Nijimi

# Nijimi

## Philosophy

A design language that feels like an authored Tokyo illustration annual rather than a startup interface: cream paper grounds, pale gouache washes bleeding off-register from black sumi-ink figure lines, and small editorial notes framing each moment as a cropped poster fragment.

### Values

- authored imperfection over polished neutrality
- narrative vignettes over component catalogs
- quiet typography with strong image-space tension
- cultural poster memory over explicit branding
- human linework over vector sterility

### Anti-Values

- dashboard blandness
- full-bleed corporate gradients
- overweight UI chrome
- loud growth-product color coding
- symmetrical template sameness

### Visual Character

- cream paper ground #f5eedf with subtle radial grain, warm edge tint, and no pure-white expanses
- black ink outlines as 1.5px #27211c keylines sitting slightly off-register from pale gouache wash shapes via transform offsets
- poster-framed panels with 32-48px margins, hard paper edges, 24px soft outer corners only on cards, and asymmetric cropping so illustrations break the frame
- compact editorial captions in IBM Plex Mono uppercase at 11px, thin rules, issue/date metadata, corner anchoring
- softly misaligned stamps, underlines, accent bars, and side rules shifted 3-8px to imply hand assembly

## Tokens

### Colors

| Name | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#f5eedf` |
| surface | `#fff9ef` |
| surface_solid | `#fbf4e6` |
| text | `#241f1b` |
| muted | `#6b5e54` |
| border | `#27211c` |
| accent | `#4f7c8b` |
| accent_2 | `#b06a5d` |
| accent_soft | `#d9e2e0` |
| accent_deep | `#2f5561` |
| on_accent | `#fbf4e6` |
| success | `#4f6a47` |
| warning | `#a9762e` |
| error | `#a5403a` |
| info | `#4a637a` |

### Typography

- **Base Size**: 17px
- **Body Font**: Zen Old Mincho
- **Heading Font**: Aoboshi One
- **Mono Font**: IBM Plex Mono
- **Heading Weight**: 400
- **Heading Transform**: none
- **Letter Spacing**: -0.02em
- **Line Height**: 1.55
- **Scale Ratio**: 1.2
- **Google Fonts Url**: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Aoboshi+One&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500&family=Zen+Old+Mincho:wght@400;500;700&display=swap

### Radii

- **None**: 0px
- **Md**: 16px
- **Lg**: 24px
- **Full**: 9999px

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 2px 0 rgba(39,33,28,0.08)
- **Md**: 0 10px 30px rgba(74,55,34,0.10)
- **Lg**: 0 20px 60px rgba(74,55,34,0.14)

### Spacing

- **Base**: 8px
- **Scale**: [4,8,12,16,24,32,48,64,96]

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: paper
- **Card Style**: cream poster cards with pale wash underpainting and visible grain overlays
- **Bg Pattern**: noise

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 1.5px
- **Accent Width**: 3px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: thin ink-keyline borders with occasional offset accent rules and stamp circles

### Motion

- **Duration**: 220ms
- **Easing**: cubic-bezier(0.22, 0.8, 0.2, 1)
- **Philosophy**: deliberate

## Rules

### Composition

Build pages as a poster wall of narrative fragments: one dominant hero vignette, supporting cropped scenes, and a narrow editorial rail for metadata rather than conventional app navigation.

### Density

Moderate density with small captions and generous outer margins; internal clusters can feel tight, but every major poster panel needs breathing room around it.

### Hierarchy

Illustration and wash fields lead first, headline second, caption system third. Labels stay compact and low-volume so the image framing carries the emotional weight.

### Signature Patterns

- every major panel has an oversized poster margin, a 1.5px ink keyline, and an inner figure vignette cropped off at least one edge with overflow hidden
- wash blobs sit behind content with a 6-12px transform offset from the black ink outline layer using translucent #b06a5d and #4f7c8b fields
- captions use tiny uppercase IBM Plex Mono labels with thin horizontal rules, issue/date metadata, and tight 4-8px internal spacing
- select accent details such as stamps, underlines, and side rules are intentionally misaligned by 3-8px using rotate and translate transforms
- buttons and inputs read like clipped paper labels with 1.5px ink keylines, consistent 16px radii, and pale wash fills rather than glossy controls

## Layout

### Grid

A 12-column poster grid on desktop collapsing to 8 and then 4 columns; hero scene spans 7 columns, editorial rail spans 5, and lower fragments interlock with deliberate asymmetry.

