Typography
The quick brown fox jumps
The quick brown fox jumps
The quick brown fox jumps
The quick brown fox jumps
A portable design language for agents: download the markdown first, then inspect the preview, tokens, and rules as needed.
Portable DESIGN.md source of truth for most agents and apps.
Hang the layout off a single luminous brush-spine rather than a ruled column grid; sections and panels attach to the stroke, thicker and vermilion-tipped at the load point. Keep at least one quadrant dark and empty. Navigation breathes as part of the page — never a pill bar or floating card; cards never nest.
Order is set by the brush-spine, type scale, and surface before colour. Display in Bricolage Grotesque (800, tight), body in Spectral, captions and data in Spline Sans Mono uppercase. Vermilion marks one active or sealed item and celadon one reference — never decorate multiple unrelated elements.
Compact inside a surface (8–16px internal rhythm), spacious between surfaces (large quiet slab gutters). A screen reads like a single committed gesture on a wet stone, with precise marks surrounded by quiet dark.
The single stroke: a luminous brush-spine that containers hang off; the ensō watermark (a continuous bone ring with one open breath-gap) on feature surfaces, the brand seal and avatars; ensō state arcs that sweep to completeness and stay open; one vermilion seal for the active mark and one celadon for the reference. The spine narrows and panels stack to one column on mobile.
No fixed multi-column folio grid. Content hangs off a single brush-spine on a max-width ~1240px contained measure; panels use auto-fit minmax(280px,1fr) so children shrink rather than overflow. The hero spans 100vw.
Quiet dark slab is composition, not emptiness. Generous outer padding (24px mobile, 36px desktop) and at least one deliberately empty quadrant beside dense marks.
Compact marks inside surfaces, spacious quiet slab between them; high information per panel without crowding.
At ~390px: single column, narrowed spine, 24px gutters, 44px controls, ensō marks preserved. At ~768px: two-column splits collapse gracefully. At 1440px+: contained content caps and centres; only the hero is full-bleed.
lampblack
Dense fine-art ink drawing in the lampblack technique, inverted onto a wet near-black inkstone ground: luminous bone-ink masses from a loaded sumi-e brush, pen-and-nib hairline structure, dry-brush texture and restrained spatter, with one small vermilion accent mark and generous quiet dark space.
One luminous full-bleed hero subject per landing; smaller ensō marks as panel watermarks and avatars. Always end image prompts with NO text, NO letters, NO logos.
# Inkstone
## Philosophy
Inkstone treats software the way a brush treats paper: the mark commits in one breath and cannot be revised. The screen is a wet black slab — warm near-black inkstone — and the interface is luminous bone ink loaded onto it; light is the ink, the ground is the stone. The one ownable idea is the single stroke, drawn whole and never corrected, emblemised by the ensō — a brush-circle drawn in one breath and left deliberately open. That open breath-gap is the signature: the unfinished is finished on purpose, and quiet slab speaks as loudly as the mark.
### Values
- {"name":"Ink as authority","description":"Decisions are committed in dense bone ink on a black slab, not merely tinted; confidence carries the line, never correction."}
- {"name":"One breath, one mark","description":"Every stroke is set whole in a single gesture; there is no undo on the slab, so what looks effortless was decided before the brush landed."}
- {"name":"The open ensō","description":"The breath-gap is the idea — the unfinished is left unfinished on purpose; large quiet dark zones are composition, not absence."}
- {"name":"Two marks pressed like a chop","description":"Vermilion names the one active or sealed item; celadon names the one reference — colour is pressed last and never spread as decoration."}
- {"name":"Stroke before colour","description":"Reading order is set by the brush-spine, line weight, and typographic scale before any mark of colour is used."}
- {"name":"Fine-art tactility","description":"Generated stone-and-fiber grain and squared offset ink-shadows give material presence while every control stays precise and production-ready."}
### Anti-Values
- Defaulting to a white or paper-light ground; this language is a dark wet slab and the ink is the light.
- Generic SaaS cards with soft shadows, large pastel fills, glass, or a single decorative accent edge.
- A third or fourth accent crowding the two ink marks, or colour standing in for hierarchy.
- Decorative doodles, fake hand-drawn scribbles, or symbol glyphs in copy and markup.
- Reading as a recoloured editorial broadsheet — Inkstone is the brush gesture, not the ruled folio grid.
### Visual Character
- A wet near-black inkstone ground with subtle generated stone/fiber grain, carrying luminous bone-ink marks.
- A living brush-spine runs the spine of every layout; panels and sections hang off it, thicker and vermilion-tipped at the load point.
- The ensō watermark — a continuous bone ring with one open breath-gap — marks feature surfaces, the brand seal, and avatars.
- States are ensō arcs that sweep to their completeness and leave the gap open; the arc turns vermilion for the active or sealed item.
- Bold grotesque display set against a warm humanist serif body and mono captions; one vermilion seal and one celadon reference, never more.
## Tokens
### Colors
| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#0E0D0B` |
| surface | `#16140F` |
| surface_2 | `#201D16` |
| slab | `#0A0908` |
| text | `#F1E8D3` |
| muted | `#A89C82` |
| faint | `#6E6450` |
| border | `#3A352A` |
| rule | `#EFE6D0` |
| accent | `#D8442B` |
| accent_strong | `#B83419` |
| on_accent | `#0E0D0B` |
| celadon | `#6FA793` |
| success | `#6FA793` |
| warning | `#C99A3A` |
| error | `#D8442B` |
| info | `#7FA0C7` |
### Typography
- **Base Size**: 18px
- **Body Font**: Spectral, Georgia, serif
- **Heading Font**: Bricolage Grotesque, -apple-system, system-ui, sans-serif
- **Mono Font**: Spline Sans Mono, ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, monospace
- **Caption Font**: Spline Sans Mono, ui-monospace, monospace
- **Heading Weight**: 800
- **Heading Transform**: none
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.005em
- **Heading Letter Spacing**: -0.03em
- **Caption Letter Spacing**: 0.2em
- **Line Height**: 1.62
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bricolage+Grotesque:opsz,wght@12..96,400;12..96,600;12..96,700;12..96,800&family=Spectral:ital,wght@0,400;0,500;0,600;1,400;1,500&family=Spline+Sans+Mono:wght@400;500;600&display=swap
### Radii
- **None**: 0
- **Md**: 16px
- **Lg**: 24px
- **Full**: 9999px
### Shadows
- **Sm**: 2px 2px 0 rgba(10,9,8,0.9)
- **Md**: 4px 4px 0 rgba(10,9,8,0.95)
### Spacing
- **Base**: 8px
- **Scale**: ["6px","10px","16px","24px","36px","56px","88px","128px"]
### Surfaces
- **Bg Pattern**: generated wet-inkstone grain (layered radial + linear gradients, no image)
- **Card Style**: Flat warm slab panels with visible stone grain, 24px corners, no border; feature panels carry the ensō watermark bleeding off a corner and emphasis adds an offset ink-shadow.
