Azimuth

# Azimuth

## Philosophy

A cinematic mission-control design language. Luminous data planes float on deep carbon void, every container is a chamfered instrument silhouette, and colour follows a strict code: ice means information, amber means caution, red means act now. Command language reads loud and uppercase; machine telemetry stays compact and monospaced. The look is built from line, not shadow.

### Values

- Read the whole console at a glance, under pressure
- Luminous depth with disciplined restraint
- Colour as semantic alert routing, never decoration
- Surfaces that feel projected onto the hull, not drawn as soft rectangles

### Anti-Values

- Playful rounded consumer-app softness
- Neon overload without hierarchy
- Flat generic dashboard cards
- A single accent edge standing in for a real framing system

## Tokens

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#08111B` |
| bg-deep | `#040A12` |
| surface | `#101C29` |
| surface-2 | `#0B1622` |
| text | `#E7F4FF` |
| muted | `#7C97AC` |
| border | `#2A4459` |
| accent | `#7FD6FF` |
| on-accent | `#03121C` |
| amber | `#FFB45C` |
| signal | `#FF5E66` |
| primary | `#7FD6FF` |
| secondary | `#FFB45C` |
| success | `#61F0BF` |
| warning | `#FFB45C` |
| error | `#FF5E66` |
| info | `#7FD6FF` |

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 17px
- **Body Font**: Exo 2
- **Heading Font**: Orbitron
- **Mono Font**: IBM Plex Mono
- **Heading Weight**: 800
- **Heading Transform**: uppercase
- **Letter Spacing**: 0.12em
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Exo+2:wght@400;500;600;700&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500;600&family=Orbitron:wght@500;600;700;800&display=swap

### Radii

- **None**: 0px
- **Chamfer**: 18px
- **Pill**: 9999px

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 10px 24px rgba(1,8,15,.34)
- **Md**: 0 18px 42px rgba(1,8,15,.46)
- **Lg**: 0 26px 70px rgba(1,8,15,.58)

### Spacing

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: carbon-glass
- **Card Style**: Chamfered carbon-glass silhouette: linear-gradient(152deg, rgba(16,28,41,.72), rgba(7,15,25,.9)) with backdrop-blur, a 1px hairline trace, and a paired two-corner luminous bracket (top-left + bottom-right ice-blue L-seams).
- **Bg Pattern**: masked radar grid + orbital arcs

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: Hairline ice-blue traces with a paired two-corner luminous bracket; framing comes from line work, never from a single highlight edge.

### Motion

- **Duration**: 240ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.8, 0.2, 1)
- **Philosophy**: deliberate

## Rules

### Composition

A mission operations cockpit: one commanding tactical canvas, diagnostic rails, and stacked subpanels that look synchronized by a central system rather than collected from a UI kit.

### Hierarchy

Large uppercase coordinates, destination names and mission statuses are the headline layer; medium metric cards are secondary structure; dense monospace telemetry strips are tertiary detail.

### Density

High information density with disciplined spacing bands and breathing room around the primary tactical display.

### Signature

Every major panel is a clip-path chamfer carrying a paired two-corner luminous bracket. The tactical canvas overlays orbital arcs, a scan trace and a single collision beacon on projected glass. Status feedback is light bars, segmented badges and pulsing beacon dots. Colour routes meaning: ice=info, amber=warning, red=critical.

## Layout

### Grid

Desktop is a command deck: one commanding tactical canvas with a narrow diagnostic rail; the dashboard uses a 230px breathing rail (left-border active state, never a boxed pill) beside a fluid main column. Tablet collapses to a single column with the rail on top; mobile becomes a single scrolling operations feed with panel hierarchy preserved.

### Whitespace

Generous outer gutters and padding above every title; tighter telemetry spacing inside modules, wider separation between major systems.

### Density

High, with disciplined spacing bands.

### Responsive

Contained content caps at 1320px and centres on ultra-wide; only the landing hero spans 100vw. Grids use minmax(0,1fr) so children shrink instead of overflowing.

### Breakpoints

- **Deck**: 1320px
- **Tablet**: 980px
- **Field**: 760px
- **Mobile**: 560px

## Guidance

### Do

- Use dark layered surfaces with narrow luminous accents, not large flat colour fills.
- Treat ice, amber and red as semantic signals tied to system meaning and urgency.
- Build frames, separators and overlays from line work, with the paired two-corner bracket.
- Design screens as believable diegetic mission interfaces with narrative context.

### Don't

- Do not use pillowy cards, pastel gradients, or soft mobile-fintech styling.
- Do not let accent glows blur text or dominate the screen more than the data.
- Do not give a card a single accent edge; the bracket is always a paired framing system.
- Do not hide essential hierarchy inside equally weighted panels.