### Breakpoints

Desktop >= 1200px, tablet 760-1199px, mobile <= 759px. On smaller screens the poster rail stacks beneath the hero while preserving cropped framing and caption anchoring. The landing is art-directed at four bands: wide 1920+, desktop 1440, tablet 768-1024, mobile 390.

### Whitespace

Use generous page margins and card padding to emulate print borders; allow tighter spacing only inside caption clusters and metadata strips.

## Guidance

### Do

- use hand-drawn line motifs and imperfect registration to make digital layouts feel authored
- pair restrained Zen Old Mincho reading text with tiny IBM Plex Mono metadata for editorial credibility
- treat each section like a gallery poster excerpt rather than a product module
- keep the palette washed and nuanced, with accent hues arriving in irregular fields
- crop illustration panels asymmetrically and let captions anchor corners instead of centering content
- use near-paper shadows and ink keylines sparingly so the poster construction remains the signature

### Don't

- do not introduce SaaS dashboard cards or metric-heavy panels
- do not use ultra-bold geometric sans for primary reading text
- do not center everything symmetrically
- do not polish away offset edges, texture, or illustration marks
- do not add synthetic neon accents or rainbow category coding
- do not render browser-default controls; inputs and selects must look like clipped paper labels

## Imagery Direction

### Summary

Black sumi-ink figure-line illustrations over pale gouache wash blocks on cream paper, printed off-register; cropped Tokyo vignettes plus stamp circles and editorial zine captions.

### Pairs With

nijimi-wash

### Palette

cream #f5eedf, ink #241f1b, dusty teal #4f7c8b, faded terracotta #b06a5d, soft sage #607a57, muted ochre #bf8b3d

### Subjects

- Tokyo backstreets
- kissaten storefronts
- alley lanterns
- train platforms
- low rooftops
- still-life objects
- lone figures under umbrellas

---
version: "alpha"
name: "Nijimi"
description: "A design language that feels like an authored Tokyo illustration annual rather than a startup interface: cream paper grounds, pale gouache washes bleeding off-register from black sumi-ink figure lines, and small editorial notes framing e..."
colors:
  bg: "#f5eedf"
  surface: "#fff9ef"
  surface_solid: "#fbf4e6"
  text: "#241f1b"
  muted: "#6b5e54"
  border: "#27211c"
  accent: "#4f7c8b"
  accent_2: "#b06a5d"
  accent_soft: "#d9e2e0"
  accent_deep: "#2f5561"
  on_accent: "#fbf4e6"
  success: "#4f6a47"
  warning: "#a9762e"
  error: "#a5403a"
  info: "#4a637a"
typography:
  headline-lg:
    fontFamily: "Aoboshi One"
    fontSize: "1.836rem"
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: "Aoboshi One"
    fontSize: "1.53rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1.15
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: "Zen Old Mincho"
    fontSize: "17px"
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.55
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  label-md:
    fontFamily: "IBM Plex Mono"
    fontSize: "0.75rem"
    fontWeight: 600
    lineHeight: 1
    letterSpacing: "0.08em"
rounded:
  none: "0px"
  md: "16px"
  lg: "24px"
  full: "9999px"
spacing:
  base: "8px"
  xs: "4px"
  sm: "8px"
  md: "12px"
  lg: "16px"
  xl: "24px"
  2xl: "32px"
  3xl: "48px"
  4xl: "64px"
  step-8: "96px"
components:
  color-reference-bg:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.bg}"
  color-reference-surface:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface}"
  color-reference-surface_solid:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.surface_solid}"
  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_soft:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent_soft}"
  color-reference-accent_deep:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.accent_deep}"
  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.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"
---

# Nijimi

## Overview

A design language that feels like an authored Tokyo illustration annual rather than a startup interface: cream paper grounds, pale gouache washes bleeding off-register from black sumi-ink figure lines, and small editorial notes framing each moment as a cropped poster fragment.

