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AYA Quiet Woven Knowledge Workspace

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the spec

specification

philosophy
summary
A text-first knowledge workspace that feels like woven linen: warm, quiet, structured, tactile, and trustworthy. AYA treats documents, notes, citations, and evidence as one continuous fabric rather than separating prose from analytics. The interface is built from warm off-white surfaces, graphite text, fine rules, interleaved cards, and thread-like rails that guide attention without becoming chrome. Data is folded into the reading and writing flow as inline evidence cards, compact tables, citation knots, change strips, and small sparklines, never as a dark dashboard or decorative chart wall. A single soft blue-cyan accent scale marks focus, links, selection, and primary action; amber and sage appear only as muted evidence-state cues. The result is calm productivity with enough density for serious knowledge work and enough breath for sustained reading.
values
text remains the primary surface; data supports prose instead of competing with itwarm light neutral hierarchy creates trust and reduces long-session fatigueone soft blue-cyan accent system consistently signals action, focus, linkage, and selectionwoven structure emerges from repeated fine rules, thread rails, citation knots, and interleaved cardsdensity rhythm alternates generous reading measure with compact retrieval, metadata, and annotation bandsevidence is progressively disclosed in place through citation cards, compact tables, deltas, and micro-trendsaccessibility is structural: stable contrast, visible focus, predictable states, and semantic labels beyond color
anti-values
×dark analytics dashboard aesthetic with KPI panels as the main composition×large saturated gradients, rainbow palettes, or decorative chart collections×low-density marketing minimalism that cannot support serious writing and retrieval×overly playful productivity UI with whimsical components or noisy illustration×color-coded feature areas that make the product feel fragmented×pale low-contrast typography used as a substitute for hierarchy×floating glassmorphism, heavy shadows, or chrome that distracts from documents
tokens
borders4 items
accent width
2px
character
flax-colored hairlines and thread rails; blue-cyan only for focus, selection, links, and active structure
default width
1px
style
solid
colors18 items
accent
#56BED0
background
#F7F2E8
border
#DED4C2
border_soft
#E9E0D1
error
#B45C51
info
#1EA7C6
muted
#667075
primary
#1EA7C6
primary_deep
#0D667A
primary_soft
#DDF4F8
selection
#CBEFF5
subtle
#8A8174
success
#6F8F74
surface
#FFFDF8
surface_alt
#FBF7EE
surface_inset
#F3ECDD
text
#252A2E
warning
#B88743
motion3 items
duration
140ms
easing
cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1)
philosophy
quiet confirmation only: focus rings clarify, evidence cards expand in place, rails slide a few pixels, and no bounce or celebratory motion appears
radii6 items
full
9999px
lg
16px
md
10px
none
0
sm
6px
xl
22px
shadows3 items
lg
0 18px 48px rgba(72,58,38,0.10)
md
0 8px 24px rgba(72,58,38,0.07)
sm
0 1px 2px rgba(37,42,46,0.05)
spacing2 items
base
8px
scale
4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 80
surfaces3 items
bg pattern
near-invisible woven crosshatch from 1px horizontal and vertical flax lines at very low opacity; use only on page gutters or empty reading margins
card style
soft rectangular paper cards with 16-22px radii, 1px flax borders, minimal shadow, and optional thread rail on the leading edge
treatment
warm off-white shell with linen sheets, paper panels, inset evidence bands, and fine woven dividers
typography9 items
base size
16px
body font
Inter
density roles
annotation 13-14px / 1.5 in side notes and citation cards·metadata 12-13px / 1.35 with mono fragments for IDs, dates, and sources·reading 18px / 1.68 line-height with 64-76ch measure·scanning 14-15px / 1.45 for lists, search results, and section summaries
google fonts url
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@400;500;600;700&family=Newsreader:opsz,wght@6..72,500;6..72,600;6..72,700&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500;600&display=swap
heading font
Newsreader
letter spacing
-0.01em
line height
1.58
mono font
IBM Plex Mono
scale ratio
1.2
rules
accessibility
Body text, controls, and metadata must meet WCAG AA on linen and paper surfaces. Focus uses a clear 2px blue-cyan ring with offset and never relies on color alone. Semantic amber, sage, and red states require labels, icons, notches, or text. Hover, active, disabled, selected, and expanded states must be predictable across notes, cards, controls, and citations.
composition
Use a document-centered workspace rather than a dashboard. A typical desktop shell has a narrow thread navigation rail, a dominant writing/reading canvas, and a calm evidence margin; the document always owns the widest measure. Evidence modules are embedded between paragraphs, aligned to citations, or tucked into marginal cards. Avoid top-heavy KPI rows. Use fine rules, interleaved cards, and aligned rails to make relationships visible while preserving the feeling of prose.
data surfaces
Data appears as not-dashboard evidence: inline metric chips with labels, compact source tables, citation cards with provenance, change strips beside edited paragraphs, small single-purpose sparklines, and collapsible evidence drawers. Every data element should answer a question in the current text flow. Use progressive disclosure for detail and keep chart ink minimal.
density
Maintain a deliberate density rhythm: generous article blocks for synthesis and decision text; medium-density lists for retrieval and linked notes; dense but stable metadata rows for provenance, tags, and version history; small annotations for marginal reasoning. Never stretch all content into airy marketing whitespace or compress the entire product into enterprise tables.
hierarchy
Establish hierarchy first through typography, spacing, surface temperature, and rule weight. Graphite body text sits on warm paper; muted slate handles secondary labels; blue-cyan is reserved for interactive hierarchy. Headings use a literary but disciplined serif, body text uses a neutral sans, and mono appears only for source IDs, timestamps, line numbers, and compact metrics.
signature patterns
Thread rail navigation: a 1px flax line with blue-cyan knots for current section, active document, or selected citation.Citation knots: small linked nodes that connect a sentence to an evidence card, source drawer, or marginal note.Interleaved evidence cards: paper inserts woven between paragraphs with compact table rows, provenance, and one clear action.Change strips: thin vertical woven bars in muted amber, sage, or blue-cyan beside revised passages, paired with text labels and timestamps.Reference bands: dense metadata rows under headings or cards, using mono snippets and compact chips without becoming a toolbar.Soft selection wash: pale cyan highlight behind selected text or cards with a crisp cyan rail, never a saturated fill.
layout
breakpoints
Mobile <= 640px collapses rail and margin into a top document switcher plus inline evidence drawers; tablet 641-1024px keeps the document primary with evidence below or as a slide-in sheet; desktop >= 1025px uses full rail/document/evidence composition.
density

Balanced text-first density: spacious prose lines, compact evidence modules, and dense metadata only where retrieval or provenance requires it.

grid
Desktop uses a 12-column workspace with a 72px thread nav, 240px optional library column, 640-780px primary document measure, and 280-340px evidence margin. Gutters follow the 8px scale and align rules across columns.
responsive
On small screens, preserve reading order: prose first, citation knot second, evidence card third. Compact tables become stacked evidence rows; thread navigation becomes a horizontal stitched index.
whitespace

Whitespace should feel like margins in a well-made notebook: 24-32px around reading sheets, 16-24px inside cards, and tighter 8-12px gaps inside metadata bands.