- **Treatment**: wet-inkstone
### Borders
- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Frame Width**: 1.5px
- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: No structural borders on chrome. A 1px ink hairline divides table rows; a 1.5px inset hairline edges quiet controls; the only outline accent is a 2px celadon focus ring. Never a single decorative accent edge on a card.
### Motion
- **Duration**: 150ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.1, 1)
- **Philosophy**: Deliberate, near print-static. The settled page is the default and shows with no JavaScript; JS adds a one-shot rise gated behind a class on <html> that always finishes on its own. Respects prefers-reduced-motion.
## Rules
### Composition
Hang the layout off a single luminous brush-spine rather than a ruled column grid; sections and panels attach to the stroke, thicker and vermilion-tipped at the load point. Keep at least one quadrant dark and empty. Navigation breathes as part of the page — never a pill bar or floating card; cards never nest.
### Hierarchy
Order is set by the brush-spine, type scale, and surface before colour. Display in Bricolage Grotesque (800, tight), body in Spectral, captions and data in Spline Sans Mono uppercase. Vermilion marks one active or sealed item and celadon one reference — never decorate multiple unrelated elements.
### Density
Compact inside a surface (8–16px internal rhythm), spacious between surfaces (large quiet slab gutters). A screen reads like a single committed gesture on a wet stone, with precise marks surrounded by quiet dark.
### Signature
The single stroke: a luminous brush-spine that containers hang off; the ensō watermark (a continuous bone ring with one open breath-gap) on feature surfaces, the brand seal and avatars; ensō state arcs that sweep to completeness and stay open; one vermilion seal for the active mark and one celadon for the reference. The spine narrows and panels stack to one column on mobile.
## Layout
### Grid
No fixed multi-column folio grid. Content hangs off a single brush-spine on a max-width ~1240px contained measure; panels use auto-fit minmax(280px,1fr) so children shrink rather than overflow. The hero spans 100vw.
### Whitespace
Quiet dark slab is composition, not emptiness. Generous outer padding (24px mobile, 36px desktop) and at least one deliberately empty quadrant beside dense marks.
### Density
Compact marks inside surfaces, spacious quiet slab between them; high information per panel without crowding.
### Responsive
At ~390px: single column, narrowed spine, 24px gutters, 44px controls, ensō marks preserved. At ~768px: two-column splits collapse gracefully. At 1440px+: contained content caps and centres; only the hero is full-bleed.
### Breakpoints
- **Mobile**: <=640px single column, spine narrows, non-essential nav and table columns hidden
- **Tablet**: 641-1024px two-column splits
- **Desktop**: >=1025px full brush-spine layout with side-by-side panels
## Guidance
### Do
- Start from a wet inkstone ground and luminous bone ink as the visual contract before any colour.
- Hang every layout off the brush-spine and give feature surfaces the ensō watermark with its open breath-gap.
- Show progress and state as ensō arcs that sweep to value and leave the gap open.
- Press exactly one vermilion seal per view for the decisive action and one celadon for the reference.
- Use Bricolage Grotesque for confident display, Spectral for warm reading, Spline Sans Mono for captions and data.
- Keep one coherent radius set {0,16,24,full}; capsules for controls, 24px for panels.
- Explicitly ink every form control — focus is a 2px celadon ring, the chosen state presses in vermilion.
- Leave deliberate quiet dark space; let the slab speak as loudly as the mark.
### Don't
- Do not default to a white or paper-light ground, or wash the slab with pastel fills.
- Do not put a single decorative accent edge on a card, nest cards, or trap navigation in a pill bar.
- Do not introduce a third decorative accent beyond the two ink marks; extra colour is reserved semantic roles only.
- Do not use color alone for hierarchy — the brush-spine, type, and surface set order first.
- Do not add fake hand-drawn doodles, random scribbles, or symbol glyphs in copy or markup.
- Do not let the ensō become wallpaper — it is one considered system, used with intent.
- Do not rebuild this as a recoloured editorial broadsheet; it is the brush gesture, not the ruled folio.
### Accessibility
Maintain high contrast between bone ink and the dark slab (bone #F1E8D3 on #0E0D0B exceeds WCAG AA for body and large text). Pair every colour state with a mark, label, or arc so colour is never the only signal. Body text 17px+, controls at least 44px tall on touch, focus a visible 2px celadon outline. Respect prefers-reduced-motion; the settled page renders with no JavaScript.
## Imagery Direction
### Pairs With
lampblack
### Summary
Dense fine-art ink drawing in the lampblack technique, inverted onto a wet near-black inkstone ground: luminous bone-ink masses from a loaded sumi-e brush, pen-and-nib hairline structure, dry-brush texture and restrained spatter, with one small vermilion accent mark and generous quiet dark space.
### Subjects
- a single ensō brush circle with an open breath-gap
- one bough of pine
- a heron over a reed bank
- an empty bowl at dawn
- a carp with a single fin
### Usage
One luminous full-bleed hero subject per landing; smaller ensō marks as panel watermarks and avatars. Always end image prompts with NO text, NO letters, NO logos.
