sheleg-design-skill 1.37.4 → 1.38.0

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+ ## [1.38.0] - 2026-08-16
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+ ### The routing table stopped being a second copy of the packs
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+ **6203 tokens against a 5000 budget → 4595**, under the 4750 working limit, and
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+ the **description 1021 → 948 of 1024**, which was three characters from the cap
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+ and therefore three characters from being unable to advertise the next routed
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+ trigger at all.
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+ Nothing was deleted. Four sections restated a file `docs/DOCMAP.md` names as
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+ their single home and are now one pointer each — `AI_PRODUCT_PATTERNS.md`,
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+ `FIGMA_BRIDGE.md`, `DESIGN_SYNC_BRIDGE.md`, and the real-world-references rule
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+ that `DESIGN_SYNC_BRIDGE.md` §4 already owns. Two craft sections moved to the
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+ files whose argument they are:
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+ | Moved | To | Why there |
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+ | *How they bind* — the calibration dials | `MOTION_DOCTRINE.md` | every rule in it is about what §1's frequency table already cut; the table and the dial belong in one file |
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+ | *Three looks that are defaults, not decisions* | `SHELEG_DESIGN.md` | it is the same argument that file makes throughout — values come from a pack extracted off a live reference, never from taste at the keyboard |
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+ And the style-pack table's **Look** column is one clause per row instead of
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+ three. The table's own preamble says each pack file "opens with its own full
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+ description — this table is for choosing, not for reading instead of the pack",
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+ and the Look column was the part that read instead of the pack. All 22 packs are
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+ still named, which is what `ENUMERATION_SITES` requires of this file.
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+ **The description gave up the Figma prose sentence**, not a trigger: `figma
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+ variables` and `фигма в код` already live in the `Triggers -` half, so the
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+ sentence was the only place that fact had two homes. **All 32 routed triggers
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+ still resolve** (`node test/advertised_check.js` → *advertises all 32*), which is
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+ the invariant B-54 exists to protect.
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+ The `.cursor/` mirror moved with all three files, and the gate compares it in both
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+ directions.
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+ ### Fixed
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+ - A pointer written during this change cited `docs/DOCMAP.md` — a **repository**
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+ path with no counterpart in the installed bundle. The gate caught it, which is
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+ what that guard is for: an instruction that dead-ends for every reader who did
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+ not clone the repo.
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+ Found by the nine-repository audit of 2026-08-16 (umbrella `B-66`;
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+ `F-sheleg-design-04`, `-05`).
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+ ## [1.37.5] - 2026-08-16
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+ ### Changed
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+ **`сделай лендинг` reached no route, and neither did `build a landing page`.** A landing
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+ page is the canonical two-craft surface — how it looks and how it sounds — and the
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+ unqualified ask for one arrived at nothing at all.
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+ Both phrases now reach **`sheleg-design` and `copywriting` together**, which is what the
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+ family's composition order says a landing needs. Verb phrases rather than the bare noun,
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+ and that choice was measured against the alternative rather than argued: with a bare
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+ `лендинг` trigger, `напиши текст для лендинга` picked up a visual route it did not ask for
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+ and `почини баг на лендинге` collected three. With the verb phrase, both stay exactly as
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+ they were — copywriting alone and task-pipeline alone.
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+ Room was made rather than found: `scrubbed sections` and one `implemented` came out of the
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+ prose, which is 30 characters that were not carrying their weight beside a phrase an
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+ operator actually types.
