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            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:surface-8",
              "claim:failure-6"
            ],
            "because": "A drawn edge is the record's border; geometric precision would make it Op Art."
          }
        ]
      },
      "imagery": {
        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "Images were often appropriated rather than invented: advertisements, product labels, old art books and illustration.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-1"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Collage, including photographic collage, sits alongside drawn imagery.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-2"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Use appropriated or collaged images only where you hold the licence; never draw a period-style figure to stand in.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:freedom-imagery",
              "claim:kcc:imagery-1"
            ],
            "because": "Imagery presence is a declared freedom; the documented practice is borrowing, which on the web is a licensing question."
          }
        ]
      },
      "components": {
        "button": {
          "name": "Button",
          "becomes": "A cream lozenge with a hand-drawn ink ring, its label in the display face.",
          "anatomy": [
            "cream field",
            "4px ink ring",
            "uneven, drawn-looking radius",
            "label in Shrikhand"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "fill": "#FFF4DE",
            "label": "#2A1330",
            "border": "0 0 0 4px #2A1330 (ring)",
            "radius": "30px 26px 32px 24px",
            "shadow": "none",
            "transition": "none"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Cream, ink ring, ink label.",
            "hover": "The field turns blue-green; the label stays ink.",
            "focus": "3px ink outline, 3px outside the ring.",
            "active": "The field turns orange; the label stays ink.",
            "disabled": "Label struck through; the field stays cream."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "Ink on cream is 15.6:1; ink stays the label colour on every fill.",
            "At least 44px tall.",
            "The label never sits on the vibrating pair."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Keep the control legible: cream field, ink label, the vibration kept off it.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:ps-r2",
                "claim:declared-freedom"
              ],
              "because": "Legibility is spent in display on the poster; a control that cannot be read fails the person using it, not the style."
            },
            {
              "rule": "Draw the edge as an ink ring with an uneven radius, never a geometric pill.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:layout-3",
                "claim:failure-3"
              ],
              "because": "Hand-drawn borders are on the record and geometric construction is ruled out."
            }
          ]
        },
        "card": {
          "name": "Card",
          "becomes": "A cream panel enclosed in ink, set a little off the vertical, on the orange ground.",
          "anatomy": [
            "cream field",
            "4px ink ring",
            "wobbling radius",
            "a tilt of about a degree",
            "display heading"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "background": "#FFF4DE",
            "ring": "4px #2A1330",
            "radius": "44% 56% 48% 52% / 12% 14% 10% 12%",
            "tilt": "±1.5deg",
            "padding": "36px 48px"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Panel off the vertical.",
            "hover": "The ground behind it shows blue-green.",
            "focus": "3px ink outline."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "Every sentence sits on cream in ink.",
            "The tilt is removed on narrow screens."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Enclose each card in a hand-drawn ink line and set it off the vertical.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:layout-3",
                "token_rule:surface-8"
              ],
              "because": "Hand-drawn borders enclose the field; nothing in the language is set square."
            }
          ]
        },
        "input": {
          "name": "Input",
          "becomes": "A cream field inside an ink ring, its label above in heavy text.",
          "anatomy": [
            "cream field",
            "3px ink ring",
            "rounded, uneven radius",
            "label above, 700"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "background": "#FFF4DE",
            "ring": "3px #2A1330",
            "radius": "22px 18px 24px 16px"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Ink ring.",
            "focus": "Ring thickens to 5px.",
            "error": "Message below in ink, beginning \"Error:\".",
            "disabled": "Label struck through."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "A visible label on every field.",
            "Errors are written."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Give entry the same cream-and-ink ring as the panels.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:surface-8",
                "token_rule:ps-r2"
              ],
              "because": "Reading and entry stay on still cream; the vibration belongs to display."
            }
          ]
        },
        "navigation": {
          "name": "Navigation",
          "becomes": "Cream tabs ringed in ink, set at slightly different angles, the current one filled blue-green.",
          "anatomy": [
            "cream tabs",
            "ink rings",
            "small tilts",
            "current tab filled"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "background": "#FFF4DE",
            "current": "#00AAB4",
            "ring": "3px #2A1330"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Ink label on cream.",
            "hover": "Tab fills blue-green.",
            "focus": "3px ink outline.",
            "current": "Blue-green fill, ink label, no link."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "aria-current on the current page.",
            "Ink on blue-green is 6.0:1."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Give the tabs no rank between them: same size, same weight, only the current one filled.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:hierarchy-13"
              ],
              "because": "There is deliberately almost no hierarchy; on screen that means no link is louder than another."
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "motion": {
        "spec": {
          "durations": {
            "warp": "18s",
            "drift": "60s",
            "state": "0ms"
          },
          "easing": {
            "drift": "ease-in-out",
            "state": "none"
          },
          "transforms": "a displacement warp that breathes, and rotation of a few degrees; no hue cycling",
          "entrance": "None: the effect is present, not revealed.",
          "hover": "An instant swap of flat fill.",
          "reducedMotion": "Everything still: the warp holds its shape and nothing drifts."
        },
        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "Slow continuous warp or colour cycling; never scroll-triggered: the effect must be present, not revealed.",
            "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": "Some Moscoso posters gave an illusion of animation under alternating coloured lights.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:motion-2"
            ],
            "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
          },
          {
            "rule": "Choose the warp over colour cycling, keep it slower than ten seconds a cycle, and never flash.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:motion-14",
              "claim:kcc:motion-1"
            ],
            "because": "Continuous motion is on the record; on a screen, fast hue change is a seizure and vestibular risk, so the slowest form of it is the one we take."
          }
        ]
      },
      "dimensions": [
        {
          "key": "legibility",
          "label": "Where legibility is spent",
          "summary": "The poster treats legibility as a spectrum to spend. A website spends it only in display.",
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Legibility is a spectrum to be spent, not a requirement to be met.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:ps-r2"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "How far legibility degrades is a declared freedom.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "claim:declared-freedom"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "Spend it in the display word; every sentence, label and control stays readable, ink on cream.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "intent",
                "token_rule:ps-r2"
              ],
              "because": "Difficulty is the poster's product; on a site, a person still has to find the door."
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "notRecorded": [
        {
          "category": "components",
          "what": "Interface conventions",
          "why": "Interface is not specified by the source; the four components are translations of documented rules."
        },
        {
          "category": "shapeGeometry",
          "what": "Three-dimensional form",
          "why": "The objects are flat printed posters; form does not apply."
        }
      ],
      "silence": {
        "color": "source",
        "typography": "source",
        "gridLayout": "source",
        "shapeGeometry": "source",
        "imagery": "source",
        "components": "source",
        "motion": "source"
      },
      "uiNote": "The sources do not specify interface conventions for Psychedelic. These four are contemporary translations of its visual rules."
    }
  }
}