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+ # @domandigital/craft
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+
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+ ## 0.1.0
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+
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+ ### Minor Changes
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+
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+ - 000eb90: Initial release: OKLCh colour, contrast, motion tokens and the base stylesheet.
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+ Colour ramps snap to anchors byte-identically, so an existing site adopts craft
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+ without a visual diff. Semantic tokens are derived with measured WCAG 2.x _and_
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+ APCA-W3 contrast, and `accentFork` returns the step nearest the brand accent that
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+ clears both bars, emitting the measured ratios as a CSS comment.
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+
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+ Motion ships one vocabulary for CSS and JS (`EASE` / `EASE_TUPLE` hold identical
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+ control points), replacing three ease curves that were wrong in the shared layer:
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+ two byte-identical curves under different names, and an `ease-in` exit.
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+
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+ `craft.css` collapses reduced-motion durations rather than using `animation:
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+ none`, which strands forwards-filled entrances at `opacity: 0`.
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+
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+ - 0b6d77e: Type, space, density, restraint, Tailwind adapters and STANDARD.md.
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+
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+ Fluid type and space scales after Utopia, always with a `rem` term so browser
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+ text-size settings still apply (a bare-`vw` size fails WCAG 1.4.4 at 200% zoom).
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+ Both accept pinned literals, so a live site adopts the scale without its type or
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+ spacing moving.
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+
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+ Section rhythm ships three sizes rather than the five that shipped previously
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+ with zero consumers. Density is three steps on a 4px grid, set once on a shell
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+ via `[data-density]`.
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+
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+ `checkRestraint` is pure over strings — no filesystem, no parser, no
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+ dependencies — so a guard, a CI check and an editor all run it on the same input
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+ and agree. It catches accumulation, which a differentiation guard structurally
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+ cannot see: a guard passes anything that differs from its siblings, however ugly.
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+
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+ STANDARD.md's canonical numbers are asserted against `HOUSE_BUDGET`, `EASE` and
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+ `DURATION_MS` on every run, so the document cannot become a second source of
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+ truth that reads as authoritative while being stale.
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+ # Why this package exists
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+
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+ Not to make things consistent. Consistency was already achievable, and largely
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+ achieved, by hand. This package exists because the numbers that govern how a
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+ Doman Digital surface looks were written down in three places that never agreed,
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+ and because several of them were wrong in ways nobody could see by reading them.
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+
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+ ## The defect
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+
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+ **Three token vocabularies, zero shared numbers.** `packages/ui/tokens/` in the
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+ monorepo, a `:root` block in a client site with no Tailwind at all, and a
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+ Tailwind v3 config in another. Each was internally coherent. None of them shared
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+ a single value with the others, so "the house easing curve" meant three different
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+ curves depending on which repo you were standing in.
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+
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+ **`--ease-emphasized` was byte-identical to `--ease-standard`.** Both
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+ `cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1)`. Every component reaching for emphasis got the
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+ standard curve and no emphasis. This is invisible on inspection — the names
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+ differ, the values are 26 characters apart, and nothing fails.
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+
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+ **`--ease-exit` was `cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 1, 1)` — an ease-*in* curve.** It
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+ starts slow and accelerates out of view. It is the one curve never to use for
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+ UI: a dismissal on an ease-in reads as the interface dragging the thing away from
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+ you rather than getting out of your way.
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+
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+ **A site was stranded at `opacity: 0`.** A reduced-motion block used
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+ `animation: none`. That removes the animation *and* its `forwards` fill, so a
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+ forwards-filled entrance keyframe never applies its end state and the element
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+ keeps the `opacity: 0` from its own base rule. The content was permanently
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+ invisible, for exactly the users who had asked for less motion. Collapsing the
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+ duration to `0.01ms` runs the animation to completion inside a frame instead:
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+ the end state applies, and nothing moves.
