---
version: alpha
name: Stencil & Tablet
description: A West Coast skate-poster meets municipal stencil signage system. Stardos Stencil carries every headline, numeral, and chunky display moment with its characteristic ink-break gaps; Barlow Condensed runs all metadata and uppercase chrome at extra-heavy weights; Inter handles body. The palette is bone (#E2DCC9) and black, energized by a saturated retro-print accent set — sienna, magenta, orange, teal, blue, mustard, olive. Soft rounded "tablet" cards (22–26px radius) tile across slides in colored blocks. Type runs huge and uppercase, numerals dominate at 160–540px, and color blocks act as the layout. The mood is industrial poster, vintage workshop sign, and music festival lineup all at once.

colors:
  bone: "#E2DCC9"
  black: "#000000"
  ink: "#0A0A0A"
  paper: "#F4EFE0"
  sienna: "#A06A3C"
  magenta: "#C73B7A"
  orange: "#EE7A2E"
  teal: "#2D7E73"
  blue: "#3F73B7"
  mustard: "#D8A93B"
  olive: "#6F7A2E"

typography:
  cover-hero:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 220px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 0.82
    letterSpacing: -0.015em
    textTransform: uppercase
  numeral-mega:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 540px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 0.8
  numeral-card-xl:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 240px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 0.85
    letterSpacing: -0.02em
  numeral-tablet:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 220px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 0.9
    letterSpacing: -0.02em
  numeral-stat:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 160px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 0.85
    letterSpacing: -0.02em
  section-headline:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 120px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 0.92
    letterSpacing: -0.005em
    textTransform: uppercase
  chart-headline:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 110px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 0.92
    letterSpacing: -0.01em
    textTransform: uppercase
  page-headline:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 92px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 0.92
    letterSpacing: -0.01em
    textTransform: uppercase
  quote-text:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 60px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.05
    letterSpacing: -0.005em
  quote-mark:
    fontFamily: "Bowlby One, Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 320px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 0.8
  numeral-process:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 64px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 0.9
  date-mark:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 36px
    fontWeight: 700
    textTransform: uppercase
  card-headline:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 34px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.15
    textTransform: uppercase
    letterSpacing: -0.005em
  meta-headline:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 32px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
  card-h3:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 30px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.05
    textTransform: uppercase
    letterSpacing: 0.02em
  matrix-row:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 26px
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    textTransform: uppercase
    letterSpacing: 0.01em
  matrix-head:
    fontFamily: "Stardos Stencil, serif"
    fontSize: 24px
    fontWeight: 700
    textTransform: uppercase
    letterSpacing: 0.02em
  topbar:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 32px
    fontWeight: 800
    letterSpacing: 0.04em
    textTransform: uppercase
    lineHeight: 1
  super:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 28px
    fontWeight: 800
    letterSpacing: 0.12em
    textTransform: uppercase
  who-name:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 30px
    fontWeight: 700
    letterSpacing: 0.04em
    textTransform: uppercase
  attribution:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 26px
    fontWeight: 800
    letterSpacing: 0.08em
    textTransform: uppercase
  meta:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 24px
    fontWeight: 600
    letterSpacing: 0.06em
  section-eyebrow:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 24px
    fontWeight: 800
    letterSpacing: 0.14em
    textTransform: uppercase
  footer:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 22px
    fontWeight: 600
    letterSpacing: 0.08em
    textTransform: uppercase
  process-sub:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 22px
    fontWeight: 600
    letterSpacing: 0.06em
    textTransform: uppercase
  timeline-marker:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 20px
    fontWeight: 700
    letterSpacing: 0.08em
    textTransform: uppercase
  legend:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 22px
    fontWeight: 700
    letterSpacing: 0.06em
    textTransform: uppercase
  pill:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 18px
    fontWeight: 700
    letterSpacing: 0.08em
    textTransform: uppercase
  chart-axis:
    fontFamily: "Barlow Condensed, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 18px
    fontWeight: 600
    letterSpacing: 0.06em
  body-lg:
    fontFamily: "Inter, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 24px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.4
  body:
    fontFamily: "Inter, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 22px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.4
  body-sm:
    fontFamily: "Inter, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 20px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.45
  body-xs:
    fontFamily: "Inter, sans-serif"
    fontSize: 18px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.4

spacing:
  pad-outer: 64px
  pad-top: 48px
  pad-bottom: 36px
  card-pad: "24px 22px to 38px 32px"
  gap-card: "22px to 28px"
  radius-card: 22px
  radius-card-lg: 26px
  radius-action: 22px
  radius-pill: 999px
  radius-mark: 14px
  radius-timeline: 18px

