Glaze

# Glaze

## Philosophy

A porcelain product language where porcelain slabs and charcoal type do the work, coral marks the single decision in front of you, and seafoam reassures the work already settled.

### Values

- product-first spaciousness
- soft complementary accent tension
- semantic restraint
- premium tactile calm

### Anti-Values

- rainbow UI systems
- decorative colour stripes or accent edges
- busy dashboards
- grid or dotted notebook texture

### Visual Character

- A seamless porcelain-white page with pearl-gray recessed wells and no background pattern, dots, or grid.
- Hierarchy built from large negative space, charcoal type, thin pearl hairlines on inputs, and soft vertical shadows rather than heavy outlines.
- Exactly one solid coral control per scene with a matching thin coral focus ring; seafoam reserved for success, completed, and onboarding surfaces.
- Continuous 16/24/9999 radii, pill controls, and a translucent inset glaze highlight band on each slab.
- Small colour-bearing islands inside neutral cards: status pills, selected rows, gauges, and focus rings only.

## Tokens

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#FBFAF7` |
| surface | `#FFFFFF` |
| well | `#F1EEE8` |
| text | `#1F2528` |
| muted | `#7A8287` |
| border | `#E7E3DC` |
| accent | `#FF6F61` |
| accent_press | `#E8594C` |
| seafoam | `#4DB7A6` |
| seafoam_wash | `#E5F4F0` |
| on_accent | `#FFFFFF` |
| success | `#4DB7A6` |
| warning | `#D6A044` |
| error | `#D94841` |
| info | `#6FAFE7` |

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 17px
- **Body Font**: Inter
- **Heading Font**: Instrument Sans
- **Mono Font**: IBM Plex Mono
- **Heading Weight**: 600
- **Heading Transform**: none
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.018em
- **Line Height**: 1.55
- **Scale Ratio**: 1.22
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Instrument+Sans:wght@500;600;700&family=Inter:wght@400;500;600&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@500&display=swap

### Radii

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

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 1px 2px rgba(31,37,40,0.05)
- **Md**: 0 18px 42px rgba(31,37,40,0.08)
- **Lg**: 0 32px 80px rgba(31,37,40,0.12)

### Spacing

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

### Surfaces

- **Bg Pattern**: none: uninterrupted porcelain-white canvas
- **Card Style**: rounded white slabs lifted by soft vertical shadows with a translucent inset glaze highlight; no borders
- **Treatment**: porcelain white over pearl-gray recessed wells, top-light glaze gradient, no pattern

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: hairline pearl (#E7E3DC) on inputs, select triggers, and table dividers only; never on cards or buttons; never an accent edge

### Motion

- **Duration**: 200ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(0.2,0.8,0.2,1)
- **Philosophy**: small Apple-like lift, fade, and colour-fill confirms; settled state is the no-JS default; respects prefers-reduced-motion

## Rules

### Composition

Compose as a focused product workspace: a spacious top hero, a single primary work object on the porcelain stage, and supporting side summaries rather than a generic dashboard grid.

### Hierarchy

Let scale, whitespace, and charcoal weight establish priority; coral indicates the current action or guided next step, seafoam confirms settled work.

### Density

Comfortable and airy with 24px to 48px group spacing; compact data only inside neutral rounded modules.

### Signature

One coral decision per scene on a porcelain stage; seafoam reassurance layer; neutral-first component shells; inset glaze highlight.

## Layout

### Grid

A 12-column desktop workspace with one wide main object, a narrower context panel, and wide gutters; collapses to a single column below tablet.

### Whitespace

Whitespace is a primary material: 32-48px outer padding on desktop, 20px on mobile, generous breathing room around every colour moment.

### Density

airy

### Responsive

Single full-bleed hero spans 100vw; contained content caps and centres on ultra-wide; stacks to one column and hides non-essential nav on mobile; grids use minmax(0,1fr) so children shrink instead of overflowing.

### Breakpoints

- **Mobile**: 390px
- **Tablet**: 768px
- **Desktop**: 1200px
- **Wide**: 1440px

## Guidance

### Do

- Use coral for the main action, active state, and high-attention progress only — one per scene.
- Use seafoam for supportive success, completed states, onboarding, and empty-state panels.
- Keep normal cards, rows, inputs, and navigation porcelain-neutral with pearl hairlines and charcoal type.
- Show real product content so colour is always structural or semantic.