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  ## [1.37.4] - 2026-08-16
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  "name": "sheleg-design-skill",
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  "description": "Design taste as an installable agent skill. Cinematic scroll-driven landing pages built on one scroll clock and layered degrade-to-calm motion, a motion doctrine that decides whether to animate before it decides how, three calibration dials, and twenty-two locked style packs with ready-made design tokens — instrument-console, editorial-luxury, workbench, briefing-room, atrium, orchard, field-notes, cyclorama, showroom, blueprint, prism, maquette, scoreboard, datasheet, manpage, pigeonhole, roster, ora, tenor, paperclip and ledger. Colour, slop and fork-reciprocity gates run as scripts, not opinions. Works with Cursor, Claude Code and any agent that reads a SKILL.md.",
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  "sheleg-design-skill": "bin/cli.js"
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  "name": "sheleg-design",
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  "displayName": "SHELEG Design",
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  "description": "SHELEG Design methodology: cinematic scroll-driven landing pages (single scroll clock, layered degrade-to-calm motion, WebGL particle formations), a motion doctrine that decides whether to animate before it decides how, and twenty-two pluggable visual style packs — instrument-console (dark console), editorial-luxury (warm editorial), workbench (light/dark product UI for dashboards and tools), briefing-room (dark 16:9 deck), atrium (warm consumer health), orchard (friendly consumer biotech), field-notes (warm paper for dev tools sold on auditability), cyclorama (a pastel field on a 32s cycle), showroom (the product as the exhibit), blueprint (a drawing sheet, zero radius), prism (one iridescent wash over mono body), maquette (cream axonometric models on a dark table), scoreboard (warm paper, pixel numerals, a dark ledger of results), datasheet (an off-white spec sheet whose live instrument goes dark when it detects the reader is hiding), manpage (a developer landing page set in the reader's own system monospace on cream paper, with coral label chips that are real headings and a dark code frame as the argument), pigeonhole (a white sorting wall whose nine pastel categories are a filing scheme rather than a mood, each a two-layer chip whose label word is mandatory), roster (a white field in a faint grid of squares whose argument is other people's marks — client logotypes in pill-labelled industry columns, an engine's wordmark inside the headline — where the proof is a name rather than a number), ora (a warm coal field with cream ink and no third hue — the accent is the inverted field — a serif carrying every human sentence over a monospace carrying every machine fact, a terminal surface cut below the page, and a six-step verdict ramp, for products whose output is a machine's verdict about the reader), tenor (warm paper with zero radius and zero shadow, one hairline weight, an orange that exists only on hover and on focus, a sans tracked negative against a mono tracked positive, display at a line-height below one in an eight-to-twelve-character measure, and product proof delivered as silent looping video, for products arguing that a new kind of thing must be managed like an existing organisation), paperclip (neutral coal with no functional colour at all — every control monochrome and elevation made of hairlines, with the whole chromatic budget spent on a curtain of gradient capsules and twelve gradient section badges that cannot be clicked — for products that ask a person to run something that runs itself: agent teams, autonomous back-office, schedulers and budget-governed compute), ledger (warm cream paper ruled by a hairline at 12% ink and no shadow on any card, radius 15 nested concentrically, an ink primary button and a terracotta accent that never fills a control — it labels, as a 10px monospace uppercase kicker — with a seal on every card stating how its number is known, for the console of a product that answers questions about data: AI analysts, BI surfaces, query workspaces). Ships the sheleg-design skill, the architecture reference, the motion doctrine, the Figma and Claude Design bridges, AI-surface patterns, style packs with ready-made token CSS, and the /sheleg-design command, and awning (a white forecourt where the accent is black and no hue reaches the chrome at all, a pill whose radius is a declared component token, one variable grotesque at 420/550 with no 700, and a single three-layer shadow, for commerce and platform front doors).",
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  "name": "ssheleg",
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  - [ ] `markers` removed.
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  - [ ] Reduced motion tested by actually turning it on.
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  - [ ] The page still looks like the pack (§8).
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+ ---
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+ ## How the calibration dials bind
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+ - **The pack wins on values, the dials win on amount.** A dial never invents a
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+ colour, a face, or a radius — those come from the pack's token layer. It
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+ decides how much asymmetry the grid carries, how much of the page moves, and
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+ how tightly it is packed.
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+ - **`MOTION_INTENSITY` is capped by the frequency table**, not the other way
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+ round. A 9 on a settings screen still means the keyboard path does not
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+ animate. Read [`MOTION_DOCTRINE.md`](./MOTION_DOCTRINE.md) §1 first; the dial
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+ turns up what is left after that table has cut.
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+ - **Motion claimed is motion shown.** Above 4, the page actually moves —
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+ entrance on the hero, reveal on key sections, response on the primary action.
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+ A static page announcing 7 is broken. If working motion will not fit the
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+ scope, drop the dial to 3 and ship a clean still page; never half-build motion
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+ that stalls, cuts off, or jumps.
