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- Underlines, selection, forms, decorative text and the floors that keep everything readable.
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- | How was this **site** built? | The frontend: framework and rendering strategy, styling system, component library, tokens, the type, spacing and color systems, motion, breakpoints, how fonts and images are served | [read-the-system.md]() |
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- Given a named thing, scope to it. A type scale and a token dump are not a longer answer to "how is the gradient built". They answer a question nobody asked. Pull in a neighbour only where the effect cannot be explained without it, and say why.
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- ## What you can actually read
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- | **Measured** | Read off the page or sampled from pixels. Reproducible. | `filter: blur(50px)`, `--radius: 0.625rem` |
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- | **Derived** | Computed from measurements. | "Four stops, evenly spaced to 100%", "1496px wide in a 1440px viewport" |
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