savant-code 0.0.22 → 0.0.24

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  1. package/README.md +5 -0
  2. package/launcher.js +192 -5
  3. package/package.json +3 -2
  4. package/savant-design-systems/SKILL.md +12 -0
  5. package/savant-design-systems/manifest.json +2541 -0
  6. package/savant-design-systems/resources/airbnb-design-analysis.json +983 -0
  7. package/savant-design-systems/resources/airtable-design-analysis.json +931 -0
  8. package/savant-design-systems/resources/apple-design-analysis.json +920 -0
  9. package/savant-design-systems/resources/binance-design-analysis.json +1068 -0
  10. package/savant-design-systems/resources/bmw-design-analysis.json +912 -0
  11. package/savant-design-systems/resources/bmw-m-design-analysis.json +824 -0
  12. package/savant-design-systems/resources/bugatti-design-analysis.json +746 -0
  13. package/savant-design-systems/resources/cal-com-design-analysis.json +913 -0
  14. package/savant-design-systems/resources/claude-design-analysis.json +1007 -0
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  16. package/savant-design-systems/resources/clickhouse-design-analysis.json +926 -0
  17. package/savant-design-systems/resources/cohere-design-analysis.json +725 -0
  18. package/savant-design-systems/resources/coinbase-design-analysis.json +998 -0
  19. package/savant-design-systems/resources/composio-design-analysis.json +851 -0
  20. package/savant-design-systems/resources/cursor-design-analysis.json +934 -0
  21. package/savant-design-systems/resources/dell-1996-inspired.json +1042 -0
  22. package/savant-design-systems/resources/elevenlabs.json +551 -0
  23. package/savant-design-systems/resources/expo-design-analysis.json +879 -0
  24. package/savant-design-systems/resources/ferrari-design-analysis.json +874 -0
  25. package/savant-design-systems/resources/figma-design-analysis.json +928 -0
  26. package/savant-design-systems/resources/framer-design-analysis.json +891 -0
  27. package/savant-design-systems/resources/hashicorp-design-analysis.json +909 -0
  28. package/savant-design-systems/resources/hp-design-analysis.json +1077 -0
  29. package/savant-design-systems/resources/ibm-design-analysis.json +881 -0
  30. package/savant-design-systems/resources/intercom-design-analysis.json +876 -0
  31. package/savant-design-systems/resources/kraken.json +172 -0
  32. package/savant-design-systems/resources/lamborghini.json +335 -0
  33. package/savant-design-systems/resources/linear-design-analysis.json +890 -0
  34. package/savant-design-systems/resources/lovable.json +345 -0
  35. package/savant-design-systems/resources/mastercard.json +412 -0
  36. package/savant-design-systems/resources/meta-design-analysis.json +1121 -0
  37. package/savant-design-systems/resources/minimax-design-analysis.json +1220 -0
  38. package/savant-design-systems/resources/mintlify-design-analysis.json +1418 -0
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  47. package/savant-design-systems/resources/opencode-design-analysis.json +806 -0
  48. package/savant-design-systems/resources/pinterest-design-analysis.json +953 -0
  49. package/savant-design-systems/resources/playstation-design-analysis.json +1053 -0
  50. package/savant-design-systems/resources/posthog-design-analysis.json +1146 -0
  51. package/savant-design-systems/resources/raycast.json +716 -0
  52. package/savant-design-systems/resources/renault-design-analysis.json +916 -0
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  62. package/savant-design-systems/resources/spotify.json +293 -0
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  64. package/savant-design-systems/resources/stripi-inspired-design-analysis.json +805 -0
  65. package/savant-design-systems/resources/supabase.json +509 -0
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  67. package/savant-design-systems/resources/tesla.json +333 -0
  68. package/savant-design-systems/resources/theverge.json +386 -0
  69. package/savant-design-systems/resources/together-ai-inspired-design-analysis.json +1099 -0
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+ "extensions": {
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+ "description": "An inspired interpretation of Dell.com's 1996 design language — a catalog-era enterprise web design built around a literal black page frame, vivid flat color-block \"ribbon cards\" tinted in sage, salmon, periwinkle, sky, peach and lime, chunky Helvetica-Black display titles, Times Roman body copy, and an entire visual vocabulary of pre-Photoshop hand-cut GIF stickers (NEW! bursts, award seals, beveled product photos).",
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+ "name": "Dell 1996 Inspired",
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+ "version": "alpha"
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+ }
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ---
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+ version: alpha
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+ name: Dell 1996 Inspired
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+ description: An inspired interpretation of Dell.com's 1996 design language — a catalog-era enterprise web design built around a literal black page frame, vivid flat color-block "ribbon cards" tinted in sage, salmon, periwinkle, sky, peach and lime, chunky Helvetica-Black display titles, Times Roman body copy, and an entire visual vocabulary of pre-Photoshop hand-cut GIF stickers (NEW! bursts, award seals, beveled product photos).