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+ - **A standalone pack pins its own ceiling.** `workbench`, `briefing-room` and
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+ `ledger` are not cinematic; `MOTION_INTENSITY` above 3 on any of the three is a
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+ misread of the pack, not a bold choice — `ledger` allows exactly three loops,
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+ all of them state (a typing cursor, thinking dots, a live heartbeat), and stops
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+ all three under reduced motion. `pigeonhole` is cinematic but at the family's floor: it bans the scroll clock,
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+ scrubbing, parallax and a sticky nav, so `MOTION_INTENSITY` above **4** on it has
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+ nothing legal to buy. **`roster` has the same ceiling of 4** for the same reason —
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+ entrance, hover and two slow floats are its whole budget, and it bans scrubbing,
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+ parallax and `animation-timeline`; it keeps a sticky nav, which is the only difference.
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+ **Three more standalone packs pin their own, and each states it in its own Register:**
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+ `ora` at **4**, `tenor` at **4**, `paperclip` at **5** — the last one higher because it
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+ is the only pack in the family that spends a native scroll-driven parallax.
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+ `field-notes` is standalone **by default** and may opt into the cinematic layer — it carries a `## Motion flavor` section saying
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+ how — so it is the one standalone pack without a hard ceiling. Read that
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+ section before turning the dial up on it.
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+ Moved out of `SKILL.md` on 2026-08-16: the body was 6203 tokens against a
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+ < 5000 budget, and every rule here is about what §1's frequency table has already
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+ cut. The dial turns up what is left after that table — so the table and the dial
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  the chosen `styles/<pack>.md` for the visual half. The north star for both: it
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  through accuracy and restraint, not spectacle.*
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+ ---
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+ ## Three looks that are defaults, not decisions
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+ Left to itself, generated design lands in one of three places, regardless of
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+ 1. **Warm cream field (near `#F4F1EA`) + high-contrast serif display +
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+ terracotta accent.**
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+ 2. **Near-black field + a single acid-green or vermilion accent.**
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+ 3. **Broadsheet: hairline rules, zero border-radius, dense newspaper columns.**
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+ Each is legitimate for some brief — and each shows up whether or not the brief
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+ called for it, which is what makes it a default. This skill's answer is the
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+ same either way: **the values come from a pack extracted off a live reference,
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+ never from taste at the keyboard.** If a pack's field happens to sit near one of
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+ these, that is a measurement; if a page arrives at one without a pack, that is
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+ the default talking. Say which of the two it is out loud before shipping.
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+ Moved out of `SKILL.md` on 2026-08-16 for the body budget. It sits here because
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+ it is the same argument this file makes throughout: the values come from a pack
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- description: Use when deciding how something LOOKS or MOVES. Cinematic scroll-driven landing pages, marketing sites and heroes — particle/WebGL backgrounds, scroll-linked animation, parallax, scrubbed sections — and when such a page feels busy or its motion layers drift apart. Product UI through its style packs — dashboards, admin panels, internal tools, mobile screens, chat and agent interfaces. Design tokens, light/dark themes, palettes and colours, typography and fonts. And the Figma border — tokens as variables, a design implemented without raw values. Triggers - "design a landing" / "дизайн лендинга", "scroll animation" / "скролл-анимация", "dashboard style" / "стиль дашборда", "design tokens" / "дизайн-токены", "light/dark theme" / "светлая/тёмная тема", "figma variables" / "переменные фигмы, фигма в код", "mobile screen" / "мобильный экран", "palette" / "палитра", "colors" / "цвета", "typography" / "типографика", "font" / "шрифт", "how it looks" / "выглядит", "make it prettier" / "красиво, красивее".
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+ description: Use when deciding how something LOOKS or MOVES. Cinematic scroll-driven landing pages, marketing sites and heroes — particle/WebGL backgrounds, scroll-linked animation, parallax — and when such a page feels busy or its motion layers drift apart. Product UI through its style packs — dashboards, admin panels, internal tools, mobile screens, chat and agent interfaces. Design tokens, light/dark themes, palettes and colours, typography and fonts. Triggers - "design a landing" / "дизайн лендинга", "build a landing page" / "сделай лендинг", "scroll animation" / "скролл-анимация", "dashboard style" / "стиль дашборда", "design tokens" / "дизайн-токены", "light/dark theme" / "светлая/тёмная тема", "figma variables" / "переменные фигмы, фигма в код", "mobile screen" / "мобильный экран", "palette" / "палитра", "colors" / "цвета", "typography" / "типографика", "font" / "шрифт", "how it looks" / "выглядит", "make it prettier" / "красиво, красивее".