---
version: "alpha"
name: "Inkstone"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
bg: "#0E0D0B"
surface: "#16140F"
surface_2: "#201D16"
slab: "#0A0908"
text: "#F1E8D3"
muted: "#A89C82"
faint: "#6E6450"
border: "#3A352A"
rule: "#EFE6D0"
accent: "#D8442B"
accent_strong: "#B83419"
on_accent: "#0E0D0B"
celadon: "#6FA793"
success: "#6FA793"
warning: "#C99A3A"
error: "#D8442B"
info: "#7FA0C7"
typography:
headline-lg:
fontFamily: "Bricolage Grotesque, -apple-system, system-ui, sans-serif"
fontSize: "2.197rem"
fontWeight: 700
lineHeight: 1.1
letterSpacing: "-0.005em"
headline-md:
fontFamily: "Bricolage Grotesque, -apple-system, system-ui, sans-serif"
fontSize: "1.758rem"
fontWeight: 600
lineHeight: 1.15
letterSpacing: "-0.005em"
body-md:
fontFamily: "Spectral, Georgia, serif"
fontSize: "18px"
fontWeight: 400
lineHeight: 1.62
letterSpacing: "-0.005em"
label-md:
fontFamily: "Spline Sans Mono, ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, monospace"
fontSize: "0.75rem"
fontWeight: 600
lineHeight: 1
letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
none: "0px"
md: "16px"
lg: "24px"
full: "9999px"
spacing:
base: "8px"
xs: "6px"
sm: "10px"
md: "16px"
lg: "24px"
xl: "36px"
2xl: "56px"
3xl: "88px"
4xl: "128px"
components:
color-reference-bg:
backgroundColor: "{colors.bg}"
color-reference-surface:
backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
color-reference-surface_2:
backgroundColor: "{colors.surface_2}"
color-reference-slab:
backgroundColor: "{colors.slab}"
color-reference-text:
backgroundColor: "{colors.text}"
color-reference-muted:
backgroundColor: "{colors.muted}"
color-reference-faint:
backgroundColor: "{colors.faint}"
color-reference-border:
backgroundColor: "{colors.border}"
color-reference-rule:
backgroundColor: "{colors.rule}"
color-reference-accent:
backgroundColor: "{colors.accent}"
color-reference-accent_strong:
backgroundColor: "{colors.accent_strong}"
color-reference-on_accent:
backgroundColor: "{colors.on_accent}"
color-reference-celadon:
backgroundColor: "{colors.celadon}"
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"
---
# Inkstone
## Overview
Inkstone treats software the way a brush treats paper: the mark commits in one breath and cannot be revised. The screen is a wet black slab — warm near-black inkstone — and the interface is luminous bone ink loaded onto it; light is the ink, the ground is the stone. The one ownable idea is the single stroke, drawn whole and never corrected, emblemised by the ensō — a brush-circle drawn in one breath and left deliberately open. That open breath-gap is the signature: the unfinished is finished on purpose, and quiet slab speaks as loudly as the mark.
### Values
- {"name":"Ink as authority","description":"Decisions are committed in dense bone ink on a black slab, not merely tinted; confidence carries the line, never correction."}
- {"name":"One breath, one mark","description":"Every stroke is set whole in a single gesture; there is no undo on the slab, so what looks effortless was decided before the brush landed."}
- {"name":"The open ensō","description":"The breath-gap is the idea — the unfinished is left unfinished on purpose; large quiet dark zones are composition, not absence."}
- {"name":"Two marks pressed like a chop","description":"Vermilion names the one active or sealed item; celadon names the one reference — colour is pressed last and never spread as decoration."}
- {"name":"Stroke before colour","description":"Reading order is set by the brush-spine, line weight, and typographic scale before any mark of colour is used."}
- {"name":"Fine-art tactility","description":"Generated stone-and-fiber grain and squared offset ink-shadows give material presence while every control stays precise and production-ready."}
### Anti-Values
- Defaulting to a white or paper-light ground; this language is a dark wet slab and the ink is the light.
- Generic SaaS cards with soft shadows, large pastel fills, glass, or a single decorative accent edge.
- A third or fourth accent crowding the two ink marks, or colour standing in for hierarchy.
- Decorative doodles, fake hand-drawn scribbles, or symbol glyphs in copy and markup.
- Reading as a recoloured editorial broadsheet — Inkstone is the brush gesture, not the ruled folio grid.
### Visual Character
- A wet near-black inkstone ground with subtle generated stone/fiber grain, carrying luminous bone-ink marks.
- A living brush-spine runs the spine of every layout; panels and sections hang off it, thicker and vermilion-tipped at the load point.
- The ensō watermark — a continuous bone ring with one open breath-gap — marks feature surfaces, the brand seal, and avatars.
- States are ensō arcs that sweep to their completeness and leave the gap open; the arc turns vermilion for the active or sealed item.
- Bold grotesque display set against a warm humanist serif body and mono captions; one vermilion seal and one celadon reference, never more.
## 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 | `#0E0D0B` |
| surface | `#16140F` |
| surface_2 | `#201D16` |
| slab | `#0A0908` |
| text | `#F1E8D3` |
| muted | `#A89C82` |
| faint | `#6E6450` |
| border | `#3A352A` |
| rule | `#EFE6D0` |
| accent | `#D8442B` |
| accent_strong | `#B83419` |
| on_accent | `#0E0D0B` |
| celadon | `#6FA793` |
| success | `#6FA793` |
| warning | `#C99A3A` |
| error | `#D8442B` |
| info | `#7FA0C7` |
## Typography
- **Headline-Lg**: Bricolage Grotesque, -apple-system, system-ui, sans-serif, 2.197rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Bricolage Grotesque, -apple-system, system-ui, sans-serif, 1.758rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Spectral, Georgia, serif, 18px, weight 400, line-height 1.62.
- **Label-Md**: Spline Sans Mono, ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, monospace, 0.75rem, weight 600, line-height 1.
## Layout
### Spacing Tokens
- **Base**: `8px`
- **Xs**: `6px`
- **Sm**: `10px`
- **Md**: `16px`
- **Lg**: `24px`
- **Xl**: `36px`
- **2xl**: `56px`
- **3xl**: `88px`
- **4xl**: `128px`
### Grid
No fixed multi-column folio grid. Content hangs off a single brush-spine on a max-width ~1240px contained measure; panels use auto-fit minmax(280px,1fr) so children shrink rather than overflow. The hero spans 100vw.
### Whitespace
Quiet dark slab is composition, not emptiness. Generous outer padding (24px mobile, 36px desktop) and at least one deliberately empty quadrant beside dense marks.
### Density
Compact marks inside surfaces, spacious quiet slab between them; high information per panel without crowding.
### Responsive
At ~390px: single column, narrowed spine, 24px gutters, 44px controls, ensō marks preserved. At ~768px: two-column splits collapse gracefully. At 1440px+: contained content caps and centres; only the hero is full-bleed.
### Breakpoints
- **Mobile**: <=640px single column, spine narrows, non-essential nav and table columns hidden
- **Tablet**: 641-1024px two-column splits
- **Desktop**: >=1025px full brush-spine layout with side-by-side panels
## Elevation & Depth
### Shadows
- **Sm**: 2px 2px 0 rgba(10,9,8,0.9)
- **Md**: 4px 4px 0 rgba(10,9,8,0.95)
## Shapes
### Rounded
- **None**: `0px`
- **Md**: `16px`
- **Lg**: `24px`
- **Full**: `9999px`
### Surfaces
- **Bg Pattern**: generated wet-inkstone grain (layered radial + linear gradients, no image)
- **Card Style**: Flat warm slab panels with visible stone grain, 24px corners, no border; feature panels carry the ensō watermark bleeding off a corner and emphasis adds an offset ink-shadow.
