Hardpress

# Hardpress

## Philosophy

Hardpress is the refined neo-brutalist poster interface: every surface is a hand-pulled plate, outlined in keyline black, filled flat with one loud spot ink, and pinned to a warm paper ground with a hard zero-blur offset shadow slightly off the register. It keeps the source's exposed construction and acid-bright colour while bringing it up to standard with a maker's-mark name, a breathing layout, a full-viewport image hero, and a no-JS settled render. Nothing floats, nothing fades; the user always knows what is grab-able because every element declares itself with graphic force.

### Values

- Structural honesty through visible keylines, dividers, and offset shadows instead of hidden chrome.
- Confrontational clarity where actions are obvious before the user reads supporting copy.
- Graphic energy built from poster-scale type, flat spot inks, and deliberate misregistration.
- A settled, fully-rendered page first; motion is added on top, never required to read it.

### Anti-Values

- Soft luxury minimalism with dissolved boundaries.
- Glass, blur, gradient, and translucency polish.
- Understated controls that disappear into a neutral white layout.
- Muddied or pastel washes that drain the inks of their voice.

## Tokens

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#FFF7E8` |
| surface | `#FFFFFF` |
| surface_2 | `#FBEFD7` |
| text | `#141210` |
| muted | `#5C5346` |
| border | `#141210` |
| accent | `#FFD400` |
| accent_2 | `#FF4F8B` |
| accent_3 | `#1769FF` |
| on_accent | `#141210` |
| success | `#16A34A` |
| warning | `#F59E0B` |
| error | `#FF5A36` |
| info | `#1769FF` |

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 17px
- **Body Font**: Space Grotesk
- **Heading Font**: Archivo Black
- **Mono Font**: IBM Plex Mono
- **Heading Weight**: 400
- **Heading Transform**: uppercase
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.02em
- **Scale Ratio**: 1.25
- **Line Height**: 1.5
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Archivo+Black&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500;600&family=Space+Grotesk:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap

### Radii

- **None**: 0px
- **Tag**: 9999px

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 3px 3px 0 0 #141210
- **Md**: 6px 6px 0 0 #141210
- **Lg**: 9px 9px 0 0 #141210

### Spacing

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

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: screenprint
- **Card Style**: flat ink slabs and white plates with hard zero-blur offset shadows
- **Bg Pattern**: ruled-grid

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 3px
- **Accent Width**: 4px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: hard keyline-black outlines on every interactive and structural surface

### Motion

- **Duration**: 150ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(0.15,0.85,0.3,1)
- **Philosophy**: snappy, physical, plate-press

## Rules

### Composition

Poster-like modules on an honest grid: one oversized hero plate, blunt utility plates, and sticker elements that cross container edges. Cards never nest; navigation breathes as part of the page rather than a floating pill bar.

### Hierarchy

Order comes from scale, keyline weight, and ink fill. The primary action takes the dominant ink and the largest shadow; supporting surfaces reset to white or paper with the same outline language.

### Density

Moderately dense but never cramped; many plates coexist while each keeps visible padding and margin so it reads as its own printed tile.

### Signature

Every meaningful surface is a pulled plate (3-4px keyline + zero-blur offset shadow); pressed controls slam down and collapse the shadow; tape-tags carry tracked mono micro-labels; one rotated sticker pins each hero; colour is flat slabs, one dominant ink per region; the printer's registration crosshair is the through-line mark.

## Layout

### Grid

Desktop uses an uneven poster grid with broad hero spans and narrow utility plates; tablet collapses toward two-up; mobile stacks to one loud column with occasional two-up metric rows.

### Whitespace

16-24px gaps between neighbouring plates, 32px around hero blocks, generous outer margins and always padding above titles so loud plates breathe like placards pinned to a wall.

### Density

Substantial but legible — many real plates, never a thin gallery.

### Responsive

Renders ~390px to 2560px+. Mobile stacks single-column, hides non-essential nav links and table columns, and never overflows; grids use minmax(0,1fr) + min-width:0 so children shrink. Ultra-wide caps and centres the contained column; only the full-bleed hero spans 100vw.