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  # SHELEG Design
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- | [`editorial-luxury`](./styles/editorial-luxury.md) | cream and espresso ink, sage accent, Fraunces/Newsreader | editorial / research / premium B2B · **core contract** |
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- | [`workbench`](./styles/workbench.md) | quiet light/dark product UI, borders as elevation, mono data | dashboards / admin / internal & dev tools (standalone) · **core contract** |
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- | [`briefing-room`](./styles/briefing-room.md) | dark 16:9 deck, one blue hue in OKLCH, dithered art | investor & board decks, briefings, talks as a page (standalone) · **core contract** |
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- | [`atrium`](./styles/atrium.md) | cream daylight, one terracotta, fluted glass over photography | consumer health, longevity, wellness, high-trust DTC · **core contract** |
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- | [`orchard`](./styles/orchard.md) | warm oat slabs, sage plus candy orange, soft-3D pills | friendly consumer biotech, DTC wellness, kits & supplements · **core contract** |
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- | [`field-notes`](./styles/field-notes.md) | green-cast paper ruled by hairlines, rust accent, crop marks | open-source & developer tools sold on auditability (standalone) |
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- | [`showroom`](./styles/showroom.md) | white gallery, near-black ink, a seven-layer framing shadow | product-led companies whose best argument is the app on screen |
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- | [`blueprint`](./styles/blueprint.md) | white stock, a 32px grid, registration marks, **no radius** | infrastructure sold on precision — vector search, storage, query engines |
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- | [`prism`](./styles/prism.md) | iridescent wash with a hard edge, grotesque over **mono body** | an OSS infrastructure project's front door, where step one is a command |
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- | [`maquette`](./styles/maquette.md) | near-black table, cream axonometric models, pale aqua | enterprise data infrastructure sold to an architecture buyer |
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- | [`cyclorama`](./styles/cyclorama.md) | pastel field on a 32s loop, typewriter serif, orange fill | enterprise AI transformation and applied-AI consultancies |
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- | [`scoreboard`](./styles/scoreboard.md) | warm paper, ink primary, hot orange that only marks, pixel numerals | products whose argument is an accumulating number — growth, ads, SEO |
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- | [`datasheet`](./styles/datasheet.md) | off-white spec sheet, hairline cells at radius 0, one orange, Inter over JetBrains Mono, a dark **alarm state** | B2B SaaS whose product is a verdict about the visitor, request or device — fraud, bot and device intelligence, identity, API products |
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- | [`manpage`](./styles/manpage.md) | cream paper, the reader's own **system monospace** (zero webfont bytes), 48px display ceiling, 576px argument column, coral label chips that are real `<h2>`s | developer products whose buyer reads code — APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, developer infrastructure |
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- | [`pigeonhole`](./styles/pigeonhole.md) | white field, hairlines, a display that never passes weight 400 plus one italic word, and **nine categories in which a hue is the category**, from an eleven-ramp pastel system — a two-layer chip, 8px outside / 7px inside, label word mandatory | products that file the reader's incoming mess into named categories — email triage, ticket routing, digests, organisers, CRM inboxes |
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- | [`roster`](./styles/roster.md) | white field in a faint square grid, hairline instead of shadow, the display in the **body** face and the heads in another, one orange that never carries a word | products whose argument is **who already carries them** — AI-search visibility, SEO and content platforms, agencies, marketplaces |
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- | [`ora`](./styles/ora.md) | warm coal field, cream ink and **no third hue** — the accent is the inverted field; a serif doing the sans job over mono for every machine fact; a terminal surface cut **below** the page; a six-step verdict ramp | products whose output is **a machine's verdict about the reader** — agent-readiness and crawlability scores, SEO/AEO audits, agent-run traces, MCP and protocol surfaces · **dark by default** (standalone) |
