# Design notes

## Why it looks like this
The Volume Edition inherits the source library's visual identity rather
than inventing one: Bebas Neue display, Space Grotesk body, JetBrains
Mono for tags and provenance, near-black ink on warm paper, and the
five-signal palette drawn from the source's own token sheet. Continuity
is the design decision — a spine pulled from this shelf should be
recognizable as the same author's work as the compendium it distills.

## Tokens
- Paper #fafaf7 · Ink #0d0d14 · borders #d8d8d0/#b0b0a8
- Volume accents (one per spine, from the source palette):
  I magenta #d500a8 — the correcting pen
  II cyan #008a9e — the floor beneath
  III orange #ff6d00 — the export heat
  IV pink #e91e63 — the soul
  V lime #5a8e00 — what grows after you
  VI yellow #ffc400 — the watch light
- The full-spectrum gradient appears exactly once, on the shelf.
  Inside a volume, only that volume's accent exists. Restraint is the
  binding.

## Signature element
The shelf: six CSS book spines (vertical writing mode) standing on an
ink board. Each spine carries its numeral, title, and accent band; the
list beneath repeats the six messages for scanning and accessibility.

## Structural devices that carry meaning
- EXHIBIT A/B/C labels with SOURCE provenance lines — the evidence
  framing is the audit doctrine, not decoration.
- Truth-tag pills are typographic citations: claims carried over from
  the source manuals keep their original epistemic status, styled by
  level (dashed border = unverified).
- The colophon seal (sha256 of the markdown source) makes each built
  volume a verifiable artifact — the "sealed build" idea from the
  source portfolio, applied to its own book.

## Fonts and offline behavior
Fonts load from Google Fonts with full system fallbacks; offline, the
volumes degrade gracefully to system faces. To make the package fully
self-hosted, drop WOFF2 files beside dist/ and swap the @import for
@font-face rules in build.py's CSS block.

## Print
Each volume prints cleanly: the cover breaks to its own page, sections
avoid splitting, and navigation chrome is suppressed. Six print-to-PDF
runs produce a boxed-set PDF edition with no extra tooling.
