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        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "No borders around photographs, no column rules, no sidebars.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:interface-1"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Explode the columns rather than boxing them.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:interface-2"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "border-radius: 0 and box-shadow: none.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:w2-surface-1",
              "claim:kcc:w2-surface-2"
            ],
            "because": "The page was a smooth, uninterrupted printed surface; nothing on it had a corner radius or a cast shadow."
          }
        ]
      },
      "imagery": {
        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "Photography is the cornerstone of the page.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-1"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Crop hard, place off-centre, and bleed off the page or across the spread.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-2"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Get drama from extremes of scale, contrast and repetition.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-4"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "On screen, bleed with object-fit: cover to the viewport edge, with no frame.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:technique-2"
            ],
            "because": "Full-bleed printing without borders is the documented technique; the viewport edge is the page edge."
          },
          {
            "rule": "The sources do not say which photographs to use, and we hold none we may show.",
            "basis": "not_recorded",
            "cites": [],
            "guidance": "Commission or license real photography. Never let a placeholder read as evidence.",
            "silence": "source"
          }
        ]
      },
      "components": {
        "button": {
          "name": "Button",
          "becomes": "A small block of condensed capitals in a hairline ink frame, set like a folio line, that fills with ink when pressed.",
          "anatomy": [
            "1px ink frame drawn inside the box",
            "condensed capital label",
            "paper field, no radius, no shadow"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "border": "inset 0 0 0 1px ink",
            "background": "paper",
            "radius": "0",
            "label": "condensed capitals"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Paper field, hairline ink frame, ink label.",
            "hover": "Ink field, paper label. The swap is instant.",
            "focus": "2px ink outline, 3px outside the frame.",
            "active": "Stays ink.",
            "disabled": "Grey frame and grey label; the label also says it is unavailable."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "Ink on paper is about 18:1 in both states.",
            "At least 44px tall."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Draw the button as ink on paper, no fill, no radius, no shadow.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:color-1",
                "claim:kcc:density-1"
              ],
              "because": "The page is white space cut by black type; a button takes the same two values."
            },
            {
              "rule": "Invert to a black field on hover and press.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:density-2"
              ],
              "because": "Negative space may be black as well as white, so the inverse is the same language."
            }
          ]
        },
        "card": {
          "name": "Card",
          "becomes": "Not a box: a plate. A photograph cropped hard and bled to the card edge, with a short caption beneath and no frame.",
          "anatomy": [
            "photograph cropped hard, bled to the edge",
            "caption in condensed capitals under an ink hairline",
            "no border, no shadow, no background panel"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "border": "none",
            "radius": "0",
            "image": "cover, cropped off-centre",
            "caption": "hairline above"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Plate and caption.",
            "hover": "The caption underlines; the photograph does not move.",
            "focus": "2px ink outline around the whole plate."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "The whole plate is one link with the caption as its name.",
            "Photographs carry alt text; decorative crops are hidden."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Photographs have no border.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:interface-1"
              ],
              "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
            },
            {
              "rule": "Crop the photograph hard and place it off-centre.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:imagery-2"
              ],
              "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
            },
            {
              "rule": "Replace the card box with the photograph itself.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:interface-1",
                "claim:kcc:interface-2"
              ],
              "because": "Borders, sidebars and boxed containers were removed from the page; the image is the container."
            }
          ]
        },
        "input": {
          "name": "Input",
          "becomes": "A single ink line with the label above in condensed capitals: no box around the field.",
          "anatomy": [
            "label in condensed capitals",
            "text in the text face",
            "1px ink line beneath"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "border": "bottom 1px ink",
            "radius": "0",
            "background": "transparent"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "1px ink line.",
            "focus": "The line thickens to 3px; 2px outline outside the field.",
            "error": "The line stays ink; an \"Error:\" sentence follows in the text face.",
            "disabled": "Grey line, grey label."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "A visible label on every field.",
            "Errors are written, not only coloured."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Draw the field as one line, not a box.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:interface-2"
              ],
              "because": "Boxed containers were exploded; a field needs a line to write on, not a frame."
            }
          ]
        },
        "navigation": {
          "name": "Navigation",
          "becomes": "A running head: section names in condensed capitals along a hairline, with the folio (page number) at the far end.",
          "anatomy": [
            "one line of condensed capitals",
            "ink hairline beneath",
            "current section in ink, the rest in grey",
            "folio at the right"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "rule": "1px ink",
            "current": "ink",
            "rest": "grey #4A4A45"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Grey capitals.",
            "hover": "Ink field, paper text.",
            "focus": "2px ink outline.",
            "current": "Ink capitals, aria-current, and the folio reads the section number."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "aria-current on the current section.",
            "Grey on paper is about 8.9:1."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Set the navigation as the magazine's running head and folio.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:hierarchy-3",
                "claim:idr:intent"
              ],
              "because": "The unit is the spread in a paced sequence of spreads; the running head tells a reader where in the sequence they are."
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "motion": {
        "spec": {
          "durations": {
            "state": "0ms"
          },
          "easing": {
            "state": "none"
          },
          "transforms": "none",
          "entrance": "None: each spread arrives already composed.",
          "hover": "An instant swap to ink.",
          "reducedMotion": "Nothing changes: there is no animation to reduce."
        },
        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "Movement is pacing across pages, with crescendos and pauses; printed pages do not animate.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:motion-1",
              "claim:kcc:hierarchy-3"
            ],
            "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
          },
          {
            "rule": "Move between spreads with a cut, and pace a long page as loud spreads and quiet ones.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:hierarchy-3"
            ],
            "because": "The sources describe cinematic sequencing, not animated elements."
          }
        ]
      },
      "dimensions": [
        {
          "key": "pacing",
          "label": "Pacing",
          "summary": "A magazine is read as a sequence of spreads. Some shout (one word, one photograph at full bleed); some rest (white space and a short block of text).",
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Pace the sequence like film, with crescendos and pauses.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:hierarchy-3"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "Alternate a loud spread with a quiet one down a long page.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:hierarchy-3",
                "claim:kcc:density-1"
              ],
              "because": "Our reading of cinematic pacing for a scrolling page."
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "notRecorded": [
        {
          "category": "typography",
          "what": "Body size, measure and leading",
          "why": "The sources describe display type and restriction, not a text setting."
        },
        {
          "category": "imagery",
          "what": "Photographs we may show",
          "why": "None is held; the board draws plates instead."
        },
        {
          "category": "components",
          "what": "Interface conventions",
          "why": "The research record does not establish them. The four components are contemporary translations of documented rules."
        }
      ],
      "silence": {
        "color": "source",
        "typography": "source",
        "gridLayout": "source",
        "shapeGeometry": "source",
        "imagery": "source",
        "components": "source",
        "motion": "source"
      }
    }
  }
}