# Acid Graphics — style guide for coding agents

> Generated from the Aesthetary record for **Acid Graphics**.
> Research: **Partly sourced** · Build guidance: recorded in 6 of 8 research dimensions.
> 7 sources attached.

## How to use this

Paste this file into your agent as context before asking it to design or build something in this visual language. It states what is established, what is our interpretation, and what nobody has established. Treat all three differently.

**The most important section is "Not researched yet".** Its purpose is to stop you and your agent inventing rules that sound right and are not recorded anywhere.

## What this language is

**Defining:** Toxic green and magenta, warped 3D type, noise overlay, tight tracking

**Recognise it by:** Toxic green and magenta at full saturation against black, with display type warped and extruded into chrome-like, liquid-metal three-dimensional forms, a noise or grain overlay across the whole surface, and tracking pulled tight enough that letterforms nearly collide. The diagnostic condition is chemical colour plus extruded chrome type: the palette is deliberately unpleasant in a way that reads as synthetic rather than natural or neon-urban. Cyberpunk puts neon on wet urban night photography and is a place; the settings here are rendered, dystopian-tinged skies and deserts, never a night street. Glitch treats degradation as system error; here the noise is an applied texture.

**Family:** Raw & Anti-Design
**Era:** 1990s, contemporary
**Native medium:** print

**Scope:** Acid Graphics is a graphic practice named around 2018. Register: liquid-metal warped type, neon green, vibrating colour, interrupted layouts. Magenta, noise and tight tracking are our reading; rave-flyer descent is unestablished.

## What it is arguing

The poster or sleeve competes for attention in a crowded field and has one job. Chemical colour, liquid-metal type and interrupted compositions signal a practice that values intensity over craft or permanence.

**It refuses:** Refuses durability, restraint and any palette that would read as professional or corporate.

## What it is not

Commonly confused with these. Getting the difference right matters more than getting the surface right:

- Glitch
- Cyberpunk

## Established rules

Grouped by what kind of claim each is. A requirement of the language and our own interpretation are not interchangeable.

**How to read each rule.** Every rule states two separate things, and neither stands in for the other:

- **Kind of claim** (the heading): From our catalogue entry · Our reading · Our reading · disputed · Documented · Source attached.
- **Evidence** (how it is established): Graded by our research brief · No source attached (`DOCUMENTED`) · From our catalogue entry (`SUPPORTED`) · Our reading (`CURATORIAL`) · Not researched yet (`UNKNOWN`) · No grade recorded (no grade in the record). Where a claim has its own canonical label, the Evidence line gives that label instead of the grade.
- **Product area**: which of the twelve areas the rule belongs to (Layout, Typography, Color, Imagery, Surface, Interface, Motion, Motif, Technique, Form, Hierarchy, Density), mapped from its raw area label in bold. "Context" means the rule is about the Aesthetic (its name, origin, lineage) rather than a part of the design. "Not mapped" means the raw area has no single area yet.
- The code in brackets is the `grade` field at `implementationConstraints.tokenRules.value.rules[].provenance.grade` in https://aesthetary.com/data/acid-graphics.json. "From our catalogue entry" means: Stated in Aesthetary’s existing catalogue entry. An outside source is named only where one is linked to the claim.

### From our catalogue entry

_Carried over from Aesthetary's original catalogue entry. The reasoning behind it was never recorded._

- **typography** — Token rule gives two treatment values — warped and extruded_3d. Both are required; warped-flat is a different register.
  - Kind of claim: From our catalogue entry · Evidence: From our catalogue entry · Product area: Typography
- **color** — Colour: toxic green/magenta, neon.
  - Kind of claim: From our catalogue entry · Evidence: From our catalogue entry · Product area: Color
- **form / motif / surface / technique** — Form / motif / surface / technique: noise overlay, extrusion.
  - Kind of claim: From our catalogue entry · Evidence: From our catalogue entry · Product area: not mapped

### Our reading

- **hierarchy** — Rank by saturation and extrusion depth. The most three-dimensional element leads.
  - Kind of claim: Our reading · Evidence: Our reading · Product area: Hierarchy

### Our reading · disputed

- **technique** — Contemporary digital distortion — chrome, liquify, extrusion, warped type — descended from 1990s rave flyer and record-sleeve practice. It is a current studio idiom, not a historical movement.
  - Kind of claim: Our reading · disputed · Evidence: Our reading · disputed · Product area: Technique

## Found in research

What research established from sources Aesthetary opened and checked. Each line names its area, how it is known, and where it is scoped. "Seen in the work" means the source documents particular works or products rather than the Aesthetic as a whole.

