Parapara

# Parapara

## Philosophy

A Tokyo indie-zine illustration language rebuilt as a flipbook: warm cream stock, hand-inked figure-lines drawn twice and shot on twos so every outline boils, koma counters and dope-sheet mono furniture, and a reel you riffle by scrolling. It keeps the authored, human, editorial soul of an illustration annual and reconceives the expression as animation.

### Values

- authored imperfection over polished neutrality
- narrative frames over component catalogs
- quiet typography with a line that never sits still
- cultural animation memory over explicit branding
- human linework over vector sterility

### Anti-Values

- dashboard blandness
- full-bleed corporate gradients
- overweight UI chrome
- loud growth-product colour coding
- symmetrical template sameness
- a flat static frame with no boil

### Visual Character

- warm cream ground #F1E7D6 with subtle radial grain and washed ochre/blue blooms; no pure-white expanses
- hand-inked figure-lines that boil on twos — two near-identical frames alternating at 12fps
- koma panels with generous poster margins, 24px outer corners, tape strips, and a mono folio
- dope-sheet furniture: koma counts, fps, timecodes and captions in uppercase IBM Plex Mono
- a sprocketed reel you riffle; the current frame is vermilion and boils; vermilion detonates once at press

## Tokens

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#F1E7D6` |
| surface | `#FBF4E7` |
| surface_solid | `#FFFBF3` |
| text | `#211B14` |
| muted | `#7C6E5D` |
| border | `#211B14` |
| accent | `#D33A1C` |
| accent_2 | `#2C5FA8` |
| accent_soft | `#F2C84B` |
| on_accent | `#FFF7EC` |
| success | `#46722F` |
| warning | `#B67F1C` |
| error | `#A82A1E` |
| info | `#2C5FA8` |

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 17px
- **Body Font**: Zen Kaku Gothic New
- **Heading Font**: Zen Kaku Gothic New
- **Mono Font**: IBM Plex Mono
- **Heading Weight**: 900
- **Heading Transform**: none
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.01em
- **Line Height**: 1.5
- **Scale Ratio**: 1.2
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500&family=Zen+Kaku+Gothic+New:wght@400;500;700;900&display=swap

### Radii

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

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 1px 0 rgba(33,27,20,0.05)
- **Md**: 0 12px 28px rgba(74,55,34,0.10)
- **Lg**: 0 24px 60px rgba(74,55,34,0.15)

### Spacing

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: paper
- **Card Style**: cream koma cards with a washed colour blob offset behind and a grain overlay
- **Bg Pattern**: noise

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 0px
- **Accent Width**: 0px
- **Style**: none
- **Character**: no borders; clipped-paper surfaces and near-paper shadows carry structure, the boil carries identity

### Motion

- **Duration**: 460ms
- **Easing**: steps(1,end) on twos for the boil; cubic-bezier(0.22,0.8,0.2,1) for reveals
- **Philosophy**: the boil — hold each drawing two frames at 12fps so the line breathes; deliberate and tactile, nothing glows or bounces

## Rules

### Composition

Build pages as a reel of koma: one dominant frame, supporting cropped frames, and a mono dope-sheet rail for metadata rather than conventional app navigation.

### Density

Moderate density with small mono captions and generous koma margins; internal dope-sheet clusters can be tight, but every koma needs breathing room and film-stock around it.

### Hierarchy

Illustration and the boiling line lead first, headline second, dope-sheet caption system third. Labels stay compact and low-volume so the frame carries the emotional weight.

### Signature Patterns

- every koma panel has a poster margin, a 24px outer radius, a mono folio, and its linework boils on twos
- the boil recolours through components: the active reel frame, the primary button, and the drawn underline all shimmer on twos
- captions and metadata use tiny uppercase IBM Plex Mono with tight 4-8px internal spacing
- the reel is a real object: a horizontal sprocketed strip that scrubs as you riffle, koma counting up
- vermilion is rationed to one detonation, the print/press climax where the whole field floods; controls read as clipped paper with near-paper shadows, no borders

## Layout

### Grid

A 12-column reel grid on desktop collapsing to a single column on mobile; a dominant koma, supporting cropped frames, and a mono dope-sheet rail instead of app chrome.

### Breakpoints

Wide >=1920, desktop 1440, tablet 768-1024, mobile <=430. The landing is one continuous scroll-controlled film of six pinned koma re-art-directed per breakpoint; the reader riffles by scrolling.

### Whitespace

Generous koma margins emulate poster borders so the film-stock shows around each frame; tighter spacing is allowed only inside dope-sheet clusters and mono metadata strips. Titles always carry padding above them.