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+
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+ **141 classes painting nothing.** `bg-bg3` (48 uses) and `border-border` (93) in
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+ the portal reference Tailwind theme keys that do not exist under v4. They resolve
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+ to nothing and fall through to whatever the base rule said. Adding the missing
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+ keys would not be a fix — it would suddenly paint 48 surfaces nobody designed.
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+
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+ **Two guesses at one accessible accent.** Two client repos each hand-picked a
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+ "legible variant" of the brand accent and wrote the contrast ratio into a
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+ comment. Both were plausible. Neither was re-checked when the accent moved, and
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+ a comment is not a measurement.
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+
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+ ## What follows from that
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+
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+ **Anchors are sacred.** Any hex a consuming repo supplies comes back out of a
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+ ramp as the same string, byte for byte. That is the only reason an existing site
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+ can adopt this without a visual diff. Values that already shipped stay literal;
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+ only the steps nobody had picked get computed. The tests assert string identity,
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+ not colour equality, because re-serialising `#7050f5` through a colour space and
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+ back is exactly the kind of "no visible change" that turns out to be visible.
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+
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+ **Derived values carry their measurement.** `accentFork` does not pick a nice
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+ lighter violet. It walks the ramp from the brand end and returns the first step
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+ that actually clears both 4.5:1 and Lc 60 against every background it will sit
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+ on, with the measured ratios emitted as a CSS comment beside the token. When
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+ nothing clears the bar it says so loudly rather than returning the least-bad in
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+ silence.
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+
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+ **Both contrast models, because they disagree and the disagreement matters.**
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+ The portal's shipped `--violet-400` (`#a78bfa`) scores 7.21:1 against the
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+ marketing canvas — comfortably AA — and Lc −49.1, which is under the house bar
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+ for body text. WCAG 2.x is what an audit asks for; APCA is what tracks
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+ readability on dark backgrounds. The house bar is the pair.
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+
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+ **Search from the brand end, not the legible end.** On a dark background every
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+ step lighter than the accent eventually passes a contrast check, so a naive
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+ search returns near-white. The answer that is useful is the *darkest* step that
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+ passes: maximum brand, minimum sufficient contrast.
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+
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+ **Motion is a decision before it is a curve.** The commonest motion defect is
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+ not a wrong easing, it is animating something that should have been instant.
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+ `shouldAnimate` refuses keyboard-triggered motion outright, refuses anything a
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+ user hits a hundred times a day, and always gives a reason — so a "no" is
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+ arguable rather than mysterious.
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+
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+ **Plain custom properties, nothing else.** The consumers do not agree on a
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+ styling engine and are not going to. Custom properties are the only output all
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+ of them can read without a build step. What this package deliberately does not
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+ decide: the styling engine, the motion library, or where the tokens live.
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+
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+ ## The tension the ramp has to resolve
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+
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+ An anchor's real lightness and the ramp's lightness curve contradict each other.
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+ `#7050f5` sits at OKLCh L=0.564; `LIGHTNESS_CURVE[500]` is 0.658. Pin the anchor
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+ at 500, generate 600 from the raw curve at 0.586, and step 600 comes out
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+ *lighter* than step 500 — a ramp that reverses direction halfway down.
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+
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+ Both properties are required, so neither can be dropped. The curve is warped
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+ instead: a piecewise-linear map pinned at 0 and 1 that passes through
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+ (curve value, actual value) for the anchor. Monotonic by construction, and every
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+ other step keeps its relative position. The anchors define the ramp; the curve
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+ only sets the spacing between them.
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+ # @domandigital/craft
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+
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+ The Doman Digital house craft standard, as numbers.
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+
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+ OKLCh colour ramps that snap to colours you already ship, semantic tokens derived
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+ with measured WCAG **and** APCA contrast, one motion vocabulary shared by CSS and
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+ JS, and a base stylesheet. Zero runtime dependencies.
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+ Read [PRINCIPLES.md](./PRINCIPLES.md) for why each rule is a rule.
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+
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+ ## Install
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pnpm add @domandigital/craft
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Use
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+
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+ ```ts
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+ import { craftTokens } from "@domandigital/craft";
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+
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+ const { css, report, ramps } = craftTokens({
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+ // Steps you already ship come back byte-identical.