- **Treatment**: wet-inkstone
### Borders
- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Frame Width**: 1.5px
- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: No structural borders on chrome. A 1px ink hairline divides table rows; a 1.5px inset hairline edges quiet controls; the only outline accent is a 2px celadon focus ring. Never a single decorative accent edge on a card.
## Components
### Composition
Hang the layout off a single luminous brush-spine rather than a ruled column grid; sections and panels attach to the stroke, thicker and vermilion-tipped at the load point. Keep at least one quadrant dark and empty. Navigation breathes as part of the page — never a pill bar or floating card; cards never nest.
### Hierarchy
Order is set by the brush-spine, type scale, and surface before colour. Display in Bricolage Grotesque (800, tight), body in Spectral, captions and data in Spline Sans Mono uppercase. Vermilion marks one active or sealed item and celadon one reference — never decorate multiple unrelated elements.
### Density
Compact inside a surface (8–16px internal rhythm), spacious between surfaces (large quiet slab gutters). A screen reads like a single committed gesture on a wet stone, with precise marks surrounded by quiet dark.
### Signature
The single stroke: a luminous brush-spine that containers hang off; the ensō watermark (a continuous bone ring with one open breath-gap) on feature surfaces, the brand seal and avatars; ensō state arcs that sweep to completeness and stay open; one vermilion seal for the active mark and one celadon for the reference. The spine narrows and panels stack to one column on mobile.
## 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-019efad9-6a5a-7570-96fb-7a4a0bea354d/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 Start from a wet inkstone ground and luminous bone ink as the visual contract before any colour.
- Do Hang every layout off the brush-spine and give feature surfaces the ensō watermark with its open breath-gap.
- Do Show progress and state as ensō arcs that sweep to value and leave the gap open.
- Do Press exactly one vermilion seal per view for the decisive action and one celadon for the reference.
- Do Use Bricolage Grotesque for confident display, Spectral for warm reading, Spline Sans Mono for captions and data.
- Do Keep one coherent radius set {0,16,24,full}; capsules for controls, 24px for panels.
- Do Explicitly ink every form control — focus is a 2px celadon ring, the chosen state presses in vermilion.
- Do Leave deliberate quiet dark space; let the slab speak as loudly as the mark.
- Don't Do not default to a white or paper-light ground, or wash the slab with pastel fills.
- Don't Do not put a single decorative accent edge on a card, nest cards, or trap navigation in a pill bar.
- Don't Do not introduce a third decorative accent beyond the two ink marks; extra colour is reserved semantic roles only.
- Don't Do not use color alone for hierarchy — the brush-spine, type, and surface set order first.
- Don't Do not add fake hand-drawn doodles, random scribbles, or symbol glyphs in copy or markup.
- Don't Do not let the ensō become wallpaper — it is one considered system, used with intent.
- Don't Do not rebuild this as a recoloured editorial broadsheet; it is the brush gesture, not the ruled folio.
### Accessibility
Maintain high contrast between bone ink and the dark slab (bone #F1E8D3 on #0E0D0B exceeds WCAG AA for body and large text). Pair every colour state with a mark, label, or arc so colour is never the only signal. Body text 17px+, controls at least 44px tall on touch, focus a visible 2px celadon outline. Respect prefers-reduced-motion; the settled page renders with no JavaScript.
## Imagery Direction
### Pairs With
lampblack
### Summary
Dense fine-art ink drawing in the lampblack technique, inverted onto a wet near-black inkstone ground: luminous bone-ink masses from a loaded sumi-e brush, pen-and-nib hairline structure, dry-brush texture and restrained spatter, with one small vermilion accent mark and generous quiet dark space.
### Subjects
- a single ensō brush circle with an open breath-gap
- one bough of pine
- a heron over a reed bank
- an empty bowl at dawn
- a carp with a single fin
### Usage
One luminous full-bleed hero subject per landing; smaller ensō marks as panel watermarks and avatars. Always end image prompts with NO text, NO letters, NO logos.
```json
{
"$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
"name": "inkstone",
"type": "registry:theme",
"title": "Inkstone shadcn Theme",
"cssVars": {
"theme": {},
"light": {
"background": "#0E0D0B",
"foreground": "#F1E8D3",
"card": "#16140F",
"card-foreground": "#F1E8D3",
"popover": "#16140F",
"popover-foreground": "#F1E8D3",
"primary": "#F1E8D3",
"primary-foreground": "#111111",
"secondary": "#f4f4f5",
"secondary-foreground": "#111111",
"muted": "#A89C82",
"muted-foreground": "#F1E8D3",
"accent": "#D8442B",
"accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
"destructive": "#D8442B",
"border": "#3A352A",
"input": "#3A352A",
"ring": "#D8442B",
"chart-1": "#F1E8D3",
"chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
"chart-3": "#D8442B",
"chart-4": "#6FA793",
"chart-5": "#C99A3A",
"sidebar": "#16140F",
"sidebar-foreground": "#F1E8D3",
"sidebar-primary": "#F1E8D3",
"sidebar-primary-foreground": "#111111",
"sidebar-accent": "#7FA0C7",
"sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
"sidebar-border": "#3A352A",
"sidebar-ring": "#D8442B",
"radius": "16px"
},
"dark": {
"background": "#0f1115",
"foreground": "#f8fafc",
"card": "#181b22",
"card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
"popover": "#181b22",
"popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
"primary": "#F1E8D3",
"primary-foreground": "#111111",
"secondary": "#252a33",
"secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
"muted": "#252a33",
"muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
"accent": "#D8442B",
"accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
"destructive": "#D8442B",
"border": "#303642",
"input": "#303642",
"ring": "#D8442B",
"chart-1": "#F1E8D3",
"chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
"chart-3": "#D8442B",
"chart-4": "#6FA793",
"chart-5": "#C99A3A",
"sidebar": "#181b22",
"sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
"sidebar-primary": "#F1E8D3",
"sidebar-primary-foreground": "#111111",
"sidebar-accent": "#D8442B",
"sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
"sidebar-border": "#303642",
"sidebar-ring": "#D8442B",
"radius": "16px"
}
},
"meta": {
"source": "katagami",
"languageId": "en-019efad9-6a5a-7570-96fb-7a4a0bea354d",
"slug": "inkstone",
"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_strong",
"bg",
"border",
"celadon",
"error",
"faint",
"info",
"muted",
"on_accent",
"rule",
"slab",
"success",
"surface",
"surface_2",
"text",
"warning"
],
"typography": [
"base_size",
"body_font",
"caption_font",
"caption_letter_spacing",
"google_fonts_url",
"heading_font",
"heading_letter_spacing",
"heading_transform",
"heading_weight",
"letter_spacing",
"line_height",
"mono_font"
],
"radii": [
"full",
"lg",
"md",
"none"
],
"shadows": [
"md",
"sm"
],
"spacing": [
"base",
"scale"
],
"surfaces": [
"bg_pattern",
"card_style",
"treatment"
],
"borders": [
"accent_width",
"character",
"default_width",
"frame_width",
"style"
],
"motion": [
"duration",
"easing",
"philosophy"
]
}
}
}
```The quick brown fox jumps
The quick brown fox jumps
The quick brown fox jumps
The quick brown fox jumps
Agent-generated
produced by claude-opus-4-8 · sourced by claude-opus-4-8 · images by gpt-image-2
Keep Inkstoneand swap a palette and an art style onto it — the landing & dashboard recolor live. The Studio does the same with all three lanes free.
