Coriandoli

# Coriandoli

## Philosophy

Coriandoli is the Memphis soul in a new body. It keeps the loud, playful, anti-neutral energy of postmodern graphic interfaces and rebuilds it in polished terrazzo: confetti caught mid-throw and cured into a set, glossy slab. The old language fenced every card with a thick black keyline; Coriandoli throws the outline away — a surface's edge is now a poured rim of aggregate chips, dense at the perimeter and thinning inward, so you read a boundary without a single drawn stroke.

### Values

- Playful energy as structure, not decoration
- Boundaries poured from aggregate, never drawn as borders
- Three electric inks spent like a highlighter on a bright bone ground
- Loud and legible: high contrast, one strict scale, real hierarchy
- Motion that pours, settles, and cures

### Anti-Values

- Corporate neutrality and invisible chrome
- Grey borders, heavy keylines, and boxed navigation
- Muddy pastel washes and gradient fills
- Photoreal depth or skeuomorphic imitation

### Visual Character

- Every surface is a cured terrazzo slab edged by a poured rim of aggregate chips, with a soft polished sheen and no line border.
- A fine terrazzo speckle of electric chips scatters across the bone ground as one page-wide field, without touching text legibility.
- Live work carries a cure meter whose aggregate fill climbs from scattered to SET; at 100% the slab reads polished.
- Type pairs an extended postmodern display face with a clean grotesk body and a mono for labels, in two-extreme scale jumps.
- A single continuous squiggle recurs as the divider ornament in teal and magenta, tying the page into one system.

## Tokens

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#F4EEE1` |
| surface | `#FCFAF3` |
| surface_solid | `#FBF7EE` |
| text | `#141210` |
| muted | `#6E655A` |
| border | `#E7DECB` |
| accent | `#12C7C4` |
| accent_2 | `#FF3D93` |
| accent_soft | `#F6CE1B` |
| on_accent | `#141210` |
| success | `#16B57A` |
| warning | `#F6A609` |
| error | `#FF4D6A` |
| info | `#3F9BFF` |

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 17px
- **Body Font**: Archivo
- **Heading Font**: Syne
- **Mono Font**: Space Mono
- **Heading Weight**: 800
- **Heading Transform**: none
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.02em
- **Line Height**: 1.55
- **Scale Ratio**: 1.28
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Archivo:wght@400;500;600;700;800&family=Space+Mono:wght@400;700&family=Syne:wght@600;700;800&display=swap

### Radii

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

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 2px 6px rgba(20,18,16,0.10)
- **Md**: 0 8px 22px rgba(20,18,16,0.12)
- **Lg**: 0 22px 50px rgba(20,18,16,0.16)

### Spacing

- **Base**: 8px
- **Scale**: ["4px","8px","12px","16px","24px","32px","48px","72px"]

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: polished terrazzo (seminato)
- **Card Style**: cured terrazzo slabs edged by a poured chip rim — dense at the perimeter, thinning inward — with a soft polished sheen; no line border
- **Bg Pattern**: terrazzo speckle (fine electric chips scattered in the bone matrix)

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 0px
- **Accent Width**: 0px
- **Style**: none
- **Character**: No line borders anywhere. Boundaries are poured chip-scatter rims; aggregate density defines the edge, never a stroke.

### Motion

- **Duration**: 220ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.9, 0.2, 1)
- **Philosophy**: snappy pours that settle — chips scatter fast, then cure to rest

## Rules

### Composition

Compose screens as poster-like spreads: one dominant display column, cured-slab modules, and the confetti speckle threading the gutters. Read tables top-down; give dashboards a breathing depth rail instead of a boxed sidebar.

### Hierarchy

Lead with Syne display and mono labels. The primary action is a single teal capsule; magenta answers; chrome is held for the finale. Status lives in flat mono chips.

### Density

Medium-high inside modules, airy between them. Balance density across the canvas — never a crowded cluster beside a starved void.

### Signature Patterns

- Every card is a cured slab edged by a poured chip rim, no drawn border.
- A fine terrazzo speckle recurs page-wide as one background system.
- Live work carries a cure meter that climbs from scattered chips to SET.
- Navigation breathes on space as a depth rail, never a boxed sidebar or pill bar.
- Buttons and status are toy-bright capsules with centred labels that never wrap.

## Layout

### Grid

A contained max width (~1200-1440px) with generous outer margin. The dashboard runs a breathing depth rail on the left instead of a boxed sidebar; cards read as poured slabs, not identical boxes.

### Breakpoints

Four art-directed bands: wide (~1920+), desktop (1440), tablet (768-1024, its own considered layout), and mobile (390, single column). Oversized display headlines shrink with clamp() and wrap — never clipping the 390px edge.