### Breakpoints

- **Mobile**: 0-599px
- **Tablet**: 600-899px
- **Desktop**: 900-1439px
- **Wide**: 1440px+

## Guidance

### Do

- Give every meaningful surface a keyline and an offset shadow so it reads as a pulled plate.
- Use one dominant ink per region and let neighbouring plates reset to white or paper.
- Keep focus, hover, pressed, and disabled states explicit with movement, outline, and fill.
- Pair aggressive display headlines with concise body copy so it stays legible despite the loud voice.

### Don't

- Do not add blur, translucency, or gradient polish that softens the exposed construction.
- Do not round everything into friendly pills; the firmness and square corners are the point.
- Do not make every plate equally saturated or oversized, or hierarchy collapses into noise.
- Do not mute the inks into pastel washes or muddy tones.

### Accessibility

Body text 17px+, table rows 14.5px+, high contrast on warm paper (keyline-black ink, white type only over the saturated ink slabs). Settled state renders with no JavaScript; motion is gated and respects prefers-reduced-motion. Controls are explicitly styled with no browser defaults; no emoji or symbol glyphs in copy or alt text.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

misprint

### Summary

Hand-pulled screenprint imagery: heavy black keylines around every form, misregistered acid-yellow / fluoro-pink / federal-blue separations, coarse halftone fields over a warm paper ground, hard zero-blur offset shadows. Bold cropped still lifes and object cutouts pinned into loud graphic frames, never atmospheric or glossy.

### Subjects

- printing presses and type cases
- ink rollers and drums
- paper stacks and proofs
- studio objects and tools
- bold object still lifes

### Usage

Use as the full-bleed landing hero and as feature/empty-state spots. Generate via the Misprint art style; keep one colour dominant per image and push the plate misregistration explicitly.

---
version: "alpha"
name: "Hardpress"
description: "Hardpress is the refined neo-brutalist poster interface: every surface is a hand-pulled plate, outlined in keyline black, filled flat with one loud spot ink, and pinned to a warm paper ground with a hard zero-blur offset shadow slightly..."
colors:
  bg: "#FFF7E8"
  surface: "#FFFFFF"
  surface_2: "#FBEFD7"
  text: "#141210"
  muted: "#5C5346"
  border: "#141210"
  accent: "#FFD400"
  accent_2: "#FF4F8B"
  accent_3: "#1769FF"
  on_accent: "#141210"
  success: "#16A34A"
  warning: "#F59E0B"
  error: "#FF5A36"
  info: "#1769FF"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Archivo Black"
    fontSize: "2.075rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Archivo Black"
    fontSize: "1.66rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "Space Grotesk"
    fontSize: "17px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "IBM Plex Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  none: "0px"
  tag: "9999px"
spacing:
  base: "8px"
  xs: "4px"
  sm: "8px"
  md: "12px"
  lg: "16px"
  xl: "24px"
  2xl: "32px"
  3xl: "48px"
  4xl: "64px"
components:
  color-reference-bg:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.bg}"
  color-reference-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
  color-reference-surface_2:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface_2}"
  color-reference-text:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.text}"
  color-reference-muted:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.muted}"
  color-reference-border:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.border}"
  color-reference-accent:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent}"
  color-reference-accent_2:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent_2}"
  color-reference-accent_3:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent_3}"
  color-reference-on_accent:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.on_accent}"
  color-reference-success:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.success}"
  color-reference-warning:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.warning}"
  color-reference-error:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.error}"
  color-reference-info:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.info}"
  button-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent}"
    textColor: "{colors.on_accent}"
    typography: "{typography.label-md}"
    rounded: "{rounded.none}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  card-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.none}"
    padding: "{spacing.md}"
  input-default:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
    textColor: "{colors.text}"
    rounded: "{rounded.none}"
    height: "44px"
---

# Hardpress

## Overview

Hardpress is the refined neo-brutalist poster interface: every surface is a hand-pulled plate, outlined in keyline black, filled flat with one loud spot ink, and pinned to a warm paper ground with a hard zero-blur offset shadow slightly off the register. It keeps the source's exposed construction and acid-bright colour while bringing it up to standard with a maker's-mark name, a breathing layout, a full-viewport image hero, and a no-JS settled render. Nothing floats, nothing fades; the user always knows what is grab-able because every element declares itself with graphic force.