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+
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+ colors:
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+ primary: "#e91d2a"
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+ on-primary: "#ffffff"
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+ canvas: "#ffffff"
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+ surface: "#ffffff"
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+ ink: "#000000"
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+ frame-ink: "#000000"
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+ yellow-sticker: "#fcc20f"
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+ purple-stripe: "#6a26a4"
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+ link: "#0000ee"
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+
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+ # Ribbon-card tint family (one per product line)
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+ tint-olive: "#8e8a25"
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+ tint-sage: "#b3bd95"
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+ tint-salmon: "#d77a7a"
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+ tint-peach: "#e6915d"
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+ tint-lime: "#c0d4a7"
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+ tint-sky: "#9ab6c8"
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+ tint-steel: "#a5b8c0"
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+ tint-periwinkle: "#8c9ae0"
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+
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+ typography:
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+ display:
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+ fontFamily: Arial Black
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+ fontSize: 36px
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+ fontWeight: 900
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+ lineHeight: 1.0
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+ letterSpacing: 0
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+ heading-1:
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+ fontFamily: Arial Black
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+ fontSize: 24px
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+ fontWeight: 900
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+ lineHeight: 1.05
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+ letterSpacing: 0
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+ heading-2:
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+ fontFamily: Helvetica
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+ fontSize: 16px
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+ fontWeight: 700
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+ lineHeight: 1.2
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+ letterSpacing: 0
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+ heading-3:
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+ fontFamily: Helvetica
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+ fontSize: 14px
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+ fontWeight: 700
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+ lineHeight: 1.2
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+ letterSpacing: 0
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+ body:
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+ fontFamily: Times New Roman
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+ fontSize: 14px
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+ fontWeight: 400
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+ lineHeight: 1.4
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+ letterSpacing: 0
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+ body-sm:
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+ fontFamily: Times New Roman
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+ fontSize: 12px
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+ fontWeight: 400
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+ lineHeight: 1.4
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+ letterSpacing: 0
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+ caption:
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+ fontFamily: Times New Roman
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+ fontSize: 11px
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+ fontWeight: 400
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+ lineHeight: 1.35
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+ letterSpacing: 0
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+ button:
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+ fontFamily: Helvetica
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+ fontSize: 12px
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+ fontWeight: 700
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+ lineHeight: 1.0
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+ letterSpacing: 0
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+ link:
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+ fontFamily: Times New Roman
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+ fontSize: 14px
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+ fontWeight: 400
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+ lineHeight: 1.4
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+ letterSpacing: 0
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+ ui-label:
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+ fontFamily: Helvetica
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+ fontSize: 12px
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+ fontWeight: 700
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+ lineHeight: 1.0
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+ letterSpacing: 0
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+
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+ rounded:
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+ none: 0px
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+ full: 9999px
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+
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+ spacing:
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+ xxs: 2px
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+ xs: 4px
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+ s: 6px
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+ sm: 8px
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+ m: 10px
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+ md: 12px
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+ lg: 16px
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+ xl: 20px
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+ xxl: 24px
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+ section-sm: 32px
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+ section: 40px
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+ section-lg: 48px
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+
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+ components:
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+ # ─── Brand-native components ───
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+ page-frame:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.canvas}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 8px
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+
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+ top-banner:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.canvas}"
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+ typography: "{typography.heading-2}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 12px 16px
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+
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+ section-eyebrow-olive:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.tint-olive}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.display}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 24px 16px
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+
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+ section-eyebrow-salmon:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.tint-salmon}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.display}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 24px 16px
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+
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+ ribbon-card-title:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.canvas}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.heading-3}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 6px 12px
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+
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+ ribbon-card-body-sage:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.tint-sage}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.body}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 12px 16px
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+
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+ ribbon-card-body-salmon:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.tint-salmon}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.body}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 12px 16px
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+
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+ ribbon-card-body-peach:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.tint-peach}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.body}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 12px 16px
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+
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+ ribbon-card-body-lime:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.tint-lime}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.body}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 12px 16px
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+
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+ ribbon-card-body-sky:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.tint-sky}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.body}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 12px 16px
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+
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+ ribbon-card-body-steel:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.tint-steel}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.body}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 12px 16px
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+
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+ ribbon-card-body-periwinkle:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.tint-periwinkle}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.body}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 12px 16px
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+
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+ cta-block-red:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.on-primary}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.body}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 16px
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+
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+ phone-callout:
619
+ backgroundColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.primary}"
621
+ typography: "{typography.heading-2}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
623
+ padding: 4px 8px
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+
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+ buy-a-dell-sticker:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.yellow-sticker}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.button}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
631
+ padding: 4px 8px
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+
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+ new-burst-sticker:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.yellow-sticker}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.button}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 4px 8px
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+
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+ cert-seal:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.canvas}"
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+ typography: "{typography.button}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.full}"
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+ size: 64px
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+
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+ icon-label-nav:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.canvas}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.ui-label}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 8px
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+
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+ text-input:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.canvas}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.body}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 4px 6px
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+
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+ button-primary:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.on-primary}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.button}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 6px 16px
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+
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+ button-secondary:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.canvas}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.button}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: 6px 16px
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+
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+ button-text-link:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.canvas}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.link}"
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+ typography: "{typography.link}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+
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+ footer-band:
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.canvas}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ typography: "{typography.body-sm}"
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+ padding: 16px
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+
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+ # ─── Examples (illustrative, kit-mirror) — injected by derive-examples-block.mjs ───
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+
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+ # ─── Examples (illustrative) — auto-derived; resolve any TO_FILL markers below ───
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+ ex-pricing-tier:
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+ description: "Default Pricing tier card. Re-uses feature-card chrome with the base white surface."
