Bisque

# Bisque

## Philosophy

Bisque is soft, calm productivity software thrown by hand in warm earthenware. It keeps the soul of soft neumorphism — hierarchy through depth instead of hard separators, quiet tactility, low friction — but reconceives the expression: where the old idea stamped cold grey plastic pillows onto a screen, Bisque throws the whole interface in warm matte clay. One continuous ground where importance is height, editing is a hollow, and status is a pooled glaze.

### Values

- one continuous material over fragmented panels
- depth as hierarchy
- quiet, hand-made tactility
- warm calm with legible high-contrast text
- low-friction productivity

### Anti-Values

- hard skeletal borders
- cold grey plastic
- high-noise ornament
- harsh contrast spikes
- flat severity

### Visual Character

- every element is pressed from one warm clay ground: thumbed proud to invite a press, or scooped into a soft well to receive input
- a bead of sea-glass celadon glaze pools only in the deepest hollows — active tabs, live status, filling progress
- one top-left light source so every ridge highlight and umber shadow agrees across the page
- large rounded geometry only (16/24/9999) with a fine granular clay grain over the whole field
- the navigation breathes as part of the page and cards are never nested — separation is relief, never a drawn line

## Tokens

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#efe3d6` |
| surface | `#f6ede2` |
| surface_solid | `#f6ede2` |
| text | `#3a2c22` |
| muted | `#8c7361` |
| border | `#e0cfbd` |
| accent | `#3f9e8f` |
| accent_2 | `#c8663d` |
| accent_soft | `#a9d8ce` |
| on_accent | `#ffffff` |
| success | `#4a9d6f` |
| warning | `#d99436` |
| error | `#c0503f` |
| info | `#5b86a8` |

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 17px
- **Body Font**: "Outfit", system-ui, sans-serif
- **Heading Font**: "Fraunces", Georgia, serif
- **Mono Font**: "Spline Sans Mono", ui-monospace, monospace
- **Heading Weight**: 600
- **Heading Transform**: none
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.02em
- **Line Height**: 1.6
- **Scale Ratio**: 1.25
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fraunces:opsz,wght@9..144,400;9..144,500;9..144,600;9..144,700&family=Outfit:wght@400;500;600;700&family=Spline+Sans+Mono:wght@400;500&display=swap

### Radii

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

### Shadows

- **Sm**: -4px -4px 9px var(--hi), 4px 4px 11px var(--lo-soft)
- **Md**: -7px -7px 16px var(--hi), 8px 8px 20px var(--lo-soft)
- **Lg**: -12px -12px 28px var(--hi), 14px 14px 34px var(--lo)

### Spacing

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: one continuous matte-clay ground; forms are raised (proud) or pressed (well), never boxed
- **Card Style**: raised earthenware shell with a top-left highlight and bottom-right umber shadow; editable regions recess into soft wells
- **Bg Pattern**: fine granular clay grain (fractal-noise multiply, low opacity)

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 0px
- **Accent Width**: 0px
- **Style**: none
- **Character**: there are no borders anywhere; separation is relief and shadow only, and focus draws a soft glaze ring rather than an outline

### Motion

- **Duration**: 220ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1)
- **Philosophy**: deliberate press-and-settle; controls press in under the finger and rise back, nothing snaps

## Rules

### Composition

Compose every page from one continuous warm-clay ground. High-level regions are raised slabs thumbed proud of the surface; inside them, anything editable is scooped into a soft well. The interface reads as a landscape of convex and concave forms, never as boxed cards on a blank canvas.

### Hierarchy

Use depth before colour: the strongest action is the most raised and glazed, secondary content sits flush, editable areas recess. The sea-glass celadon accent is spent only where a state is live — active tabs, selections, filling progress, healthy signals.

### Density

Comfortable, air-cushioned density: 24-34px of cushion inside slabs on desktop. Content can be rich, but each cluster gets breathing room and rounded containment so the single-material illusion holds.