canvas:
  width: 1920px
  height: 1080px

components:
  tablet:
    borderRadius: 26px
    padding: "38px 32px 32px"
    background: "any palette accent or {colors.bone}"
    color: "{colors.ink} on light fills, {colors.bone} on dark fills"
    description: "The system's namesake container — a rounded rectangle holding a giant stencil numeral above a stencil headline and Inter body. Numerals run to 220px+ inside."
  card-color:
    borderRadius: 22px
    padding: "{spacing.card-pad}"
    description: "Generic color-block card in any palette accent (sienna, magenta, orange, teal, blue, mustard, olive, paper)."
  pill-status:
    borderRadius: "{spacing.radius-pill}"
    padding: "6px 16px"
    typography: "{typography.pill}"
    description: "Uppercase Barlow Condensed pill used as a matrix cell value. teal=yes, mustard=partial, magenta=no, paper-with-ink-border=note."
  action-bar:
    background: "{colors.mustard}"
    borderRadius: 22px
    padding: "24px 32px"
    description: "Mustard-yellow callout bar running across the top of a slide, containing a tag separator and a stencil headline. Used for important section openers."
  num-mega:
    typography: "{typography.numeral-mega}"
    color: "{colors.orange} (default) or any saturated accent"
    description: "Giant 540px stencil numeral used as a section divider — the number IS the layout. Sits absolute top-left while the section headline runs bottom-right."
  num-tablet:
    typography: "{typography.numeral-tablet}"
    description: "220px stencil numeral inside a tablet card, paired with a stencil headline and Inter body underneath."
  num-stat:
    typography: "{typography.numeral-stat}"
    suffix: "{typography.attribution}"
    description: "160px stencil stat numeral with optional small-caps Barlow suffix (e.g., '%') at vertical-align top, 40px."
  cover-lockup:
    description: "Cover-bottom row containing a small rounded mark (56px square, 14px radius, accent fill), an uppercase Barlow name with small subtitle, and a stencil date."
  cover-mark:
    width: 56px
    height: 56px
    borderRadius: 14px
    background: "any accent (default orange)"
    description: "Small rounded square 'logo' tile in the cover lockup."
  section-num-block:
    description: "Section divider where a 540px stencil numeral fills the left side, a small Barlow eyebrow sits top-right, and a 120px stencil headline runs bottom-right."
  process-node:
    borderRadius: 22px
    padding: "24px 22px 22px"
    description: "Process step card with a 64px stencil ordinal at top, an uppercase stencil h3, and small Inter body. Each step takes a different accent fill."
  timeline-bar:
    background: "{colors.paper}"
    borderRadius: 14px
    padding: "0 28px"
    height: 50px
    description: "Paper-fill horizontal bar at the bottom of process diagrams, containing uppercase Barlow timeline markers spread evenly."
  matrix-cell:
    border: "1.5px solid rgba(10,10,10,0.35)"
    padding: "18px 22px"
    description: "Matrix table cell with a single warm-ink hairline border. Head row inverts to black fill with bone text. Last row drops bottom border."
  legend-bar:
    width: 32px
    height: 6px
    description: "Flat horizontal bar (no border-radius) used as a chart legend swatch."
  quote-panel:
    background: "{colors.magenta} (or any saturated accent)"
    borderRadius: 26px
    padding: "60px 80px"
    description: "Large rounded panel filling most of the slide, containing a 320px Bowlby One quote mark beside a 60px stencil quote text."
  organic-shape:
    description: "Decorative organic blob (SVG) sitting behind agenda items on the dark agenda layout, in any accent color. The shape is the background, the number and label float on top."
  topbar:
    position: "absolute top 48px, left/right 64px"
    typography: "{typography.topbar}"
    description: "Top chrome strip with section name left and meta columns right. Uppercase Barlow Condensed 800."
  footer-chrome:
    position: "absolute bottom 36px, left/right 64px"
    typography: "{typography.footer}"
    description: "Bottom chrome strip with date left and deck name right. Uppercase Barlow Condensed 600 at 0.75 opacity."
---

## Frontend Slides Fixed-Stage Policy

When this design system is used by the `frontend-slides` skill, generate the final deck as a **fixed 1920×1080 stage** that scales uniformly to the browser viewport. The deck should preserve a 16:9 slide canvas on every screen, including phones; it may letterbox or pillarbox, but it should not reflow slide content for mobile.

This policy has higher priority than any source-template responsive behavior described later in this file. If a later section says the original template is viewport-fluid, treat that as source history only, not as the target generation model for `frontend-slides`.