guidance
do
  • Keep the product predominantly neutral and warm; make blue-cyan the shared language for focus, action, links, and selection.
  • Embed metrics, trends, and tables inside the document flow as evidence surfaces with provenance and labels.
  • Use thread rails, fine rules, citation knots, and interleaved cards as the recognizable woven motif.
  • Alternate typography density intentionally across reading, scanning, metadata, and annotation contexts.
  • Prefer borders, inset bands, and paper layering before shadows or color blocks.
  • Pair every semantic color with a label, icon, notch, or explanatory text.
  • Use progressive disclosure so detailed evidence is available without fragmenting attention.
avoid
  • Do not open with KPI cards, chart grids, or a dark analytics dashboard frame.
  • Do not use saturated gradients, decorative data visualizations, or multi-accent feature colors.
  • Do not make body text pale gray or sacrifice contrast for softness.
  • Do not turn every note into a floating card; preserve document continuity.
  • Do not use playful stickers, mascot energy, or bouncy motion in core workflows.
  • Do not hide citations or provenance in a separate analytics page when it belongs beside the relevant text.
  • Do not let semantic amber or sage become broad backgrounds; keep them as small evidence-state cues.
katagami spec
# AYA Quiet Woven Knowledge Workspace

## Philosophy

A text-first knowledge workspace that feels like woven linen: warm, quiet, structured, tactile, and trustworthy. AYA treats documents, notes, citations, and evidence as one continuous fabric rather than separating prose from analytics. The interface is built from warm off-white surfaces, graphite text, fine rules, interleaved cards, and thread-like rails that guide attention without becoming chrome. Data is folded into the reading and writing flow as inline evidence cards, compact tables, citation knots, change strips, and small sparklines, never as a dark dashboard or decorative chart wall. A single soft blue-cyan accent scale marks focus, links, selection, and primary action; amber and sage appear only as muted evidence-state cues. The result is calm productivity with enough density for serious knowledge work and enough breath for sustained reading.

### Values

- text remains the primary surface; data supports prose instead of competing with it
- warm light neutral hierarchy creates trust and reduces long-session fatigue
- one soft blue-cyan accent system consistently signals action, focus, linkage, and selection
- woven structure emerges from repeated fine rules, thread rails, citation knots, and interleaved cards
- density rhythm alternates generous reading measure with compact retrieval, metadata, and annotation bands
- evidence is progressively disclosed in place through citation cards, compact tables, deltas, and micro-trends
- accessibility is structural: stable contrast, visible focus, predictable states, and semantic labels beyond color

### Anti-Values

- dark analytics dashboard aesthetic with KPI panels as the main composition
- large saturated gradients, rainbow palettes, or decorative chart collections
- low-density marketing minimalism that cannot support serious writing and retrieval
- overly playful productivity UI with whimsical components or noisy illustration
- color-coded feature areas that make the product feel fragmented
- pale low-contrast typography used as a substitute for hierarchy
- floating glassmorphism, heavy shadows, or chrome that distracts from documents

### Visual Character

- Warm canvas layers move from oat page background to linen sheets and paper-white writing surfaces, separated by 1px flax rules.
- Navigation and document structure use thread rails: slim vertical or horizontal lines with small knots for active locations, citations, and linked references.
- Evidence appears inline as quiet woven inserts: citation cards, note clusters, compact tables, marginal annotations, change strips, and sparklines embedded in text blocks.
- Blue-cyan is precise and restrained: focus rings, links, selected text, active rails, primary buttons, and connective affordances share the same token family.
- Typography shifts deliberately between comfortable article reading, scannable headings, dense metadata rows, mono identifiers, and smaller annotation text without breaking rhythm.

## Tokens

### Borders

- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Character**: flax-colored hairlines and thread rails; blue-cyan only for focus, selection, links, and active structure
- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Style**: solid

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| accent | `#56BED0` |
| background | `#F7F2E8` |
| border | `#DED4C2` |
| border_soft | `#E9E0D1` |
| error | `#B45C51` |
| info | `#1EA7C6` |
| muted | `#667075` |
| primary | `#1EA7C6` |
| primary_deep | `#0D667A` |
| primary_soft | `#DDF4F8` |
| selection | `#CBEFF5` |
| subtle | `#8A8174` |
| success | `#6F8F74` |
| surface | `#FFFDF8` |
| surface_alt | `#FBF7EE` |
| surface_inset | `#F3ECDD` |
| text | `#252A2E` |
| warning | `#B88743` |

### Motion

- **Duration**: 140ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1)
- **Philosophy**: quiet confirmation only: focus rings clarify, evidence cards expand in place, rails slide a few pixels, and no bounce or celebratory motion appears

### Radii

- **Full**: 9999px
- **Lg**: 16px
- **Md**: 10px
- **None**: 0
- **Sm**: 6px
- **Xl**: 22px

### Shadows

- **Lg**: 0 18px 48px rgba(72,58,38,0.10)
- **Md**: 0 8px 24px rgba(72,58,38,0.07)
- **Sm**: 0 1px 2px rgba(37,42,46,0.05)

### Spacing

- **Base**: 8px
- **Scale**: [4,8,12,16,20,24,32,40,48,64,80]

### Surfaces

- **Bg Pattern**: near-invisible woven crosshatch from 1px horizontal and vertical flax lines at very low opacity; use only on page gutters or empty reading margins
- **Card Style**: soft rectangular paper cards with 16-22px radii, 1px flax borders, minimal shadow, and optional thread rail on the leading edge
- **Treatment**: warm off-white shell with linen sheets, paper panels, inset evidence bands, and fine woven dividers

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 16px
- **Body Font**: Inter
- **Density Roles**: {"annotation":"13-14px / 1.5 in side notes and citation cards","metadata":"12-13px / 1.35 with mono fragments for IDs, dates, and sources","reading":"18px / 1.68 line-height with 64-76ch measure","scanning":"14-15px / 1.45 for lists, search results, and section summaries"}
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@400;500;600;700&family=Newsreader:opsz,wght@6..72,500;6..72,600;6..72,700&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500;600&display=swap
- **Heading Font**: Newsreader
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.01em
- **Line Height**: 1.58
- **Mono Font**: IBM Plex Mono
- **Scale Ratio**: 1.2

## Rules

### Accessibility

Body text, controls, and metadata must meet WCAG AA on linen and paper surfaces. Focus uses a clear 2px blue-cyan ring with offset and never relies on color alone. Semantic amber, sage, and red states require labels, icons, notches, or text. Hover, active, disabled, selected, and expanded states must be predictable across notes, cards, controls, and citations.

### Composition

Use a document-centered workspace rather than a dashboard. A typical desktop shell has a narrow thread navigation rail, a dominant writing/reading canvas, and a calm evidence margin; the document always owns the widest measure. Evidence modules are embedded between paragraphs, aligned to citations, or tucked into marginal cards. Avoid top-heavy KPI rows. Use fine rules, interleaved cards, and aligned rails to make relationships visible while preserving the feeling of prose.

### Data Surfaces

Data appears as not-dashboard evidence: inline metric chips with labels, compact source tables, citation cards with provenance, change strips beside edited paragraphs, small single-purpose sparklines, and collapsible evidence drawers. Every data element should answer a question in the current text flow. Use progressive disclosure for detail and keep chart ink minimal.

### Density

Maintain a deliberate density rhythm: generous article blocks for synthesis and decision text; medium-density lists for retrieval and linked notes; dense but stable metadata rows for provenance, tags, and version history; small annotations for marginal reasoning. Never stretch all content into airy marketing whitespace or compress the entire product into enterprise tables.

### Hierarchy

Establish hierarchy first through typography, spacing, surface temperature, and rule weight. Graphite body text sits on warm paper; muted slate handles secondary labels; blue-cyan is reserved for interactive hierarchy. Headings use a literary but disciplined serif, body text uses a neutral sans, and mono appears only for source IDs, timestamps, line numbers, and compact metrics.

