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      "text": "Googie is a futurist American architectural style influenced by car culture, jets and the Atomic and Space Ages (Southern California origin, popular c. 1945 to the early 1970s), with upswept roofs, curvilinear geometric shapes, starbursts and other space-age elements, and bold use of glass, steel and neon signs, built to be noticed by passing motorists; its translation to flat graphic surfaces, including oblique script lettering and angled baselines, is Aesthetary's reading."
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      "text": "is unusually well-founded: the literature records neon signage animated to catch passing motorists, so motion is native to this register rather than imported from web convention — one of the few in the corpus where that is true. Sequenced neon, not easing.",
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      "text": "Named by a hostile critic. Douglas Haskell coined it in House & Home, February 1952, satirising the style, after John Lautner's 1949 Googie's coffee shop in Los Angeles. Nobody working in it chose the name.",
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      "text": "The building is an advertisement and must work at the speed of a passing car. Form is bent upward and outward to suggest motion and the near future, so that a coffee shop reads as optimism from two hundred feet away.",
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      "note": "Aesthetary's translation of this record into web primitives. Every value carries a basis: \"record\" is a rule the record holds (cites names it), \"translation\" is our choice derived from the cited rules (because says how), \"not_recorded\" means the record is silent (guidance says what to do). A \"record\" value restates a claim the record holds; its standing is that claim's own kind in the record (a requirement, period practice, modern practice, or our interpretation), which the cited rule states. \"record\" does not by itself make a value a property of the language.",
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      "version": "2026-09-29",
      "summary": "A starting grammar for a website in Googie: boomerang panels and starbursts, neon script names, the lead element lifted and tilted, signs that light in sequence rather than ease, and a palette that is ours to choose.",
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          {
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            "value": "#F6EEDD",
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            "cites": [
              "claim:freedom-color"
            ]
          },
          {
            "role": "navy",
            "value": "#16323E",
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            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:freedom-color",
              "claim:kcc:surface-2"
            ]
          },
          {
            "role": "slate",
            "value": "#22303A",
            "contrast": "11.7:1",
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            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:freedom-color"
            ]
          },
          {
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            "cites": [
              "claim:freedom-color"
            ]
          },
          {
            "role": "teal",
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            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:freedom-color"
            ]
          },
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            "role": "neon",
            "value": "#F2C230",
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            "basis": "translation",
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              "claim:freedom-color",
              "claim:kcc:technique-1"
            ]
          }
        ],
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          {
            "label": "Bright sign coral",
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            "cites": [
              "claim:freedom-color"
            ]
          },
          {
            "label": "Bright sign teal",
            "value": "#2FA8A0",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:freedom-color"
            ]
          }
        ],
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          {
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              "claim:freedom-color"
            ]
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            "rule": "The 1953 McDonald's prototype was described as bright, shiny, bold colours.",
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            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:surface-4"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Keep one dark sky colour for the lit things to glow against.",
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              "claim:kcc:surface-2",
              "claim:kcc:w2-motion-1"
            ],
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          {
            "rule": "The sources do not specify hues.",
            "basis": "not_recorded",
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              "claim:freedom-color"
            ],
            "guidance": "This coral, teal, yellow and navy are this page's choice; any bold set works if you say it is yours.",
            "silence": "source"
          }
        ]
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            "case": null,
            "tracking": null,
            "measure": null,
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          },
          {
            "role": "statement",
            "size": "clamp(26px, 3.6vw, 42px)",
            "weight": 900,
            "lineHeight": "1.1",
            "case": null,
            "tracking": null,
            "measure": null,
            "setting": "rotated -2deg",
            "use": "The one sentence that should be read from the road."
          },
          {
            "role": "body",
            "size": "18px",
            "weight": 400,
            "lineHeight": "1.6",
            "case": null,
            "tracking": null,
            "measure": "70ch",
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          },
          {
            "role": "label",
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            "weight": 800,
            "lineHeight": "1.4",
            "case": "uppercase",
            "tracking": "0.08em",
            "measure": null,
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        ],
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        },
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          {
            "rule": "Script, in a signage role, at an oblique angle.",
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            "cites": [
              "token_rule:typography-4"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "At Johnie's the name ran in large free-form script across the roof edge, outlined in neon set in channel letters.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:typography-1"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Neon made flowing cursive script signage especially popular.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:typography-2"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Tilt script names off the baseline; keep sentences level.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:typography-4",
              "claim:kcc:typography-4",
              "claim:declared-freedom"
            ],
            "because": "The oblique angle is our reading (no source attests an angled baseline); body text stays level for reading."