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- | [`tenor`](./styles/tenor.md) | warm paper, **zero radius and zero shadow**, one hairline weight, an orange that only exists on hover and on focus, a sans at weight 400 tracked negative against a mono tracked positive, display at line-height 0.91 in an 8–12ch measure, proof delivered as silent looping video | products arguing a **management thesis** — AI-workforce and agent-operations platforms, autonomous back-office, revenue and sales operations, sold to the director who will have to manage it (standalone) |
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- | [`ledger`](./styles/ledger.md) | warm cream paper ruled by a hairline at 12% ink — no shadow on any card — radius 15 nested concentrically, an **ink** primary button, and a terracotta that never fills a control and mostly appears as a 10px mono uppercase kicker; every card that states a number carries a seal saying how the number is known | the console of a product that answers questions **about data** — AI analysts, BI surfaces, query workspaces, agents that read a warehouse and write back a figure (standalone) |
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- | [`paperclip`](./styles/paperclip.md) | neutral coal with **no functional colour at all** — every control monochrome, hairlines for elevation, and the whole chromatic budget spent on a curtain of 96 gradient capsules and twelve gradient section badges that cannot be clicked; a tight grotesque over a plain one over a monospace, and the capsule as the shape of everything from a button to a 10 × 20 schedule tick | products that ask a person to **run something that runs itself** — agent teams and orchestrators, autonomous back-office, schedulers, job runners, budget-governed compute (standalone) |
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- | [`awning`](./styles/awning.md) | white forecourt where **the accent is black** and no hue reaches the chrome at all; a pill whose radius is a declared component token, one variable grotesque at **420 / 550 with no 700**, two rule weights and a single three-layer shadow | commerce and platform front doors — the surface that sells a system other businesses will run their storefront, payroll, billing or logistics on (standalone) · **core contract** |
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+ | [`editorial-luxury`](./styles/editorial-luxury.md) | cream and espresso ink | editorial / research / premium B2B · **core contract** |
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+ | [`workbench`](./styles/workbench.md) | quiet light/dark product UI | dashboards / admin / internal & dev tools (standalone) · **core contract** |
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+ | [`briefing-room`](./styles/briefing-room.md) | dark 16:9 deck | investor & board decks, briefings, talks as a page (standalone) · **core contract** |
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+ | [`atrium`](./styles/atrium.md) | cream daylight | consumer health, longevity, wellness, high-trust DTC · **core contract** |
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+ | [`orchard`](./styles/orchard.md) | warm oat slabs | friendly consumer biotech, DTC wellness, kits & supplements · **core contract** |
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+ | [`prism`](./styles/prism.md) | iridescent wash with a hard edge | an OSS infrastructure project's front door, where step one is a command |
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+ | [`maquette`](./styles/maquette.md) | near-black table | enterprise data infrastructure sold to an architecture buyer |
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+ | [`cyclorama`](./styles/cyclorama.md) | pastel field on a 32s loop | enterprise AI transformation and applied-AI consultancies |
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+ | [`manpage`](./styles/manpage.md) | cream paper | developer products whose buyer reads code — APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, developer infrastructure |
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+ | [`pigeonhole`](./styles/pigeonhole.md) | white field | products that file the reader's incoming mess into named categories — email triage, ticket routing, digests, organisers, CRM inboxes |
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+ | [`ora`](./styles/ora.md) | warm coal field | products whose output is **a machine's verdict about the reader** — agent-readiness and crawlability scores, SEO/AEO audits, agent-run traces, MCP and protocol surfaces · **dark by default** (standalone) |
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+ | [`ledger`](./styles/ledger.md) | warm cream paper ruled by a hairline at 12% ink — no shadow on any card — radius 15 nested concentrically | the console of a product that answers questions **about data** — AI analysts, BI surfaces, query workspaces, agents that read a warehouse and write back a figure (standalone) |
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+ **If a pack's field sits near one of these, that is a measurement; if a page arrives
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+ at one without a pack, that is the default talking** — say which out loud before
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+ shipping. The three, in full: [`SHELEG_DESIGN.md`](./SHELEG_DESIGN.md).