### Don't

- Do not use dotted, grid, or notebook backgrounds, or pastel background washes.
- Do not add coloured side rails, stripes, swatch collages, or accent edges on cards.
- Do not introduce more vivid hues beyond coral, seafoam, and the quiet semantics.
- Do not trap navigation in a floating pill bar or nest cards.

### Accessibility

Charcoal #1F2528 on porcelain #FBFAF7 exceeds AA; coral text is reserved for badges with darkened ink (#B23B30); body 17px; every form control explicitly styled with a visible coral focus ring; motion gated behind prefers-reduced-motion.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

bisque

### Summary

Subjects rendered as smooth matte porcelain bone-china on a seamless porcelain-white cove, soft top-down light, long soft shadow, and one or two highlighter-thin coral/seafoam glaze accents.

### Subjects

- a single porcelain vessel
- bone-china studio objects
- porcelain product still-life
- a fired ceramic form

### Usage

Landing hero is one porcelain vessel with a coral glaze line down a single edge and a faint seafoam wash; product imagery stays calm, premium, and full-frame with generous negative space.

---
version: "alpha"
name: "Glaze"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  bg: "#FBFAF7"
  surface: "#FFFFFF"
  well: "#F1EEE8"
  text: "#1F2528"
  muted: "#7A8287"
  border: "#E7E3DC"
  accent: "#FF6F61"
  accent_press: "#E8594C"
  seafoam: "#4DB7A6"
  seafoam_wash: "#E5F4F0"
  on_accent: "#FFFFFF"
  success: "#4DB7A6"
  warning: "#D6A044"
  error: "#D94841"
  info: "#6FAFE7"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Instrument Sans"
    fontSize: "2.075rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.018em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Instrument Sans"
    fontSize: "1.66rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.018em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "Inter"
    fontSize: "17px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
    letterSpacing: "-0.018em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "IBM Plex Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  none: "0px"
  md: "16px"
  lg: "24px"
  full: "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-well:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.well}"
  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_press:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent_press}"
  color-reference-seafoam:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.seafoam}"
  color-reference-seafoam_wash:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.seafoam_wash}"
  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}"
  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"
---

# Glaze

## Overview

A porcelain product language where porcelain slabs and charcoal type do the work, coral marks the single decision in front of you, and seafoam reassures the work already settled.

### Values

- product-first spaciousness
- soft complementary accent tension
- semantic restraint
- premium tactile calm

### Anti-Values

- rainbow UI systems
- decorative colour stripes or accent edges
- busy dashboards
- grid or dotted notebook texture

### Visual Character

- A seamless porcelain-white page with pearl-gray recessed wells and no background pattern, dots, or grid.
- Hierarchy built from large negative space, charcoal type, thin pearl hairlines on inputs, and soft vertical shadows rather than heavy outlines.
- Exactly one solid coral control per scene with a matching thin coral focus ring; seafoam reserved for success, completed, and onboarding surfaces.
- Continuous 16/24/9999 radii, pill controls, and a translucent inset glaze highlight band on each slab.
- Small colour-bearing islands inside neutral cards: status pills, selected rows, gauges, and focus rings only.

## 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 | `#FBFAF7` |
| surface | `#FFFFFF` |
| well | `#F1EEE8` |
| text | `#1F2528` |
| muted | `#7A8287` |
| border | `#E7E3DC` |
| accent | `#FF6F61` |
| accent_press | `#E8594C` |
| seafoam | `#4DB7A6` |
| seafoam_wash | `#E5F4F0` |
| on_accent | `#FFFFFF` |
| success | `#4DB7A6` |
| warning | `#D6A044` |
| error | `#D94841` |
| info | `#6FAFE7` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: Instrument Sans, 2.075rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Instrument Sans, 1.66rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Inter, 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

A 12-column desktop workspace with one wide main object, a narrower context panel, and wide gutters; collapses to a single column below tablet.

### Whitespace

Whitespace is a primary material: 32-48px outer padding on desktop, 20px on mobile, generous breathing room around every colour moment.

### Density

airy

### Responsive

Single full-bleed hero spans 100vw; contained content caps and centres on ultra-wide; stacks to one column and hides non-essential nav on mobile; grids use minmax(0,1fr) so children shrink instead of overflowing.