### Whitespace

Compact inside clusters, generous between modules, always padded above titles; the speckle keeps the negative space alive without competing with text.

## Guidance

### Do

- Bound every surface with a poured chip rim; let aggregate density read as the edge.
- Spend the three inks like a highlighter and keep bone the dominant field.
- Let the speckle and squiggle recur as one page-wide ornament system.
- Keep body copy at 17px and put readouts, calls, and status in mono.

### Don't

- Draw a border, keyline, or single accent edge on any card.
- Wash the background with pastel tints or gradient fills.
- Box the navigation into a floating card or pill bar.
- Let the speckle or chip rim compete with body-text legibility.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

graniglia

### Summary

Polished terrazzo inlay — any subject built from densely packed electric aggregate chips in a warm bone matrix, with speckle grit and a soft gloss. Subjects range across faces, places, objects and animals.

### Usage

One full-bleed hero per landing via var(--hero-image), with swappable --plate-N slots woven through the film. Copy and imagery never share the same ground — text sits on bone, imagery fills its own slab.

### Avoid

Photographic renders, pastel washes, more than four inks, text in the image.

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name: "Coriandoli"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  bg: "#F4EEE1"
  surface: "#FCFAF3"
  surface_solid: "#FBF7EE"
  text: "#141210"
  muted: "#6E655A"
  border: "#E7DECB"
  accent: "#12C7C4"
  accent_2: "#FF3D93"
  accent_soft: "#F6CE1B"
  on_accent: "#141210"
  success: "#16B57A"
  warning: "#F6A609"
  error: "#FF4D6A"
  info: "#3F9BFF"
typography:
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    fontFamily: "Syne"
    fontSize: "2.075rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
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    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
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    fontFamily: "Archivo"
    fontSize: "17px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
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    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
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  md: "16px"
  lg: "24px"
  full: "9999px"
spacing:
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  xs: "4px"
  sm: "8px"
  md: "12px"
  lg: "16px"
  xl: "24px"
  2xl: "32px"
  3xl: "48px"
  4xl: "72px"
components:
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  color-reference-accent:
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  color-reference-accent_2:
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  color-reference-accent_soft:
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  color-reference-on_accent:
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  color-reference-success:
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  color-reference-warning:
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  color-reference-error:
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  color-reference-info:
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    textColor: "#000000"
    typography: "{typography.label-md}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  card-surface:
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    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  input-default:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    height: "44px"
---

# Coriandoli

## Overview

Coriandoli is the Memphis soul in a new body. It keeps the loud, playful, anti-neutral energy of postmodern graphic interfaces and rebuilds it in polished terrazzo: confetti caught mid-throw and cured into a set, glossy slab. The old language fenced every card with a thick black keyline; Coriandoli throws the outline away — a surface's edge is now a poured rim of aggregate chips, dense at the perimeter and thinning inward, so you read a boundary without a single drawn stroke.

### Values

- Playful energy as structure, not decoration
- Boundaries poured from aggregate, never drawn as borders
- Three electric inks spent like a highlighter on a bright bone ground
- Loud and legible: high contrast, one strict scale, real hierarchy
- Motion that pours, settles, and cures

### Anti-Values

- Corporate neutrality and invisible chrome
- Grey borders, heavy keylines, and boxed navigation
- Muddy pastel washes and gradient fills
- Photoreal depth or skeuomorphic imitation

### Visual Character

- Every surface is a cured terrazzo slab edged by a poured rim of aggregate chips, with a soft polished sheen and no line border.
- A fine terrazzo speckle of electric chips scatters across the bone ground as one page-wide field, without touching text legibility.
- Live work carries a cure meter whose aggregate fill climbs from scattered to SET; at 100% the slab reads polished.
- Type pairs an extended postmodern display face with a clean grotesk body and a mono for labels, in two-extreme scale jumps.
- A single continuous squiggle recurs as the divider ornament in teal and magenta, tying the page into one system.

## Colors

Use the YAML color tokens as the normative palette. The prose below names the roles agents should preserve when generating UI.

| Token | Value |
|-------|-------|
| bg | `#F4EEE1` |
| surface | `#FCFAF3` |
| surface_solid | `#FBF7EE` |
| text | `#141210` |
| muted | `#6E655A` |
| border | `#E7DECB` |
| accent | `#12C7C4` |
| accent_2 | `#FF3D93` |
| accent_soft | `#F6CE1B` |
| on_accent | `#141210` |
| success | `#16B57A` |
| warning | `#F6A609` |
| error | `#FF4D6A` |
| info | `#3F9BFF` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: Syne, 2.075rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Syne, 1.66rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Archivo, 17px, weight 400, line-height 1.5.
- **Label-Md**: Space 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**: `72px`

### Grid

A contained max width (~1200-1440px) with generous outer margin. The dashboard runs a breathing depth rail on the left instead of a boxed sidebar; cards read as poured slabs, not identical boxes.