### Signature Patterns

- Thread rail navigation: a 1px flax line with blue-cyan knots for current section, active document, or selected citation.
- Citation knots: small linked nodes that connect a sentence to an evidence card, source drawer, or marginal note.
- Interleaved evidence cards: paper inserts woven between paragraphs with compact table rows, provenance, and one clear action.
- Change strips: thin vertical woven bars in muted amber, sage, or blue-cyan beside revised passages, paired with text labels and timestamps.
- Reference bands: dense metadata rows under headings or cards, using mono snippets and compact chips without becoming a toolbar.
- Soft selection wash: pale cyan highlight behind selected text or cards with a crisp cyan rail, never a saturated fill.

## Layout

### Breakpoints

Mobile <= 640px collapses rail and margin into a top document switcher plus inline evidence drawers; tablet 641-1024px keeps the document primary with evidence below or as a slide-in sheet; desktop >= 1025px uses full rail/document/evidence composition.

### Density

Balanced text-first density: spacious prose lines, compact evidence modules, and dense metadata only where retrieval or provenance requires it.

### Grid

Desktop uses a 12-column workspace with a 72px thread nav, 240px optional library column, 640-780px primary document measure, and 280-340px evidence margin. Gutters follow the 8px scale and align rules across columns.

### Responsive

On small screens, preserve reading order: prose first, citation knot second, evidence card third. Compact tables become stacked evidence rows; thread navigation becomes a horizontal stitched index.

### Whitespace

Whitespace should feel like margins in a well-made notebook: 24-32px around reading sheets, 16-24px inside cards, and tighter 8-12px gaps inside metadata bands.

## Guidance

### Do

- Keep the product predominantly neutral and warm; make blue-cyan the shared language for focus, action, links, and selection.
- Embed metrics, trends, and tables inside the document flow as evidence surfaces with provenance and labels.
- Use thread rails, fine rules, citation knots, and interleaved cards as the recognizable woven motif.
- Alternate typography density intentionally across reading, scanning, metadata, and annotation contexts.
- Prefer borders, inset bands, and paper layering before shadows or color blocks.
- Pair every semantic color with a label, icon, notch, or explanatory text.
- Use progressive disclosure so detailed evidence is available without fragmenting attention.

### Don't

- Do not open with KPI cards, chart grids, or a dark analytics dashboard frame.
- Do not use saturated gradients, decorative data visualizations, or multi-accent feature colors.
- Do not make body text pale gray or sacrifice contrast for softness.
- Do not turn every note into a floating card; preserve document continuity.
- Do not use playful stickers, mascot energy, or bouncy motion in core workflows.
- Do not hide citations or provenance in a separate analytics page when it belongs beside the relevant text.
- Do not let semantic amber or sage become broad backgrounds; keep them as small evidence-state cues.

### Accessibility

Use stable high contrast graphite text on warm surfaces, visible cyan focus rings, label-backed semantic states, reduced-motion defaults, and predictable keyboard navigation through documents, knots, cards, and evidence drawers.

### Usage Context

Best for AI knowledge workspaces, research notebooks, collaborative writing tools, legal or policy synthesis, product discovery repositories, and any text-first system where evidence must remain near the prose without becoming a dashboard.
DESIGN.md
---
version: "alpha"
name: "AYA Quiet Woven Knowledge Workspace"
description: "Agent-curated design language exported from Katagami as DESIGN.md."
colors:
  accent: "#56BED0"
  background: "#F7F2E8"
  border: "#DED4C2"
  border_soft: "#E9E0D1"
  error: "#B45C51"
  info: "#1EA7C6"
  muted: "#667075"
  primary: "#1EA7C6"
  primary_deep: "#0D667A"
  primary_soft: "#DDF4F8"
  selection: "#CBEFF5"
  subtle: "#8A8174"
  success: "#6F8F74"
  surface: "#FFFDF8"
  surface_alt: "#FBF7EE"
  surface_inset: "#F3ECDD"
  text: "#252A2E"
  warning: "#B88743"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Newsreader"
    fontSize: "1.728rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.01em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Newsreader"
    fontSize: "1.44rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.01em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "Inter"
    fontSize: "16px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.58
    letterSpacing: "-0.01em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "IBM Plex Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  full: "9999px"
  lg: "16px"
  md: "10px"
  none: "0px"
  sm: "6px"
  xl: "22px"
spacing:
  base: "8px"
  xs: "4px"
  sm: "8px"
  md: "12px"
  lg: "16px"
  xl: "20px"
  2xl: "24px"
  3xl: "32px"
  4xl: "40px"
  step-8: "48px"
  step-9: "64px"
  step-10: "80px"
components:
  color-reference-accent:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent}"
  color-reference-background:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.background}"
  color-reference-border:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.border}"
  color-reference-border_soft:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.border_soft}"
  color-reference-error:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.error}"
  color-reference-info:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.info}"
  color-reference-muted:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.muted}"
  color-reference-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
  color-reference-primary_deep:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary_deep}"
  color-reference-primary_soft:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary_soft}"
  color-reference-selection:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.selection}"
  color-reference-subtle:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.subtle}"
  color-reference-success:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.success}"
  color-reference-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
  color-reference-surface_alt:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface_alt}"
  color-reference-surface_inset:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface_inset}"
  color-reference-text:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.text}"
  color-reference-warning:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.warning}"
  button-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
    textColor: "#000000"
    typography: "{typography.label-md}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  card-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  input-default:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.md}"
    height: "44px"
---

# AYA Quiet Woven Knowledge Workspace

## Overview

A text-first knowledge workspace that feels like woven linen: warm, quiet, structured, tactile, and trustworthy. AYA treats documents, notes, citations, and evidence as one continuous fabric rather than separating prose from analytics. The interface is built from warm off-white surfaces, graphite text, fine rules, interleaved cards, and thread-like rails that guide attention without becoming chrome. Data is folded into the reading and writing flow as inline evidence cards, compact tables, citation knots, change strips, and small sparklines, never as a dark dashboard or decorative chart wall. A single soft blue-cyan accent scale marks focus, links, selection, and primary action; amber and sage appear only as muted evidence-state cues. The result is calm productivity with enough density for serious knowledge work and enough breath for sustained reading.

### Values

- text remains the primary surface; data supports prose instead of competing with it
- warm light neutral hierarchy creates trust and reduces long-session fatigue
- one soft blue-cyan accent system consistently signals action, focus, linkage, and selection
- woven structure emerges from repeated fine rules, thread rails, citation knots, and interleaved cards
- density rhythm alternates generous reading measure with compact retrieval, metadata, and annotation bands
- evidence is progressively disclosed in place through citation cards, compact tables, deltas, and micro-trends
- accessibility is structural: stable contrast, visible focus, predictable states, and semantic labels beyond color

### Anti-Values

- dark analytics dashboard aesthetic with KPI panels as the main composition
- large saturated gradients, rainbow palettes, or decorative chart collections
- low-density marketing minimalism that cannot support serious writing and retrieval
- overly playful productivity UI with whimsical components or noisy illustration
- color-coded feature areas that make the product feel fragmented
- pale low-contrast typography used as a substitute for hierarchy
- floating glassmorphism, heavy shadows, or chrome that distracts from documents

### Visual Character

- Warm canvas layers move from oat page background to linen sheets and paper-white writing surfaces, separated by 1px flax rules.
- Navigation and document structure use thread rails: slim vertical or horizontal lines with small knots for active locations, citations, and linked references.
- Evidence appears inline as quiet woven inserts: citation cards, note clusters, compact tables, marginal annotations, change strips, and sparklines embedded in text blocks.
- Blue-cyan is precise and restrained: focus rings, links, selected text, active rails, primary buttons, and connective affordances share the same token family.
- Typography shifts deliberately between comfortable article reading, scannable headings, dense metadata rows, mono identifiers, and smaller annotation text without breaking rhythm.