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ borderColor: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: "{spacing.lg}"
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+ ex-pricing-tier-featured:
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+ description: "Featured/highlighted tier — polarity-flipped surface (dark fill + light text in light mode, light fill + dark text in dark mode)."
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.ink}"
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+ textColor: "{colors.on-primary}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: "{spacing.lg}"
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+ ex-product-selector:
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+ description: "What's Included summary card — re-purposed for SaaS / B2B verticals (NOT a literal product gallery)."
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: "{spacing.lg}"
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+ ex-cart-drawer:
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+ description: "Subscription summary — re-purposed for SaaS / B2B (line items per add-on, not literal cart)."
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: "{spacing.lg}"
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+ item-divider: "{colors.frame-ink}"
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+ ex-app-shell-row:
719
+ description: "Sidebar nav row inside the App Shell example. Active state uses brand primary as the indicator."
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+ backgroundColor: "{colors.canvas}"
721
+ activeIndicator: "{colors.primary}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
723
+ padding: "{spacing.sm} {spacing.md}"
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+ ex-data-table-cell:
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+ description: "Default data-table th + td chrome. Header uses mono-caps eyebrow typography; body uses body-sm."
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+ headerBackground: "{colors.surface}"
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+ headerTypography: "{typography.caption}"
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+ bodyTypography: "{typography.body-sm}"
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+ cellPadding: "{spacing.s} {spacing.md}"
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+ rowBorder: "{colors.frame-ink}"
731
+ ex-auth-form-card:
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+ description: "Sign-in / sign-up card. Re-uses feature-card chrome with text-input primitives inside."
733
+ backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
734
+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: "{spacing.lg}"
736
+ ex-modal-card:
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+ description: "Modal dialog surface — same chrome as feature-card with elevated shadow."
738
+ backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
739
+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
740
+ padding: "{spacing.lg}"
741
+ ex-empty-state-card:
742
+ description: "Empty-state illustration frame."
743
+ backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
744
+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
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+ padding: "{spacing.xl}"
746
+ captionTypography: "{typography.body}"
747
+ ex-toast:
748
+ description: "Toast notification surface — feature-card shape + medium shadow."
749
+ backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
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+ rounded: "{rounded.none}"
751
+ padding: "{spacing.md} {spacing.lg}"
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+ typography: "{typography.body-sm}"
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+
757
+ ## Overview
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+
759
+ Dell's December 1996 home page is a perfectly preserved fossil of catalog-era enterprise web design — the moment when a Fortune-100 brand decided the web was *important enough* to invest in, but two years before CSS would be widely adopted and three years before "design system" was a phrase anyone used. Every visual choice on the page is a downstream consequence of that constraint: layout via HTML tables, type via the browser's built-in font stack (Arial Black / Helvetica / Times Roman), color via 8-bit-safe flat fills, and decoration via hand-cut GIF "stickers" (the NEW! burst, the round PC Magazine Readers' Choice seal, the beveled "BUY a DELL" yellow tab). The page is bordered — literally bordered, in a 1-cell-wide black HTML table — and inside that frame, every product line gets a "ribbon card": a white title bar with a sharp black underline, a tinted body block in one of eight catalog colors (sage, salmon, peach, lime, sky, steel, periwinkle, olive), and a beveled product photograph notched into the right edge of the card.
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+
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+ The brand voice carries through in two anchors: a vivid Dell-red CTA panel on the left of the homepage (cream-yellow Times Roman copy on a `{colors.primary}` fill, set inside the black frame) and a screaming red phone number — `1-800-213-DELL` — pinned to the top-right of every page, because in 1996 the website was a brochure that ended with a phone call. The footer is a row of four hand-drawn icon-labels (FIND / HOME / ONLINE STORE / SERVICE & SUPPORT) linked by a thin green horizontal rule, and a single classic-Mosaic-blue underlined "Copyright" link sitting above the legal small print in Times Roman.
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+
763
+ **Key Characteristics:**
764
+ - Literal page frame: every page sits inside a `{colors.frame-ink}` (black) outer border ~8 px thick — the design treats the browser window as a printed picture frame
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+ - Flat color-block "ribbon cards" tint each product family with a dedicated catalog color (`{colors.tint-sage}` Latitude, `{colors.tint-salmon}` OptiPlex GX, `{colors.tint-periwinkle}` PowerEdge, `{colors.tint-sky}` Dellware, etc.) — no gradients, no shadows, no opacity
766
+ - Chunky display typography in `{typography.display}` (Arial Black 36 / weight 900) for section title blocks; `{typography.heading-2}` (Helvetica Bold 16) for product row titles; `{typography.body}` Times Roman 14 for everything else
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+ - Hand-cut GIF "stickers" overlay the layout: yellow "BUY a DELL" tab in the top right, angled "NEW!" bursts on new product rows, round red PC Magazine Readers' Choice seals
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+ - `{colors.primary}` (Dell red) reserved for two things only: the homepage CTA panel and the top-right phone number — never decorative
769
+ - Footer icon-nav with classic-blue (`{colors.link}` #0000ee) anchor underlines — the unmistakable Netscape 3.x link colour
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+
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+ ## Colors
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+
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+ ### Brand & Accent
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+ - **Dell Red** (`{colors.primary}` — #e91d2a): The brand's signature red. Reserved for the homepage CTA panel ("At Dell.com, we'll help you find the right system…"), the top-right phone number, and the PC Magazine Readers' Choice seal ring. Never used as a card body fill.