This policy applies even if the source template was originally implemented with viewport-fluid CSS such as `100vw`, `100vh`, `vw`, `vh`, or `clamp()`. Treat those values as design proportions to translate into 1920×1080 stage coordinates, not as live responsive rules in the generated deck.

Use `deck-stage.js` or an equivalent inline stage scaler for final output: render each slide at 1920×1080, scale the whole stage with one transform, and verify rendered screenshots for both text overflow and panel overlap.


## Overview

Stencil & Tablet is a **poster-loud, type-led** presentation system. The premise is a single display face — Stardos Stencil — handling every headline, every numeral, every featured moment, with characteristic stencil ink-breaks giving each glyph a slightly-distressed industrial register. The supporting cast is Barlow Condensed (extra-heavy 600–900, uppercase, generous tracking) running all metadata, chrome, pills, and legends — and Inter handling the small set of body paragraphs that exist mostly to caption the loud type above them.

The visual logic is **color blocks as layout**. The bone-cream field (`{colors.bone}` — #E2DCC9) is the default page; on top of it sit rounded "tablet" cards in saturated retro-print colors — sienna brown, magenta pink, orange, teal, deep blue, mustard yellow, olive green. The accents are not pastels — they read as printed ink, slightly muted but unmistakably saturated. The cards do the work of dividing the canvas; you can identify a slide's structure from across the room because the color blocks tile geometrically. A dark-bone alternate (`{colors.black}` field with bone-colored type) appears on agenda-style and bold-statement slides.

The typographic register is **huge and uppercase**. Cover titles run at 220px. Numerals inside tablets at 220–240px. Section dividers at 540px (yes, more than half the canvas in single-character height). Statement headlines at 120px. Even stat numerals start at 160px. The system's identity depends on running type at sizes that would be impossible on most decks — Stencil & Tablet uses scale as the primary expressive tool, with color as the secondary tool, and body text only as the supporting cast.

Depth is **flat with rounded chrome**. There are no drop shadows. No gradients. Cards have generous border-radius (22–26px) and saturated fills, and that's the entire depth system. Inside cards, dividers are 1.5–2px solid hairlines in warm ink — heavier than Soft Editorial's whisper-dashed rules because the system overall has more visual weight.

**Density philosophy: high and confident.** Stencil & Tablet is meant to feel filled. A typical slide covers most of its canvas in color blocks — tablets tile across, action bars run wide, section numerals fill half the slide. The bone field is visible mostly as gaps between cards (22–28px) and as the outer 64px slide padding. A slide that feels broken in this system is one that's mostly empty bone — the design needs the color blocks to hold its identity. The exception is the section-divider slide, where a single 540px numeral against a dark field IS the design and the empty space is intentional.

**Key Characteristics:**
- Bone (`{colors.bone}`) field on most slides; black field with bone type on agenda-style and bold-divider slides.
- Stardos Stencil for every headline, every numeral, every featured stencil moment — the ink-break stencil glyphs are the system's identity.
- Barlow Condensed extra-heavy uppercase for all chrome, metadata, pills, legends, and labels. Generous letter-spacing (0.06–0.14em).
- Inter for body — small role, supporting the loud type above.
- Seven-color accent palette (`{colors.sienna}`, `{colors.magenta}`, `{colors.orange}`, `{colors.teal}`, `{colors.blue}`, `{colors.mustard}`, `{colors.olive}`) plus paper (`{colors.paper}`) — used as full card fills.
- Tablet cards with 22–26px border-radius hold a giant stencil numeral above a stencil headline above Inter body. The numeral usually fills more than half the card height.
- Numerals run massive — section dividers at 540px, tablet cards at 220–240px, stats at 160px.
- All headlines uppercase. All metadata uppercase. Sentence case appears only in Inter body.
- No drop shadows, no gradients — flat blocks of color with rounded corners.