## Colors

Use the YAML color tokens as the normative palette. The prose below names the roles agents should preserve when generating UI.

| Token | Value |
|-------|-------|
| accent | `#56BED0` |
| background | `#F7F2E8` |
| border | `#DED4C2` |
| border_soft | `#E9E0D1` |
| error | `#B45C51` |
| info | `#1EA7C6` |
| muted | `#667075` |
| primary | `#1EA7C6` |
| primary_deep | `#0D667A` |
| primary_soft | `#DDF4F8` |
| selection | `#CBEFF5` |
| subtle | `#8A8174` |
| success | `#6F8F74` |
| surface | `#FFFDF8` |
| surface_alt | `#FBF7EE` |
| surface_inset | `#F3ECDD` |
| text | `#252A2E` |
| warning | `#B88743` |

## Typography

- **Headline-Lg**: Newsreader, 1.728rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Newsreader, 1.44rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Inter, 16px, weight 400, line-height 1.58.
- **Label-Md**: IBM Plex Mono, 0.75rem, weight 600, line-height 1.

## Layout

### Spacing Tokens

- **Base**: `8px`
- **Xs**: `4px`
- **Sm**: `8px`
- **Md**: `12px`
- **Lg**: `16px`
- **Xl**: `20px`
- **2xl**: `24px`
- **3xl**: `32px`
- **4xl**: `40px`
- **Step-8**: `48px`
- **Step-9**: `64px`
- **Step-10**: `80px`

### Breakpoints

Mobile <= 640px collapses rail and margin into a top document switcher plus inline evidence drawers; tablet 641-1024px keeps the document primary with evidence below or as a slide-in sheet; desktop >= 1025px uses full rail/document/evidence composition.

### Density

Balanced text-first density: spacious prose lines, compact evidence modules, and dense metadata only where retrieval or provenance requires it.

### Grid

Desktop uses a 12-column workspace with a 72px thread nav, 240px optional library column, 640-780px primary document measure, and 280-340px evidence margin. Gutters follow the 8px scale and align rules across columns.

### Responsive

On small screens, preserve reading order: prose first, citation knot second, evidence card third. Compact tables become stacked evidence rows; thread navigation becomes a horizontal stitched index.

### Whitespace

Whitespace should feel like margins in a well-made notebook: 24-32px around reading sheets, 16-24px inside cards, and tighter 8-12px gaps inside metadata bands.

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Lg**: 0 18px 48px rgba(72,58,38,0.10)
- **Md**: 0 8px 24px rgba(72,58,38,0.07)
- **Sm**: 0 1px 2px rgba(37,42,46,0.05)

## Shapes

### Rounded

- **Full**: `9999px`
- **Lg**: `16px`
- **Md**: `10px`
- **None**: `0px`
- **Sm**: `6px`
- **Xl**: `22px`

### Surfaces

- **Bg Pattern**: near-invisible woven crosshatch from 1px horizontal and vertical flax lines at very low opacity; use only on page gutters or empty reading margins
- **Card Style**: soft rectangular paper cards with 16-22px radii, 1px flax borders, minimal shadow, and optional thread rail on the leading edge
- **Treatment**: warm off-white shell with linen sheets, paper panels, inset evidence bands, and fine woven dividers

### Borders

- **Accent Width**: 2px
- **Character**: flax-colored hairlines and thread rails; blue-cyan only for focus, selection, links, and active structure
- **Default Width**: 1px
- **Style**: solid

## Components

### Accessibility

Body text, controls, and metadata must meet WCAG AA on linen and paper surfaces. Focus uses a clear 2px blue-cyan ring with offset and never relies on color alone. Semantic amber, sage, and red states require labels, icons, notches, or text. Hover, active, disabled, selected, and expanded states must be predictable across notes, cards, controls, and citations.

### Composition

Use a document-centered workspace rather than a dashboard. A typical desktop shell has a narrow thread navigation rail, a dominant writing/reading canvas, and a calm evidence margin; the document always owns the widest measure. Evidence modules are embedded between paragraphs, aligned to citations, or tucked into marginal cards. Avoid top-heavy KPI rows. Use fine rules, interleaved cards, and aligned rails to make relationships visible while preserving the feeling of prose.

### Data Surfaces

Data appears as not-dashboard evidence: inline metric chips with labels, compact source tables, citation cards with provenance, change strips beside edited paragraphs, small single-purpose sparklines, and collapsible evidence drawers. Every data element should answer a question in the current text flow. Use progressive disclosure for detail and keep chart ink minimal.

### Density

Maintain a deliberate density rhythm: generous article blocks for synthesis and decision text; medium-density lists for retrieval and linked notes; dense but stable metadata rows for provenance, tags, and version history; small annotations for marginal reasoning. Never stretch all content into airy marketing whitespace or compress the entire product into enterprise tables.

### Hierarchy

Establish hierarchy first through typography, spacing, surface temperature, and rule weight. Graphite body text sits on warm paper; muted slate handles secondary labels; blue-cyan is reserved for interactive hierarchy. Headings use a literary but disciplined serif, body text uses a neutral sans, and mono appears only for source IDs, timestamps, line numbers, and compact metrics.

### Signature Patterns

- Thread rail navigation: a 1px flax line with blue-cyan knots for current section, active document, or selected citation.
- Citation knots: small linked nodes that connect a sentence to an evidence card, source drawer, or marginal note.
- Interleaved evidence cards: paper inserts woven between paragraphs with compact table rows, provenance, and one clear action.
- Change strips: thin vertical woven bars in muted amber, sage, or blue-cyan beside revised passages, paired with text labels and timestamps.
- Reference bands: dense metadata rows under headings or cards, using mono snippets and compact chips without becoming a toolbar.
- Soft selection wash: pale cyan highlight behind selected text or cards with a crisp cyan rail, never a saturated fill.

## shadcn/ui Usage

When the target app uses shadcn/ui, copy DESIGN.md with shadcn instead of the plain DESIGN.md. It contains the same Katagami design-language source plus the shadcn/ui primitives, imports, theme variables, component recipes, and preview-shot guidance.

DESIGN.md with shadcn: `/language/aya-quiet-woven-knowledge-workspace/DESIGN.with-shadcn.md`.

The shadcn page also exposes optional machine-readable files for automation, but the human-facing handoff is DESIGN.md with shadcn.

Install recommended primitives with `npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table`.

Use these primitives in shadcn apps:
- button
- card
- input
- textarea
- select
- dialog
- sheet
- tabs
- badge
- separator
- checkbox
- switch
- slider
- tooltip
- dropdown-menu
- table

Implementation rule for agents: import shadcn primitives from `@/components/ui/*`, apply the generated CSS variables first, then compose the language-specific recipes from the companion MD. Katagami remains the source of truth; shadcn names are the implementation surface.

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do Keep the product predominantly neutral and warm; make blue-cyan the shared language for focus, action, links, and selection.
- Do Embed metrics, trends, and tables inside the document flow as evidence surfaces with provenance and labels.
- Do Use thread rails, fine rules, citation knots, and interleaved cards as the recognizable woven motif.
- Do Alternate typography density intentionally across reading, scanning, metadata, and annotation contexts.
- Do Prefer borders, inset bands, and paper layering before shadows or color blocks.
- Do Pair every semantic color with a label, icon, notch, or explanatory text.
- Do Use progressive disclosure so detailed evidence is available without fragmenting attention.
- Don't Do not open with KPI cards, chart grids, or a dark analytics dashboard frame.
- Don't Do not use saturated gradients, decorative data visualizations, or multi-accent feature colors.
- Don't Do not make body text pale gray or sacrifice contrast for softness.
- Don't Do not turn every note into a floating card; preserve document continuity.
- Don't Do not use playful stickers, mascot energy, or bouncy motion in core workflows.
- Don't Do not hide citations or provenance in a separate analytics page when it belongs beside the relevant text.
- Don't Do not let semantic amber or sage become broad backgrounds; keep them as small evidence-state cues.