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+ - **Dell Yellow** (`{colors.yellow-sticker}` — #fcc20f): Sticker yellow — the "BUY a DELL" tab in the top banner, and the angled "NEW!" bursts overlapping new product rows.
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+ - **Dell Purple** (`{colors.purple-stripe}` — #6a26a4): The accent stripe behind the lowercase ".com" / "DELL" wordmark text — appears inside the "BUY a DELL" sticker chrome only.
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+
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+ ### Surface
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+ - **Frame Ink** (`{colors.frame-ink}` — #000000): Pure black. The page frame, the top banner background, button fills, and all 1 px ribbon-card hairlines.
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+ - **Canvas** (`{colors.canvas}` — #ffffff): True white inside the frame. The page surface, the ribbon-card title-bar fill, and the icon-label nav backdrop.
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+
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+ ### Text
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+ - **Ink** (`{colors.ink}` — #000000): Body text, headings, link copy before visit. Pure black; no warm-near-black softening in 1996.
784
+ - **Link** (`{colors.link}` — #0000ee): Classic Mosaic / Netscape 3.x default link blue. Underlined inline anchors ("Copyright", "(Terms of Use)", inline "from Dell's award-winning service and support teams").
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+
786
+ ### Ribbon-Card Tint Family
787
+ Eight catalog colors, one per product line — these are the page's chromatic personality:
788
+ - **Olive** (`{colors.tint-olive}` — #8e8a25): "DIMENSION DESKTOPS" eyebrow block
789
+ - **Sage** (`{colors.tint-sage}` — #b3bd95): Latitude Notebooks ribbon body
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+ - **Salmon** (`{colors.tint-salmon}` — #d77a7a): "OPTIPLEX DESKTOP SYSTEMS" eyebrow + GX Series body
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+ - **Peach** (`{colors.tint-peach}` — #e6915d): Dimension card body + OptiPlex Gs body
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+ - **Lime** (`{colors.tint-lime}` — #c0d4a7): OptiPlex G Series body
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+ - **Sky** (`{colors.tint-sky}` — #9ab6c8): Dellware ribbon body
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+ - **Steel** (`{colors.tint-steel}` — #a5b8c0): Dimension XPS Pro ribbon body
795
+ - **Periwinkle** (`{colors.tint-periwinkle}` — #8c9ae0): PowerEdge ribbon body
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+
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+ The tints are saturated but not vivid — they sit just below true neutral chroma, the signature of GIF-era web-safe-palette quantization.
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+
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+ ## Typography
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+
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+ ### Font Family
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+
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+ Three system-stack families, no webfonts (webfonts didn't exist yet):
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+
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+ - **Arial Black** (fallback: Helvetica, system-ui sans) — display headings only. The chunky stenciled section eyebrows ("DIMENSION DESKTOPS", "OPTIPLEX DESKTOP SYSTEMS") are Arial Black at weight 900, set in all-caps with normal tracking.
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+ - **Helvetica** (fallback: Arial, system-ui sans) — product-row titles, button labels, the top banner's "BUILD YOUR OWN COMPUTER. ONLINE." headline. Always bold (700), always all-caps.
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+ - **Times New Roman** (fallback: Times, serif) — body copy. Every paragraph, every caption, every inline anchor sits in default-rendered Times Roman. The serifs date the design instantly — body text on the modern web is almost never serif.
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+
809
+ ### Hierarchy
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+
811
+ | Token | Size | Weight | Line Height | Use |
812
+ |---|---|---|---|---|
813
+ | `{typography.display}` | 36px | 900 | 1.0 | Section eyebrow titles ("DIMENSION DESKTOPS", "OPTIPLEX DESKTOP SYSTEMS") |
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+ | `{typography.heading-1}` | 24px | 900 | 1.05 | Sub-page hero headlines |
815
+ | `{typography.heading-2}` | 16px | 700 | 1.2 | Top banner copy, product-line H1 ("Reliable PC's for High-Performance Computing.") |
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+ | `{typography.heading-3}` | 14px | 700 | 1.2 | Ribbon-card title bar ("OPTIPLEX GX PRO", "DIMENSION XPS") |
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+ | `{typography.body}` | 14px | 400 | 1.4 | Default paragraph copy, ribbon-card body, CTA-panel copy |
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+ | `{typography.body-sm}` | 12px | 400 | 1.4 | "This site is best viewed with browser versions 3.0 and higher." |
819
+ | `{typography.caption}` | 11px | 400 | 1.35 | Footer copyright text |
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+ | `{typography.button}` | 12px | 700 | 1.0 | Button labels, "NEW!" sticker, BUY-a-DELL sticker |
821
+ | `{typography.ui-label}` | 12px | 700 | 1.0 | Icon-label nav uppercase labels ("FIND", "HOME", "ONLINE STORE", "SERVICE & SUPPORT") |
822
+
823
+ ### Principles
824
+ - Sans for UI, serif for body — the inverse of the modern convention, and a dead giveaway of mid-90s typography.