## Colors

### Palette

- **Bone** (`{colors.bone}` — #E2DCC9): The default page field. A warm cream with a slight green-grey undertone — reads as canvas, kraft paper, or a slightly-aged poster.
- **Black** (`{colors.black}` — #000000): The dark field. True black, used for agenda-style and section-divider slides where the type inverts to bone.
- **Ink** (`{colors.ink}` — #0A0A0A): Near-black for text on light surfaces. Slightly softer than pure black to read as ink rather than digital.
- **Paper** (`{colors.paper}` — #F4EFE0): A lighter cream than bone, used for cards that need to sit "lighter" against the bone field (matrix tables, chart frames, timeline bars).
- **Sienna** (`{colors.sienna}` — #A06A3C): Warm brown-orange. The earthiest of the accents — process steps, principle cards.
- **Magenta** (`{colors.magenta}` — #C73B7A): Saturated retro pink-red. The loudest warm accent — covers, quotes, statements, matrix "no" pills.
- **Orange** (`{colors.orange}` — #EE7A2E): Bright orange. The system's most-used accent — section dividers, principle cards, cover marks, stat cards.
- **Teal** (`{colors.teal}` — #2D7E73): Deep blue-green. The cool counterpart to orange — process cards, matrix "yes" pills, chart accents.
- **Blue** (`{colors.blue}` — #3F73B7): Mid-tone process blue. Used for fifth-step process cards and cool variety.
- **Mustard** (`{colors.mustard}` — #D8A93B): Saturated yellow-orange. Action bars, stat cards, matrix "partial" pills.
- **Olive** (`{colors.olive}` — #6F7A2E): Muted yellow-green. The least-used accent, reserved for variety in seven-up palettes or sixth-position cards.

### Defaults

- **Default page field**: `{colors.bone}` for content slides; `{colors.black}` for agenda-style, section-divider, stats-headline, and quote-panel-containing slides.
- **Default primary text color**: `{colors.ink}` on bone/paper/light-accent surfaces; `{colors.bone}` on black/teal/blue/dark accent surfaces.
- **Default text color on each accent**: ink on sienna, magenta, orange, mustard, olive, paper (warm or mid-tone accents stay with ink); bone on teal, blue, black (cool/dark accents flip to bone).
- **Default accent for sections (single-color moments)**: `{colors.orange}` — the system's loudest, most-used accent.
- **Default accent for warm color moments**: `{colors.magenta}` or `{colors.orange}`.
- **Default accent for cool color moments**: `{colors.teal}`.
- **Default accent for callout / action bar**: `{colors.mustard}`.
- **Default text-on-fill rule**: text never inverts to white. Light text on dark fills is always `{colors.bone}`, never white.

### Matrix Pill Color Conventions

Inside comparison matrices, status pills follow a fixed convention:
- `{colors.teal}` fill with bone text = yes / affirmative
- `{colors.mustard}` fill with ink text = partial / qualified
- `{colors.magenta}` fill with bone text = no / negative
- `{colors.paper}` fill with ink text and 1.5px ink border = note / annotation

Outside the matrix, accents are interchangeable. A process card can be magenta or teal without conveying yes/no — color is decorative there, not semantic.

## Typography

### Font Family

Stencil & Tablet runs **three families** plus one display-only specialist:

- **Stardos Stencil** (`{typography.cover-hero.fontFamily}`) — a single-weight (700, with a 400 italic for quotes) stencil display face. The ink-break gaps in every glyph are the system's identity. Used for every headline, every numeral, every featured stencil moment from 24px matrix-head all the way up to 540px section-numeral.
- **Bowlby One** — a single-purpose extra-heavy display face used only for the 320px quote-mark inside quote panels. The face has a different visual register (fatter, more solid) than Stardos Stencil and is reserved for that one element.
- **Barlow Condensed** (`{typography.topbar.fontFamily}`) — a tall narrow grotesque at weights 500–900. Carries every uppercase chrome, every metadata label, every pill, every legend item, every footer, every supporting label. The condensed width and heavy weights let it pack tight uppercase rows at small sizes (18–32px).
- **Inter** (`{typography.body.fontFamily}`) — a humanist grotesque at weights 400–600. Reserved for body paragraphs and card body copy at 18–24px. Inter is the system's "quiet" voice — used for sentence-case prose where Barlow would be too loud.

The emotional split is: Stardos = scale and signage; Barlow = metadata and labels; Inter = body; Bowlby = the quote-mark glyph only.