- **Layout** — One practitioner (Anja Kaiser) describes the work as interrupted typography, fuzzy layouts, multiple compositions and vibrating colours.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:layout-1` · Covers self-description by Anja Kaiser, who says she is unfamiliar with the label.
- **Layout** — The touchstone designer's compositions are described as contorted, and his posters as organised chaos with contrasting fonts beside warped imagery.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:layout-2` · Covers David Rudnick, 2016, before the 2018 label.
- **Layout** — It appears across music posters and record sleeves, and also in editorial design, branding and digital design, so a flyer is not its only format.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:layout-4`
- **Layout** — Practitioners and critics describe interrupted type, fuzzy layouts, multiple compositions and contorted compositions. The practice appears across music posters and record sleeves and also in editorial, branding and digital design.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:revision-layout-3`
- **Imagery** — Imagery includes op-art-esque patterns, sci-fi futurism, and dystopian-tinged skies and desert scenes.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:imagery-1`
- **Imagery** — Smiley faces still appear, as a residue of the older acid (house) iconography.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:imagery-2` · Covers acid house smiley: late 1988.
- **Imagery** — In Rudnick's poster work, warped found imagery sits beside cartoons.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:imagery-3` · Covers Rudnick's Evian Christ posters, 2016.
- **Motion** — The practice extends to digital design, and its touchstone designer works in video, but no source describes how anything moves.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:motion-1`
- **Motion** — In Oneohtrix Point Never's 'Black Snow' video, Rudnick's illustrations and typography flash on screen sporadically.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:w2-motion-1` · Covers One music video, directed by the musician; Rudnick supplied the graphics..
- **Motion** — A curator of the chrome/acid community says clients expect practitioners to handle animation as well as type and 3D.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:w2-motion-2` · Covers A practitioner's statement about the market, not a description of movement..
- **Motif** — Op-art-esque patterns are among the style's listed features.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:motif-1`
- **Motif** — The smiley persists as an occasional motif.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:motif-2`
- **Form** — One practitioner describes lots of rendering and 3D work and super organic forms; the article describes something taking on the look of viscously dripping liquid metal.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:form-1` · Covers Hugo Hoppmann's description, quoted in S1.
- **Form** — The touchstone designer's working methods include 3D modelling alongside photo manipulation, illustration and video.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:form-2` · Covers Rudnick; weak source.

## Positions by area

The overall position recorded for each area. "No overall position recorded" means rules exist for the area but no position above them; the rules still apply. It is not the same as "Not established", which means nobody has researched the area.

- **Layout** — Specified
- **Typography** — Specified
- **Color** — Specified
- **Imagery** — Specified
- **Surface** — Specified
- **Motion** — Specified
- **Motif** — Specified
- **Technique** — Specified
- **Form** — Specified
- **Interface** — Outside this language. The area does not apply; this is not a gap in the research.

## Design grammar — web primitives

A starting grammar for a website in Acid Graphics: chemical colour on black, warped and extruded liquid-metal type, several interrupted compositions on one surface, op-art patterns and rendered skies, and grain over all of it.

Three kinds of line: **On the record** names a rule this record holds (its wording is under Established rules) and states what it becomes on the web. **Web translation** is Aesthetary's choice for the web, derived from the rules it cites; change it if you have a reason, keep the cited rule. **Not specified by the source** means the research reached this but the sources say nothing about it; **Not researched yet** means the research has not reached it yet. Either way, follow the instruction and do not invent a rule. Structured version: `designGrammar` in data/acid-graphics.json.