### Breakpoints

- **Mobile**: 390px
- **Tablet**: 768px
- **Desktop**: 1200px
- **Wide**: 1440px

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 1px 2px rgba(31,37,40,0.05)
- **Md**: 0 18px 42px rgba(31,37,40,0.08)
- **Lg**: 0 32px 80px rgba(31,37,40,0.12)

## Shapes

### Rounded

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

### Surfaces

- **Bg Pattern**: none: uninterrupted porcelain-white canvas
- **Card Style**: rounded white slabs lifted by soft vertical shadows with a translucent inset glaze highlight; no borders
- **Treatment**: porcelain white over pearl-gray recessed wells, top-light glaze gradient, no pattern

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: hairline pearl (#E7E3DC) on inputs, select triggers, and table dividers only; never on cards or buttons; never an accent edge

## Components

### Composition

Compose as a focused product workspace: a spacious top hero, a single primary work object on the porcelain stage, and supporting side summaries rather than a generic dashboard grid.

### Hierarchy

Let scale, whitespace, and charcoal weight establish priority; coral indicates the current action or guided next step, seafoam confirms settled work.

### Density

Comfortable and airy with 24px to 48px group spacing; compact data only inside neutral rounded modules.

### Signature

One coral decision per scene on a porcelain stage; seafoam reassurance layer; neutral-first component shells; inset glaze highlight.

## 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-019efa7c-4189-7f22-a1dc-0195b90418f6/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 coral for the main action, active state, and high-attention progress only — one per scene.
- Do Use seafoam for supportive success, completed states, onboarding, and empty-state panels.
- Do Keep normal cards, rows, inputs, and navigation porcelain-neutral with pearl hairlines and charcoal type.
- Do Show real product content so colour is always structural or semantic.
- Don't Do not use dotted, grid, or notebook backgrounds, or pastel background washes.
- Don't Do not add coloured side rails, stripes, swatch collages, or accent edges on cards.
- Don't Do not introduce more vivid hues beyond coral, seafoam, and the quiet semantics.
- Don't Do not trap navigation in a floating pill bar or nest cards.

### Accessibility

Charcoal #1F2528 on porcelain #FBFAF7 exceeds AA; coral text is reserved for badges with darkened ink (#B23B30); body 17px; every form control explicitly styled with a visible coral focus ring; motion gated behind prefers-reduced-motion.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

bisque

### Summary

Subjects rendered as smooth matte porcelain bone-china on a seamless porcelain-white cove, soft top-down light, long soft shadow, and one or two highlighter-thin coral/seafoam glaze accents.

### Subjects

- a single porcelain vessel
- bone-china studio objects
- porcelain product still-life
- a fired ceramic form

### Usage

Landing hero is one porcelain vessel with a coral glaze line down a single edge and a faint seafoam wash; product imagery stays calm, premium, and full-frame with generous negative space.

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "glaze",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Glaze shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#FBFAF7",
      "foreground": "#1F2528",
      "card": "#FFFFFF",
      "card-foreground": "#1F2528",
      "popover": "#FFFFFF",
      "popover-foreground": "#1F2528",
      "primary": "#1F2528",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#f4f4f5",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#7A8287",
      "muted-foreground": "#1F2528",
      "accent": "#FF6F61",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#D94841",
      "border": "#E7E3DC",
      "input": "#E7E3DC",
      "ring": "#FF6F61",
      "chart-1": "#1F2528",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#FF6F61",
      "chart-4": "#4DB7A6",
      "chart-5": "#D6A044",
      "sidebar": "#FFFFFF",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#1F2528",
      "sidebar-primary": "#1F2528",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#6FAFE7",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#E7E3DC",
      "sidebar-ring": "#FF6F61",
      "radius": "16px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#1F2528",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#FF6F61",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#D94841",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#FF6F61",
      "chart-1": "#1F2528",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#FF6F61",
      "chart-4": "#4DB7A6",
      "chart-5": "#D6A044",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#1F2528",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#FF6F61",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#FF6F61",
      "radius": "16px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019efa7c-4189-7f22-a1dc-0195b90418f6",
    "slug": "glaze",
    "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_press",
        "bg",
        "border",
        "error",
        "info",
        "muted",
        "on_accent",
        "seafoam",
        "seafoam_wash",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "text",
        "warning",
        "well"
      ],
      "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"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "borders": [
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```