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+ accent: { 400: "#a78bfa", 500: "#7050f5", 600: "#6e4ce8" },
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+ bgCanvas: "#04060e",
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+ bgSurface: "#0b1120",
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+ bgElevated: "#151c2e",
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+ textPrimary: "#ecf2ff",
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+ textSecondary: "#b7c3d9",
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+ textMuted: "#8e9cb5",
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+ borderSubtle: "rgba(184, 198, 219, 0.16)",
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+ borderStrong: "rgba(184, 198, 219, 0.28)",
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+ success: "#3fb98a",
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+ warning: "#d6a14a",
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+ danger: "#e26d6d",
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+ info: "#5aa7e8",
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+ });
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+
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+ if (report.failures.length > 0) {
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+ // Fails the house bar (4.5:1 AND |Lc| 60). Surface it; do not ship past it.
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+ console.warn(report.failures.map((f) => f.note).join("\n"));
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ Write `css` to a committed file and import it. Then, once, in your global
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+ stylesheet:
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+
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+ ```css
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+ @import "@domandigital/craft/craft.css";
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+ ```
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+
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+ `craft.css` needs no build step and works with or without Tailwind.
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+
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+ On Tailwind v4, also import the theme bridge:
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+
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+ ```css
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+ @import "@domandigital/craft/craft.tailwind.css";
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+ ```
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+
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+ On Tailwind v3, add the preset:
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+
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+ ```js
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+ const { tailwindV3Preset } = require("@domandigital/craft");
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+ module.exports = { presets: [tailwindV3Preset()] };
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## The standard itself
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+
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+ [STANDARD.md](./STANDARD.md) is the eleven-section house standard, every numeric
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+ rule cited, including a section on what is deliberately *not* a rule. Its
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+ canonical numbers are compared against the code on every test run, so the
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+ document cannot drift from what ships.
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+
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+ ## The anchor guarantee
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+
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+ Every hex you pass in comes back out unchanged — the same string, byte for byte.
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+ That is what lets a live site adopt this without a single pixel moving. Only the
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+ steps you never picked by hand are generated.
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+
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+ ## What it will tell you that you did not ask
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+
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+ `report.failures` lists every text-on-surface pair that clears WCAG AA but misses
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+ the house APCA bar, which is the failure mode a WCAG-only check cannot see. The
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+ accent fork emits its measured ratios as a CSS comment, so the choice is
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+ checkable rather than asserted.
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+
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+ ## API
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+
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+ | Area | Exports |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | Colour space | `hexToOklch`, `oklchToHex`, `toGamut`, `inSrgbGamut`, `inP3Gamut`, `deltaEOk`, `deltaEOkHex` |
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+ | Ramps | `ramp`, `rampFromAnchors`, `RAMP_STEPS`, `LIGHTNESS_CURVE` |
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+ | Contrast | `wcagContrast`, `apcaContrast`, `checkPair` |
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+ | Semantic | `semantic`, `accentFork` |
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+ | Motion | `EASE`, `EASE_TUPLE`, `DURATION_MS`, `DURATION_S`, `SPRING`, `SCALE`, `exitDuration`, `shouldAnimate` |
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+ | Type | `fluidType`, `fluidClamp`, `typeFeatureTokens`, `HOUSE_TYPE`, `TYPE_STEPS` |
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+ | Space | `fluidSpace`, `sectionRhythm`, `SPACE_STEPS` |
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+ | Density | `densityCss`, `densityTokens`, `DENSITIES` |
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+ | Restraint | `checkRestraint`, `HOUSE_BUDGET` |
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+ | Tailwind | `tailwindV3Preset` (v3), `tailwindV4Theme` / `craft.tailwind.css` (v4) |
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+ | Emit | `craftTokens`, `emitCss`, `motionTokens` |
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+
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+ ## Licence
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+
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+ Apache-2.0
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+ # The Doman Digital craft standard
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+
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+ Eleven sections. Every numeric rule is cited, and section 10 says what is
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+ deliberately *not* a rule.
