars cropping the subject, hairline registration brackets, docket hash stamps, and one flat matte icy-blue verification tick.

### Subjects

- scanned case-file exhibit sheets
- sealed evidence objects
- depot and archive interiors
- forensic mugshot-style portraits
- near-blank sealed exhibit sheets

### Usage

Hero and feature imagery is full-frame photostat; keep blue countable, redaction bars solid and opaque, and let the subject bleed to all four edges. No glow, no neon, no readable secret text.

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version: "alpha"
name: "Dossier"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  bg: "#EFEADD"
  surface: "#FBF8F0"
  text: "#0E0F11"
  muted: "#5A5F64"
  border: "#111111"
  accent: "#2F6E8F"
  on_accent: "#FBF8F0"
  ink_mass: "#0B0D0F"
  primary: "#0B0D0F"
  secondary: "#2F6E8F"
  success: "#3F7A66"
  warning: "#9A7A2E"
  error: "#8A2D24"
  info: "#2F6E8F"
typography:
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    fontFamily: "Chivo"
    fontSize: "2.075rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.04em"
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    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
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    fontSize: "17px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
    letterSpacing: "-0.04em"
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    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
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  sm: "0px"
  md: "0px"
  lg: "0px"
  node: "9999px"
spacing:
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  xs: "4px"
  sm: "8px"
  md: "12px"
  lg: "16px"
  xl: "24px"
  2xl: "32px"
  3xl: "48px"
  4xl: "64px"
  step-8: "96px"
components:
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  color-reference-on_accent:
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  color-reference-ink_mass:
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  color-reference-primary:
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  color-reference-secondary:
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  color-reference-success:
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  color-reference-warning:
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  color-reference-error:
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  color-reference-info:
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  button-primary:
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    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  card-surface:
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    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  input-default:
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    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    height: "44px"
---

# Dossier

## Overview

Dossier handles interface work the way a court handles evidence: cold bone-paper fields, exact custody ledgers, redaction as structural mass, and a single point of icy-blue verified light — institutional rigor in place of hacker spectacle.

### Values

- Admissibility over spectacle: every visible mark should feel like it could defend a chain of custody in court.
- Forensic calm: cold whitespace, exact labels, and patient ledger rows make the interface feel sealed and read-only.
- Provenance as ornament: hashes, timestamps, custody signatures, and verification ticks are the only decorative system.
- Redaction as mass: censorship blocks are structural weights that crop the page and create asymmetry without neon theatrics.
- Page architecture over illustration: gutters, hard crops, ink blocks, and disciplined negative space carry the identity.

### Anti-Values

- No green matrix rain, neon cyberpunk, glowing skulls, code walls, or generic hacker dashboards.
- No equal SaaS card grids, analytics charts, pricing tables, or cheerful productivity furniture.
- No mascots, anime faces, or ornamental pseudo-text.
- No rainbow or saturated gradients, glow, glass, or more than one restrained blue accent family.
- No pill cards, blur, or friendly rounded buttons; never fill all the whitespace.

## 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 | `#EFEADD` |
| surface | `#FBF8F0` |
| text | `#0E0F11` |
| muted | `#5A5F64` |
| border | `#111111` |
| accent | `#2F6E8F` |
| on_accent | `#FBF8F0` |
| ink_mass | `#0B0D0F` |
| primary | `#0B0D0F` |
| secondary | `#2F6E8F` |
| success | `#3F7A66` |
| warning | `#9A7A2E` |
| error | `#8A2D24` |
| info | `#2F6E8F` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: Chivo, 2.075rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Chivo, 1.66rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Libre Franklin, 17px, weight 400, line-height 1.5.
- **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**: `96px`

### Grid

Desktop 12-column case desk, 24px gutters, max-width 1360px; dominant exhibit ~7 columns, ledger ~4, checksum rail ~1.4.

### Whitespace

Forensic custody space: 64-96px section gaps, 24-32px sheet padding, 4-8px row gaps; sealed fields feel intentionally untouched.

### Density

High-contrast density: compact evidence metadata and ledger rows beside large quiet sealed fields.

### Responsive

Collapse side rails to top/inline stamps, stack exhibit over ledger, keep body text 16px+ on mobile, hide non-essential nav links, never overflow horizontally.

### Breakpoints

- **Desktop**: >=1180px asymmetric desk columns + checksum rail
- **Tablet**: 720-1179px stacks exhibit over ledger, checksum rail becomes a horizontal strip
- **Mobile**: <720px single-file dossier with preserved tabs and ledgers

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 3px 3px 0 rgba(11,13,15,0.16)
- **Md**: 8px 10px 0 rgba(11,13,15,0.10)
- **Lg**: 18px 22px 0 rgba(11,13,15,0.08)

## Shapes

### Rounded

- **None**: `0px`
- **Sm**: `0px`
- **Md**: `0px`
- **Lg**: `0px`
- **Node**: `9999px`

### Surfaces

- **Bg Pattern**: Low-opacity legal-rule grid, photocopy grain dots, and vertical checksum gutters printed in black.
- **Card Style**: Square frost evidence sheets with 1px black borders, clipped docket tabs, corner registration brackets, stamped metadata, and offset scanner-bed shadows.
- **Treatment**: Bone paper and frost-white sheets with subtle repeating-gradient photocopy grain; no glass, no glow.

