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  "name": "Gilded",
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      "state": "resolved",
      "text": "A contemporary gold-on-dark luxury register in branding and packaging, named after gilding (a technique for laying a thin coat of gold on a surface) but claiming none of its history. The register itself, and its grammar of monogram and symmetry, is Aesthetary's reading; the only evidenced parts are that black packaging is traditionally associated with premium products, that gold is traditionally among the commonest foil colours, and that foiling is often associated with premium products."
    },
    "scope": {
      "state": "resolved",
      "text": "Gilding is an ancient technique for laying gold on surfaces. This record is Aesthetary's reading of a contemporary gold-on-dark luxury register, untested by research; it claims none of gilding's history.",
      "ruling": "D0-1"
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      "print"
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      "quote": "Hot foil stamping is used across a wide range of industry sectors, but most notably in food and drink (particularly confectionary such as premium chocolate, wine and liquor bottles, and other premium foods), cosmetics",
      "field": "kcc.json#gilded/medium (claim kcc:medium)"
    },
    "ruling": "Knowledge Completion Campaign (founder instruction, 2026-09-29)"
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    "text": "Partly sourced",
    "sentence": "8 sources attached."
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      "area": "layout",
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        "text": "Specified"
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      "area": "typography",
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        "text": "Open question"
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      "canon": "specified",
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        "text": "Specified"
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      "label": {
        "text": "Not specified by the source"
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    },
    {
      "area": "surface",
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        "text": "Specified"
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      "why": "No source has been examined for this yet."
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        "text": "Open question"
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      "area": "motif",
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        "text": "Specified"
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      "area": "technique",
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        "text": "Specified"
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      "area": "form",
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      "why": "No source has been examined for this yet."
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      "area": "hierarchy",
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      "canon": "specified",
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        "text": "Specified"
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      "area": "density",
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        "text": "Not specified by the source"
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      "text": "Composition: symmetry, monogram device.",
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        "contested": false
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    {
      "id": "typography-4",
      "text": "Typography: neighbour (Heritage).",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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    {
      "id": "hierarchy-13",
      "text": "CURATORIAL: rank by centrality and metallic weight — the monogram sits centred and everything else is subordinate linework.",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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      "ruling": null
    },
    {
      "id": "color-5",
      "text": "Colour: metallic on dark.",
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        "state": "inherited",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
      },
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    {
      "id": "surface-8",
      "text": "Form/motif/surface/technique: metallic detail, monogram.",
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        "state": "inherited",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
      },
      "label": {
        "kind": "catalogue",
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    },
    {
      "id": "motion-14",
      "text": "CURATORIAL from material: a highlight travelling slowly across the metal. Restrained — animation is where \"casino\" begins.",
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      "area": "motion",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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    {
      "id": "intent",
      "text": "Expense is the entire message. A precious material rendered precisely against darkness makes a claim about value that needs no subject, no illustration and no explanation — the material is the argument.",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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    {
      "id": "gestalt",
      "text": "Fine metallic gold linework and a monogram device set with strict symmetry against a deep black ground, with no third colour and no depicted subject. The diagnostic condition is gold as the whole proposition: the material carries the meaning alone, which is why the register has no imagery and why large gold areas fail — precision is what separates precious from cheap. Neo-Baroque stages a chiaroscuro subject inside an ornamental frame. Heritage uses a comparable device set but argues from a founding date rather than from material.",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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    {
      "id": "failure-1",
      "text": "No large gold fields.",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
      },
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        "kind": "reading",
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    {
      "id": "failure-2",
      "text": "No third colour.",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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        "kind": "reading",
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    {
      "id": "failure-3",
      "text": "No depicted subject or photography.",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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      "ruling": null
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    {
      "id": "failure-4",
      "text": "No asymmetry.",
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        "contested": false
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    {
      "id": "failure-5",
      "text": "No founding date.",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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      "ruling": null
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    {
      "id": "failure-6",
      "text": "No matte gold.",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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        "kind": "reading",
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      "ruling": null
    },
    {
      "id": "failure-8",
      "text": "Not open: gold as field.",
      "role": "negative",
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      "basis": "synthesis",
      "support": {
        "state": "none",
        "for": [],
        "against": [],
        "contested": false
      },
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        "kind": "reading",
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      "ruling": null
    },
    {
      "id": "failure-9",
      "text": "Not open: a third colour.",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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      "ruling": null
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    {
      "id": "failure-10",
      "text": "Not open: adding a subject..",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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      "label": {
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    {
      "id": "intent-negation",
      "text": "Refuses colour beyond metal and ground, and refuses any subject that would distract from the material claim.",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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    {
      "id": "intent-cost",
      "text": "Costs accepted: Warmth; Range; Reading as tasteful rather than as expensive",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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    {
      "id": "intent-audience",
      "text": "Audience: A viewer who reads gold on black as luxury and does not ask what is being sold.",
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      "id": "v1-distinguishing",
      "text": "Gold as the whole proposition; risks reading as casino if handled loosely",
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        "contested": false
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        "contested": false
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    {
      "id": "v1-mood",
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        "contested": false
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    {
      "id": "v1-cross-library",
      "text": "Cross-library: Color: metallic on dark",