825
+ - Display weights are extreme (900 / Black) and never softer. The "Dimension" / "OptiPlex" eyebrow blocks lean on the heaviest weight the font ships.
826
+ - No letter-spacing tracking adjustments — pixel-fonts in 1996 didn't reward it. Everything is set at the browser's default kern.
827
+ - Line-height is tight on display (1.0) and conventional on body (1.4) — a holdover from print-magazine catalog layout.
828
+
829
+ ### Note on Font Substitutes
830
+ All three families are operating-system defaults on every consumer OS shipped in 1996 (Windows 95: Arial / Times New Roman; Mac OS 7.5+: Helvetica / Times). The brand had no fallback strategy because no fallback was needed — the fonts were always present. Modern reproductions can stay on this exact stack (Arial Black / Helvetica / Times New Roman) for authenticity.
831
+
832
+ ## Layout
833
+
834
+ ### Spacing System
835
+
836
+ - **Base unit**: 4 px (with 2 / 6 / 10 intermediates). 1996 page layout was driven by HTML table cell padding (`cellpadding="4"` / `cellspacing="0"`) rather than a designed scale.
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+ - **Tokens**: `{spacing.xxs}` 2px · `{spacing.xs}` 4px · `{spacing.s}` 6px · `{spacing.sm}` 8px · `{spacing.m}` 10px · `{spacing.md}` 12px · `{spacing.lg}` 16px · `{spacing.xl}` 20px · `{spacing.xxl}` 24px · `{spacing.section-sm}` 32px · `{spacing.section}` 40px · `{spacing.section-lg}` 48px.
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+ - **Card interior padding**: `{spacing.md}` 12 px vertical / `{spacing.lg}` 16 px horizontal on ribbon-card bodies.
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+ - **Section vertical rhythm**: `{spacing.section}` 40 px between product-ribbon stacks; `{spacing.section-sm}` 32 px between the eyebrow color block and its first ribbon-card.
840
+
841
+ ### Grid & Container
842
+ - Fixed-width table layout pinned around 760 px wide — the de facto 1996 standard targeting 800×600 monitors with a small scrollbar gutter.
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+ - Two-column outer structure: left rail (~28 %) carries the homepage icon-link grid + CTA red panel; right column (~72 %) carries the product ribbon stack.
844
+ - No grid system in the modern sense — every section is its own `<table>` declaration with hard-coded column widths.
845
+
846
+ ### Whitespace Philosophy
847
+ Tight by modern standards. Catalog density wins over editorial breath — every pixel inside the black frame is doing work (illustration, color block, headline, body). The compensating decompression happens *inside* each ribbon card: white title bar + tinted body block + product photo notch creates internal breathing room without enlarging the overall page.
848
+
849
+ ### Responsive Strategy
850
+
851
+ #### Breakpoints
852
+ | Name | Width | Key Changes |
853
+ |---|---|---|
854
+ | Period default | 800 × 600 | Fixed 760 px layout, designed for the era's standard monitor |
855
+ | Modern desktop | 1280+ px | Layout sits centered with generous side gutters — emulates "magazine spread in the middle of the screen" |
856
+ | Tablet | 768 px | Black frame compresses to 4 px; ribbon-cards stack at full width inside |
857
+ | Mobile | < 480 px | Black frame to 2 px; two-column structure collapses to single column; left rail icon grid stacks above the right-column product stack |
858
+
859
+ #### Touch Targets
860
+ 1996 had no notion of touch — the original designs assume mouse-only. Modern reproductions need to widen the icon-label nav targets to 44 × 44 px minimum at mobile (the 1996 icons sat at ~24 × 24 with 8 px label below, well under modern guidelines).
861
+
862
+ #### Collapsing Strategy
863
+ - At ≤ 768 px, the homepage's left-rail icon-link grid (Online Store / Service / Why Dell? / Government / Worldwide / Order Status / Company Info / U.S. Careers) collapses from a 2 × 4 grid to a single-column stack
864
+ - Ribbon-card right-edge product photo notch becomes a top-aligned full-width image at mobile
865
+ - The top banner's tagline ("BUILD YOUR OWN COMPUTER. ONLINE.") shrinks one type tier; the phone number wraps below the BUY-a-DELL sticker
866
+ - Footer icon-label nav stays 4-up at all widths — the icons are small enough to survive
867
+
868
+ #### Image Behavior
869
+ Product photos are bitmap GIFs with hand-applied bevel shadows — they were authored at fixed pixel widths (typically 80–120 px wide). The right-edge notch effect was achieved by table-cell negative spacing. Modern reproductions should keep the bevel shadow effect (it's signature) but use SVG drop-shadow or CSS `filter: drop-shadow(2px 2px 0 #000)` to recreate it crisply at high-DPI.