## Guidance

### Do

- draw the line twice and shoot on twos so the boil stays the signature
- pair calm Zen Kaku Gothic New reading text with tiny IBM Plex Mono dope-sheet metadata
- treat each section as a koma - a cropped frame with a poster margin and a folio
- keep the palette washed, three inks arriving as irregular fields like highlighters
- let vermilion detonate exactly once, when the issue goes to press
- keep near-paper shadows sparing so the reel construction stays the signature

### Don't

- do not introduce SaaS metric panels or boxed floating navigation
- do not polish the boil away into a flat static frame
- do not centre everything symmetrically or trap navigation in a pill bar
- do not add synthetic neon accents or rainbow category coding
- do not render browser-default controls; inputs and selects must look like clipped paper labels
- do not let bright accents carry small body text over imagery; use ink or a solid pill

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

douga

### Summary

Confident hand-inked black outlines over flat gouache and watercolour fills on warm cream paper, matte risograph texture, authored imperfect linework, cropped asymmetric koma.

### Subjects

Concrete and Tokyo-quiet: back-alleys at dusk, shotengai streets, a night desk, a tea tray, a cat, a flipbook riffling - never abstract decoration.

### Treatment

Frames read as cels/koma; twin near-identical frames cross-flick on twos to produce the boil; vermilion, koi-blue and ochre used like highlighters.

---
version: "alpha"
name: "Parapara"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  bg: "#F1E7D6"
  surface: "#FBF4E7"
  surface_solid: "#FFFBF3"
  text: "#211B14"
  muted: "#7C6E5D"
  border: "#211B14"
  accent: "#D33A1C"
  accent_2: "#2C5FA8"
  accent_soft: "#F2C84B"
  on_accent: "#FFF7EC"
  success: "#46722F"
  warning: "#B67F1C"
  error: "#A82A1E"
  info: "#2C5FA8"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Zen Kaku Gothic New"
    fontSize: "2.075rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.01em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Zen Kaku Gothic New"
    fontSize: "1.66rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.01em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "Zen Kaku Gothic New"
    fontSize: "17px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
    letterSpacing: "-0.01em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "IBM Plex Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  none: "0px"
  md: "16px"
  lg: "24px"
  full: "9999px"
spacing:
  base: "8px"
  xs: "4px"
  sm: "8px"
  md: "12px"
  lg: "16px"
  xl: "24px"
  2xl: "32px"
  3xl: "48px"
  4xl: "64px"
  step-8: "96px"
components:
  color-reference-bg:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.bg}"
  color-reference-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
  color-reference-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"
---

# Parapara

## Overview

A Tokyo indie-zine illustration language rebuilt as a flipbook: warm cream stock, hand-inked figure-lines drawn twice and shot on twos so every outline boils, koma counters and dope-sheet mono furniture, and a reel you riffle by scrolling. It keeps the authored, human, editorial soul of an illustration annual and reconceives the expression as animation.

### Values

- authored imperfection over polished neutrality
- narrative frames over component catalogs
- quiet typography with a line that never sits still
- cultural animation memory over explicit branding
- human linework over vector sterility

### Anti-Values

- dashboard blandness
- full-bleed corporate gradients
- overweight UI chrome
- loud growth-product colour coding
- symmetrical template sameness
- a flat static frame with no boil

### Visual Character

- warm cream ground #F1E7D6 with subtle radial grain and washed ochre/blue blooms; no pure-white expanses
- hand-inked figure-lines that boil on twos — two near-identical frames alternating at 12fps
- koma panels with generous poster margins, 24px outer corners, tape strips, and a mono folio
- dope-sheet furniture: koma counts, fps, timecodes and captions in uppercase IBM Plex Mono
- a sprocketed reel you riffle; the current frame is vermilion and boils; vermilion detonates once at press

## 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 | `#F1E7D6` |
| surface | `#FBF4E7` |
| surface_solid | `#FFFBF3` |
| text | `#211B14` |
| muted | `#7C6E5D` |
| border | `#211B14` |
| accent | `#D33A1C` |
| accent_2 | `#2C5FA8` |
| accent_soft | `#F2C84B` |
| on_accent | `#FFF7EC` |
| success | `#46722F` |
| warning | `#B67F1C` |
| error | `#A82A1E` |
| info | `#2C5FA8` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: Zen Kaku Gothic New, 2.075rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Zen Kaku Gothic New, 1.66rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Zen Kaku Gothic New, 17px, weight 400, line-height 1.5.
- **Label-Md**: IBM Plex Mono, 0.75rem, weight 600, line-height 1.

## Layout

### Spacing Tokens

- **Base**: `8px`
- **Xs**: `4px`
- **Sm**: `8px`
- **Md**: `12px`
- **Lg**: `16px`
- **Xl**: `24px`
- **2xl**: `32px`
- **3xl**: `48px`
- **4xl**: `64px`
- **Step-8**: `96px`

### Grid

A 12-column reel grid on desktop collapsing to a single column on mobile; a dominant koma, supporting cropped frames, and a mono dope-sheet rail instead of app chrome.