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: Hard black evidence rules with 2px icy-blue verification ticks and occasional double-line legal dividers.

## Components

### Composition

Case-desk grid, not a dashboard: one dominant exhibit sheet, one dense chain-of-custody ledger, a narrow checksum gutter rail, and a deliberately empty sealed field. Redaction bars and clipped tabs overlap panel borders; corners stay square; black masses create the asymmetry.

### Hierarchy

Legal and archival: oversized Chivo docket headings at -0.04em, Fragment Mono uppercase exhibit IDs and hash stamps, Libre Franklin body at 17px with -0.01em tracking. Black redaction outranks blue; blue only confirms provenance.

### Density

Dense ledger rows at 4-8px rhythm beside large 64-96px sealed whitespace — a case file on a cold desk, never a packed console.

### Signature

Checksum gutters, redaction mass overlays, custody ledger rows, scanner-bed offsets, and access-log stamps.

## 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-019efa01-7122-77c2-be3c-f28eeb029a5e/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 Let one exhibit dominate; keep surrounding ledgers subordinate but denser.
- Do Name modules as evidence operations: hash verification, custody transfer, access petition, sealed exhibit, FOIA redaction, archive retrieval.
- Do Use icy blue only for provenance confirmations, focus, and checksum ticks — sparse enough to count.
- Do Show timestamps, signatures, access logs, and admissibility notes as the primary content.
- Do Make redaction blocks overlap real copy so censorship feels procedural, not decorative.
- Do Keep all radii square except tiny custody nodes and binder holes.
- Don't Do not use matrix rain, neon cyberpunk, glowing skulls, code walls, or generic hacker dashboards.
- Don't Do not use equal SaaS card grids, analytics charts, pricing grids, or cheerful productivity patterns.
- Don't Do not add mascots, anime faces, or ornamental pseudo-text.
- Don't Do not use rainbow gradients, glow, glass, or more than one restrained blue accent family.
- Don't Do not soften with pills, blur, or friendly rounded buttons; never fill all the whitespace.

### Accessibility

Maintain AA contrast with graphite text on bone paper, pair every blue verification mark with text, keep redaction non-essential to comprehension, and provide visible black or blue focus outlines on every control.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

exhibit-hand

### Summary

Full-bleed declassified evidence photostats: harsh high-contrast black-and-white photocopy, coarse halftone grain, solid black redaction bars cropping the subject, hairline registration brackets, docket hash stamps, and one flat matte icy-blue verification tick.

### Subjects

- scanned case-file exhibit sheets
- sealed evidence objects
- depot and archive interiors
- forensic mugshot-style portraits
- near-blank sealed exhibit sheets

### Usage

Hero and feature imagery is full-frame photostat; keep blue countable, redaction bars solid and opaque, and let the subject bleed to all four edges. No glow, no neon, no readable secret text.

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "dossier",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Dossier shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#EFEADD",
      "foreground": "#0E0F11",
      "card": "#FBF8F0",
      "card-foreground": "#0E0F11",
      "popover": "#FBF8F0",
      "popover-foreground": "#0E0F11",
      "primary": "#0B0D0F",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#2F6E8F",
      "secondary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "muted": "#5A5F64",
      "muted-foreground": "#0E0F11",
      "accent": "#2F6E8F",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#8A2D24",
      "border": "#111111",
      "input": "#111111",
      "ring": "#2F6E8F",
      "chart-1": "#0B0D0F",
      "chart-2": "#2F6E8F",
      "chart-3": "#2F6E8F",
      "chart-4": "#3F7A66",
      "chart-5": "#9A7A2E",
      "sidebar": "#FBF8F0",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#0E0F11",
      "sidebar-primary": "#0B0D0F",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#2F6E8F",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#111111",
      "sidebar-ring": "#2F6E8F",
      "radius": "0"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#0B0D0F",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#2F6E8F",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#8A2D24",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#2F6E8F",
      "chart-1": "#0B0D0F",
      "chart-2": "#2F6E8F",
      "chart-3": "#2F6E8F",
      "chart-4": "#3F7A66",
      "chart-5": "#9A7A2E",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#0B0D0F",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#2F6E8F",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#2F6E8F",
      "radius": "0"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019efa01-7122-77c2-be3c-f28eeb029a5e",
    "slug": "dossier",
    "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",
        "ink_mass",
        "muted",
        "on_accent",
        "primary",
        "secondary",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "text",
        "warning"
      ],
      "typography": [
        "base_size",
        "body_font",
        "google_fonts_url",
        "heading_font",
        "heading_transform",
        "heading_weight",
        "letter_spacing",
        "mono_font"
      ],
      "radii": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "node",
        "none",
        "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"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```