870
+
871
+ ## Elevation & Depth
872
+
873
+ | Level | Treatment | Use |
874
+ |---|---|---|
875
+ | 0 — Flush | No shadow, no border | Body text, copyright row, footer band background |
876
+ | 1 — Hairline | `1px solid {colors.frame-ink}` | Ribbon-card outer edge, table-cell dividers |
877
+ | 2 — Frame | `8px solid {colors.frame-ink}` | The page-frame border around the entire viewport |
878
+ | 3 — Bevel | Hard-edge 1 px highlight + 1 px shadow on GIF stickers and product photos | "BUY a DELL" yellow sticker, NEW! bursts, award seals, product photographs |
879
+
880
+ There are **no soft shadows** in the 1996 design — every depth cue is either a hard 1 px border or a hand-painted bevel inside a GIF. Modern reproductions that need to feel period-accurate must resist the urge to add Material-style elevation or atmospheric drop shadows.
881
+
882
+ ### Decorative Depth
883
+ Bevels and frames carry the entire depth vocabulary:
884
+ - The **page frame** is the strongest depth cue — it tells the viewer "this is a contained document, not a continuous canvas."
885
+ - **Bevels on stickers** (BUY a DELL, NEW!, PC Magazine Readers' Choice) push them forward off the page surface as if pinned on with thumbtacks.
886
+ - **Product photographs** carry their own hand-painted bevel + drop-shadow, baked into the GIF itself.
887
+
888
+ ## Shapes
889
+
890
+ ### Border Radius Scale
891
+
892
+ | Token | Value | Use |
893
+ |---|---|---|
894
+ | `{rounded.none}` | 0px | Universal default — buttons, cards, inputs, banners, page frame, ribbon-card bodies, eyebrow blocks |
895
+ | `{rounded.full}` | 9999px | Circular award seals (PC Magazine Readers' Choice), the round "h" sticker on the HOME icon |
896
+
897
+ The 1996 design has effectively **two** radius modes: square (everything) and round (decorative seal stickers). No 4 / 8 / 12 px subtle radius tier — that vocabulary belongs to the post-Bootstrap web.
898
+
899
+ ### Photography Geometry
900
+ Product photos are rectangular GIFs with their own internal beveled "monitor" framing — they sit at native pixel dimensions, never scaled. Aspect ratios cluster around 4:3 (the era's standard CRT shape). Avatars don't exist on this site — staff photography was reserved for "About Dell" pages not captured in these snapshots.
901
+
902
+ ## Components
903
+
904
+ > **No hover states documented.** Per the global no-hover policy, every component below documents Default state only.
905
+
906
+ ### Frame & Banner
907
+
908
+ **`page-frame`** — the literal black border around the entire viewport.
909
+ - Background `{colors.frame-ink}`, padding `{spacing.sm}` 8 px on every side, no radius.
910
+ - The page sits *inside* this border. Treat it as a non-negotiable container chrome; collapsing it on mobile is acceptable (to ~4 px), but removing it entirely loses the brand.
911
+
912
+ **`top-banner`** — pure-black strip running across the top with white "BUILD YOUR OWN COMPUTER. ONLINE." headline + sub-tagline, the yellow "BUY a DELL" sticker pinned at right, and the red "1-800-213-DELL" phone number.
913
+ - Background `{colors.frame-ink}`, text `{colors.canvas}`, type `{typography.heading-2}`, padding 12 px vertical / 16 px horizontal, no radius.
914
+
915
+ ### Section Eyebrow Blocks
916
+
917
+ **`section-eyebrow-olive`** — large tinted color block holding the chunky stenciled section title ("DIMENSION DESKTOPS"). Used at the top of the Dimension product page.
918
+ - Background `{colors.tint-olive}`, text `{colors.ink}`, type `{typography.display}` (Arial Black 36 / 900), padding 24 × 16, no radius.
919
+
920
+ **`section-eyebrow-salmon`** — same chrome with the OptiPlex line's salmon-pink fill ("OPTIPLEX DESKTOP SYSTEMS").
921
+ - Background `{colors.tint-salmon}`, otherwise identical to the olive variant.
922
+
923
+ ### Ribbon Cards
924
+
925
+ The brand's signature component. Each product-row "card" is a stack of three pieces:
926
+ 1. **`ribbon-card-title`** — white horizontal title bar with the product variant name in Helvetica Bold all-caps (e.g. "OPTIPLEX GX PRO", "DIMENSION XPS", "POWEREDGE SERVERS"). 1 px bottom border in `{colors.frame-ink}`.
927
+ - Background `{colors.canvas}`, text `{colors.ink}`, type `{typography.heading-3}`, padding 6 × 12, no radius.
928
+ 2. **`ribbon-card-body-<tint>`** — color-block body in one of eight tints, holding the short marketing pitch in `{typography.body}` (Times Roman 14). Padding 12 × 16. The product photograph notches into the right edge with a transparent GIF cutout.
929
+ 3. **Photo notch** — the GIF sits in the rightmost ~25 % of the row, hanging slightly above and below the body bar like a card pinned to a corkboard.