          },
          {
            "rule": "The sources do not specify a text face.",
            "basis": "not_recorded",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:typography-3"
            ],
            "guidance": "Las Vegas signs adopted \"space-age fonts\", but no face is named; the sans here is ours.",
            "silence": "source"
          }
        ]
      },
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        "summary": "The sources specify no column grid. The layout is lift: panels sit on a cream ground, the lead one raised and tilted, and one roofline cuts across on a diagonal.",
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        },
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          {
            "rule": "The diagonal lift is structural, not decorative.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:layout-3"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Rank by height and angle: the element lifted highest and tilted most leads, regardless of size.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:hierarchy-13"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Lift and tilt one item per row; leave the rest level.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:hierarchy-13"
            ],
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          },
          {
            "rule": "Cut large sections apart with one diagonal roofline.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:layout-3",
              "claim:kcc:technique-3"
            ],
            "because": "Upswept roofs and wide cantilevered eaves."
          },
          {
            "rule": "The sources do not specify column counts or gutters.",
            "basis": "not_recorded",
            "cites": [],
            "guidance": "Use whatever grid holds the content; express the style through lift, not through the grid.",
            "silence": "source"
          }
        ]
      },
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          "radius-plate": "28px 6px 28px 6px",
          "radius-field": "18px 4px 18px 4px",
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        },
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            "rule": "Form, motif, surface and technique: boomerang, parabola, starburst, neon.",
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            "cites": [
              "token_rule:surface-8"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Forms are symbolic of motion: upswept roofs, boomerangs, parabolas, diagrammatic atoms, soft parallelograms.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:gg-r2"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Intersecting angles and curves are mixed rather than kept rectilinear.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:w2-form-3"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Give every panel one long swept corner and a thick outline.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:surface-8",
              "claim:kcc:w2-form-1"
            ],
            "because": "Boomerangs carried into structure; the outline stands in for the sign's edge."
          }
        ]
      },
      "imagery": {
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          {
            "rule": "Space Age and atomic symbols: boomerangs, flying saucers, atoms, parabolas, starbursts, orbit rings, rockets.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-1"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "The images are abstracted and schematic: a starburst is spokes radiating from a centre.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-2"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Figurative characters and cartoon imagery also appear.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-3"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Draw symbols as flat geometric marks in neon line or solid colour.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-2"
            ],
            "because": "Abstracted and schematic; \"a geometric bird\"."
          },
          {
            "rule": "Whether a page needs imagery at all is a declared freedom.",
            "basis": "not_recorded",
            "cites": [
              "claim:freedom-imagery"
            ],
            "guidance": "Use the symbols sparingly; a page with only type and panels is still in the language.",
            "silence": "source"
          }
        ]
      },
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            "swept radius on two opposite corners",
            "coral-deep fill, white label",
            "label in the sans at weight 700"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "radius": "28px 6px 28px 6px",
            "background": "#B8412F",
            "text": "#FFFDF6",
            "hover": "#16323E",
            "height": "48px"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Coral-deep plate, white label (5.4:1).",
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            "focus": "3px coral-deep outline, 3px off.",
            "active": "Plate tilts back two degrees, as if lifted.",
            "disabled": "Cream plate, dashed slate border, slate label."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "At least 44px tall.",
            "State changes are instant steps, so nothing depends on watching a transition."
          ],
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            {
              "rule": "Cut the plate with one long swept corner and its opposite.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:surface-8",
                "claim:kcc:w2-form-2"
              ],
              "because": "Boomerang and parabola shapes are the documented forms; a swept corner is the smallest boomerang a control can carry."
            },
            {
              "rule": "Change state in one step, never with easing.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:motion-14",
                "claim:kcc:technique-2"
              ],
              "because": "Sign motion was sequenced neon, switched on circuits, not eased."
            },
            {
              "rule": "Fill the plate in a colour of the page's own palette.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:freedom-color"
              ],
              "because": "The palette is a declared freedom; this one is the page's."
            }
          ]
        },
        "card": {
          "name": "Card",
          "becomes": "A boomerang panel: a thick slate outline with one sweeping corner, and the card that matters lifted and tilted off the row.",
          "anatomy": [
            "3px slate outline",
            "radius 60px 10px 160px 10px / 40px 10px 60px 10px",
            "script title, sans body",
            "the lead card translated up and rotated -2deg"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "border": "3px solid #22303A",
            "radius": "60px 10px 160px 10px / 40px 10px 60px 10px",
            "background": "#FFFDF6",
            "lift": "translateY(-18px) rotate(-2deg)"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "White panel, slate outline.",
            "hover": "The outline turns coral-deep.",
            "focus": "3px coral-deep outline."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "The whole card is one link.",
            "The tilt is at most two degrees, so body text stays level enough to read."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Give panels a sweeping boomerang corner rather than an even radius.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:surface-8",
                "claim:kcc:w2-form-1"
              ],
              "because": "Boomerang shapes carried into structure as well as ornament."