### Colour

| Role | Value | Contrast | Use | Kind |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| black | `#050505` | — | The ground. | Web translation |
| green | `#39FF14` | 15.0:1 on black | The dominant neon. | On the record |
| magenta | `#FF1AC6` | 6.0:1 on black | The second chemical colour. | On the record |
| chrome | `#C8D2DC` | 13.3:1 on black | Liquid metal, edges, secondary text. | Web translation |
| paper | `#E8E8E8` | 16.6:1 on black | Body text. | Web translation |

- **On the record · Documented** · `claim:kcc:definition` → Use bright neon colour, with green leading.
- **On the record · From our catalogue entry** · `token_rule:color-5` → Pair toxic green with magenta at full saturation.
- **On the record · Documented** · `claim:kcc:layout-1` → Let colours vibrate against each other.
- **Web translation** — Set body text in pale grey on black, never on green or magenta fields. _Why:_ The language accepts a cost in legibility on display; reading text does not have to pay it. (`claim:intent-cost`)

### Typography

Family: display: heavy grotesk, warped and extruded; text: grotesk. Stack: `"ArchivoBlackX", "ArchivoX", "Arial Black", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif`

| Role | Size | Weight | Line height | Case | Tracking | Measure | Use |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| display | clamp(3rem, 12vw, 9rem) | 400 | 0.8 | upper | -0.09em | — | Warped, extruded display. |
| heading | clamp(1.75rem, 3vw, 2.375rem) | 400 | 0.9 | upper | -0.07em | — | Sticker headings. |
| body | 1.0625rem | 400 | 1.55 | not specified | -0.01em | 68ch | Everything read. |

- **On the record · From our catalogue entry** · `token_rule:typography-4` → Warp the display type and extrude it in 3D; both, together.
- **On the record · Documented** · `claim:kcc:form-1` → Render type as viscous, dripping liquid metal.
- **On the record · Documented** · `claim:kcc:layout-1`, `claim:kcc:layout-2` → Interrupt the type and set contrasting fonts side by side.
- **Web translation** — Pull display tracking tight enough that letters nearly collide. _Why:_ Tight tracking is Aesthetary's reading of the register, not a documented trait. (`claim:dcc:gestalt`)

### Grid and layout

No single field and no grid: several compositions on one surface, interrupted, contorted and fuzzy.

- **On the record · Documented** · `claim:kcc:revision-layout-3` → Compose interrupted type, fuzzy layouts and multiple compositions on one surface.
- **On the record · Documented** · `claim:kcc:layout-2` → Contort the composition: organised chaos, contrasting fonts beside warped imagery.
- **Web translation** — Keep reading order in the markup, whatever the visual disorder. _Why:_ An interrupted composition must still read in one order for a screen reader. (`claim:kcc:revision-layout-3`)
- **Not specified by the source** — The sources do not specify a column system. _Instead:_ Do not tidy the page onto a grid; if one is needed under the disorder, say that it is ours.

### Shape and geometry

Tokens: radius `0` · extrusion `2px 2px 0, 4px 4px 0, 6px 6px 0, 8px 8px 0, 10px 10px 0` · noise `0.13`

- **On the record · Our reading** · `token_rule:hierarchy-13` → Rank by saturation and extrusion depth: the most three-dimensional element leads.
- **On the record · From our catalogue entry** · `token_rule:surface-8` → Apply a noise overlay and extrusion to the surface.
- **On the record · Documented** · `claim:kcc:form-1` → Use rendered 3D and super organic forms.
- **Web translation** — Build extrusion as hard stacked offsets, not a blur or glow. _Why:_ Extrusion is depth; a glow is a different surface. (`token_rule:typography-4`, `token_rule:surface-8`)

### Imagery

- **On the record · Documented** · `claim:kcc:imagery-1` → Use op-art-esque patterns, sci-fi futurism, and dystopian-tinged skies and desert scenes.
- **On the record · Documented** · `claim:kcc:imagery-3` → Set warped found imagery beside cartoons.
- **On the record · Documented** · `claim:kcc:imagery-2`, `claim:kcc:motif-2` → A smiley may appear, as a residue of acid-house iconography.
- **Web translation** — Keep settings rendered and dystopian; a wet night street belongs to Cyberpunk. _Why:_ The recorded boundary with Cyberpunk is rendered scene versus street. (`claim:dcc:gestalt-boundary`)

### Components

Anatomy, tokens and states below are Web translation: Aesthetary's specification for the screen. Each value line after them says whether it restates a rule this record holds.