### Type Scale

| Token | Size | Family | Weight | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `{typography.numeral-mega}` | 540px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Section-divider numeral that fills most of a slide |
| `{typography.quote-mark}` | 320px | Bowlby One | 700 | Opening quote glyph inside a quote panel |
| `{typography.numeral-card-xl}` | 240px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Mega numeral inside a principle/feature card |
| `{typography.numeral-tablet}` | 220px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Standard numeral inside a tablet card |
| `{typography.cover-hero}` | 220px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Cover title at maximum scale |
| `{typography.numeral-stat}` | 160px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Statistical numeral inside a stat card |
| `{typography.section-headline}` | 120px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Headline on a section-divider slide |
| `{typography.chart-headline}` | 110px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Large headline on chart slides |
| `{typography.page-headline}` | 92px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Standard slide headline |
| `{typography.numeral-process}` | 64px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Step ordinal at the top of a process node |
| `{typography.quote-text}` | 60px | Stardos Stencil | 400 | Pull-quote body inside a quote panel |
| `{typography.date-mark}` | 36px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Date or marker in cover lockup |
| `{typography.card-headline}` | 34px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Headline inside an action bar |
| `{typography.meta-headline}` | 32px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Heavy meta headline inside a consult column |
| `{typography.card-h3}` | 30px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Card sub-headline at the bottom of tablets |
| `{typography.topbar}` | 32px | Barlow Condensed | 800 | Top chrome label |
| `{typography.super}` | 28px | Barlow Condensed | 800 | Superscript label above cover headlines |
| `{typography.who-name}` | 30px | Barlow Condensed | 700 | Cover lockup name label |
| `{typography.attribution}` | 26px | Barlow Condensed | 800 | Quote attribution name |
| `{typography.matrix-row}` | 26px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Matrix row-label cell |
| `{typography.matrix-head}` | 24px | Stardos Stencil | 700 | Matrix head-row cell |
| `{typography.meta}` | 24px | Barlow Condensed | 600 | Top chrome meta columns |
| `{typography.section-eyebrow}` | 24px | Barlow Condensed | 800 | Section eyebrow on divider slides |
| `{typography.body-lg}` | 24px | Inter | 400 | Standard body paragraph |
| `{typography.footer}` | 22px | Barlow Condensed | 600 | Bottom chrome footer |
| `{typography.process-sub}` | 22px | Barlow Condensed | 600 | Process diagram sub-headline |
| `{typography.legend}` | 22px | Barlow Condensed | 700 | Chart legend label |
| `{typography.body}` | 22px | Inter | 400 | Default body inside tablets and cards |
| `{typography.timeline-marker}` | 20px | Barlow Condensed | 700 | Timeline bar marker label |
| `{typography.body-sm}` | 20px | Inter | 400 | Consult column body, dense card body |
| `{typography.pill}` | 18px | Barlow Condensed | 700 | Pill label inside matrix or status chip |
| `{typography.chart-axis}` | 18px | Barlow Condensed | 600 | Chart axis tick label |
| `{typography.body-xs}` | 18px | Inter | 400 | Smallest body, process card descriptions |

### Defaults

- **Default size for a primary section headline**: `{typography.page-headline}` (92px) on standard slides, `{typography.chart-headline}` (110px) on chart-style headers, `{typography.section-headline}` (120px) on section-divider slides.
- **Default size for a cover hero**: `{typography.cover-hero}` (220px).
- **Default size for a featured numeral inside a tablet**: `{typography.numeral-tablet}` (220px); reach for `{typography.numeral-card-xl}` (240px) when the numeral dominates and `{typography.numeral-mega}` (540px) for section dividers.
- **Default size for a statistical numeral**: `{typography.numeral-stat}` (160px).
- **Default size for body**: `{typography.body}` (22px) inside cards; `{typography.body-lg}` (24px) for stand-alone body paragraphs.
- **Default size for any chrome label, pill, or legend**: `{typography.footer}` (22px) to `{typography.topbar}` (32px) depending on the chrome tier.
- **Default headline color**: `{colors.ink}` on light fills, `{colors.bone}` on dark fills.

When unsure between `{typography.page-headline}` (92px) and `{typography.chart-headline}` (110px), pick 92px — 110px is reserved for slides where the headline anchors a chart frame.

### Signature Treatments

These treatments are **non-optional whenever the corresponding element type is used**:

- **Every headline is uppercase.** Stardos Stencil at any size, in any context, runs uppercase. Sentence-case stencil text does not exist in this system.
- **Every chrome, metadata, pill, and legend element is uppercase Barlow Condensed with at least 0.04em letter-spacing** (most run at 0.06–0.14em). Barlow Condensed without tracking reads as broken.
- **Numerals are always Stardos Stencil at weight 700** — never weight 400, never a different face. Even small numerals (matrix-head at 24px) follow the convention.
- **The 540px section-divider numeral always renders in a saturated accent on a dark (`{colors.black}` or near-black) field**, typically `{colors.orange}` or `{colors.magenta}`. A 540px numeral on a light field breaks the section-divider register.
- **Tablet cards always carry a numeral above their headline.** A tablet without a numeral is not a tablet — it's a generic card. The numeral is the tablet's defining feature.
- **Stat numerals use a Barlow Condensed superscript suffix at vertical-align top** for units (% sign, ×, K, M). The suffix runs at 40px / weight 800 / Barlow.
- **Body in Inter is always sentence case.** Uppercasing Inter breaks the contrast that lets it read as the "quiet voice."
- **Quote panels always use Bowlby One for the quote-mark glyph (not Stardos Stencil).** The chunkier face is non-negotiable for that one element.

