Moire

# Moire

## Philosophy

Moire is a manga-console design language for quiet, personal software. It keeps the existential, turn-of-the-millennium anime-hardware soul of Y2K Chrome Manga Console and the black-ink human figure at its centre, but throws away the chrome rails and glossy capsules and redraws every surface as a manga page in the making: bare ink is shaded into life with adhesive screentone, and where two dot-sheets overlap they beat into living moire.

### Values

- Ink before interface
- Tone develops the page
- Living moire as the one continuous motion
- Existential cleanliness with wide cream margins
- Anime-title confidence in compressed uppercase display
- One wet ink over a black-and-white base

### Anti-Values

- Chrome rails, glossy capsules, and Y2K bevels
- Grey borders and boxed navigation
- Muddy pastel washes
- Loud pixel-glyph wallpaper
- Three equal KPI cards

### Visual Character

- Cream manga paper under a faint page-wide halftone dot field
- Tone plates: an ink title bar, a screentone shade band, content on clean paper
- Ink-stamp controls with a flat offset shadow that collapses on press
- Manga ink-and-tone figures with one wet-blue glint
- Compressed uppercase headings, 17px body, mono tone codes

## Tokens

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#F4F0E4` |
| surface | `#FCFAF3` |
| surface_solid | `#FFFFFF` |
| text | `#14120E` |
| muted | `#6B665B` |
| border | `#E4DECF` |
| accent | `#2C63E0` |
| accent_2 | `#86B81E` |
| accent_soft | `#DDE6FA` |
| on_accent | `#FFFFFF` |
| success | `#4E9A51` |
| warning | `#C88526` |
| error | `#E23B2C` |
| info | `#2C63E0` |

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 17px
- **Body Font**: IBM Plex Sans
- **Heading Font**: Barlow Condensed
- **Mono Font**: Share Tech Mono
- **Heading Weight**: 800
- **Heading Transform**: uppercase
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.02em
- **Line Height**: 1.55
- **Scale Ratio**: 1.30
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Barlow+Condensed:wght@500;600;700;800&family=IBM+Plex+Sans:wght@400;500;600&family=Share+Tech+Mono&display=swap

### Radii

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

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 2px 0 rgba(20,18,14,0.14)
- **Md**: 5px 6px 0 rgba(20,18,14,0.11)
- **Lg**: 12px 14px 0 rgba(20,18,14,0.09)

### Spacing

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: cream manga paper with a laid halftone screentone field
- **Card Style**: tone plates: a solid-ink title bar, a screentone shade band, content on clean paper — never boxed in grey
- **Bg Pattern**: a faint page-wide halftone dot field that deepens into moire where two dot layers overlap

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 0
- **Accent Width**: 3px
- **Style**: none by default; hierarchy from solid-ink rules and tone bands
- **Character**: no grey borders — separation comes from black ink rules, screentone bands, and the white panel gutter

### Motion

- **Duration**: 200ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(.2,.8,.2,1)
- **Philosophy**: tone develops and settles; the only continuous life is the moire beat between overlapping dot layers — motion lays tone, it never bounces

## Rules

### Composition

Compose surfaces as tone plates: a solid-ink title bar, a screentone shade band, content on clean cream paper. Make one figure plate dominant and let tone-code clusters orbit it asymmetrically, never three equal cards. The dashboard is a manga console with a slim ink spine, not a boxed sidebar.

### Hierarchy

Scale and material contrast lead: compressed uppercase display, then the manga figure, then small mono tone codes. Wet-ink blue marks the one active signal; lime is a rare diagnostic ping; vermilion is a single splash.

### Density

Airy cream margins between plates; tight 4-8px clusters inside tone-code rows. Balance density across the canvas — never a crowded cluster beside a starved void.

### Signature Patterns

- Tone-develop reveal: content enters as bare ink line and screentone floods in to shade it — a dot-density ramp, never a plain fade.
- Living moire field: two overlapping dot layers beat into interference as one page-wide system; it reacts to the pointer on the landing.
- Ink-stamp controls: solid-ink or wet-blue pills with a flat offset shadow that collapses on press.
- Tone-plate cards: an ink title bar over a screentone band over clean paper, anchored by a mono tone code — no grey border.
- Panel-gutter rhythm: the white gutter opens between clusters like the space between manga panels; focus lines converge for emphasis.

## Layout

### Grid

Contained max-width (~1280px) with generous cream margins; one dominant figure plate offset against a denser tone-code column. The dashboard runs a slim ink console spine instead of a boxed sidebar; plates stagger like a manga page.

### Breakpoints

>=1180px: asymmetric figure plate + tone-code column; 768-1024 is its own layout (figure plate above a two-up tone-code grid, gutters kept); <=720 single column, ink rules and tone bands preserved, console spine becomes a horizontal rail, dot field thinned, compressed hero headline shrinks with clamp() so it wraps and never clips the 390px edge.

### Whitespace

72px cream voids between sections, 48px between related plates, 24px within a plate, 4-8px inside tone-code rows — wide silence around dense clusters to keep the loneliness.