#### Button

A sticker slapped on black: a green block with its label in Archivo Black and a hard stepped extrusion behind it.

- Anatomy: toxic green fill; black label in Archivo Black, tight; stepped offset shadow in darker greens; square corners
- Tokens: background `#39FF14` · color `#050505` · radius `0` · extrusion `2px 2px 0 #2BD40C, 4px 4px 0 #20A808, 6px 6px 0 #178006`
- State, default: Green block, three-step extrusion.
- State, hover: The fill turns magenta; the extrusion stays.
- State, focus: 3px chrome outline, offset 3px.
- State, active: Pressed flat: the extrusion collapses and the block moves 4px down-right.
- State, disabled: Chrome outline only, no fill, no extrusion.
- Accessibility: Black on toxic green is 15.0:1.
- Accessibility: At least 44 × 44px.
- **Web translation** — Extrude the display element into depth; flat is a different register. _Why:_ The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation. (`token_rule:typography-4`)
- **Web translation** — Collapse the extrusion on press. _Why:_ Rank by extrusion depth: the pressed thing loses its lead. (`token_rule:hierarchy-13`)

#### Card

One composition among several on the same black field, stuck at a slight tilt, never lined up with its neighbours.

- Anatomy: near-black panel; 2px chrome edge; warped, extruded heading; a tilt of about 1 degree, alternating
- Tokens: background `#0C0C0C` · border `2px solid #C8D2DC` · radius `0` · tilt `±1.2deg`
- State, default: Tilted sticker.
- State, hover: Edge turns green; the tilt straightens.
- State, focus: 3px green outline.
- Accessibility: Tilt stays under 1.5 degrees so text remains easy to read.
- Accessibility: DOM order is reading order, whatever the tilt.
- **Web translation** — Set several compositions on one surface, interrupted and fuzzy rather than aligned. _Why:_ The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation. (`claim:kcc:layout-1`)
- **Web translation** — Tilt cards slightly and alternate the direction. _Why:_ Multiple, contorted compositions; a small tilt reads as interrupted without costing legibility. (`claim:kcc:layout-1`, `claim:kcc:layout-2`)

#### Input

A black slot with a chrome edge; the label is set tight above it.

- Anatomy: black field; 2px chrome border; label in Archivo 800, tight
- Tokens: background `#050505` · border `2px solid #C8D2DC` · color `#E8E8E8` · radius `0`
- State, default: Chrome edge.
- State, focus: Edge turns green with a 3px outline.
- State, error: Magenta edge and a written message.
- State, disabled: Dashed edge.
- Accessibility: A visible label on every field.
- Accessibility: Errors are written, not only coloured.
- **Web translation** — Keep entry text plain and untracked; distortion stays in display type. _Why:_ Legibility is a cost the language accepts on display, not on what someone types. (`claim:intent-cost`, `token_rule:typography-4`)

#### Navigation

A ticker band: links in Archivo Black on toxic green, between magenta rules.

- Anatomy: green band with magenta top and bottom rules; links in black Archivo Black; current link reversed to black on magenta
- Tokens: background `#39FF14` · rule `3px solid #FF1AC6` · color `#050505` · current `#FF1AC6`
- State, default: Black on green.
- State, hover: Underline.
- State, focus: 3px black outline.
- State, current: Black on magenta block.
- Accessibility: aria-current on the current page.
- Accessibility: The band never scrolls on its own.
- **Web translation** — Run navigation as the room's ticker band, held still. _Why:_ Vibrating colour at full saturation: green and magenta meeting on one band. (`claim:kcc:layout-1`, `token_rule:color-5`)

### Motion

- **Not specified by the source** — The sources do not specify how anything moves. _Instead:_ No source describes its motion. If you animate, say it is your choice; do not present it as the language's.
- **Web translation** — In one music video, illustrations and type flash on screen sporadically. _Why:_ The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation. (`claim:kcc:w2-motion-1`)
- **Web translation** — If anything flashes, keep it under three times a second and still under reduced motion. _Why:_ The one documented video flashes; a page must not trigger seizures. (`claim:kcc:w2-motion-1`)

### Deliberately not added

- **Interface conventions** (components): No source addresses interface; the four components are translations.
- **How it moves** (motion): No source describes it.
- **A column system** (gridLayout): The record describes interrupted, multiple compositions, not a grid.