### Values

- Structural honesty through visible keylines, dividers, and offset shadows instead of hidden chrome.
- Confrontational clarity where actions are obvious before the user reads supporting copy.
- Graphic energy built from poster-scale type, flat spot inks, and deliberate misregistration.
- A settled, fully-rendered page first; motion is added on top, never required to read it.

### Anti-Values

- Soft luxury minimalism with dissolved boundaries.
- Glass, blur, gradient, and translucency polish.
- Understated controls that disappear into a neutral white layout.
- Muddied or pastel washes that drain the inks of their voice.

## Colors

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

| Token | Value |
|-------|-------|
| bg | `#FFF7E8` |
| surface | `#FFFFFF` |
| surface_2 | `#FBEFD7` |
| text | `#141210` |
| muted | `#5C5346` |
| border | `#141210` |
| accent | `#FFD400` |
| accent_2 | `#FF4F8B` |
| accent_3 | `#1769FF` |
| on_accent | `#141210` |
| success | `#16A34A` |
| warning | `#F59E0B` |
| error | `#FF5A36` |
| info | `#1769FF` |

## Typography

Load the fonts from Google Fonts: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Archivo+Black&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500;600&family=Space+Grotesk:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap

- **Headline-Lg**: Archivo Black, 2.075rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Archivo Black, 1.66rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Space Grotesk, 17px, weight 400, line-height 1.5.
- **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**: `24px`
- **2xl**: `32px`
- **3xl**: `48px`
- **4xl**: `64px`

### Grid

Desktop uses an uneven poster grid with broad hero spans and narrow utility plates; tablet collapses toward two-up; mobile stacks to one loud column with occasional two-up metric rows.

### Whitespace

16-24px gaps between neighbouring plates, 32px around hero blocks, generous outer margins and always padding above titles so loud plates breathe like placards pinned to a wall.

### Density

Substantial but legible — many real plates, never a thin gallery.

### Responsive

Renders ~390px to 2560px+. Mobile stacks single-column, hides non-essential nav links and table columns, and never overflows; grids use minmax(0,1fr) + min-width:0 so children shrink. Ultra-wide caps and centres the contained column; only the full-bleed hero spans 100vw.

### Breakpoints

- **Mobile**: 0-599px
- **Tablet**: 600-899px
- **Desktop**: 900-1439px
- **Wide**: 1440px+

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 3px 3px 0 0 #141210
- **Md**: 6px 6px 0 0 #141210
- **Lg**: 9px 9px 0 0 #141210

## Shapes

### Rounded

- **None**: `0px`
- **Tag**: `9999px`

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: screenprint
- **Card Style**: flat ink slabs and white plates with hard zero-blur offset shadows
- **Bg Pattern**: ruled-grid

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 3px
- **Accent Width**: 4px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: hard keyline-black outlines on every interactive and structural surface

## Components

### Composition

Poster-like modules on an honest grid: one oversized hero plate, blunt utility plates, and sticker elements that cross container edges. Cards never nest; navigation breathes as part of the page rather than a floating pill bar.

### Hierarchy

Order comes from scale, keyline weight, and ink fill. The primary action takes the dominant ink and the largest shadow; supporting surfaces reset to white or paper with the same outline language.

### Density

Moderately dense but never cramped; many plates coexist while each keeps visible padding and margin so it reads as its own printed tile.

### Signature

Every meaningful surface is a pulled plate (3-4px keyline + zero-blur offset shadow); pressed controls slam down and collapse the shadow; tape-tags carry tracked mono micro-labels; one rotated sticker pins each hero; colour is flat slabs, one dominant ink per region; the printer's registration crosshair is the through-line mark.