930
+
931
+ Each tint variant is its own component entry. Pick the one that matches the product family:
932
+
933
+ - **`ribbon-card-body-sage`** — `{colors.tint-sage}` fill, used for Latitude Notebooks rows
934
+ - **`ribbon-card-body-salmon`** — `{colors.tint-salmon}` fill, used for OptiPlex GX Series rows
935
+ - **`ribbon-card-body-peach`** — `{colors.tint-peach}` fill, used for Dimension rows and OptiPlex Gs
936
+ - **`ribbon-card-body-lime`** — `{colors.tint-lime}` fill, used for OptiPlex G Series rows
937
+ - **`ribbon-card-body-sky`** — `{colors.tint-sky}` fill, used for Dellware rows
938
+ - **`ribbon-card-body-steel`** — `{colors.tint-steel}` fill, used for Dimension XPS Pro rows
939
+ - **`ribbon-card-body-periwinkle`** — `{colors.tint-periwinkle}` fill, used for PowerEdge Server rows
940
+
941
+ All seven share identical chrome: 1 px solid `{colors.frame-ink}` border, `{spacing.md}` × `{spacing.lg}` (12 × 16) padding, `{rounded.none}` (sharp corners), `{typography.body}` Times Roman 14 inside. Only the fill color changes per product family.
942
+
943
+ ### Call-to-Action
944
+
945
+ **`cta-block-red`** — the homepage's vivid Dell-red panel ("At Dell.com, we'll help you find the right system, configure it, price it, and order it…").
946
+ - Background `{colors.primary}`, text `{colors.on-primary}` (white), 1 px solid frame-ink border, type `{typography.body}` (Times Roman 14), padding 16 px, no radius.
947
+ - One per page maximum. The brand's most aggressive attention-grab — never use it for anything except a top-tier sales message.
948
+
949
+ **`phone-callout`** — top-right phone number ("1-800-213-DELL") rendered as red on the black banner.
950
+ - Background `{colors.frame-ink}`, text `{colors.primary}`, type `{typography.heading-2}` Helvetica Bold 16, padding 4 × 8, no radius. Pinned to the right of the top banner on every page.
951
+
952
+ ### Stickers (GIF-style overlays)
953
+
954
+ **`buy-a-dell-sticker`** — yellow rectangular sticker with "BUY a DELL" in Helvetica Bold, the "a" set in a small purple stripe, the "DELL" wordmark in black. Pinned to the top-right of every page.
955
+ - Background `{colors.yellow-sticker}`, text `{colors.ink}`, 1 px black border, type `{typography.button}`, padding 4 × 8, no radius.
956
+
957
+ **`new-burst-sticker`** — angled yellow burst with "NEW!" in Helvetica Bold black, overlapping the right side of new product ribbon-cards. Slight rotation (~15°) gives it the pinned-on-with-tape feel.
958
+ - Background `{colors.yellow-sticker}`, text `{colors.ink}`, type `{typography.button}`, padding 4 × 8, no radius (rotation applied separately).
959
+
960
+ **`cert-seal`** — round red award seal: center reads "PC MAGAZINE", ringed by "SERVICE · RELIABILITY · READERS' CHOICE", with an inner white field and red bordered ring. Sits on the right rail of product pages.
961
+ - Background `{colors.primary}`, text `{colors.canvas}`, type `{typography.button}`, rounded `{rounded.full}`, 64 px size.
962
+
963
+ ### Navigation
964
+
965
+ **`icon-label-nav`** — bottom-of-page navigation row: four hand-drawn icons (eyeglasses-FIND / house-HOME / yellow-sticker-ONLINE STORE / wrench-SERVICE & SUPPORT) connected by a thin green horizontal rule, each with an uppercase Helvetica label beneath.
966
+ - Background `{colors.canvas}`, text `{colors.ink}`, type `{typography.ui-label}`, padding 8 px around each icon-label pair, no radius.
967
+ - The connecting green rule is part of the GIF imagery, not a CSS border.
968
+
969
+ ### Inputs & Buttons
970
+
971
+ **`text-input`** — bordered HTML input. White fill, 1 px solid black border, Times Roman 14 inside.
972
+ - Background `{colors.canvas}`, text `{colors.ink}`, 1 px solid frame-ink, type `{typography.body}`, padding 4 × 6, no radius.
973
+ - Used on the Search and "Configure & Buy" forms (not visible in these three captures but consistent with the era's HTML 3.2 form widgets).
974
+
975
+ **`button-primary`** — black filled button with white Helvetica Bold uppercase label.
976
+ - Background `{colors.frame-ink}`, text `{colors.on-primary}`, 1 px solid frame-ink, type `{typography.button}`, padding 6 × 16, no radius.
977
+
978
+ **`button-secondary`** — white filled outlined button. Same chrome with inverted colours.
979
+ - Background `{colors.canvas}`, text `{colors.ink}`, 1 px solid frame-ink, type `{typography.button}`, padding 6 × 16, no radius.
980
+
981
+ **`button-text-link`** — bare underlined anchor in classic-Mosaic blue.
982
+ - Text `{colors.link}` #0000ee, type `{typography.link}` Times Roman 14, underline on default. No padding, no radius.