Copy this when the target app uses shadcn/ui. It packages the Katagami DESIGN.md context with the install list, theme variables, component recipes, preview-shot contract, and starter TSX in one Markdown companion.
npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table:root {
--background: #0E0D0B;
--foreground: #F1E8D3;
--card: #16140F;
--card-foreground: #F1E8D3;
--popover: #16140F;
--popover-foreground: #F1E8D3;
--primary: #F1E8D3;
--primary-foreground: #111111;
--secondary: #f4f4f5;
--secondary-foreground: #111111;
--muted: #A89C82;
--muted-foreground: #F1E8D3;
--accent: #D8442B;
--accent-foreground: #ffffff;
--destructive: #D8442B;
--border: #3A352A;
--input: #3A352A;
--ring: #D8442B;
--chart-1: #F1E8D3;
--chart-2: #f4f4f5;
--chart-3: #D8442B;
--chart-4: #6FA793;
--chart-5: #C99A3A;
--sidebar: #16140F;
--sidebar-foreground: #F1E8D3;
--sidebar-primary: #F1E8D3;
--sidebar-primary-foreground: #111111;
--sidebar-accent: #7FA0C7;
--sidebar-accent-foreground: #ffffff;
--sidebar-border: #3A352A;
--sidebar-ring: #D8442B;
--radius: 16px;
}
.dark {
--background: #0f1115;
--foreground: #f8fafc;
--card: #181b22;
--card-foreground: #f8fafc;
--popover: #181b22;
--popover-foreground: #f8fafc;
--primary: #F1E8D3;
--primary-foreground: #111111;
--secondary: #252a33;
--secondary-foreground: #f8fafc;
--muted: #252a33;
--muted-foreground: #a1a1aa;
--accent: #D8442B;
--accent-foreground: #ffffff;
--destructive: #D8442B;
--border: #303642;
--input: #303642;
--ring: #D8442B;
--chart-1: #F1E8D3;
--chart-2: #f4f4f5;
--chart-3: #D8442B;
--chart-4: #6FA793;
--chart-5: #C99A3A;
--sidebar: #181b22;
--sidebar-foreground: #f8fafc;
--sidebar-primary: #F1E8D3;
--sidebar-primary-foreground: #111111;
--sidebar-accent: #D8442B;
--sidebar-accent-foreground: #ffffff;
--sidebar-border: #303642;
--sidebar-ring: #D8442B;
--radius: 16px;
}
import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge";
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
import {
Card,
CardContent,
CardDescription,
CardFooter,
CardHeader,
CardTitle,
} from "@/components/ui/card";
import { Input } from "@/components/ui/input";
import { Tabs, TabsList, TabsTrigger } from "@/components/ui/tabs";
export function InkstoneShadcnKit() {
return (
<section className="grid gap-4 rounded-[var(--radius)] border bg-background p-4 text-foreground">
<div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-4">
<div>
<Badge variant="outline">shadcn/ui</Badge>
<h2 className="mt-3 text-2xl font-semibold tracking-tight">Inkstone</h2>
<p className="mt-1 max-w-xl text-sm text-muted-foreground">
Use the Katagami registry theme, then compose these shadcn primitives
with the language-specific component recipes.
</p>
</div>
<Button>Apply theme</Button>
</div>
<Tabs defaultValue="components">
<TabsList>
<TabsTrigger value="components">Components</TabsTrigger>
<TabsTrigger value="states">States</TabsTrigger>
<TabsTrigger value="export">Export</TabsTrigger>
</TabsList>
</Tabs>
<Card>
<CardHeader>
<CardTitle>Component recipe</CardTitle>
<CardDescription>
Replace this starter content with the agent-authored product scene
from components.md and preview-shots.json.