### Accessibility

Use stable high contrast graphite text on warm surfaces, visible cyan focus rings, label-backed semantic states, reduced-motion defaults, and predictable keyboard navigation through documents, knots, cards, and evidence drawers.

### Usage Context

Best for AI knowledge workspaces, research notebooks, collaborative writing tools, legal or policy synthesis, product discovery repositories, and any text-first system where evidence must remain near the prose without becoming a dashboard.
shadcn/ui theme
```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "aya-quiet-woven-knowledge-workspace",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "AYA Quiet Woven Knowledge Workspace shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#F7F2E8",
      "foreground": "#252A2E",
      "card": "#FFFDF8",
      "card-foreground": "#252A2E",
      "popover": "#FFFDF8",
      "popover-foreground": "#252A2E",
      "primary": "#1EA7C6",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#f4f4f5",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#667075",
      "muted-foreground": "#252A2E",
      "accent": "#56BED0",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#B45C51",
      "border": "#DED4C2",
      "input": "#DED4C2",
      "ring": "#56BED0",
      "chart-1": "#1EA7C6",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#56BED0",
      "chart-4": "#6F8F74",
      "chart-5": "#B88743",
      "sidebar": "#FFFDF8",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#252A2E",
      "sidebar-primary": "#1EA7C6",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#1EA7C6",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#DED4C2",
      "sidebar-ring": "#56BED0",
      "radius": "10px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#1EA7C6",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#56BED0",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#B45C51",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#56BED0",
      "chart-1": "#1EA7C6",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#56BED0",
      "chart-4": "#6F8F74",
      "chart-5": "#B88743",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#1EA7C6",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#56BED0",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#56BED0",
      "radius": "10px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "aya-quiet-woven-knowledge-workspace",
    "slug": "aya-quiet-woven-knowledge-workspace",
    "componentManifest": [
      "button",
      "card",
      "input",
      "textarea",
      "select",
      "dialog",
      "sheet",
      "tabs",
      "badge",
      "separator",
      "checkbox",
      "switch",
      "slider",
      "tooltip",
      "dropdown-menu",
      "table"
    ],
    "installCommand": "npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table",
    "nativeTokenNames": {
      "borders": [
        "accent_width",
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "colors": [
        "accent",
        "background",
        "border",
        "border_soft",
        "error",
        "info",
        "muted",
        "primary",
        "primary_deep",
        "primary_soft",
        "selection",
        "subtle",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "surface_alt",
        "surface_inset",
        "text",
        "warning"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ],
      "radii": [
        "full",
        "lg",
        "md",
        "none",
        "sm",
        "xl"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "typography": [
        "base_size",
        "body_font",
        "density_roles",
        "google_fonts_url",
        "heading_font",
        "letter_spacing",
        "line_height",
        "mono_font",
        "scale_ratio"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```
in the wild

embodiments

Design Language Preview

AYA Quiet Woven Knowledge Workspace

Color Palette

primary
secondary
accent
background
surface
text
muted
border
error
success
warning
info

Typography

h1

Heading One

h2

Heading Two

h3

Heading Three

h4

Heading Four

body

Body text demonstrates the reading experience. Good typography is invisible — it lets the content speak without drawing attention to the letterforms themselves.

caption

Caption text for supplementary information and metadata.

code
const theme = applyTokens(designLanguage);
render(<App theme={theme} />);

Buttons

Form Controls

Navigation

tabs
Overview content area with contextual information about the design language.
segmented control
dropdown menu

Feedback & Status

badges
NewDefaultActivePendingErrorOutline
alerts
Info: A new version is available.
Success: Changes saved successfully.
Warning: Storage is almost full.
Error: Failed to process request.
progress
66% complete
tooltip
avatar
AKJDML

Containers & Overlays

card

Card Title

Cards group related content and actions. This example shows a basic content card with a title and description.

accordion

Design tokens are the atomic values of a design system — colors, spacing, typography, and other values stored as key-value pairs.

dialog
separator

Data Display

table
NameStatusCategoryScore
Neo BrutalismPublishedMaximalist94
Aero GlassDraftSpatial87
Signal UIReviewEnterprise91
stat cards
Languages
42
+12%
Elements
3,150
+8%
Usage
18.4k
+23%
DESIGN.md

at a glance

Palette

Typography

headline-lgNewsreader · 28px · 700

The quick brown fox jumps

headline-mdNewsreader · 23px · 600

The quick brown fox jumps

body-mdInter · 16px · 400

The quick brown fox jumps

label-mdIBM Plex Mono · 12px · 600

The quick brown fox jumps

Components

New
Card title

Components rendered with this language’s tokens — colors, type, and rounded corners as specified.

Spacing

  • base8px
  • xs4px
  • sm8px
  • md12px
  • lg16px
  • xl20px
  • 2xl24px
  • 3xl32px
  • 4xl40px
  • step-848px
  • step-964px
  • step-1080px

Shape

full9999px
lg16px
md10px
none0px
sm6px
xl22px
shadcn/ui

implementation kit

needs agent-authored kitcompatibility fallback
shadcn compatibility only
The generated theme variables are available, but the polished shadcn component recipes and shots have not been authored by the Katagami agent yet.
fallbackprimitives render
Compatibility proof
Local shadcn-style primitives accept the generated theme variables.
primaryaccentsurfacemutedwarningerror
table rhythm
buttonok
cardok
inputok
recommendedcompatibility fallback

DESIGN.md with shadcn

Copy this when the target app uses shadcn/ui. It packages the Katagami DESIGN.md context with the install list, theme variables, component recipes, preview-shot contract, and starter TSX in one Markdown companion.

advanced implementation filesoptional machine-readable theme, CSS, TSX starter, recipes, and preview contract
shadcn add
npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table
theme css
:root {
  --background: #F7F2E8;
  --foreground: #252A2E;
  --card: #FFFDF8;
  --card-foreground: #252A2E;
  --popover: #FFFDF8;
  --popover-foreground: #252A2E;
  --primary: #1EA7C6;
  --primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --secondary: #f4f4f5;
  --secondary-foreground: #111111;
  --muted: #667075;
  --muted-foreground: #252A2E;
  --accent: #56BED0;
  --accent-foreground: #ffffff;
  --destructive: #B45C51;
  --border: #DED4C2;
  --input: #DED4C2;
  --ring: #56BED0;
  --chart-1: #1EA7C6;
  --chart-2: #f4f4f5;
  --chart-3: #56BED0;
  --chart-4: #6F8F74;
  --chart-5: #B88743;
  --sidebar: #FFFDF8;
  --sidebar-foreground: #252A2E;
  --sidebar-primary: #1EA7C6;
  --sidebar-primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-accent: #1EA7C6;
  --sidebar-accent-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-border: #DED4C2;
  --sidebar-ring: #56BED0;
  --radius: 10px;
}

.dark {
  --background: #0f1115;
  --foreground: #f8fafc;
  --card: #181b22;
  --card-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --popover: #181b22;
  --popover-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --primary: #1EA7C6;
  --primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --secondary: #252a33;
  --secondary-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --muted: #252a33;
  --muted-foreground: #a1a1aa;
  --accent: #56BED0;
  --accent-foreground: #ffffff;
  --destructive: #B45C51;
  --border: #303642;
  --input: #303642;
  --ring: #56BED0;
  --chart-1: #1EA7C6;
  --chart-2: #f4f4f5;
  --chart-3: #56BED0;
  --chart-4: #6F8F74;
  --chart-5: #B88743;
  --sidebar: #181b22;
  --sidebar-foreground: #f8fafc;
  --sidebar-primary: #1EA7C6;
  --sidebar-primary-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-accent: #56BED0;
  --sidebar-accent-foreground: #ffffff;
  --sidebar-border: #303642;
  --sidebar-ring: #56BED0;
  --radius: 10px;
}
tsx starter
import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge";
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
import {
  Card,
  CardContent,
  CardDescription,
  CardFooter,
  CardHeader,
  CardTitle,
} from "@/components/ui/card";
import { Input } from "@/components/ui/input";
import { Tabs, TabsList, TabsTrigger } from "@/components/ui/tabs";

export function AyaQuietWovenKnowledgeWorkspaceShadcnKit() {
  return (
    <section className="grid gap-4 rounded-[var(--radius)] border bg-background p-4 text-foreground">
      <div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-4">
        <div>
          <Badge variant="outline">shadcn/ui</Badge>
          <h2 className="mt-3 text-2xl font-semibold tracking-tight">AYA Quiet Woven Knowledge Workspace</h2>
          <p className="mt-1 max-w-xl text-sm text-muted-foreground">
            Use the Katagami registry theme, then compose these shadcn primitives
            with the language-specific component recipes.
          </p>
        </div>
        <Button>Apply theme</Button>
      </div>

      <Tabs defaultValue="components">
        <TabsList>
          <TabsTrigger value="components">Components</TabsTrigger>
          <TabsTrigger value="states">States</TabsTrigger>
          <TabsTrigger value="export">Export</TabsTrigger>
        </TabsList>
      </Tabs>

      <Card>
        <CardHeader>
          <CardTitle>Component recipe</CardTitle>
          <CardDescription>
            Replace this starter content with the agent-authored product scene
            from components.md and preview-shots.json.
          </CardDescription>
        </CardHeader>
        <CardContent className="grid gap-3 sm:grid-cols-[1fr_auto]">
          <Input defaultValue="Tokenized shadcn surface" aria-label="Recipe name" />
          <Button variant="secondary">Preview state</Button>
        </CardContent>
        <CardFooter className="justify-between">
          <Badge>Ready</Badge>