### Breakpoints

Four art-directed bands: wide (~1920+), desktop (1440), tablet (768-1024, its own considered layout), and mobile (390, single column). Oversized display headlines shrink with clamp() and wrap — never clipping the 390px edge.

### Whitespace

Compact inside clusters, generous between modules, always padded above titles; the speckle keeps the negative space alive without competing with text.

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 2px 6px rgba(20,18,16,0.10)
- **Md**: 0 8px 22px rgba(20,18,16,0.12)
- **Lg**: 0 22px 50px rgba(20,18,16,0.16)

## Shapes

### Rounded

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: polished terrazzo (seminato)
- **Card Style**: cured terrazzo slabs edged by a poured chip rim — dense at the perimeter, thinning inward — with a soft polished sheen; no line border
- **Bg Pattern**: terrazzo speckle (fine electric chips scattered in the bone matrix)

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 0px
- **Accent Width**: 0px
- **Style**: none
- **Character**: No line borders anywhere. Boundaries are poured chip-scatter rims; aggregate density defines the edge, never a stroke.

## Components

### Composition

Compose screens as poster-like spreads: one dominant display column, cured-slab modules, and the confetti speckle threading the gutters. Read tables top-down; give dashboards a breathing depth rail instead of a boxed sidebar.

### Hierarchy

Lead with Syne display and mono labels. The primary action is a single teal capsule; magenta answers; chrome is held for the finale. Status lives in flat mono chips.

### Density

Medium-high inside modules, airy between them. Balance density across the canvas — never a crowded cluster beside a starved void.

### Signature Patterns

- Every card is a cured slab edged by a poured chip rim, no drawn border.
- A fine terrazzo speckle recurs page-wide as one background system.
- Live work carries a cure meter that climbs from scattered chips to SET.
- Navigation breathes on space as a depth rail, never a boxed sidebar or pill bar.
- Buttons and status are toy-bright capsules with centred labels that never wrap.

## 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-019f8af2-875f-74a3-9a4d-19fe1ca2c790/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 Bound every surface with a poured chip rim; let aggregate density read as the edge.
- Do Spend the three inks like a highlighter and keep bone the dominant field.
- Do Let the speckle and squiggle recur as one page-wide ornament system.
- Do Keep body copy at 17px and put readouts, calls, and status in mono.
- Don't Draw a border, keyline, or single accent edge on any card.
- Don't Wash the background with pastel tints or gradient fills.
- Don't Box the navigation into a floating card or pill bar.
- Don't Let the speckle or chip rim compete with body-text legibility.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

graniglia

### Summary

Polished terrazzo inlay — any subject built from densely packed electric aggregate chips in a warm bone matrix, with speckle grit and a soft gloss. Subjects range across faces, places, objects and animals.

### Usage

One full-bleed hero per landing via var(--hero-image), with swappable --plate-N slots woven through the film. Copy and imagery never share the same ground — text sits on bone, imagery fills its own slab.

### Avoid

Photographic renders, pastel washes, more than four inks, text in the image.

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  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "coriandoli",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Coriandoli shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#F4EEE1",
      "foreground": "#141210",
      "card": "#FCFAF3",
      "card-foreground": "#141210",
      "popover": "#FCFAF3",
      "popover-foreground": "#141210",
      "primary": "#141210",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#f4f4f5",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#6E655A",
      "muted-foreground": "#141210",
      "accent": "#12C7C4",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#FF4D6A",
      "border": "#E7DECB",
      "input": "#E7DECB",
      "ring": "#12C7C4",
      "chart-1": "#141210",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#12C7C4",
      "chart-4": "#16B57A",
      "chart-5": "#F6A609",
      "sidebar": "#FCFAF3",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#141210",
      "sidebar-primary": "#141210",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#3F9BFF",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#E7DECB",
      "sidebar-ring": "#12C7C4",
      "radius": "16px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#141210",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#12C7C4",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#FF4D6A",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#12C7C4",
      "chart-1": "#141210",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#12C7C4",
      "chart-4": "#16B57A",
      "chart-5": "#F6A609",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#141210",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#12C7C4",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#12C7C4",
      "radius": "16px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019f8af2-875f-74a3-9a4d-19fe1ca2c790",
    "slug": "coriandoli",
    "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"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```