## Coverage — what has been looked at

One row per research dimension a research pass considered. "Not researched yet" (`UNKNOWN`) means exactly that; a dimension can carry an Aesthetary recommendation and still be unresearched, and those are different things.

| Research dimension | Evidence | Resolved by | Carries a rule |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Composition | Specified | Aesthetary decided | yes |
| Typography | Specified · From our catalogue entry | follows the recorded claim | yes |
| Hierarchy | Specified · Our reading | Aesthetary decided | yes |
| Colour | Specified · From our catalogue entry | follows the recorded claim | yes |
| Density | Not specified by the source | Aesthetary decided | no |
| Imagery | Specified | Aesthetary decided | yes |
| Form / motif / surface / technique | Specified | follows the recorded claim | yes |
| Motion | Specified | Aesthetary decided | no |

Unresearched: Composition, Imagery, Motion. Where a rule appears for one of these it is Aesthetary's implementation recommendation, not a property of the language, and its Evidence line above says so.

## Not researched yet

Every area of this record has a recorded position. That is unusual — most records do not.

## Grade your own work

16 checks: 8 mechanically testable, 7 needing a person to look, 0 needing a source Aesthetary does not hold, 1 with no recorded position. 2 further research dimensions produced no rule (Density, Motion). This rubric is silent on them. Scores do not add up. A failure against a required rule and a departure from something we invented are not the same result, and no total should let them cancel.

### Recognition — does this read as the intended Aesthetic?

- **[visual_human · recognition signature · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Strip every logo, word and borrowed image out of your work, then show it to someone who knows the collection. Do they land on this Aesthetic? The signature to hold is: Toxic green and magenta at full saturation against black, with display type warped and extruded into chrome-like, liquid-metal three-dimensional forms, a noise or grain overlay across the whole surface, and tracking pulled tight enough that letterforms nearly collide. The diagnostic condition is chemical colour plus extruded chrome type: the palette is deliberately unpleasant in a way that reads as synthetic rather than natural or neon-urban. Cyberpunk puts neon on wet urban night photography and is a place; the settings here are rendered, dystopian-tinged skies and deserts, never a night street. Glitch treats degradation as system error; here the noise is an applied texture.
  - _If it fails:_ The work may be competent and still read as a different Aesthetic, or as none. Nothing below matters until this passes.

### Fidelity — are its defining rules present?

- **[unassessable · no recorded position · Evidence: Not researched yet (`UNKNOWN`)]** Nothing is recorded as a requirement of this Aesthetic. There is no rule here that your work must hold — which means nothing you do can fail this dimension, and nothing you do can satisfy it either. That is missing research, not freedom: our research brief does record failure modes to avoid, listed under avoidance below. They are recorded judgement, not requirements.
  - _If it fails:_ Not applicable. An empty dimension is an absence of research, never a pass and never a failure.

### Implementation — were those rules translated appropriately into this medium?

- **[visual_human · From our catalogue entry · Evidence: From our catalogue entry]** Your work may depart from this — but knowingly, not by accident. Token rule gives two treatment values — warped and extruded_3d. Both are required; warped-flat is a different register.
  - _If it fails:_ A defensible departure, and you should be able to say why you made it.
- **[visual_human · Our reading · Evidence: Our reading]** Your work may depart from this — but knowingly, not by accident. Rank by saturation and extrusion depth. The most three-dimensional element leads.
  - _If it fails:_ A defensible departure, and you should be able to say why you made it.
- **[visual_human · From our catalogue entry · Evidence: From our catalogue entry]** Your work may depart from this — but knowingly, not by accident. Colour: toxic green/magenta, neon.
  - _If it fails:_ A defensible departure, and you should be able to say why you made it.
- **[visual_human · From our catalogue entry · Evidence: From our catalogue entry]** Your work may depart from this — but knowingly, not by accident. Form / motif / surface / technique: noise overlay, extrusion.
  - _If it fails:_ A defensible departure, and you should be able to say why you made it.
- **[visual_human · Our reading · disputed · Evidence: Our reading · disputed]** Your work may depart from this — but knowingly, not by accident. Contemporary digital distortion — chrome, liquify, extrusion, warped type — descended from 1990s rave flyer and record-sleeve practice. It is a current studio idiom, not a historical movement.
  - _If it fails:_ A defensible departure, and you should be able to say why you made it.