            },
            {
              "rule": "Lift and tilt the card that leads; leave the others level.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:hierarchy-13",
                "token_rule:layout-3"
              ],
              "because": "Rank by height and angle: the element lifted highest and tilted most leads."
            }
          ]
        },
        "input": {
          "name": "Input",
          "becomes": "A white field with the panel's thick outline and a small swept corner, its label set above in small capitals.",
          "anatomy": [
            "3px slate outline",
            "radius 18px 4px 18px 4px",
            "label above in the sans, uppercase",
            "error line below in coral-deep"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "border": "3px solid #22303A",
            "radius": "18px 4px 18px 4px",
            "height": "48px",
            "background": "#FFFDF6"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Slate outline.",
            "focus": "Outline turns coral-deep, plus a 3px outline.",
            "error": "Coral-deep outline; message begins \"Error:\".",
            "disabled": "Dashed outline on cream."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "The label is real text above the field.",
            "Errors are words, not only colour."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Rule the field with the panels' thick outline and a small swept corner.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:surface-8"
              ],
              "because": "One boomerang vocabulary on every surface."
            },
            {
              "rule": "No source describes an input convention of the period.",
              "basis": "not_recorded",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:interface-1"
              ],
              "guidance": "Keep the field plain and legible, and do not dress it as a sign.",
              "silence": "source"
            }
          ]
        },
        "navigation": {
          "name": "Navigation",
          "becomes": "A pylon sign read from the road: links on a navy band, the current page lit in yellow neon with a chasing arrow before it.",
          "anatomy": [
            "navy band with one upswept end",
            "links in the sans, cream",
            "current link yellow with a glow and an arrow"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "background": "#16323E",
            "text": "#F6EEDD",
            "current": "#F2C230",
            "glow": "drop-shadow(0 0 4px #F2C230)"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Cream links on navy (11.7:1).",
            "hover": "The link lights yellow, in one step.",
            "focus": "3px yellow outline.",
            "current": "Yellow with a glow, an arrow before it, aria-current=\"page\"."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "aria-current marks the page, not the glow alone.",
            "The glow is decoration; the yellow on navy is 8:1 without it."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Mark the current page by lighting it, like a sign letter switched on.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:w2-motion-1",
                "claim:kcc:technique-1"
              ],
              "because": "Neon signs caught the eye of passing motorists; lighting is the documented emphasis."
            },
            {
              "rule": "Lift one end of the band.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:layout-3"
              ],
              "because": "The diagonal lift is structural."
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "motion": {
        "spec": {
          "durations": {
            "cycle": "2.4s",
            "step": "0.3s",
            "blink": "3.5s"
          },
          "easing": {
            "all": "steps(1)"
          },
          "transforms": "None for signs: they switch on and off. Opacity only.",
          "entrance": "None.",
          "hover": "Instant step to the lit colour.",
          "reducedMotion": "Every sign holds fully lit."
        },
        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "Sequenced neon, not easing: motion is native to this register.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:motion-14"
            ],
            "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
          },
          {
            "rule": "Animation came from bulbs wired in sequence and neon on timed circuits: flashing, blinking, sequential.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:technique-2"
            ],
            "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
          },
          {
            "rule": "A bulb grid flashed in a scintillating pattern; a pole sign carried an animated serpentine arrow.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:motion-1"
            ],
            "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
          },
          {
            "rule": "Light elements one after another with steps(1), 0.3s apart; never ease.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:motion-14",
              "claim:kcc:technique-2"
            ],
            "because": "Timed circuits switch; they do not fade."
          },
          {
            "rule": "Under reduced motion, hold every sign fully lit.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:motion-14"
            ],
            "because": "The lit state is the sign's designed still."
          }
        ]
      },
      "notRecorded": [
        {
          "category": "color",
          "what": "Specific hues",
          "why": "Palette is a declared freedom; the sources say bright and bold, not which colours."
        },
        {
          "category": "typography",
          "what": "A text face, and an angled baseline",
          "why": "Script signage is documented; no source attests an oblique baseline, so the tilt is ours."
        },
        {
          "category": "gridLayout",
          "what": "Columns and gutters",
          "why": "The subject is buildings and signs."
        },
        {
          "category": "components",
          "what": "Any interface convention",
          "why": "No opened source describes screen furniture. All four components are translations."
        }
      ],
      "silence": {
        "color": "source",
        "typography": "source",
        "gridLayout": "source",
        "shapeGeometry": "source",
        "imagery": "source",
        "components": "source",
        "motion": "source"
      }
    }
  }
}