          <Button variant="outline">Copy recipe</Button>
        </CardFooter>
      </Card>
    </section>
  );
}
theme JSONcompatibility fallback
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "aya-quiet-woven-knowledge-workspace",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "AYA Quiet Woven Knowledge Workspace shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#F7F2E8",
      "foreground": "#252A2E",
      "card": "#FFFDF8",
      "card-foreground": "#252A2E",
      "popover": "#FFFDF8",
      "popover-foreground": "#252A2E",
      "primary": "#1EA7C6",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#f4f4f5",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#667075",
      "muted-foreground": "#252A2E",
      "accent": "#56BED0",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#B45C51",
      "border": "#DED4C2",
      "input": "#DED4C2",
      "ring": "#56BED0",
      "chart-1": "#1EA7C6",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#56BED0",
      "chart-4": "#6F8F74",
      "chart-5": "#B88743",
      "sidebar": "#FFFDF8",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#252A2E",
      "sidebar-primary": "#1EA7C6",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#1EA7C6",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#DED4C2",
      "sidebar-ring": "#56BED0",
      "radius": "10px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#1EA7C6",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#56BED0",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#B45C51",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#56BED0",
      "chart-1": "#1EA7C6",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#56BED0",
      "chart-4": "#6F8F74",
      "chart-5": "#B88743",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#1EA7C6",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#56BED0",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#56BED0",
      "radius": "10px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "aya-quiet-woven-knowledge-workspace",
    "slug": "aya-quiet-woven-knowledge-workspace",
    "componentManifest": [
      "button",
      "card",
      "input",
      "textarea",
      "select",
      "dialog",
      "sheet",
      "tabs",
      "badge",
      "separator",
      "checkbox",
      "switch",
      "slider",
      "tooltip",
      "dropdown-menu",
      "table"
    ],
    "installCommand": "npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table",
    "nativeTokenNames": {
      "borders": [
        "accent_width",
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "colors": [
        "accent",
        "background",
        "border",
        "border_soft",
        "error",
        "info",
        "muted",
        "primary",
        "primary_deep",
        "primary_soft",
        "selection",
        "subtle",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "surface_alt",
        "surface_inset",
        "text",
        "warning"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ],
      "radii": [
        "full",
        "lg",
        "md",
        "none",
        "sm",
        "xl"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "typography": [
        "base_size",
        "body_font",
        "density_roles",
        "google_fonts_url",
        "heading_font",
        "letter_spacing",
        "line_height",
        "mono_font",
        "scale_ratio"
      ]
    }
  }
}
component recipescompatibility fallback
# AYA Quiet Woven Knowledge Workspace shadcn/ui Components

Artifact: `component-recipes-v1`
Author: `katagami-ui-projection`
Language ID: `aya-quiet-woven-knowledge-workspace`
Slug: `aya-quiet-woven-knowledge-workspace`

## Intent

A text-first knowledge workspace that feels like woven linen: warm, quiet, structured, tactile, and trustworthy. AYA treats documents, notes, citations, and evidence as one continuous fabric rather than separating prose from analytics. The interface is built from warm off-white surfaces, graphite text, fine rules, interleaved cards, and thread-like rails that guide attention without becoming chrome. Data is folded into the reading and writing flow as inline evidence cards, compact tables, citation knots, change strips, and small sparklines, never as a dark dashboard or decorative chart wall. A single soft blue-cyan accent scale marks focus, links, selection, and primary action; amber and sage appear only as muted evidence-state cues. The result is calm productivity with enough density for serious knowledge work and enough breath for sustained reading.

## Required primitives

- button
- card
- input
- textarea
- select
- dialog
- sheet
- tabs
- badge
- separator
- checkbox
- switch
- slider
- tooltip
- dropdown-menu
- table

Install with `npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table`.

## Token cues

Colors:

{
  "accent": "#56BED0",
  "background": "#F7F2E8",
  "border": "#DED4C2",
  "border_soft": "#E9E0D1",
  "error": "#B45C51",
  "info": "#1EA7C6",
  "muted": "#667075",
  "primary": "#1EA7C6",
  "primary_deep": "#0D667A",
  "primary_soft": "#DDF4F8",
  "selection": "#CBEFF5",
  "subtle": "#8A8174",
  "success": "#6F8F74",
  "surface": "#FFFDF8",
  "surface_alt": "#FBF7EE",
  "surface_inset": "#F3ECDD",
  "text": "#252A2E",
  "warning": "#B88743"
}

Typography:

{
  "base_size": "16px",
  "body_font": "Inter",
  "density_roles": {
    "annotation": "13-14px / 1.5 in side notes and citation cards",
    "metadata": "12-13px / 1.35 with mono fragments for IDs, dates, and sources",
    "reading": "18px / 1.68 line-height with 64-76ch measure",
    "scanning": "14-15px / 1.45 for lists, search results, and section summaries"
  },
  "google_fonts_url": "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@400;500;600;700&family=Newsreader:opsz,wght@6..72,500;6..72,600;6..72,700&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500;600&display=swap",
  "heading_font": "Newsreader",
  "letter_spacing": "-0.01em",
  "line_height": 1.58,
  "mono_font": "IBM Plex Mono",
  "scale_ratio": 1.2
}

## Visual character to preserve

- Warm canvas layers move from oat page background to linen sheets and paper-white writing surfaces, separated by 1px flax rules.
- Navigation and document structure use thread rails: slim vertical or horizontal lines with small knots for active locations, citations, and linked references.
- Evidence appears inline as quiet woven inserts: citation cards, note clusters, compact tables, marginal annotations, change strips, and sparklines embedded in text blocks.
- Blue-cyan is precise and restrained: focus rings, links, selected text, active rails, primary buttons, and connective affordances share the same token family.
- Typography shifts deliberately between comfortable article reading, scannable headings, dense metadata rows, mono identifiers, and smaller annotation text without breaking rhythm.

## ShadSync visual profile

{
  "family": "paper-collage",
  "material": "paper",
  "contour": "default",
  "border": "solid",
  "underlay": false,
  "grain": true,
  "stickerBadges": true,
  "motion": "still",
  "density": "dense",
  "accents": [
    "primary",
    "accent",
    "secondary",
    "muted"
  ]
}

## Signature component recipes

### Button
Use `Button` for primary, secondary, outline, and ghost actions. Primary actions must expose the language's strongest contrast pair, while secondary and ghost actions should preserve the surface treatment instead of falling back to default neutral SaaS styling.

### Card
Use `Card`, `CardHeader`, `CardContent`, `CardFooter`, and `CardAction` as the main composition frame. Cards should demonstrate the language's surface, border, hierarchy, and density rules rather than appearing as generic rounded rectangles.

### Input and Textarea
Use `Input` and `Textarea` with visible focus rings, field labels, validation states, and the language's rhythm. Forms should show real product content, not placeholder-only controls.

### Select, Tabs, and Table
Use `Select`, `Tabs`, and `Table` to prove navigation, filtering, and dense data states. The table should show row rhythm, separators, hover/focus states, and an empty or status state when the language calls for it.

### Dialog and Sheet
Use `Dialog` for centered decisions and `Sheet` for contextual editing. Both should inherit the language's spacing, border, overlay, and motion rules.

## Preview shots

- `application-shell`: dashboard or workspace shell with navigation, cards, forms, and state badges.
- `detail-editor`: focused editing flow using input, textarea, select, switch/checkbox, dialog or sheet, and action buttons.
- `data-operations`: table-heavy operational view with tabs, dropdown menu affordances, badges, and destructive/empty states.
- Each preview shot must include a renderable `scene` payload with concrete headline, description, actions, and rows/fields/stats for the UI preview.

## Implementation contract

- Start from local `ui/src/components/ui` shadcn-style primitives; do not create a second component system.
- Apply `/katagami/shadcn/aya-quiet-woven-knowledge-workspace/registry-theme.json` variables, then use these recipes for composition and state design.
- Preserve Katagami token names as source metadata; shadcn semantic names are only the export surface.
- Do: Keep the product predominantly neutral and warm; make blue-cyan the shared language for focus, action, links, and selection.; Embed metrics, trends, and tables inside the document flow as evidence surfaces with provenance and labels.; Use thread rails, fine rules, citation knots, and interleaved cards as the recognizable woven motif.; Alternate typography density intentionally across reading, scanning, metadata, and annotation contexts.; Prefer borders, inset bands, and paper layering before shadows or color blocks.; Pair every semantic color with a label, icon, notch, or explanatory text.; Use progressive disclosure so detailed evidence is available without fragmenting attention.
- Do not: Do not open with KPI cards, chart grids, or a dark analytics dashboard frame.; Do not use saturated gradients, decorative data visualizations, or multi-accent feature colors.; Do not make body text pale gray or sacrifice contrast for softness.; Do not turn every note into a floating card; preserve document continuity.; Do not use playful stickers, mascot energy, or bouncy motion in core workflows.; Do not hide citations or provenance in a separate analytics page when it belongs beside the relevant text.; Do not let semantic amber or sage become broad backgrounds; keep them as small evidence-state cues.

## Copy-paste component example

This generated starter proves the import shape. Production Katagami agents should replace it with a language-specific product composition.