## Guidance

### Do

- Keep the base black ink on cream paper; spend wet-ink blue like one voice, lime as a rare ping, vermilion once.
- Shade with screentone dot-density and let tone plates carry hierarchy through their ink title bar, not a border.
- Let the moire field recur page-wide as one system and keep it the only thing continuously alive.
- Write copy as console verse and tone codes; draw human presence as manga ink-and-tone figures.

### Don't

- Do not add chrome rails, glossy capsules, or metallic gradients.
- Do not give a plate a single accent edge or a grey border.
- Do not let the dot field become loud wallpaper or bury text.
- Do not use three equal cards, KPI tiles, or analytics-dashboard conventions.
- Do not round arbitrarily; use only square frames, 16/24px plate corners, and full pills.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

benday

### Summary

Manga ink + screentone: black pen-and-ink contour shaded with adhesive ben-day dots, dramatic dot-density gradients, faint moire, matte cream paper, one wet-blue spot. Subjects are lonely figures, turn-of-millennium anime cityscapes, Y2K hardware objects, and quiet landscapes.

### Usage

One full-bleed hero per landing via var(--hero-image); art plates via --plate-N slots. Copy and imagery never share the same ground — text sits on clean paper or an ink plate, imagery keeps its own bleed.

### Avoid

Full-colour renders, photographic look, more than one spot colour, text in the image.

---
version: "alpha"
name: "Moire"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  bg: "#F4F0E4"
  surface: "#FCFAF3"
  surface_solid: "#FFFFFF"
  text: "#14120E"
  muted: "#6B665B"
  border: "#E4DECF"
  accent: "#2C63E0"
  accent_2: "#86B81E"
  accent_soft: "#DDE6FA"
  on_accent: "#FFFFFF"
  success: "#4E9A51"
  warning: "#C88526"
  error: "#E23B2C"
  info: "#2C63E0"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed"
    fontSize: "2.075rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed"
    fontSize: "1.66rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "IBM Plex Sans"
    fontSize: "17px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "Share Tech Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  none: "0px"
  md: "16px"
  lg: "24px"
  full: "9999px"
spacing:
  base: "8px"
  xs: "4px"
  sm: "8px"
  md: "12px"
  lg: "16px"
  xl: "24px"
  2xl: "32px"
  3xl: "48px"
  4xl: "72px"
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: "#ffffff"
    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"
---

# Moire

## Overview

Moire is a manga-console design language for quiet, personal software. It keeps the existential, turn-of-the-millennium anime-hardware soul of Y2K Chrome Manga Console and the black-ink human figure at its centre, but throws away the chrome rails and glossy capsules and redraws every surface as a manga page in the making: bare ink is shaded into life with adhesive screentone, and where two dot-sheets overlap they beat into living moire.

### Values

- Ink before interface
- Tone develops the page
- Living moire as the one continuous motion
- Existential cleanliness with wide cream margins
- Anime-title confidence in compressed uppercase display
- One wet ink over a black-and-white base

### Anti-Values

- Chrome rails, glossy capsules, and Y2K bevels
- Grey borders and boxed navigation
- Muddy pastel washes
- Loud pixel-glyph wallpaper
- Three equal KPI cards

### Visual Character

- Cream manga paper under a faint page-wide halftone dot field
- Tone plates: an ink title bar, a screentone shade band, content on clean paper
- Ink-stamp controls with a flat offset shadow that collapses on press
- Manga ink-and-tone figures with one wet-blue glint
- Compressed uppercase headings, 17px body, mono tone codes

## 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 | `#F4F0E4` |
| surface | `#FCFAF3` |
| surface_solid | `#FFFFFF` |
| text | `#14120E` |
| muted | `#6B665B` |
| border | `#E4DECF` |
| accent | `#2C63E0` |
| accent_2 | `#86B81E` |
| accent_soft | `#DDE6FA` |
| on_accent | `#FFFFFF` |
| success | `#4E9A51` |
| warning | `#C88526` |
| error | `#E23B2C` |
| info | `#2C63E0` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: Barlow Condensed, 2.075rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Barlow Condensed, 1.66rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: IBM Plex Sans, 17px, weight 400, line-height 1.5.
- **Label-Md**: Share Tech 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

Contained max-width (~1280px) with generous cream margins; one dominant figure plate offset against a denser tone-code column. The dashboard runs a slim ink console spine instead of a boxed sidebar; plates stagger like a manga page.

### Breakpoints

>=1180px: asymmetric figure plate + tone-code column; 768-1024 is its own layout (figure plate above a two-up tone-code grid, gutters kept); <=720 single column, ink rules and tone bands preserved, console spine becomes a horizontal rail, dot field thinned, compressed hero headline shrinks with clamp() so it wraps and never clips the 390px edge.

### Whitespace

72px cream voids between sections, 48px between related plates, 24px within a plate, 4-8px inside tone-code rows — wide silence around dense clusters to keep the loneliness.