## 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/en-019efa1a-bbee-75c0-8aae-6e63544ab52d/DESIGN.with-shadcn.md`.

Machine-readable companions for automation: `/language/en-019efa1a-bbee-75c0-8aae-6e63544ab52d/shadcn.json` (registry theme), `/language/en-019efa1a-bbee-75c0-8aae-6e63544ab52d/shadcn-components.md` (component recipes) and `/language/en-019efa1a-bbee-75c0-8aae-6e63544ab52d/shadcn-shots.json` (preview shots). The human-facing handoff is still 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 Give every meaningful surface a keyline and an offset shadow so it reads as a pulled plate.
- Do Use one dominant ink per region and let neighbouring plates reset to white or paper.
- Do Keep focus, hover, pressed, and disabled states explicit with movement, outline, and fill.
- Do Pair aggressive display headlines with concise body copy so it stays legible despite the loud voice.
- Don't Do not add blur, translucency, or gradient polish that softens the exposed construction.
- Don't Do not round everything into friendly pills; the firmness and square corners are the point.
- Don't Do not make every plate equally saturated or oversized, or hierarchy collapses into noise.
- Don't Do not mute the inks into pastel washes or muddy tones.

### Accessibility

Body text 17px+, table rows 14.5px+, high contrast on warm paper (keyline-black ink, white type only over the saturated ink slabs). Settled state renders with no JavaScript; motion is gated and respects prefers-reduced-motion. Controls are explicitly styled with no browser defaults; no emoji or symbol glyphs in copy or alt text.

## Imagery Direction

### Pairs With

misprint

### Summary

Hand-pulled screenprint imagery: heavy black keylines around every form, misregistered acid-yellow / fluoro-pink / federal-blue separations, coarse halftone fields over a warm paper ground, hard zero-blur offset shadows. Bold cropped still lifes and object cutouts pinned into loud graphic frames, never atmospheric or glossy.

### Subjects

- printing presses and type cases
- ink rollers and drums
- paper stacks and proofs
- studio objects and tools
- bold object still lifes

### Usage

Use as the full-bleed landing hero and as feature/empty-state spots. Generate via the Misprint art style; keep one colour dominant per image and push the plate misregistration explicitly.

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "hardpress",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Hardpress shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#FFF7E8",
      "foreground": "#141210",
      "card": "#FFFFFF",
      "card-foreground": "#141210",
      "popover": "#FFFFFF",
      "popover-foreground": "#141210",
      "primary": "#141210",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#f4f4f5",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#5C5346",
      "muted-foreground": "#141210",
      "accent": "#FFD400",
      "accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "destructive": "#FF5A36",
      "border": "#141210",
      "input": "#141210",
      "ring": "#FFD400",
      "chart-1": "#141210",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#FFD400",
      "chart-4": "#16A34A",
      "chart-5": "#F59E0B",
      "sidebar": "#FFFFFF",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#141210",
      "sidebar-primary": "#141210",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#1769FF",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#141210",
      "sidebar-ring": "#FFD400",
      "radius": "0.625rem"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#141210",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#FFD400",
      "accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "destructive": "#FF5A36",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#FFD400",
      "chart-1": "#141210",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#FFD400",
      "chart-4": "#16A34A",
      "chart-5": "#F59E0B",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#141210",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#FFD400",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#111111",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#FFD400",
      "radius": "0.625rem"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019efa1a-bbee-75c0-8aae-6e63544ab52d",
    "slug": "hardpress",
    "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": {
      "colors": [
        "accent",
        "accent_2",
        "accent_3",
        "bg",
        "border",
        "error",
        "info",
        "muted",
        "on_accent",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "surface_2",
        "text",
        "warning"
      ],
      "typography": [
        "base_size",
        "body_font",
        "google_fonts_url",
        "heading_font",
        "heading_transform",
        "heading_weight",
        "letter_spacing",
        "line_height",
        "mono_font",
        "scale_ratio"
      ],
      "radii": [
        "none",
        "tag"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "borders": [
        "accent_width",
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```