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+ This document and the package are bound together by a test: the machine-readable
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+ block in section 11 is compared against `HOUSE_BUDGET`, `EASE` and
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+ `DURATION_MS` on every run, so the standard cannot drift from what ships.
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+
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+ ---
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+ ## 1. Colour is derived, not picked
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+ Anchors — colours a surface already ships — are sacred and come back byte-identical.
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+ Everything else is generated in OKLCh from those anchors.
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+ - Ramps have **11 steps** (50–950).
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+ - Gamut mapping reduces **chroma only**, preserving hue and lightness
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+ (CSS Color 4 §13.2). RGB clipping is rejected: it walks a saturated violet
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+ toward magenta.
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+ - Derived values standing in for a hand-picked one must be within
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+ **ΔE_OK ≤ 0.02** — the just-noticeable difference — or be declared an
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+ intentional change.
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+ *Source: Ottosson, "A perceptual color space for image processing" (2020); CSS Color 4 §13.2.*
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+ ## 2. Contrast is measured against both models
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+ - Body text clears **4.5:1** (WCAG 2.x AA) **and** **|Lc| 60** (APCA-W3 0.1.9).
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+ - Large text and non-text UI clear **3:1**.
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+ - The two disagree, and the disagreement is the point: `#a78bfa` on `#060b19`
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+ scores 7.21:1 and Lc −49.1. WCAG is what an audit asks for; APCA is what tracks
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+ readability on dark backgrounds.
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+ - An accent fork searches **from the brand end**, returning the darkest passing
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+ step, and emits its measured ratio as a comment. Searching from the light end
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+ returns near-white, which passes everything and is no longer the brand colour.
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+ *Source: WCAG 2.2 SC 1.4.3; APCA-W3 0.1.9.*
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+ ## 3. Type is fluid, and always has a rem term
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+ - Steps **−2 to 5**, `clamp()` interpolated between a small and a large viewport.
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+ - The interpolation term is **`rem + vw`, never bare `vw`** — a bare-`vw` size
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+ ignores the browser text-size setting and fails WCAG 1.4.4 at 200% zoom.
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+ - Existing sizes are **pinned**, not regenerated, so adopting the scale moves
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+ nothing.
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+ *Source: Utopia (utopia.fyi); WCAG 2.2 SC 1.4.4.*
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+ ## 4. Typographic detail is not optional
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+ - Display tracking **−0.01em**; button **0.12em**; eyebrow **0.24em**.
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+ - Leading: display **1.05**, heading **1.1**, body **1.6**.
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+ - Measure **45–75ch**; body **65ch**.
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+ - Headings `text-wrap: balance`; body copy `text-wrap: pretty`.
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+ - Numeric columns get `tabular-nums` and align to the end. Proportional figures
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+ in a column do not line up.
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+ - Clipped display text gets a **descender mask** (`padding-bottom: .16em;
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+ margin-bottom: -.16em`), or it loses the tails of g, j, p, q, y.
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+ *Source: house habit — the −0.01em display tracking and the ch measure were arrived at independently in two client repos.*
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+ ## 5. Space is fluid and proportional to type
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+ - Steps **3xs–3xl** as multiples of a base (0.25× to 6×), plus **one-up pairs**.
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+ - Section rhythm has **three** sizes, not five. Five shipped with zero consumers,
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+ which is the signature of a scale invented ahead of a need.
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+ *Source: Utopia; measured — `--space-section-xs..xl` had no consumers in the monorepo.*
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+ ## 6. Density is a property of the surface
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+ Three densities on a **4px grid**: rows **32 / 40 / 48px**. A table an operator
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+ scans for six hours and the same component on a client dashboard have different
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+ needs. Set once on a shell via `[data-density]`, inherited below.