</CardDescription>
</CardHeader>
<CardContent className="grid gap-3 sm:grid-cols-[1fr_auto]">
<Input defaultValue="Tokenized shadcn surface" aria-label="Recipe name" />
<Button variant="secondary">Preview state</Button>
</CardContent>
<CardFooter className="justify-between">
<Badge>Ready</Badge>
<Button variant="outline">Copy recipe</Button>
</CardFooter>
</Card>
</section>
);
}
{
"$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
"name": "inkstone",
"type": "registry:theme",
"author": "katagami-agent",
"visualProfile": {
"mode": "dark",
"ground": "wet-inkstone (warm near-black #0E0D0B)",
"radius": "24px",
"radiusScale": ["0", "16px", "24px", "9999px"],
"border": "none-structural",
"borderNote": "No structural borders on chrome. Separation comes from the slab surface, a single 1px ink hairline between rows, and the brush-spine. The only outlines are: an inset 1.5px ink hairline on quiet controls and a 2px celadon focus ring. Never a single decorative accent edge on a card.",
"surface": "flat-warm-slab",
"elevation": "offset-ink-shadow",
"signature": "the single stroke: every container hangs off a luminous brush-spine; feature surfaces carry the ensō watermark (a continuous ring with one breath-gap); states are ensō arcs that fill to completeness; one vermilion seal marks the active item, one celadon marks a reference.",
"accentUsage": "two marks, pressed like a chop — vermilion (#D8442B) for the one active/sealed item, celadon (#6FA793) for the one reference. Like highlighters, never primary surfaces; the third+ accents are reserved semantic roles only.",
"fontDisplay": "Bricolage Grotesque",
"fontBody": "Spectral",
"fontMono": "Spline Sans Mono",
"motion": "deliberate, near print-static; 2px lift on press, ensō arcs fill; settled state is the default and shows with no JS; respects prefers-reduced-motion"
},
"cssVars": {
"theme": {
"font-sans": "Bricolage Grotesque, system-ui, sans-serif",
"font-serif": "Spectral, Georgia, serif",
"font-mono": "Spline Sans Mono, ui-monospace, monospace",
"radius": "24px"
},
"dark": {
"background": "#0E0D0B",
"foreground": "#F1E8D3",
"card": "#16140F",
"card-foreground": "#F1E8D3",
"popover": "#201D16",
"popover-foreground": "#F1E8D3",
"primary": "#EFE6D0",
"primary-foreground": "#0E0D0B",
"secondary": "#201D16",
"secondary-foreground": "#F1E8D3",
"muted": "#16140F",
"muted-foreground": "#A89C82",
"accent": "#D8442B",
"accent-foreground": "#0E0D0B",
"destructive": "#D8442B",
"destructive-foreground": "#0E0D0B",
"border": "#3A352A",
"input": "#3A352A",
"ring": "#6FA793",
"chart-1": "#EFE6D0",
"chart-2": "#D8442B",
"chart-3": "#6FA793",
"chart-4": "#C99A3A",
"chart-5": "#7FA0C7"
},
"light": {
"background": "#0E0D0B",
"foreground": "#F1E8D3",
"card": "#16140F",
"card-foreground": "#F1E8D3",
"primary": "#EFE6D0",
"primary-foreground": "#0E0D0B",
"secondary": "#201D16",
"secondary-foreground": "#F1E8D3",
"muted": "#16140F",
"muted-foreground": "#A89C82",
"accent": "#D8442B",
"accent-foreground": "#0E0D0B",
"destructive": "#D8442B",
"destructive-foreground": "#0E0D0B",
"border": "#3A352A",
"input": "#3A352A",
"ring": "#6FA793",
"chart-1": "#EFE6D0",
"chart-2": "#D8442B",
"chart-3": "#6FA793",
"chart-4": "#C99A3A",
"chart-5": "#7FA0C7"
}
}
}
# Inkstone shadcn/ui Components
Artifact: `component-recipes-v1`
Author: `katagami-ui-projection`
Language ID: `en-019efad9-6a5a-7570-96fb-7a4a0bea354d`
Slug: `inkstone`
## Intent
Inkstone treats software the way a brush treats paper: the mark commits in one breath and cannot be revised. The screen is a wet black slab — warm near-black inkstone — and the interface is luminous bone ink loaded onto it; light is the ink, the ground is the stone. The one ownable idea is the single stroke, drawn whole and never corrected, emblemised by the ensō — a brush-circle drawn in one breath and left deliberately open. That open breath-gap is the signature: the unfinished is finished on purpose, and quiet slab speaks as loudly as the mark.
## Required primitives
- button
- card
- input
- textarea
- select
- dialog
- sheet
- tabs
- badge
- separator
- checkbox
- switch
- slider
- tooltip
- dropdown-menu
- table
Install with `npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table`.
## Token cues
Colors:
{
"bg": "#0E0D0B",
"surface": "#16140F",
"surface_2": "#201D16",
"slab": "#0A0908",
"text": "#F1E8D3",
"muted": "#A89C82",
"faint": "#6E6450",
"border": "#3A352A",
"rule": "#EFE6D0",
"accent": "#D8442B",
"accent_strong": "#B83419",
"on_accent": "#0E0D0B",
"celadon": "#6FA793",
"success": "#6FA793",
"warning": "#C99A3A",
"error": "#D8442B",
"info": "#7FA0C7"
}
Typography:
{
"base_size": "18px",
"body_font": "Spectral, Georgia, serif",
"heading_font": "Bricolage Grotesque, -apple-system, system-ui, sans-serif",
"mono_font": "Spline Sans Mono, ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, monospace",
"caption_font": "Spline Sans Mono, ui-monospace, monospace",
"heading_weight": "800",
"heading_transform": "none",
"letter_spacing": "-0.005em",
"heading_letter_spacing": "-0.03em",
"caption_letter_spacing": "0.2em",
"line_height": 1.62,
"google_fonts_url": "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bricolage+Grotesque:opsz,wght@12..96,400;12..96,600;12..96,700;12..96,800&family=Spectral:ital,wght@0,400;0,500;0,600;1,400;1,500&family=Spline+Sans+Mono:wght@400;500;600&display=swap"
}
## Visual character to preserve
- A wet near-black inkstone ground with subtle generated stone/fiber grain, carrying luminous bone-ink marks.
- A living brush-spine runs the spine of every layout; panels and sections hang off it, thicker and vermilion-tipped at the load point.
- The ensō watermark — a continuous bone ring with one open breath-gap — marks feature surfaces, the brand seal, and avatars.
- States are ensō arcs that sweep to their completeness and leave the gap open; the arc turns vermilion for the active or sealed item.
- Bold grotesque display set against a warm humanist serif body and mono captions; one vermilion seal and one celadon reference, never more.
## ShadSync visual profile
{
"family": "paper-collage",
"material": "paper",
"contour": "default",
"border": "solid",
"underlay": true,
"grain": true,
"stickerBadges": false,
"motion": "still",
"density": "balanced",
"accents": [
"primary",
"accent",
"secondary",
"muted"
]
}
## Signature component recipes
### Button
Use `Button` for primary, secondary, outline, and ghost actions. Primary actions must expose the language's strongest contrast pair, while secondary and ghost actions should preserve the surface treatment instead of falling back to default neutral SaaS styling.
### Card
Use `Card`, `CardHeader`, `CardContent`, `CardFooter`, and `CardAction` as the main composition frame. Cards should demonstrate the language's surface, border, hierarchy, and density rules rather than appearing as generic rounded rectangles.
### Input and Textarea
Use `Input` and `Textarea` with visible focus rings, field labels, validation states, and the language's rhythm. Forms should show real product content, not placeholder-only controls.
### Select, Tabs, and Table
Use `Select`, `Tabs`, and `Table` to prove navigation, filtering, and dense data states. The table should show row rhythm, separators, hover/focus states, and an empty or status state when the language calls for it.
### Dialog and Sheet
Use `Dialog` for centered decisions and `Sheet` for contextual editing. Both should inherit the language's spacing, border, overlay, and motion rules.