### Values

- authored imperfection over polished neutrality
- narrative vignettes over component catalogs
- quiet typography with strong image-space tension
- cultural poster memory over explicit branding
- human linework over vector sterility

### Anti-Values

- dashboard blandness
- full-bleed corporate gradients
- overweight UI chrome
- loud growth-product color coding
- symmetrical template sameness

### Visual Character

- cream paper ground #f5eedf with subtle radial grain, warm edge tint, and no pure-white expanses
- black ink outlines as 1.5px #27211c keylines sitting slightly off-register from pale gouache wash shapes via transform offsets
- poster-framed panels with 32-48px margins, hard paper edges, 24px soft outer corners only on cards, and asymmetric cropping so illustrations break the frame
- compact editorial captions in IBM Plex Mono uppercase at 11px, thin rules, issue/date metadata, corner anchoring
- softly misaligned stamps, underlines, accent bars, and side rules shifted 3-8px to imply hand assembly

## 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 | `#f5eedf` |
| surface | `#fff9ef` |
| surface_solid | `#fbf4e6` |
| text | `#241f1b` |
| muted | `#6b5e54` |
| border | `#27211c` |
| accent | `#4f7c8b` |
| accent_2 | `#b06a5d` |
| accent_soft | `#d9e2e0` |
| accent_deep | `#2f5561` |
| on_accent | `#fbf4e6` |
| success | `#4f6a47` |
| warning | `#a9762e` |
| error | `#a5403a` |
| info | `#4a637a` |

## Typography

Load the fonts from Google Fonts: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Aoboshi+One&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@400;500&family=Zen+Old+Mincho:wght@400;500;700&display=swap

- **Headline-Lg**: Aoboshi One, 1.836rem, weight 700, line-height 1.1.
- **Headline-Md**: Aoboshi One, 1.53rem, weight 600, line-height 1.15.
- **Body-Md**: Zen Old Mincho, 17px, weight 400, line-height 1.55.
- **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`
- **Step-8**: `96px`

### Grid

A 12-column poster grid on desktop collapsing to 8 and then 4 columns; hero scene spans 7 columns, editorial rail spans 5, and lower fragments interlock with deliberate asymmetry.

### Breakpoints

Desktop >= 1200px, tablet 760-1199px, mobile <= 759px. On smaller screens the poster rail stacks beneath the hero while preserving cropped framing and caption anchoring. The landing is art-directed at four bands: wide 1920+, desktop 1440, tablet 768-1024, mobile 390.

### Whitespace

Use generous page margins and card padding to emulate print borders; allow tighter spacing only inside caption clusters and metadata strips.

## Elevation & Depth

### Shadows

- **Sm**: 0 2px 0 rgba(39,33,28,0.08)
- **Md**: 0 10px 30px rgba(74,55,34,0.10)
- **Lg**: 0 20px 60px rgba(74,55,34,0.14)

## Shapes

### Rounded

- **None**: `0px`
- **Md**: `16px`
- **Lg**: `24px`
- **Full**: `9999px`

### Surfaces

- **Treatment**: paper
- **Card Style**: cream poster cards with pale wash underpainting and visible grain overlays
- **Bg Pattern**: noise

### Borders

- **Default Width**: 1.5px
- **Accent Width**: 3px
- **Style**: solid
- **Character**: thin ink-keyline borders with occasional offset accent rules and stamp circles

## Components

### Composition

Build pages as a poster wall of narrative fragments: one dominant hero vignette, supporting cropped scenes, and a narrow editorial rail for metadata rather than conventional app navigation.

### Density

Moderate density with small captions and generous outer margins; internal clusters can feel tight, but every major poster panel needs breathing room around it.

### Hierarchy

Illustration and wash fields lead first, headline second, caption system third. Labels stay compact and low-volume so the image framing carries the emotional weight.

### Signature Patterns

- every major panel has an oversized poster margin, a 1.5px ink keyline, and an inner figure vignette cropped off at least one edge with overflow hidden
- wash blobs sit behind content with a 6-12px transform offset from the black ink outline layer using translucent #b06a5d and #4f7c8b fields
- captions use tiny uppercase IBM Plex Mono labels with thin horizontal rules, issue/date metadata, and tight 4-8px internal spacing
- select accent details such as stamps, underlines, and side rules are intentionally misaligned by 3-8px using rotate and translate transforms
- buttons and inputs read like clipped paper labels with 1.5px ink keylines, consistent 16px radii, and pale wash fills rather than glossy controls