```tsx
import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge";
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
import {
  Card,
  CardContent,
  CardDescription,
  CardFooter,
  CardHeader,
  CardTitle,
} from "@/components/ui/card";
import { Input } from "@/components/ui/input";
import { Tabs, TabsList, TabsTrigger } from "@/components/ui/tabs";

export function AyaQuietWovenKnowledgeWorkspaceShadcnKit() {
  return (
    <section className="grid gap-4 rounded-[var(--radius)] border bg-background p-4 text-foreground">
      <div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-4">
        <div>
          <Badge variant="outline">shadcn/ui</Badge>
          <h2 className="mt-3 text-2xl font-semibold tracking-tight">AYA Quiet Woven Knowledge Workspace</h2>
          <p className="mt-1 max-w-xl text-sm text-muted-foreground">
            Use the Katagami registry theme, then compose these shadcn primitives
            with the language-specific component recipes.
          </p>
        </div>
        <Button>Apply theme</Button>
      </div>

      <Tabs defaultValue="components">
        <TabsList>
          <TabsTrigger value="components">Components</TabsTrigger>
          <TabsTrigger value="states">States</TabsTrigger>
          <TabsTrigger value="export">Export</TabsTrigger>
        </TabsList>
      </Tabs>

      <Card>
        <CardHeader>
          <CardTitle>Component recipe</CardTitle>
          <CardDescription>
            Replace this starter content with the agent-authored product scene
            from components.md and preview-shots.json.
          </CardDescription>
        </CardHeader>
        <CardContent className="grid gap-3 sm:grid-cols-[1fr_auto]">
          <Input defaultValue="Tokenized shadcn surface" aria-label="Recipe name" />
          <Button variant="secondary">Preview state</Button>
        </CardContent>
        <CardFooter className="justify-between">
          <Badge>Ready</Badge>
          <Button variant="outline">Copy recipe</Button>
        </CardFooter>
      </Card>
    </section>
  );
}
```

## Layout notes

{
  "breakpoints": "Mobile <= 640px collapses rail and margin into a top document switcher plus inline evidence drawers; tablet 641-1024px keeps the document primary with evidence below or as a slide-in sheet; desktop >= 1025px uses full rail/document/evidence composition.",
  "density": "Balanced text-first density: spacious prose lines, compact evidence modules, and dense metadata only where retrieval or provenance requires it.",
  "grid": "Desktop uses a 12-column workspace with a 72px thread nav, 240px optional library column, 640-780px primary document measure, and 280-340px evidence margin. Gutters follow the 8px scale and align rules across columns.",
  "responsive": "On small screens, preserve reading order: prose first, citation knot second, evidence card third. Compact tables become stacked evidence rows; thread navigation becomes a horizontal stitched index.",
  "whitespace": "Whitespace should feel like margins in a well-made notebook: 24-32px around reading sheets, 16-24px inside cards, and tighter 8-12px gaps inside metadata bands."
}
preview shotscompatibility fallback
{
  "artifact": "katagami:shadcn-preview-shots",
  "version": "preview-shots-v1",
  "generator": "katagami-ui-compatibility-projection",
  "generatedBy": "katagami-ui-projection",
  "requiresVisualProfile": true,
  "schema": "katagami:shadcn-preview-shots/renderable-v1",
  "renderable": true,
  "language": {
    "id": "aya-quiet-woven-knowledge-workspace",
    "name": "AYA Quiet Woven Knowledge Workspace",
    "slug": "aya-quiet-woven-knowledge-workspace"
  },
  "installCommand": "npx shadcn@latest add button card input textarea select dialog sheet tabs badge separator checkbox switch slider tooltip dropdown-menu table",
  "primitives": [
    "button",
    "card",
    "input",
    "textarea",
    "select",
    "dialog",
    "sheet",
    "tabs",
    "badge",
    "separator",
    "checkbox",
    "switch",
    "slider",
    "tooltip",
    "dropdown-menu",
    "table"
  ],
  "identityNotes": [
    "Warm canvas layers move from oat page background to linen sheets and paper-white writing surfaces, separated by 1px flax rules.",
    "Navigation and document structure use thread rails: slim vertical or horizontal lines with small knots for active locations, citations, and linked references.",
    "Evidence appears inline as quiet woven inserts: citation cards, note clusters, compact tables, marginal annotations, change strips, and sparklines embedded in text blocks.",
    "Blue-cyan is precise and restrained: focus rings, links, selected text, active rails, primary buttons, and connective affordances share the same token family.",
    "Typography shifts deliberately between comfortable article reading, scannable headings, dense metadata rows, mono identifiers, and smaller annotation text without breaking rhythm."
  ],
  "visualProfile": {
    "family": "paper-collage",
    "material": "paper",
    "contour": "default",
    "border": "solid",
    "underlay": false,
    "grain": true,
    "stickerBadges": true,
    "motion": "still",
    "density": "dense",
    "accents": [
      "primary",
      "accent",
      "secondary",
      "muted"
    ]
  },
  "shots": [
    {
      "id": "application-shell",
      "title": "Application shell",
      "viewport": "desktop",
      "primitives": [
        "button",
        "card",
        "input",
        "select",
        "tabs",
        "badge",
        "separator",
        "table"
      ],
      "composition": "A real product workspace with navigation, summary cards, filtering controls, and one dense content region.",
      "mustShow": [
        "primary and secondary actions",
        "card hierarchy",
        "filterable state",
        "table or list density"
      ],
      "avoid": [
        "component inventory walls",
        "placeholder-only content",
        "generic rounded SaaS chrome"
      ],
      "scene": {
        "eyebrow": "workspace spread",
        "headline": "AYA Quiet Woven Knowledge Workspace launch room",
        "description": "A product team workspace where navigation, filters, metrics, and dense rows carry the language's visible structure.",
        "primaryAction": "Apply theme",
        "secondaryAction": "Review states",
        "stats": [
          {
            "label": "components",
            "value": "16",
            "tone": "accent"
          },
          {
            "label": "states",
            "value": "ready"
          },
          {
            "label": "density",
            "value": "balanced",
            "tone": "warning"
          }
        ],
        "rows": [
          {
            "label": "Primary flow",
            "value": "mapped",
            "status": "active"
          },
          {
            "label": "Token coverage",
            "value": "semantic",
            "status": "synced"
          },