### Signature Patterns

- every raised element carries a top-left highlight and a bottom-right umber shadow from one consistent light source
- inputs, selects, search bars, sliders, tab groups and progress tracks recess into concave wells built from inset shadow
- active tabs and the primary button rise proud and pool a bead of celadon glaze; nothing uses a hard fill or an underline rule
- status chips carry a small embedded luminous light bead at their left edge
- modals float inside a larger blurred soft-shadow aura with a raised header over a recessed well body

## Layout

### Grid

Desktop is a continuous clay field: a raised summary band of four metric tiles, a content row of a wide chart shell (minmax 0,1.6fr) beside a narrower activity well (minmax 0,1fr), then a log table and a queue. The dashboard sidebar breathes as part of the page and is never trapped in a floating pill.

### Breakpoints

At 1024px the four-up tiles fall to two-up and split rows stack; the sidebar becomes a slim relief rail. The tablet band (768-1024) is designed in its own right, not the mobile column stretched wide. At 680px everything stacks to a single column, non-essential nav links hide, and the log table scrolls inside its own well rather than pushing the page wide.

### Whitespace

Padded and air-cushioned: 24-34px inside slabs on desktop, ~20px on tablet, 16px on phone. Avoid narrow gutters that would break the single-material illusion.

## Guidance

### Do

- Keep one top-left light source so every relief agrees.
- Put anything editable in a scooped well; let raised elements be pressable.
- Spend the celadon glaze only where a state is live; hold the ember back for heat.
- Give generous cushion and always pad above a title.
- Keep text high-contrast deep umber even though the ground is soft.

### Don't

- Do not draw a border, rule, or accent edge anywhere.
- Do not flood a slab with saturated glaze; colour pools, it does not coat.
- Do not mix light directions or inconsistent relief depths.
- Do not box the navigation into a floating pill or nest cards.
- Do not rely on colour where depth communicates the state more quietly.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

bisque-relief

### Summary

Every image is warm hand-thrown matte earthenware pressed into full-frame relief: forms thumbed proud or scooped into wells, a single thread of sea-glass teal glaze pooling in the hollows under soft raking top-left light. Images always sit inside a scooped well so the art never contests the copy.

---
version: "alpha"
name: "Bisque"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  bg: "#efe3d6"
  surface: "#f6ede2"
  surface_solid: "#f6ede2"
  text: "#3a2c22"
  muted: "#8c7361"
  border: "#e0cfbd"
  accent: "#3f9e8f"
  accent_2: "#c8663d"
  accent_soft: "#a9d8ce"
  on_accent: "#ffffff"
  success: "#4a9d6f"
  warning: "#d99436"
  error: "#c0503f"
  info: "#5b86a8"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "\"Fraunces\", Georgia, serif"
    fontSize: "2.075rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "\"Fraunces\", Georgia, serif"
    fontSize: "1.66rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "\"Outfit\", system-ui, sans-serif"
    fontSize: "17px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "\"Spline Sans Mono\", ui-monospace, monospace"
    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"
components:
  color-reference-bg:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.bg}"
  color-reference-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
  color-reference-surface_solid:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface_solid}"
  color-reference-text:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.text}"
  color-reference-muted:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.muted}"
  color-reference-border:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.border}"
  color-reference-accent:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent}"
  color-reference-accent_2:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent_2}"
  color-reference-accent_soft:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent_soft}"
  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"
---

# Bisque

## Overview

Bisque is soft, calm productivity software thrown by hand in warm earthenware. It keeps the soul of soft neumorphism — hierarchy through depth instead of hard separators, quiet tactility, low friction — but reconceives the expression: where the old idea stamped cold grey plastic pillows onto a screen, Bisque throws the whole interface in warm matte clay. One continuous ground where importance is height, editing is a hollow, and status is a pooled glaze.