### Typography Principles

The face ladder is fixed: Stardos for stencil display and numerals; Barlow for uppercase chrome/metadata/pills; Inter for sentence-case body; Bowlby for the single quote-mark application. Crossing the rails — e.g., using Stardos for body, or using Inter uppercase for chrome — breaks the typographic register.

Line-height runs tight at display scale (0.8–0.92 on numerals and headlines) and opens to 1.4–1.45 on body. Letter-spacing on stencil headlines is slightly negative (–0.005 to –0.02em) at large sizes; chrome and labels run with generous positive tracking (0.04–0.14em). Numerals at all sizes use negative letter-spacing (typically –0.02em).

Bold within body is not used. Strong tags inside Inter remain at weight 400; emphasis is achieved by switching to Barlow Condensed uppercase, not by bolding Inter.

## Layout

### Canvas System

Stencil & Tablet targets a **fixed 1920×1080 canvas** via the `<deck-stage>` component. Layout uses absolute positioning from slide edges. Top chrome sits at top: 48px, left/right: 64px. Bottom chrome at bottom: 36px, left/right: 64px. Card grids inset from those chrome positions with 22–28px gaps between cards.

### Padding and Gap Scale

| Token | Value | Use |
|---|---|---|
| `{spacing.pad-outer}` | 64px | Standard slide left/right inset |
| `{spacing.pad-top}` | 48px | Top inset for chrome |
| `{spacing.pad-bottom}` | 36px | Bottom inset for chrome |
| Internal card pad | 24–38px | Padding inside cards (compact to spacious) |
| `{spacing.gap-card}` | 22–28px | Gap between cards in a row or grid |

### Chrome Frame

Every standard slide carries top chrome and footer chrome:

- **Top bar** — left-aligned section name + right-aligned meta columns (one or two columns of 24px Barlow Condensed labels). Both uppercase, condensed, heavy-weight.
- **Footer** — left-aligned date or slide marker + right-aligned deck name. Both uppercase Barlow Condensed at 22px / 0.75 opacity.

The cover, agenda, section-divider, quote-panel, and CTA slides typically omit standard chrome — those layouts contain their own layout-specific top labels (the cover's "super" + lockup, the section-divider's eyebrow, etc.).

## Depth and Elevation

Stencil & Tablet is **flat by design**. There are no drop shadows. No box-shadows. No gradients. Depth comes entirely from:

- **Color blocks** — saturated accent fills against the bone field. A magenta tablet next to a teal tablet reads as two distinct surfaces because the colors carry the separation.
- **Rounded chrome** — 22–26px border-radius on every card softens the form and lets the eye read "tablet" rather than "rectangle."
- **Tablet stack order** — tablets are flat siblings, never stacked. No card sits on top of another card.

The single exception is the **organic-shape background** on the dark agenda layout: SVG blob shapes sit absolutely behind each agenda item in an accent color, and the number/label float on top with z-index. This is the only z-index in the system.

## Shapes and Treatment

### Border Radius

| Value | Use |
|---|---|
| 999px (pill) | Status pills (yes/partial/no/note) |
| 26px | Tablet cards, principles cards, quote panel, CTA panels |
| 22px | Standard cards, action bars, process nodes, matrix table, chart frames, consult columns, stats cards |
| 18px | Decorative timeline bar |
| 14px | Cover mark (small lockup square), timeline tablet |
| 0 (square) | Chart plot box edges (the 2px solid black plot frame), legend bars, organic-shape SVG (which has no border-radius by definition) |

Cards are uniformly 22–26px rounded. Square corners appear only on chart plot frames (where the geometry of the axis lines demands it) and on legend bars (flat 32×6px rectangles for chart legends).

### Border Weights

- **2px solid `{colors.ink}`** — used on chart plot frames (left and bottom edges of the chart area) and on consult column h3 underlines.
- **1.5px solid rgba(10,10,10,0.35)** — used on matrix cell borders. The matrix is the densest table in the system and needs visible cell dividers.
- **1px dashed rgba(10,10,10,0.18–0.35)** — used inside chart plots as grid lines and as source-attribution top rules.
- **2px solid `{colors.ink}`** as a vertical separator — used inside action bars and consult headers to divide a tag from a headline.

### Decorative Element Types

**Tablet card** — the system's namesake container. A 22–26px rounded card holding a 220px+ stencil numeral above a stencil headline above Inter body. The numeral fills the upper half of the card; the headline and body sit at the bottom via `margin-top: auto`. Background takes any accent fill; text color follows the surface (ink on warm/light fills, bone on cool/dark fills).