## 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-019f9a34-c1bf-7242-972d-431822bc3b5c/DESIGN.with-shadcn.md`.

Machine-readable companions for automation: `/language/en-019f9a34-c1bf-7242-972d-431822bc3b5c/shadcn.json` (registry theme), `/language/en-019f9a34-c1bf-7242-972d-431822bc3b5c/shadcn-components.md` (component recipes) and `/language/en-019f9a34-c1bf-7242-972d-431822bc3b5c/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 use hand-drawn line motifs and imperfect registration to make digital layouts feel authored
- Do pair restrained Zen Old Mincho reading text with tiny IBM Plex Mono metadata for editorial credibility
- Do treat each section like a gallery poster excerpt rather than a product module
- Do keep the palette washed and nuanced, with accent hues arriving in irregular fields
- Do crop illustration panels asymmetrically and let captions anchor corners instead of centering content
- Do use near-paper shadows and ink keylines sparingly so the poster construction remains the signature
- Don't do not introduce SaaS dashboard cards or metric-heavy panels
- Don't do not use ultra-bold geometric sans for primary reading text
- Don't do not center everything symmetrically
- Don't do not polish away offset edges, texture, or illustration marks
- Don't do not add synthetic neon accents or rainbow category coding
- Don't do not render browser-default controls; inputs and selects must look like clipped paper labels

## Imagery Direction

### Summary

Black sumi-ink figure-line illustrations over pale gouache wash blocks on cream paper, printed off-register; cropped Tokyo vignettes plus stamp circles and editorial zine captions.

### Pairs With

nijimi-wash

### Palette

cream #f5eedf, ink #241f1b, dusty teal #4f7c8b, faded terracotta #b06a5d, soft sage #607a57, muted ochre #bf8b3d

### Subjects

- Tokyo backstreets
- kissaten storefronts
- alley lanterns
- train platforms
- low rooftops
- still-life objects
- lone figures under umbrellas

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "nijimi",
  "type": "registry:theme",
  "title": "Nijimi shadcn Theme",
  "cssVars": {
    "theme": {},
    "light": {
      "background": "#f5eedf",
      "foreground": "#241f1b",
      "card": "#fff9ef",
      "card-foreground": "#241f1b",
      "popover": "#fff9ef",
      "popover-foreground": "#241f1b",
      "primary": "#241f1b",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#f4f4f5",
      "secondary-foreground": "#111111",
      "muted": "#6b5e54",
      "muted-foreground": "#241f1b",
      "accent": "#4f7c8b",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#a5403a",
      "border": "#27211c",
      "input": "#27211c",
      "ring": "#4f7c8b",
      "chart-1": "#241f1b",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#4f7c8b",
      "chart-4": "#4f6a47",
      "chart-5": "#a9762e",
      "sidebar": "#fff9ef",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#241f1b",
      "sidebar-primary": "#241f1b",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#4a637a",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#27211c",
      "sidebar-ring": "#4f7c8b",
      "radius": "16px"
    },
    "dark": {
      "background": "#0f1115",
      "foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "card": "#181b22",
      "card-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "popover": "#181b22",
      "popover-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "primary": "#241f1b",
      "primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "secondary": "#252a33",
      "secondary-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "muted": "#252a33",
      "muted-foreground": "#a1a1aa",
      "accent": "#4f7c8b",
      "accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "destructive": "#a5403a",
      "border": "#303642",
      "input": "#303642",
      "ring": "#4f7c8b",
      "chart-1": "#241f1b",
      "chart-2": "#f4f4f5",
      "chart-3": "#4f7c8b",
      "chart-4": "#4f6a47",
      "chart-5": "#a9762e",
      "sidebar": "#181b22",
      "sidebar-foreground": "#f8fafc",
      "sidebar-primary": "#241f1b",
      "sidebar-primary-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-accent": "#4f7c8b",
      "sidebar-accent-foreground": "#ffffff",
      "sidebar-border": "#303642",
      "sidebar-ring": "#4f7c8b",
      "radius": "16px"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "katagami",
    "languageId": "en-019f9a34-c1bf-7242-972d-431822bc3b5c",
    "slug": "nijimi",
    "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_deep",
        "accent_soft",
        "bg",
        "border",
        "error",
        "info",
        "muted",
        "on_accent",
        "success",
        "surface",
        "surface_solid",
        "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": [
        "full",
        "lg",
        "md",
        "none"
      ],
      "shadows": [
        "lg",
        "md",
        "sm"
      ],
      "spacing": [
        "base",
        "scale"
      ],
      "surfaces": [
        "bg_pattern",
        "card_style",
        "treatment"
      ],
      "borders": [
        "accent_width",
        "character",
        "default_width",
        "style"
      ],
      "motion": [
        "duration",
        "easing",
        "philosophy"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```