## Preview shots
- `application-shell`: dashboard or workspace shell with navigation, cards, forms, and state badges.
- `detail-editor`: focused editing flow using input, textarea, select, switch/checkbox, dialog or sheet, and action buttons.
- `data-operations`: table-heavy operational view with tabs, dropdown menu affordances, badges, and destructive/empty states.
- Each preview shot must include a renderable `scene` payload with concrete headline, description, actions, and rows/fields/stats for the UI preview.
## Implementation contract
- Start from local `ui/src/components/ui` shadcn-style primitives; do not create a second component system.
- Apply `/katagami/shadcn/inkstone/registry-theme.json` variables, then use these recipes for composition and state design.
- Preserve Katagami token names as source metadata; shadcn semantic names are only the export surface.
- Do: Start from a wet inkstone ground and luminous bone ink as the visual contract before any colour.; Hang every layout off the brush-spine and give feature surfaces the ensō watermark with its open breath-gap.; Show progress and state as ensō arcs that sweep to value and leave the gap open.; Press exactly one vermilion seal per view for the decisive action and one celadon for the reference.; Use Bricolage Grotesque for confident display, Spectral for warm reading, Spline Sans Mono for captions and data.; Keep one coherent radius set {0,16,24,full}; capsules for controls, 24px for panels.; Explicitly ink every form control — focus is a 2px celadon ring, the chosen state presses in vermilion.; Leave deliberate quiet dark space; let the slab speak as loudly as the mark.
- Do not: Do not default to a white or paper-light ground, or wash the slab with pastel fills.; Do not put a single decorative accent edge on a card, nest cards, or trap navigation in a pill bar.; Do not introduce a third decorative accent beyond the two ink marks; extra colour is reserved semantic roles only.; Do not use color alone for hierarchy — the brush-spine, type, and surface set order first.; Do not add fake hand-drawn doodles, random scribbles, or symbol glyphs in copy or markup.; Do not let the ensō become wallpaper — it is one considered system, used with intent.; Do not rebuild this as a recoloured editorial broadsheet; it is the brush gesture, not the ruled folio.
## Copy-paste component example
This generated starter proves the import shape. Production Katagami agents should replace it with a language-specific product composition.
```tsx
import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge";
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
import {
Card,
CardContent,
CardDescription,
CardFooter,
CardHeader,
CardTitle,
} from "@/components/ui/card";
import { Input } from "@/components/ui/input";
import { Tabs, TabsList, TabsTrigger } from "@/components/ui/tabs";
export function InkstoneShadcnKit() {
return (
<section className="grid gap-4 rounded-[var(--radius)] border bg-background p-4 text-foreground">
<div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-4">
<div>
<Badge variant="outline">shadcn/ui</Badge>
<h2 className="mt-3 text-2xl font-semibold tracking-tight">Inkstone</h2>
<p className="mt-1 max-w-xl text-sm text-muted-foreground">
Use the Katagami registry theme, then compose these shadcn primitives
with the language-specific component recipes.
</p>
</div>
<Button>Apply theme</Button>
</div>
<Tabs defaultValue="components">
<TabsList>
<TabsTrigger value="components">Components</TabsTrigger>
<TabsTrigger value="states">States</TabsTrigger>
<TabsTrigger value="export">Export</TabsTrigger>
</TabsList>
</Tabs>
<Card>
<CardHeader>
<CardTitle>Component recipe</CardTitle>
<CardDescription>
Replace this starter content with the agent-authored product scene
from components.md and preview-shots.json.
</CardDescription>
</CardHeader>
<CardContent className="grid gap-3 sm:grid-cols-[1fr_auto]">
<Input defaultValue="Tokenized shadcn surface" aria-label="Recipe name" />
<Button variant="secondary">Preview state</Button>
</CardContent>
<CardFooter className="justify-between">
<Badge>Ready</Badge>
<Button variant="outline">Copy recipe</Button>
</CardFooter>
</Card>
</section>
);
}
```
## Layout notes
{
"grid": "No fixed multi-column folio grid. Content hangs off a single brush-spine on a max-width ~1240px contained measure; panels use auto-fit minmax(280px,1fr) so children shrink rather than overflow. The hero spans 100vw.",
"whitespace": "Quiet dark slab is composition, not emptiness. Generous outer padding (24px mobile, 36px desktop) and at least one deliberately empty quadrant beside dense marks.",
"density": "Compact marks inside surfaces, spacious quiet slab between them; high information per panel without crowding.",
"responsive": "At ~390px: single column, narrowed spine, 24px gutters, 44px controls, ensō marks preserved. At ~768px: two-column splits collapse gracefully. At 1440px+: contained content caps and centres; only the hero is full-bleed.",
"breakpoints": {
"mobile": "<=640px single column, spine narrows, non-essential nav and table columns hidden",
"tablet": "641-1024px two-column splits",
"desktop": ">=1025px full brush-spine layout with side-by-side panels"
}
}
{
"artifact": "katagami:shadcn-preview-shots",
"version": "preview-shots-v1",
"generator": "katagami-ui-compatibility-projection",
"generatedBy": "katagami-ui-projection",
"requiresVisualProfile": true,
"schema": "katagami:shadcn-preview-shots/renderable-v1",
"renderable": true,
"language": {
"id": "en-019efad9-6a5a-7570-96fb-7a4a0bea354d",
"name": "Inkstone",
"slug": "inkstone"
},
"installCommand": "npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table",
"primitives": [
"button",
"card",
"input",
"textarea",
"select",
"dialog",
"sheet",
"tabs",
"badge",
"separator",
"checkbox",
"switch",
"slider",
"tooltip",
"dropdown-menu",
"table"
],
"identityNotes": [
"A wet near-black inkstone ground with subtle generated stone/fiber grain, carrying luminous bone-ink marks.",
"A living brush-spine runs the spine of every layout; panels and sections hang off it, thicker and vermilion-tipped at the load point.",
"The ensō watermark — a continuous bone ring with one open breath-gap — marks feature surfaces, the brand seal, and avatars.",
"States are ensō arcs that sweep to their completeness and leave the gap open; the arc turns vermilion for the active or sealed item.",
"Bold grotesque display set against a warm humanist serif body and mono captions; one vermilion seal and one celadon reference, never more."