### Values

- one continuous material over fragmented panels
- depth as hierarchy
- quiet, hand-made tactility
- warm calm with legible high-contrast text
- low-friction productivity

### Anti-Values

- hard skeletal borders
- cold grey plastic
- high-noise ornament
- harsh contrast spikes
- flat severity

### Visual Character

- every element is pressed from one warm clay ground: thumbed proud to invite a press, or scooped into a soft well to receive input
- a bead of sea-glass celadon glaze pools only in the deepest hollows — active tabs, live status, filling progress
- one top-left light source so every ridge highlight and umber shadow agrees across the page
- large rounded geometry only (16/24/9999) with a fine granular clay grain over the whole field
- the navigation breathes as part of the page and cards are never nested — separation is relief, never a drawn line

## 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 | `#efe3d6` |
| surface | `#f6ede2` |
| surface_solid | `#f6ede2` |
| text | `#3a2c22` |
| muted | `#8c7361` |
| border | `#e0cfbd` |
| accent | `#3f9e8f` |
| accent_2 | `#c8663d` |
| accent_soft | `#a9d8ce` |
| on_accent | `#ffffff` |
| success | `#4a9d6f` |
| warning | `#d99436` |
| error | `#c0503f` |
| info | `#5b86a8` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: "Fraunces", Georgia, serif, 2.075rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: "Fraunces", Georgia, serif, 1.66rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: "Outfit", system-ui, sans-serif, 17px, weight 400, line-height 1.5.
- **Label-Md**: "Spline Sans Mono", ui-monospace, monospace, 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 continuous clay field: a raised summary band of four metric tiles, a content row of a wide chart shell (minmax 0,1.6fr) beside a narrower activity well (minmax 0,1fr), then a log table and a queue. The dashboard sidebar breathes as part of the page and is never trapped in a floating pill.

### Breakpoints

At 1024px the four-up tiles fall to two-up and split rows stack; the sidebar becomes a slim relief rail. The tablet band (768-1024) is designed in its own right, not the mobile column stretched wide. At 680px everything stacks to a single column, non-essential nav links hide, and the log table scrolls inside its own well rather than pushing the page wide.

### Whitespace

Padded and air-cushioned: 24-34px inside slabs on desktop, ~20px on tablet, 16px on phone. Avoid narrow gutters that would break the single-material illusion.

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Sm**: -4px -4px 9px var(--hi), 4px 4px 11px var(--lo-soft)
- **Md**: -7px -7px 16px var(--hi), 8px 8px 20px var(--lo-soft)
- **Lg**: -12px -12px 28px var(--hi), 14px 14px 34px var(--lo)

## Shapes

### Rounded

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: one continuous matte-clay ground; forms are raised (proud) or pressed (well), never boxed
- **Card Style**: raised earthenware shell with a top-left highlight and bottom-right umber shadow; editable regions recess into soft wells
- **Bg Pattern**: fine granular clay grain (fractal-noise multiply, low opacity)

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 0px
- **Accent Width**: 0px
- **Style**: none
- **Character**: there are no borders anywhere; separation is relief and shadow only, and focus draws a soft glaze ring rather than an outline

## Components

### Composition

Compose every page from one continuous warm-clay ground. High-level regions are raised slabs thumbed proud of the surface; inside them, anything editable is scooped into a soft well. The interface reads as a landscape of convex and concave forms, never as boxed cards on a blank canvas.

### Hierarchy

Use depth before colour: the strongest action is the most raised and glazed, secondary content sits flush, editable areas recess. The sea-glass celadon accent is spent only where a state is live — active tabs, selections, filling progress, healthy signals.

### Density

Comfortable, air-cushioned density: 24-34px of cushion inside slabs on desktop. Content can be rich, but each cluster gets breathing room and rounded containment so the single-material illusion holds.

### Signature Patterns

- every raised element carries a top-left highlight and a bottom-right umber shadow from one consistent light source
- inputs, selects, search bars, sliders, tab groups and progress tracks recess into concave wells built from inset shadow
- active tabs and the primary button rise proud and pool a bead of celadon glaze; nothing uses a hard fill or an underline rule
- status chips carry a small embedded luminous light bead at their left edge
- modals float inside a larger blurred soft-shadow aura with a raised header over a recessed well body

## 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-019f707a-6442-7c62-ae6e-2bdcbe136840/DESIGN.with-shadcn.md`.

The shadcn page also exposes optional machine-readable files for automation, but the human-facing handoff is DESIGN.md with shadcn.