### Avoidance — known failure modes, neighbour drift, cloning

- **[mechanical · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: No photographic setting.
  - _If it fails:_ A failure mode recorded in our research brief: recorded judgement about what weakens this Aesthetic, not a requirement of the language.
- **[mechanical · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: No restrained or corporate palette.
  - _If it fails:_ A failure mode recorded in our research brief: recorded judgement about what weakens this Aesthetic, not a requirement of the language.
- **[mechanical · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: No flat type without extrusion.
  - _If it fails:_ A failure mode recorded in our research brief: recorded judgement about what weakens this Aesthetic, not a requirement of the language.
- **[mechanical · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: No clean surface without noise.
  - _If it fails:_ A failure mode recorded in our research brief: recorded judgement about what weakens this Aesthetic, not a requirement of the language.
- **[mechanical · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: No generous spacing.
  - _If it fails:_ A failure mode recorded in our research brief: recorded judgement about what weakens this Aesthetic, not a requirement of the language.
- **[visual_human · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Have you made any of these changes? Each one moves the work into a neighbouring Aesthetic: Against Cyberpunk: rendered scene versus street. Cyberpunk has a place — wet streets, night, signage; the skies and deserts here are rendered and dystopian-tinged, set on posters, sleeves and screens. Against Glitch: applied texture versus system error. Glitch is a treatment, not a peer language. Anti-signature: add urban night photography and it becomes Cyberpunk. Make the noise structural rather than applied and it becomes Glitch.
  - _If it fails:_ You have built the neighbour. That may be fine — but name which Aesthetic you are in.
- **[mechanical · declared closure · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: Not open: losing the extrusion.
  - _If it fails:_ This one is closed, not open. The record says generation must not go here.
- **[mechanical · declared closure · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: Not open: cleaning the palette.
  - _If it fails:_ This one is closed, not open. The record says generation must not go here.

### Accessibility — the Aesthetic preserved without its inaccessible practice

- **[mechanical · recorded accessibility cost · Evidence: No grade recorded]** This Aesthetic accepts "Legibility" as a cost. Your reader did not. Does your work carry that cost in the decorative layer only — display, demonstration, atmosphere — while every passage meant to be read holds a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1?
  - _If it fails:_ You have inherited a historical cost that the language never required you to pass on. The Aesthetic survives at AA on reading matter; reproducing the cost is a choice, not fidelity.

**Not covered at all:** Density: Not specified by the source; Motion: Specified. These research dimensions produced no rule, so there is no check. Treat them as unscored, never as passed and never as failed.

## Rules for the agent

1. Do not invent rules for any area listed under **Not researched yet**.
2. Do not treat an absent position as permission to do anything you like — say that the language has no position, and decide on other grounds.
3. Keep our interpretations separable from the language's own requirements. If asked to justify a choice, cite which kind of claim it came from.
4. If you need something this record does not contain, say so rather than producing a confident answer from the aesthetic's name.
5. When you self-score against "Grade your own work", score only checks marked `mechanical`. Declare `visual_human` and `evidence_dependent` checks unjudged rather than guessing, and never score an `unassessable` one.
6. Evidence "Not researched yet" (`UNKNOWN`) is never a failure. It means nobody researched the dimension, so departing from what is written there costs nothing and must not be reported as a defect. "No grade recorded" is not a grade either: do not treat it as our decision or as an outside source.
7. In **Design grammar**, a "Web translation" line is our choice for the web and may be changed with a reason; the rules it cites may not. Never present a translation as a property of the language.

## Provenance

- Record: `acid-graphics` · status `draft` · research `not_researched`
- Full structured record: https://aesthetary.com/data/acid-graphics.json
- Human-readable record: https://aesthetary.com/a/acid-graphics.html
- This file is a snapshot. The record may have changed since; check the page above.

_Aesthetary is an alpha. Where a page says nothing, nobody has done the work yet._