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 2px 0 rgba(20,18,14,0.14)
- **Md**: 5px 6px 0 rgba(20,18,14,0.11)
- **Lg**: 12px 14px 0 rgba(20,18,14,0.09)

## Shapes

### Rounded

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: cream manga paper with a laid halftone screentone field
- **Card Style**: tone plates: a solid-ink title bar, a screentone shade band, content on clean paper — never boxed in grey
- **Bg Pattern**: a faint page-wide halftone dot field that deepens into moire where two dot layers overlap

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 0
- **Accent Width**: 3px
- **Style**: none by default; hierarchy from solid-ink rules and tone bands
- **Character**: no grey borders — separation comes from black ink rules, screentone bands, and the white panel gutter

## Components

### Composition

Compose surfaces as tone plates: a solid-ink title bar, a screentone shade band, content on clean cream paper. Make one figure plate dominant and let tone-code clusters orbit it asymmetrically, never three equal cards. The dashboard is a manga console with a slim ink spine, not a boxed sidebar.

### Hierarchy

Scale and material contrast lead: compressed uppercase display, then the manga figure, then small mono tone codes. Wet-ink blue marks the one active signal; lime is a rare diagnostic ping; vermilion is a single splash.

### Density

Airy cream margins between plates; tight 4-8px clusters inside tone-code rows. Balance density across the canvas — never a crowded cluster beside a starved void.

### Signature Patterns

- Tone-develop reveal: content enters as bare ink line and screentone floods in to shade it — a dot-density ramp, never a plain fade.
- Living moire field: two overlapping dot layers beat into interference as one page-wide system; it reacts to the pointer on the landing.
- Ink-stamp controls: solid-ink or wet-blue pills with a flat offset shadow that collapses on press.
- Tone-plate cards: an ink title bar over a screentone band over clean paper, anchored by a mono tone code — no grey border.
- Panel-gutter rhythm: the white gutter opens between clusters like the space between manga panels; focus lines converge for emphasis.

## 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-019f8b67-4602-79d1-82b3-6b645de15769/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 the base black ink on cream paper; spend wet-ink blue like one voice, lime as a rare ping, vermilion once.
- Do Shade with screentone dot-density and let tone plates carry hierarchy through their ink title bar, not a border.
- Do Let the moire field recur page-wide as one system and keep it the only thing continuously alive.
- Do Write copy as console verse and tone codes; draw human presence as manga ink-and-tone figures.
- Don't Do not add chrome rails, glossy capsules, or metallic gradients.
- Don't Do not give a plate a single accent edge or a grey border.
- Don't Do not let the dot field become loud wallpaper or bury text.
- Don't Do not use three equal cards, KPI tiles, or analytics-dashboard conventions.
- Don't Do not round arbitrarily; use only square frames, 16/24px plate corners, and full pills.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

benday

### Summary

Manga ink + screentone: black pen-and-ink contour shaded with adhesive ben-day dots, dramatic dot-density gradients, faint moire, matte cream paper, one wet-blue spot. Subjects are lonely figures, turn-of-millennium anime cityscapes, Y2K hardware objects, and quiet landscapes.

### Usage

One full-bleed hero per landing via var(--hero-image); art plates via --plate-N slots. Copy and imagery never share the same ground — text sits on clean paper or an ink plate, imagery keeps its own bleed.

### Avoid

Full-colour renders, photographic look, more than one spot colour, text in the image.

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  "name": "moire-manga-tone-console",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Moire shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#F4F0E4",
      "foreground": "#14120E",
      "card": "#FCFAF3",
      "card-foreground": "#14120E",
      "popover": "#FCFAF3",
      "popover-foreground": "#14120E",
      "primary": "#14120E",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#f4f4f5",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#6B665B",
      "muted-foreground": "#14120E",
      "accent": "#2C63E0",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#E23B2C",
      "border": "#E4DECF",
      "input": "#E4DECF",
      "ring": "#2C63E0",
      "chart-1": "#14120E",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#2C63E0",
      "chart-4": "#4E9A51",
      "chart-5": "#C88526",
      "sidebar": "#FCFAF3",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#14120E",
      "sidebar-primary": "#14120E",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#2C63E0",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#E4DECF",
      "sidebar-ring": "#2C63E0",
      "radius": "16px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#14120E",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#2C63E0",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#E23B2C",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#2C63E0",
      "chart-1": "#14120E",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#2C63E0",
      "chart-4": "#4E9A51",
      "chart-5": "#C88526",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#14120E",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#2C63E0",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#2C63E0",
      "radius": "16px"
    }
  },
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    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019f8b67-4602-79d1-82b3-6b645de15769",
    "slug": "moire-manga-tone-console",
    "componentManifest": [
      "button",
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      "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"
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      "radii": [
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        "lg",
        "md",
        "none"
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      "shadows": [
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        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
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        "treatment"
      ],
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        "default_width",
        "style"
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      "motion": [
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        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ]
    }
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}
```