Install recommended primitives with `npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table`.

Use these primitives in shadcn apps:
- button
- card
- input
- textarea
- select
- dialog
- sheet
- tabs
- badge
- separator
- checkbox
- switch
- slider
- tooltip
- dropdown-menu
- table

Implementation rule for agents: import shadcn primitives from `@/components/ui/*`, apply the generated CSS variables first, then compose the language-specific recipes from the companion MD. Katagami remains the source of truth; shadcn names are the implementation surface.

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do Keep one top-left light source so every relief agrees.
- Do Put anything editable in a scooped well; let raised elements be pressable.
- Do Spend the celadon glaze only where a state is live; hold the ember back for heat.
- Do Give generous cushion and always pad above a title.
- Do Keep text high-contrast deep umber even though the ground is soft.
- Don't Do not draw a border, rule, or accent edge anywhere.
- Don't Do not flood a slab with saturated glaze; colour pools, it does not coat.
- Don't Do not mix light directions or inconsistent relief depths.
- Don't Do not box the navigation into a floating pill or nest cards.
- Don't Do not rely on colour where depth communicates the state more quietly.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

bisque-relief

### Summary

Every image is warm hand-thrown matte earthenware pressed into full-frame relief: forms thumbed proud or scooped into wells, a single thread of sea-glass teal glaze pooling in the hollows under soft raking top-left light. Images always sit inside a scooped well so the art never contests the copy.

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "bisque",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Bisque shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#efe3d6",
      "foreground": "#3a2c22",
      "card": "#f6ede2",
      "card-foreground": "#3a2c22",
      "popover": "#f6ede2",
      "popover-foreground": "#3a2c22",
      "primary": "#3a2c22",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#f4f4f5",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#8c7361",
      "muted-foreground": "#3a2c22",
      "accent": "#3f9e8f",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#c0503f",
      "border": "#e0cfbd",
      "input": "#e0cfbd",
      "ring": "#3f9e8f",
      "chart-1": "#3a2c22",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#3f9e8f",
      "chart-4": "#4a9d6f",
      "chart-5": "#d99436",
      "sidebar": "#f6ede2",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#3a2c22",
      "sidebar-primary": "#3a2c22",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#5b86a8",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#e0cfbd",
      "sidebar-ring": "#3f9e8f",
      "radius": "16px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#3a2c22",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#3f9e8f",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#c0503f",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#3f9e8f",
      "chart-1": "#3a2c22",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#3f9e8f",
      "chart-4": "#4a9d6f",
      "chart-5": "#d99436",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#3a2c22",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#3f9e8f",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#3f9e8f",
      "radius": "16px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019f707a-6442-7c62-ae6e-2bdcbe136840",
    "slug": "bisque",
    "componentManifest": [
      "button",
      "card",
      "input",
      "textarea",
      "select",
      "dialog",
      "sheet",
      "tabs",
      "badge",
      "separator",
      "checkbox",
      "switch",
      "slider",
      "tooltip",
      "dropdown-menu",
      "table"
    ],
    "installCommand": "npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table",
    "nativeTokenNames": {
      "colors": [
        "accent",
        "accent_2",
        "accent_soft",
        "bg",
        "border",
        "error",
        "info",
        "muted",
        "on_accent",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "surface_solid",
        "text",
        "warning"
      ],
      "typography": [
        "base_size",
        "body_font",
        "google_fonts_url",
        "heading_font",
        "heading_transform",
        "heading_weight",
        "letter_spacing",
        "line_height",
        "mono_font",
        "scale_ratio"
      ],
      "radii": [
        "full",
        "lg",
        "md",
        "none"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "borders": [
        "accent_width",
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```