### Accessibility

Beam-white text (#E7F4FF) on carbon ground clears WCAG AA for body and large text. Colour routing is always paired with a label or position so meaning never depends on hue alone. Motion respects prefers-reduced-motion; the settled state renders with no JavaScript. Every form control is explicitly styled with a visible ice-blue focus ring.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

apogee

### Summary

Subjects are reconstructed as luminous ice-blue scan-traced wireframes on a deep carbon field, wrapped in chamfered instrument framing with corner seams, a targeting reticle, sparse amber and signal-red callouts, scanlines, and a faint radar grid with orbital arcs. Operational and cinematic, never chaotic cyberpunk.

### Subjects

- orbital intercept scenes
- ringed planets and transit gates
- spacecraft and trajectory plots
- reactor and sensor schematics
- tactical maps

### Usage

Landing hero is full-bleed; below-hero imagery sits inside its section. Drive the hero with background-image: var(--hero-image) so the studio can swap it. End every generation prompt with 'NO text, NO letters, NO logos.'

---
version: "alpha"
name: "Azimuth"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  bg: "#08111B"
  bg-deep: "#040A12"
  surface: "#101C29"
  surface-2: "#0B1622"
  text: "#E7F4FF"
  muted: "#7C97AC"
  border: "#2A4459"
  accent: "#7FD6FF"
  on-accent: "#03121C"
  amber: "#FFB45C"
  signal: "#FF5E66"
  primary: "#7FD6FF"
  secondary: "#FFB45C"
  success: "#61F0BF"
  warning: "#FFB45C"
  error: "#FF5E66"
  info: "#7FD6FF"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Orbitron"
    fontSize: "2.075rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "0.12em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Orbitron"
    fontSize: "1.66rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "0.12em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "Exo 2"
    fontSize: "17px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
    letterSpacing: "0.12em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "IBM Plex Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  none: "0px"
  chamfer: "18px"
  pill: "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-bg-deep:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.bg-deep}"
  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-on-accent:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.on-accent}"
  color-reference-amber:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.amber}"
  color-reference-signal:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.signal}"
  color-reference-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
  color-reference-secondary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.secondary}"
  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.primary}"
    textColor: "#000000"
    typography: "{typography.label-md}"
    rounded: "{rounded.none}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  card-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.none}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  input-default:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.none}"
    height: "44px"
---

# Azimuth

## Overview

A cinematic mission-control design language. Luminous data planes float on deep carbon void, every container is a chamfered instrument silhouette, and colour follows a strict code: ice means information, amber means caution, red means act now. Command language reads loud and uppercase; machine telemetry stays compact and monospaced. The look is built from line, not shadow.

### Values

- Read the whole console at a glance, under pressure
- Luminous depth with disciplined restraint
- Colour as semantic alert routing, never decoration
- Surfaces that feel projected onto the hull, not drawn as soft rectangles

### Anti-Values

- Playful rounded consumer-app softness
- Neon overload without hierarchy
- Flat generic dashboard cards
- A single accent edge standing in for a real framing system

## 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 | `#08111B` |
| bg-deep | `#040A12` |
| surface | `#101C29` |
| surface-2 | `#0B1622` |
| text | `#E7F4FF` |
| muted | `#7C97AC` |
| border | `#2A4459` |
| accent | `#7FD6FF` |
| on-accent | `#03121C` |
| amber | `#FFB45C` |
| signal | `#FF5E66` |
| primary | `#7FD6FF` |
| secondary | `#FFB45C` |
| success | `#61F0BF` |
| warning | `#FFB45C` |
| error | `#FF5E66` |
| info | `#7FD6FF` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: Orbitron, 2.075rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Orbitron, 1.66rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Exo 2, 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 is a command deck: one commanding tactical canvas with a narrow diagnostic rail; the dashboard uses a 230px breathing rail (left-border active state, never a boxed pill) beside a fluid main column. Tablet collapses to a single column with the rail on top; mobile becomes a single scrolling operations feed with panel hierarchy preserved.

### Whitespace

Generous outer gutters and padding above every title; tighter telemetry spacing inside modules, wider separation between major systems.

### Density

High, with disciplined spacing bands.

### Responsive

Contained content caps at 1320px and centres on ultra-wide; only the landing hero spans 100vw. Grids use minmax(0,1fr) so children shrink instead of overflowing.

### Breakpoints

- **Deck**: 1320px
- **Tablet**: 980px
- **Field**: 760px
- **Mobile**: 560px

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 10px 24px rgba(1,8,15,.34)
- **Md**: 0 18px 42px rgba(1,8,15,.46)
- **Lg**: 0 26px 70px rgba(1,8,15,.58)

## Shapes

### Rounded

- **None**: `0px`
- **Chamfer**: `18px`
- **Pill**: `9999px`

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: carbon-glass
- **Card Style**: Chamfered carbon-glass silhouette: linear-gradient(152deg, rgba(16,28,41,.72), rgba(7,15,25,.9)) with backdrop-blur, a 1px hairline trace, and a paired two-corner luminous bracket (top-left + bottom-right ice-blue L-seams).
- **Bg Pattern**: masked radar grid + orbital arcs

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: Hairline ice-blue traces with a paired two-corner luminous bracket; framing comes from line work, never from a single highlight edge.