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+ *Source: Linear and Stripe both converge on 4px with a 32/40/48 row ladder.*
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+ ## 7. Motion is a decision before it is a curve
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+ - **The LCP element never animates.** Animating it delays the metric by exactly
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+ the animation's duration.
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+ - **Transform and opacity only.** Everything else cannot be composited.
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+ - **Exits run at 0.75× their entrance.** Arriving content is asking to be read;
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+ leaving content lingering reads as lag.
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+ - **No ease-in for UI, ever.** It accelerates away from the user.
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+ - **UI durations ≤ 300ms.** Drawers and one gated reveal may exceed it.
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+ - **Don't animate what fires 100×/day**, and never animate a keyboard-triggered
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+ interaction — the user is moving faster than the animation.
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+ - **One signature moment per page**, gated, never the LCP element.
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+ *Source: Emil Kowalski, "Animations on the Web"; Core Web Vitals (LCP).*
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+ ## 8. Reduced motion collapses, never disables
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+ `@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)` sets `animation-duration` and
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+ `transition-duration` to **0.01ms** and `animation-iteration-count` to 1.
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+ **Never `animation: none`.** That drops the `forwards` fill along with the
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+ animation, so a forwards-filled entrance never applies its end state and the
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+ element keeps `opacity: 0` from its base rule — permanently invisible, for
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+ exactly the users who asked for less motion. This shipped.
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+ Images: AVIF and WebP, in that order.
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+ *Source: WCAG 2.2 SC 2.3.3; measured — a live site was stranded at opacity 0 by this exact defect.*
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+ ## 9. Restraint is the budget
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+ Per surface: **≤10 font sizes, ≤3 weights, ≤2 families** (plus mono),
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+ **≤4 radii, ≤4 shadows**, accent hues clustered within **15° OKLCh**.
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+ Differentiation guards pass anything that differs from its siblings, however
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+ ugly. What they cannot see is accumulation — eighteen font sizes, six shadows,
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+ four competing accents, each added reasonably, together reading as noise.
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+ *Source: measured against the estate; the budget is the observed ceiling of the surfaces that read as designed.*
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+
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+ ## 10. What is deliberately not a rule
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+ The package emits **plain CSS custom properties** precisely so these stay free:
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+
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+ - **The styling engine.** Tailwind v3, v4, or none. Adapters exist for the first
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+ two; the third needs nothing.
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+ - **The motion library.** `EASE_TUPLE` carries the same control points as `EASE`,
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+ so Framer Motion, GSAP and CSS agree without the package choosing one.
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+ - **Where tokens live.** A `:root` block, a generated file, a Tailwind theme —
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+ the package does not care.
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+ - **Layout, grid and component structure.** Out of scope.
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+ - **Brand voice, copy, and photography grading.** Separate standards.
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+ A rule here has to be one that is wrong to break. Everything else is a default.
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+
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+ ## 11. The numbers
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+ <!-- craft:canonical -->
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+ ```json
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+ {
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+ "budget": {
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+ "maxFontSizes": 10,
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+ "maxFontWeights": 3,
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+ "maxFontFamilies": 2,
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+ "maxRadii": 4,
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+ "maxShadows": 4,
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+ "accentHueClusterDeg": 15,
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+ "maxUiDurationMs": 300
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+ },
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+ "ease": {
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+ "out": "cubic-bezier(0.23, 1, 0.32, 1)",
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+ "inOut": "cubic-bezier(0.77, 0, 0.175, 1)",
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+ "drawer": "cubic-bezier(0.32, 0.72, 0, 1)",
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+ "reveal": "cubic-bezier(0.22, 0.61, 0.36, 1)"
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+ },
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+ "durationMs": {
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+ "press": 120,
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+ "tooltip": 150,
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+ "dropdown": 200,
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+ "modal": 300,
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+ "drawer": 400,
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+ "reveal": 500,
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+ "stagger": 60
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+ },
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+ "exitRatio": 0.75,
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+ "contrast": { "minWcag": 4.5, "minLc": 60, "deltaEOk": 0.02 }
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+ }
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+ ```