**Color card** — a generic 22–26px rounded card in any accent fill, used for principles, process nodes, stats, and consult columns. Contains a stencil headline, optional body, and optional accent elements.

**Section-divider numeral** — a 540px stencil numeral in an accent color (typically `{colors.orange}` or `{colors.magenta}`) sitting absolute on a black field, paired with a small Barlow eyebrow at top-right and a 120px stencil headline at bottom-right. The numeral IS the layout.

**Action bar** — a full-width mustard-filled rounded card (22px radius) running near the top of a slide, containing a left-aligned uppercase Barlow tag, a vertical ink rule separator, and a stencil headline at 34px. Used for important section-opening callouts.

**Status pill** — a fully rounded (999px) pill with uppercase Barlow text. Color-coded for matrix status (teal/mustard/magenta/paper-bordered).

**Matrix table** — a paper-fill rounded card containing a grid of 1.5px-bordered cells. Head row inverts to black fill with bone stencil type. Row-label cells use stencil uppercase. Status cells contain pills.

**Process node** — a small rounded card (22px radius) holding a 64px stencil ordinal, a 28px stencil h3, and small Inter body. Process nodes sit in a 5-up grid with arrow connectors between them.

**Timeline bar** — a paper-fill rounded card (14px radius) running across the bottom of process diagrams, height 50px, with uppercase Barlow timeline markers spread evenly inside.

**Cover lockup** — a row at the bottom of a cover slide containing a small 56px rounded-square accent mark, an uppercase Barlow name + subtitle stack, and a stencil date. Defines the cover-bottom convention.

**Quote panel** — a magenta-filled 26px-rounded panel filling most of the slide, with a 320px Bowlby One quote-mark on the left and 60px stencil quote-text on the right.

**Organic blob shape** — SVG amoeba-like shapes sitting behind agenda items in a saturated accent color. The blob is the background; the number and label float on top.

**Legend bar** — a flat 32×6px rectangle (no border-radius) in a chart color, used as a chart legend swatch beside an uppercase Barlow label.

**Stat suffix** — a Barlow Condensed superscript at 40px / weight 800, vertical-align top, sitting beside a 160px stencil numeral. Standard units (% sign, ×, K, M).

## Do's and Don'ts

### Do

- Set every headline in Stardos Stencil uppercase at weight 700, regardless of size. The stencil ink-break glyphs are the system's identity.
- Use Barlow Condensed extra-heavy (600–900) uppercase for every chrome, label, pill, legend, footer, and metadata element — with letter-spacing of at least 0.04em.
- Render numerals huge — tablets at 220px, stats at 160px, section dividers at 540px. Scale is the system's primary expressive tool.
- Tile cards in saturated accents (sienna, magenta, orange, teal, blue, mustard, olive) across the bone field. Color blocks ARE the layout.
- Round every card to 22–26px. Square corners on cards break the tablet register.
- Pair stencil headlines and numerals with Inter body — the loud/quiet contrast is the typographic rhythm.
- Use `{colors.bone}` (not white) for text on dark fills. The bone-on-black inversion is the system's only color inversion and white would clash.
- Apply the matrix pill convention (teal/mustard/magenta/paper-bordered) consistently — yes/partial/no/note. The convention earns its weight by appearing repeatedly.
- Use Bowlby One for the quote-mark glyph inside a quote panel. It's the only place that face appears.
- Position chrome at fixed offsets (top: 48px / 64px, bottom: 36px / 64px). Chrome positions are non-negotiable across standard slides.

### Don't

- Don't lowercase a stencil headline. Stardos Stencil at any scale is uppercase only.
- Don't render chrome or metadata in sentence case. Barlow Condensed in this system is always uppercase.
- Don't add drop shadows or gradients. The system is flat blocks of saturated color.
- Don't square the corners on cards, action bars, or pills. The minimum acceptable card radius is 22px; pills are 999px.
- Don't invert text to pure white on dark fills. Use `{colors.bone}` — the off-white keeps the system tied to its bone/paper register.
- Don't use Inter for headlines or chrome. Inter is the body voice; it never leads.
- Don't use Stardos Stencil for body paragraphs. The stencil face at body scale (under 22px) becomes illegible — Inter is the body voice for a reason.
- Don't introduce an eighth accent color. The seven-accent palette plus bone/black/paper is closed.
- Don't use the section-divider 540px numeral on a light field. The mega-numeral pattern lives on dark fields only.
- Don't crowd cards with less than 22px gaps. The bone field visible between cards is structural.

## Responsive Behavior

Stencil & Tablet is a **fixed 1920×1080** system rendered inside a `<deck-stage>` web component. Layout uses absolute pixel positioning; the deck-stage scales the entire 1920×1080 canvas uniformly to fit the viewport. There are no media queries.