## Components

### Composition

A mission operations cockpit: one commanding tactical canvas, diagnostic rails, and stacked subpanels that look synchronized by a central system rather than collected from a UI kit.

### Hierarchy

Large uppercase coordinates, destination names and mission statuses are the headline layer; medium metric cards are secondary structure; dense monospace telemetry strips are tertiary detail.

### Density

High information density with disciplined spacing bands and breathing room around the primary tactical display.

### Signature

Every major panel is a clip-path chamfer carrying a paired two-corner luminous bracket. The tactical canvas overlays orbital arcs, a scan trace and a single collision beacon on projected glass. Status feedback is light bars, segmented badges and pulsing beacon dots. Colour routes meaning: ice=info, amber=warning, red=critical.

## 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-019efa04-400b-70a2-ab22-a4eaca43f566/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 dark layered surfaces with narrow luminous accents, not large flat colour fills.
- Do Treat ice, amber and red as semantic signals tied to system meaning and urgency.
- Do Build frames, separators and overlays from line work, with the paired two-corner bracket.
- Do Design screens as believable diegetic mission interfaces with narrative context.
- Don't Do not use pillowy cards, pastel gradients, or soft mobile-fintech styling.
- Don't Do not let accent glows blur text or dominate the screen more than the data.
- Don't Do not give a card a single accent edge; the bracket is always a paired framing system.
- Don't Do not hide essential hierarchy inside equally weighted panels.

### Accessibility

Beam-white text (#E7F4FF) on carbon ground clears WCAG AA for body and large text. Colour routing is always paired with a label or position so meaning never depends on hue alone. Motion respects prefers-reduced-motion; the settled state renders with no JavaScript. Every form control is explicitly styled with a visible ice-blue focus ring.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

apogee

### Summary

Subjects are reconstructed as luminous ice-blue scan-traced wireframes on a deep carbon field, wrapped in chamfered instrument framing with corner seams, a targeting reticle, sparse amber and signal-red callouts, scanlines, and a faint radar grid with orbital arcs. Operational and cinematic, never chaotic cyberpunk.

### Subjects

- orbital intercept scenes
- ringed planets and transit gates
- spacecraft and trajectory plots
- reactor and sensor schematics
- tactical maps

### Usage

Landing hero is full-bleed; below-hero imagery sits inside its section. Drive the hero with background-image: var(--hero-image) so the studio can swap it. End every generation prompt with 'NO text, NO letters, NO logos.'

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "azimuth",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Azimuth shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#08111B",
      "foreground": "#E7F4FF",
      "card": "#101C29",
      "card-foreground": "#E7F4FF",
      "popover": "#101C29",
      "popover-foreground": "#E7F4FF",
      "primary": "#7FD6FF",
      "primary-foreground": "#111111",
      "secondary": "#FFB45C",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#7C97AC",
      "muted-foreground": "#E7F4FF",
      "accent": "#7FD6FF",
      "accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "destructive": "#FF5E66",
      "border": "#2A4459",
      "input": "#2A4459",
      "ring": "#7FD6FF",
      "chart-1": "#7FD6FF",
      "chart-2": "#FFB45C",
      "chart-3": "#7FD6FF",
      "chart-4": "#61F0BF",
      "chart-5": "#FFB45C",
      "sidebar": "#101C29",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#E7F4FF",
      "sidebar-primary": "#7FD6FF",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#111111",
      "sidebar-accent": "#7FD6FF",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "sidebar-border": "#2A4459",
      "sidebar-ring": "#7FD6FF",
      "radius": "0.625rem"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#7FD6FF",
      "primary-foreground": "#111111",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#7FD6FF",
      "accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "destructive": "#FF5E66",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#7FD6FF",
      "chart-1": "#7FD6FF",
      "chart-2": "#FFB45C",
      "chart-3": "#7FD6FF",
      "chart-4": "#61F0BF",
      "chart-5": "#FFB45C",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#7FD6FF",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#111111",
      "sidebar-accent": "#7FD6FF",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#7FD6FF",
      "radius": "0.625rem"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019efa04-400b-70a2-ab22-a4eaca43f566",
    "slug": "azimuth",
    "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",
        "amber",
        "bg",
        "bg-deep",
        "border",
        "error",
        "info",
        "muted",
        "on-accent",
        "primary",
        "secondary",
        "signal",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "surface-2",
        "text",
        "warning"
      ],
      "typography": [
        "base_size",
        "body_font",
        "google_fonts_url",
        "heading_font",
        "heading_transform",
        "heading_weight",
        "letter_spacing",
        "mono_font"
      ],
      "radii": [
        "chamfer",
        "none",
        "pill"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "borders": [
        "accent_width",
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```