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        "contested": false
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      "id": "surface-8.motif",
      "text": "Motif: monogram",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
      },
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    },
    {
      "id": "surface-8.surface",
      "text": "Surface: metallic detail",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
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    {
      "id": "imagery-reason",
      "text": "The register has no depicted subject.",
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        "state": "none",
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        "contested": false
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    },
    {
      "id": "freedom-typography",
      "text": "Declared freedom: typography.",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
      },
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    },
    {
      "id": "freedom-imagery",
      "text": "Declared freedom: monogram subject.",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
      },
      "label": {
        "kind": "reading",
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    },
    {
      "id": "declared-freedom",
      "text": "Declared freedom: linework density.",
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        "state": "none",
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        "against": [],
        "contested": false
      },
      "label": {
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    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:technique-1",
      "text": "Hot foil stamping uses a heated die and pressure to apply metallic foil to papers, board and plastics; gold is traditionally among the commonest foil colours.",
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      "area": "technique",
      "basis": "documentary",
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        "state": "cited",
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        "contested": false
      },
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        "kind": "documented",
        "mark": "attached",
        "text": "Documented · Source attached"
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        "practice": "packaging and print; not evidence that the register requires foil"
      },
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      "ruling": null
    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:technique-2",
      "text": "Gold and silver are the traditional foil colours, and foil decoration is associated with premium products.",
      "role": "context",
      "area": "technique",
      "basis": "documentary",
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          "kcc-gilded-S5"
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        "contested": false
      },
      "label": {
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        "text": "Documented · Source attached"
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    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:technique-3",
      "text": "Historical gilding is a different technique (gold leaf over a bole ground, or mercury fire-gilding), which this register does not claim.",
      "role": "negative",
      "area": "technique",
      "basis": "documentary",
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        "state": "cited",
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          "kcc-gilded-S1",
          "kcc-gilded-S3",
          "kcc-gilded-S2"
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        "contested": false
      },
      "label": {
        "kind": "documented",
        "mark": "attached",
        "text": "Documented · Source attached"
      },
      "scope": {
        "practice": "historical subject kept apart from the register"
      },
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      "ruling": null
    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:w2-typography-1",
      "text": "Per one printer's guidance, foil stamping is opaque, so a light foil over dark paper is possible.",
      "role": "context",
      "area": "typography",
      "basis": "documentary",
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        "state": "cited",
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          "kcc-gilded-W2S1"
        ],
        "against": [],
        "contested": false
      },
      "label": {
        "kind": "seen",
        "text": "Seen in the work"
      },
      "scope": {
        "practice": "One letterpress and foil printer's production guidance."
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      "ruling": null
    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:w2-typography-2",
      "text": "Per one printer's guidance, art and type tend to look thicker or bolder in foil stamping (especially on thicker papers), thin reverses tend to fill in, and very intricate thin fonts may need a small stroke added in prepress.",
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      "area": "typography",
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        "state": "cited",
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          "kcc-gilded-W2S1"
        ],
        "against": [],
        "contested": false
      },
      "label": {
        "kind": "seen",
        "text": "Seen in the work"
      },
      "scope": {
        "practice": "A production constraint of foil stamping, not a stylistic convention of the register."
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      "ruling": null
    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:w2-typography-3",
      "text": "Foil type has a practical floor of about 8 pt for most faces.",
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      "area": "typography",
      "basis": "documentary",
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        "state": "cited",
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          "kcc-gilded-W2S1"
        ],
        "against": [],
        "contested": false
      },
      "label": {
        "kind": "seen",
        "text": "Seen in the work"
      },
      "scope": {
        "practice": "Boxcar Press only; other printers set other minimums."
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      "ruling": null
    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:w2-typography-4",
      "text": "Of the luxury fashion brands Monotype looked at, 80% used a serif typeface in their logo and 70% used a geometric sans serif as their primary font.",
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      "area": "typography",
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        "state": "cited",
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          "kcc-gilded-W2S2"
        ],
        "against": [],
        "contested": false
      },
      "label": {
        "kind": "seen",
        "text": "Seen in the work"
      },
      "scope": {
        "practice": "Ten luxury fashion brands' websites and logos, 2022; nothing here is about gold or dark grounds."
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    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:definition",
      "text": "A contemporary gold-on-dark luxury register in branding and packaging, named after gilding (a technique for laying a thin coat of gold on a surface) but claiming none of its history. The register itself, and its grammar of monogram and symmetry, is Aesthetary's reading; the only evidenced parts are that black packaging is traditionally associated with premium products, that gold is traditionally among the commonest foil colours, and that foiling is often associated with premium products.",
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              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:w2-typography-1"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "Do not claim gold leaf or fire-gilding: historical gilding is a different technique this register does not claim.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:technique-3"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "On screen, render foil as linework with a fixed sheen, never a matte flat gold or a glossy gradient field.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:technique-1",
                "claim:failure-6",
                "claim:failure-1"
              ],
              "because": "Foil is metal laid as detail; the record rules out matte gold and gold as a field."
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "notRecorded": [
        {
          "category": "color",
          "what": "Which golds",
          "why": "The record says metallic on dark; the values are the page's own."
        },
        {
          "category": "typography",
          "what": "Any typographic convention",
          "why": "An open question in the research. The faces are this page's choice; foil's production limits are documented."
        },
        {
          "category": "gridLayout",
          "what": "A column system",
          "why": "The record holds a symmetric composition, not a grid."
        },
        {
          "category": "components",
          "what": "Interface conventions",
          "why": "The research record does not establish them. The four components are contemporary translations of documented rules."
        },
        {
          "category": "motion",
          "what": "Evidenced motion",
          "why": "An open question. The travelling highlight is the record's own reading."
        }
      ],
      "silence": {
        "color": "source",
        "typography": "source",
        "gridLayout": "source",
        "shapeGeometry": "source",
        "imagery": "source",
        "components": "source",
        "motion": "source"
      }
    }
  }
}