          {
            "label": "Responsive proof",
            "value": "queued",
            "status": "review"
          }
        ],
        "statuses": [
          "Active",
          "Synced",
          "Draft"
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "detail-editor",
      "title": "Detail editor",
      "viewport": "tablet",
      "primitives": [
        "button",
        "card",
        "input",
        "textarea",
        "select",
        "checkbox",
        "switch",
        "slider",
        "dialog",
        "sheet"
      ],
      "composition": "A focused editing flow with form fields, validation, confirmation, and a contextual side panel.",
      "mustShow": [
        "focus ring",
        "error or destructive state",
        "dialog or sheet treatment",
        "written guidance content"
      ],
      "avoid": [
        "unstyled browser controls",
        "floating cards inside cards",
        "missing labels"
      ],
      "scene": {
        "eyebrow": "editing flow",
        "headline": "Language recipe editor",
        "description": "A focused form proving labels, validation, toggles, panel rhythm, and action hierarchy.",
        "primaryAction": "Save recipe",
        "secondaryAction": "Open sheet",
        "fields": [
          {
            "label": "Component family",
            "value": "Narrative cards"
          },
          {
            "label": "State treatment",
            "value": "Visible focus + validation"
          },
          {
            "label": "Motion",
            "value": "Small lift, no opacity-only fade"
          }
        ],
        "statuses": [
          "Focus",
          "Invalid",
          "Confirmed"
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "data-operations",
      "title": "Data operations",
      "viewport": "mobile",
      "primitives": [
        "button",
        "tabs",
        "badge",
        "dropdown-menu",
        "table",
        "tooltip",
        "separator"
      ],
      "composition": "A compact operational view proving row rhythm, stacked actions, menu states, badges, and empty/destructive states.",
      "mustShow": [
        "responsive reflow",
        "dense row styling",
        "menu affordance",
        "status badge system"
      ],
      "avoid": [
        "desktop-only tables",
        "text overflow",
        "default shadcn spacing without Katagami character"
      ],
      "scene": {
        "eyebrow": "operations",
        "headline": "Compact review queue",
        "description": "A narrow viewport scene with rows, menus, tooltips, badges, and destructive affordances.",
        "primaryAction": "Resolve",
        "secondaryAction": "Filter",
        "rows": [
          {
            "label": "Button hierarchy",
            "value": "approved",
            "status": "ok"
          },
          {
            "label": "Table rhythm",
            "value": "needs pass",
            "status": "watch"
          },
          {
            "label": "Empty state",
            "value": "designed",
            "status": "done"
          }
        ],
        "statuses": [
          "Queued",
          "Blocked",
          "Done"
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "componentRecipes": [
    {
      "primitive": "button",
      "intent": "Prove action hierarchy, focus, disabled, and destructive states."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "card",
      "intent": "Carry the language surface, border, elevation, and density rules."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "input",
      "intent": "Show labels, focus rings, validation, and spacing rhythm."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "textarea",
      "intent": "Show longer guidance, validation copy, and writing density."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "select",
      "intent": "Show filtering, selection contrast, and menu trigger styling."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "dialog",
      "intent": "Show centered decision states and overlay treatment."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "sheet",
      "intent": "Show contextual side panels and responsive editing."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "tabs",
      "intent": "Show navigational structure and active/inactive contrast."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "badge",
      "intent": "Show compact status vocabulary and semantic colors."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "separator",
      "intent": "Show section rhythm without generic gray dividers."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "checkbox",
      "intent": "Show binary selection with visible focus and checked states."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "switch",
      "intent": "Show settings toggles and on/off contrast."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "slider",
      "intent": "Show numeric adjustment with track/thumb styling."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "tooltip",
      "intent": "Show concise explanation styling above compact controls."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "dropdown-menu",
      "intent": "Show action menus, destructive items, and grouped choices."
    },
    {
      "primitive": "table",
      "intent": "Show dense operational data, separators, row states, and responsive behavior."
    }
  ],
  "qualityRules": {
    "do": [
      "Keep the product predominantly neutral and warm; make blue-cyan the shared language for focus, action, links, and selection.",
      "Embed metrics, trends, and tables inside the document flow as evidence surfaces with provenance and labels.",
      "Use thread rails, fine rules, citation knots, and interleaved cards as the recognizable woven motif.",
      "Alternate typography density intentionally across reading, scanning, metadata, and annotation contexts.",
      "Prefer borders, inset bands, and paper layering before shadows or color blocks.",
      "Pair every semantic color with a label, icon, notch, or explanatory text.",
      "Use progressive disclosure so detailed evidence is available without fragmenting attention."
    ],
    "dont": [
      "Do not open with KPI cards, chart grids, or a dark analytics dashboard frame.",
      "Do not use saturated gradients, decorative data visualizations, or multi-accent feature colors.",
      "Do not make body text pale gray or sacrifice contrast for softness.",
      "Do not turn every note into a floating card; preserve document continuity.",
      "Do not use playful stickers, mascot energy, or bouncy motion in core workflows.",
      "Do not hide citations or provenance in a separate analytics page when it belongs beside the relevant text.",
      "Do not let semantic amber or sage become broad backgrounds; keep them as small evidence-state cues."
    ]
  }
}
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