],
"visualProfile": {
"family": "paper-collage",
"material": "paper",
"contour": "default",
"border": "solid",
"underlay": false,
"grain": true,
"stickerBadges": false,
"motion": "still",
"density": "balanced",
"accents": [
"primary",
"accent",
"secondary",
"muted"
]
},
"shots": [
{
"id": "application-shell",
"title": "Application shell",
"viewport": "desktop",
"primitives": [
"button",
"card",
"input",
"select",
"tabs",
"badge",
"separator",
"table"
],
"composition": "A real product workspace with navigation, summary cards, filtering controls, and one dense content region.",
"mustShow": [
"primary and secondary actions",
"card hierarchy",
"filterable state",
"table or list density"
],
"avoid": [
"component inventory walls",
"placeholder-only content",
"generic rounded SaaS chrome"
],
"scene": {
"eyebrow": "workspace spread",
"headline": "Inkstone launch room",
"description": "A product team workspace where navigation, filters, metrics, and dense rows carry the language's visible structure.",
"primaryAction": "Apply theme",
"secondaryAction": "Review states",
"stats": [
{
"label": "components",
"value": "16",
"tone": "accent"
},
{
"label": "states",
"value": "ready"
},
{
"label": "density",
"value": "balanced",
"tone": "warning"
}
],
"rows": [
{
"label": "Primary flow",
"value": "mapped",
"status": "active"
},
{
"label": "Token coverage",
"value": "semantic",
"status": "synced"
},
{
"label": "Responsive proof",
"value": "queued",
"status": "review"
}
],
"statuses": [
"Active",
"Synced",
"Draft"
]
}
},
{
"id": "detail-editor",
"title": "Detail editor",
"viewport": "tablet",
"primitives": [
"button",
"card",
"input",
"textarea",
"select",
"checkbox",
"switch",
"slider",
"dialog",
"sheet"
],
"composition": "A focused editing flow with form fields, validation, confirmation, and a contextual side panel.",
"mustShow": [
"focus ring",
"error or destructive state",
"dialog or sheet treatment",
"written guidance content"
],
"avoid": [
"unstyled browser controls",
"floating cards inside cards",
"missing labels"
],
"scene": {
"eyebrow": "editing flow",
"headline": "Language recipe editor",
"description": "A focused form proving labels, validation, toggles, panel rhythm, and action hierarchy.",
"primaryAction": "Save recipe",
"secondaryAction": "Open sheet",
"fields": [
{
"label": "Component family",
"value": "Narrative cards"
},
{
"label": "State treatment",
"value": "Visible focus + validation"
},
{
"label": "Motion",
"value": "Small lift, no opacity-only fade"
}
],
"statuses": [
"Focus",
"Invalid",
"Confirmed"
]
}
},
{
"id": "data-operations",
"title": "Data operations",
"viewport": "mobile",
"primitives": [
"button",
"tabs",
"badge",
"dropdown-menu",
"table",
"tooltip",
"separator"
],
"composition": "A compact operational view proving row rhythm, stacked actions, menu states, badges, and empty/destructive states.",
"mustShow": [
"responsive reflow",
"dense row styling",
"menu affordance",
"status badge system"
],
"avoid": [
"desktop-only tables",
"text overflow",
"default shadcn spacing without Katagami character"
],
"scene": {
"eyebrow": "operations",
"headline": "Compact review queue",
"description": "A narrow viewport scene with rows, menus, tooltips, badges, and destructive affordances.",
"primaryAction": "Resolve",
"secondaryAction": "Filter",
"rows": [
{
"label": "Button hierarchy",
"value": "approved",
"status": "ok"
},
{
"label": "Table rhythm",
"value": "needs pass",
"status": "watch"
},
{
"label": "Empty state",
"value": "designed",
"status": "done"
}
],
"statuses": [
"Queued",
"Blocked",
"Done"
]
}
}
],
"componentRecipes": [
{
"primitive": "button",
"intent": "Prove action hierarchy, focus, disabled, and destructive states."
},
{
"primitive": "card",
"intent": "Carry the language surface, border, elevation, and density rules."
},
{
"primitive": "input",
"intent": "Show labels, focus rings, validation, and spacing rhythm."
},
{
"primitive": "textarea",
"intent": "Show longer guidance, validation copy, and writing density."
},
{
"primitive": "select",
"intent": "Show filtering, selection contrast, and menu trigger styling."
},
{
"primitive": "dialog",
"intent": "Show centered decision states and overlay treatment."
},
{
"primitive": "sheet",
"intent": "Show contextual side panels and responsive editing."
},
{
"primitive": "tabs",
"intent": "Show navigational structure and active/inactive contrast."
},
{
"primitive": "badge",
"intent": "Show compact status vocabulary and semantic colors."
},
{
"primitive": "separator",
"intent": "Show section rhythm without generic gray dividers."
},
{
"primitive": "checkbox",
"intent": "Show binary selection with visible focus and checked states."
},
{
"primitive": "switch",
"intent": "Show settings toggles and on/off contrast."
},
{
"primitive": "slider",
"intent": "Show numeric adjustment with track/thumb styling."
},
{
"primitive": "tooltip",
"intent": "Show concise explanation styling above compact controls."
},
{
"primitive": "dropdown-menu",
"intent": "Show action menus, destructive items, and grouped choices."
},
{
"primitive": "table",
"intent": "Show dense operational data, separators, row states, and responsive behavior."
}
],
"qualityRules": {
"do": [
"Start from a wet inkstone ground and luminous bone ink as the visual contract before any colour.",
"Hang every layout off the brush-spine and give feature surfaces the ensō watermark with its open breath-gap.",
"Show progress and state as ensō arcs that sweep to value and leave the gap open.",
"Press exactly one vermilion seal per view for the decisive action and one celadon for the reference.",
"Use Bricolage Grotesque for confident display, Spectral for warm reading, Spline Sans Mono for captions and data.",
"Keep one coherent radius set {0,16,24,full}; capsules for controls, 24px for panels.",
"Explicitly ink every form control — focus is a 2px celadon ring, the chosen state presses in vermilion.",
"Leave deliberate quiet dark space; let the slab speak as loudly as the mark."
],
"dont": [
"Do not default to a white or paper-light ground, or wash the slab with pastel fills.",
"Do not put a single decorative accent edge on a card, nest cards, or trap navigation in a pill bar.",
"Do not introduce a third decorative accent beyond the two ink marks; extra colour is reserved semantic roles only.",
"Do not use color alone for hierarchy — the brush-spine, type, and surface set order first.",
"Do not add fake hand-drawn doodles, random scribbles, or symbol glyphs in copy or markup.",
"Do not let the ensō become wallpaper — it is one considered system, used with intent.",
"Do not rebuild this as a recoloured editorial broadsheet; it is the brush gesture, not the ruled folio."
]
}
}