983
+
984
+ ### Footer
985
+
986
+ **`footer-band`** — the bottom of every page: icon-label nav row, classic-blue Copyright link, "(Terms of Use)" parenthetical, browser-compatibility small print, and the Microsoft BackOffice / Internet Explorer logo banners.
987
+ - Background `{colors.canvas}`, text `{colors.ink}`, 1 px top border in frame-ink, type `{typography.body-sm}`, padding 16 px.
988
+
989
+ ### Examples (illustrative)
990
+
991
+ > Auto-derived kit-mirror demonstration surfaces (`scripts/derive-examples-block.mjs`). Each `ex-*` entry references brand-native primitives so downstream consumers (`/preview-design`, `/generate-kit`) re-skin the same 10 surfaces consistently. `TO_FILL` markers indicate missing primitives — resolve in the LLM judgment pass.
992
+
993
+ **`ex-pricing-tier`** — Default Pricing tier card. Re-uses feature-card chrome with the base white surface.
994
+ - Properties: `backgroundColor`, `textColor`, `borderColor`, `rounded`, `padding`
995
+
996
+ **`ex-pricing-tier-featured`** — Featured/highlighted tier — polarity-flipped surface (dark fill + light text in light mode, light fill + dark text in dark mode).
997
+ - Properties: `backgroundColor`, `textColor`, `rounded`, `padding`
998
+
999
+ **`ex-product-selector`** — What's Included summary card — re-purposed for SaaS / B2B verticals (NOT a literal product gallery).
1000
+ - Properties: `backgroundColor`, `rounded`, `padding`
1001
+
1002
+ **`ex-cart-drawer`** — Subscription summary — re-purposed for SaaS / B2B (line items per add-on, not literal cart).
1003
+ - Properties: `backgroundColor`, `rounded`, `padding`, `item-divider`
1004
+
1005
+ **`ex-app-shell-row`** — Sidebar nav row inside the App Shell example. Active state uses brand primary as the indicator.
1006
+ - Properties: `backgroundColor`, `activeIndicator`, `rounded`, `padding`
1007
+
1008
+ **`ex-data-table-cell`** — Default data-table th + td chrome. Header uses mono-caps eyebrow typography; body uses body-sm.
1009
+ - Properties: `headerBackground`, `headerTypography`, `bodyTypography`, `cellPadding`, `rowBorder`
1010
+
1011
+ **`ex-auth-form-card`** — Sign-in / sign-up card. Re-uses feature-card chrome with text-input primitives inside.
1012
+ - Properties: `backgroundColor`, `rounded`, `padding`
1013
+
1014
+ **`ex-modal-card`** — Modal dialog surface — same chrome as feature-card with elevated shadow.
1015
+ - Properties: `backgroundColor`, `rounded`, `padding`
1016
+
1017
+ **`ex-empty-state-card`** — Empty-state illustration frame.
1018
+ - Properties: `backgroundColor`, `rounded`, `padding`, `captionTypography`
1019
+
1020
+ **`ex-toast`** — Toast notification surface — feature-card shape + medium shadow.
1021
+ - Properties: `backgroundColor`, `rounded`, `padding`, `typography`
1022
+
1023
+
1024
+ ## Do's and Don'ts
1025
+
1026
+ ### Do
1027
+ - Keep the literal `{components.page-frame}` black border on every page — this is the brand's single most identifiable container chrome.
1028
+ - Reserve `{colors.primary}` (Dell red) for the `{components.cta-block-red}` panel and the `{components.phone-callout}` only. Every other use dilutes the urgency signal.
1029
+ - Use the eight ribbon-card tint colors (`{colors.tint-olive}` / sage / salmon / peach / lime / sky / steel / periwinkle) as a *family* — pick one per product line and stay with it across the line's marketing surfaces.
1030
+ - Set every display headline in `{typography.display}` (Arial Black 36 / weight 900). The brand's typographic register depends on extreme weight against flat color.
1031
+ - Keep body copy in `{typography.body}` Times Roman 14 — substituting a modern sans loses the catalog feel entirely.
1032
+ - Render every CTA / button at `{rounded.none}` (0 px). Modern soft-radius buttons betray the era.
1033
+ - Use hand-painted bevels / hard-edge GIF shadows on stickers and product photos. Never substitute a soft CSS shadow.
1034
+
1035
+ ### Don't
1036
+ - Don't introduce a chromatic accent outside the eight catalog tints + Dell red + Dell yellow + classic link blue. The palette is closed by design.
1037
+ - Don't soften any corner. `{rounded.none}` is the universal modifier; only award seals get `{rounded.full}`.
1038
+ - Don't replace Times Roman body with Arial / Helvetica / Inter / a webfont — the serif body is the era's signature.
1039
+ - Don't add soft drop-shadows or atmospheric gradients. The brand has hard borders and flat fills; everything else reads as anachronism.
1040
+ - Don't crop or "tuck" product photos with `border-radius` or `clip-path`. The notch into the ribbon-card right edge is the framing — the photo itself stays a hard rectangle.
1041
+ - Don't pair two `{components.cta-block-red}` panels on the same page. The red fill is meant to be the singular attention pole.
1042
+ - Don't strip the `{components.phone-callout}` from the top banner. In 1996 the website existed to drive phone-call orders; the phone number IS the navigation.