### Breakpoints

Wide >=1920, desktop 1440, tablet 768-1024, mobile <=430. The landing is one continuous scroll-controlled film of six pinned koma re-art-directed per breakpoint; the reader riffles by scrolling.

### Whitespace

Generous koma margins emulate poster borders so the film-stock shows around each frame; tighter spacing is allowed only inside dope-sheet clusters and mono metadata strips. Titles always carry padding above them.

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 1px 0 rgba(33,27,20,0.05)
- **Md**: 0 12px 28px rgba(74,55,34,0.10)
- **Lg**: 0 24px 60px rgba(74,55,34,0.15)

## Shapes

### Rounded

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: paper
- **Card Style**: cream koma cards with a washed colour blob offset behind and a grain overlay
- **Bg Pattern**: noise

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 0px
- **Accent Width**: 0px
- **Style**: none
- **Character**: no borders; clipped-paper surfaces and near-paper shadows carry structure, the boil carries identity

## Components

### Composition

Build pages as a reel of koma: one dominant frame, supporting cropped frames, and a mono dope-sheet rail for metadata rather than conventional app navigation.

### Density

Moderate density with small mono captions and generous koma margins; internal dope-sheet clusters can be tight, but every koma needs breathing room and film-stock around it.

### Hierarchy

Illustration and the boiling line lead first, headline second, dope-sheet caption system third. Labels stay compact and low-volume so the frame carries the emotional weight.

### Signature Patterns

- every koma panel has a poster margin, a 24px outer radius, a mono folio, and its linework boils on twos
- the boil recolours through components: the active reel frame, the primary button, and the drawn underline all shimmer on twos
- captions and metadata use tiny uppercase IBM Plex Mono with tight 4-8px internal spacing
- the reel is a real object: a horizontal sprocketed strip that scrubs as you riffle, koma counting up
- vermilion is rationed to one detonation, the print/press climax where the whole field floods; controls read as clipped paper with near-paper shadows, no borders

## 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-019f9a42-5b78-75e2-826e-a4bde44ca473/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 draw the line twice and shoot on twos so the boil stays the signature
- Do pair calm Zen Kaku Gothic New reading text with tiny IBM Plex Mono dope-sheet metadata
- Do treat each section as a koma - a cropped frame with a poster margin and a folio
- Do keep the palette washed, three inks arriving as irregular fields like highlighters
- Do let vermilion detonate exactly once, when the issue goes to press
- Do keep near-paper shadows sparing so the reel construction stays the signature
- Don't do not introduce SaaS metric panels or boxed floating navigation
- Don't do not polish the boil away into a flat static frame
- Don't do not centre everything symmetrically or trap navigation in a pill bar
- Don't do not add synthetic neon accents or rainbow category coding
- Don't do not render browser-default controls; inputs and selects must look like clipped paper labels
- Don't do not let bright accents carry small body text over imagery; use ink or a solid pill

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

douga

### Summary

Confident hand-inked black outlines over flat gouache and watercolour fills on warm cream paper, matte risograph texture, authored imperfect linework, cropped asymmetric koma.

### Subjects

Concrete and Tokyo-quiet: back-alleys at dusk, shotengai streets, a night desk, a tea tray, a cat, a flipbook riffling - never abstract decoration.

### Treatment

Frames read as cels/koma; twin near-identical frames cross-flick on twos to produce the boil; vermilion, koi-blue and ochre used like highlighters.

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "parapara",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Parapara shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#F1E7D6",
      "foreground": "#211B14",
      "card": "#FBF4E7",
      "card-foreground": "#211B14",
      "popover": "#FBF4E7",
      "popover-foreground": "#211B14",
      "primary": "#211B14",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#f4f4f5",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#7C6E5D",
      "muted-foreground": "#211B14",
      "accent": "#D33A1C",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#A82A1E",
      "border": "#211B14",
      "input": "#211B14",
      "ring": "#D33A1C",
      "chart-1": "#211B14",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#D33A1C",
      "chart-4": "#46722F",
      "chart-5": "#B67F1C",
      "sidebar": "#FBF4E7",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#211B14",
      "sidebar-primary": "#211B14",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#2C5FA8",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#211B14",
      "sidebar-ring": "#D33A1C",
      "radius": "16px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#211B14",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#D33A1C",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#A82A1E",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#D33A1C",
      "chart-1": "#211B14",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#D33A1C",
      "chart-4": "#46722F",
      "chart-5": "#B67F1C",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#211B14",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#D33A1C",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#D33A1C",
      "radius": "16px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019f9a42-5b78-75e2-826e-a4bde44ca473",
    "slug": "parapara",
    "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"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```