### Scaling Behavior

All elements maintain relative position and size at any viewport. A 540px section numeral remains 540px on the deck-stage's internal canvas; the stage scales the canvas to the browser. The system depends on the deck-stage component for this scaling.

### Presenter Behavior

Navigation is handled by the external `deck-stage.js` script. Each slide carries a `data-label` attribute identifying it. Slides advance via the deck-stage's controls; some slides carry `data-om-validate="false"` to opt out of certain auto-validation.

### Print Behavior

There is no embedded print stylesheet. Static export depends on the deck-stage component; for PDF generation, each slide renders as a single 1920×1080 page.

## CJK & International Content

### Recommended Chinese Pairing

| Role | Latin face (default) | Chinese face | Weight | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Display / Cover hero / Section divider | Stardos Stencil 700 uppercase | 思源宋体 / Noto Serif SC | 900 | Stardos Stencil's industrial signage register translates best to Noto Serif SC at the heaviest weight (900) — Song-style strokes carry equivalent visual mass at 120–540px scale. |
| Numerals (tablet, stat, mega) | Stardos Stencil 700 | 思源宋体 / Noto Serif SC | 900 | Chinese numerals (一二三四五 or 〇一二三四) rendered in NSC 900 hold their weight against accent fills. Latin/Arabic digits inside Chinese decks should stay in Stardos for the stencil break. |
| Chrome / metadata / pill | Barlow Condensed 800 uppercase | 思源黑体 / Noto Sans SC | 700–900 | Barlow Condensed has no condensed CJK equivalent on CDN — fall back to Noto Sans SC heavy. Use tighter `font-stretch` is not available; rely on shorter labels. |
| Body | Inter 400 | 思源宋体 / Noto Serif SC | 400 | NSC body matches the loud/quiet contrast; the serif body softens the industrial register slightly but stays legible. |

### Mixed-Content Strategy

This template uses **Strategy A**: replace the Latin display face entirely with the CJK display face for any element rendering Chinese characters. Stardos Stencil's ink-break gaps are physically tied to the Latin alphabet's stroke topology — there is no Chinese stencil face on CDN that reproduces the effect, and forcing Stardos to display CJK either fails (no glyph coverage) or renders an ugly fallback. Replace the entire `font-family` with Noto Serif SC 900 for any Chinese-content element.

```css
font-family: 'Noto Serif SC', 'Stardos Stencil', serif;  /* display / headlines — CJK first */
font-family: 'Noto Sans SC', 'Barlow Condensed', sans-serif;  /* chrome / pills — heavy weights only */
font-family: 'Noto Serif SC', 'Inter', sans-serif;  /* body */
```

Putting NSC first in the stack means Chinese characters render in NSC and any Latin/numeric content mixed inside the same element also gets NSC, which loses the stencil register for mixed lines. **Recommendation**: for cover slides with mixed-script headlines (e.g., `STUDIO 工作室`), split into two `<span>` elements — one in Stardos for the Latin word, one in NSC 900 for the Chinese phrase, sized so the visual weight matches (NSC 900 at the same px renders slightly heavier than Stardos 700).

### Loading

Add to `<head>` (Google Fonts hosts Noto Serif SC and Noto Sans SC; both ship with weight 900):

```html
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Stardos+Stencil:wght@400;700&family=Bowlby+One&family=Barlow+Condensed:wght@500;600;700;800;900&family=Inter:wght@400;500;600&family=Noto+Serif+SC:wght@400;500;700;900&family=Noto+Sans+SC:wght@400;500;700;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
```

Noto Serif SC 900 is critical — it's the only weight that holds visual parity with Stardos Stencil at large scale. Lighter weights (700 or below) render Chinese headlines as "thin" beside Stencil Latin.

### Universal CJK Adjustments

Apply on any element rendering Chinese content (typically scope via `:lang(zh)` or `<span lang="zh">`):

- **Line-height**: body 1.75–1.85 (Stencil & Tablet's 1.4 Inter-default is too tight for CJK strokes); display 1.15–1.25 (looser than Latin 0.8–0.92 because CJK glyphs at 220–540px need vertical breathing room or strokes collide).
- **Letter-spacing**: 0 on CJK. Stencil & Tablet's negative tracking on Latin display (-0.005 to -0.02em) and positive tracking on Barlow chrome (0.04–0.14em) are both wrong for Chinese — CJK glyphs are pre-spaced; tracking creates either overlap or unnatural gaps.
- **Text-transform**: no uppercase on CJK. Stencil & Tablet uppercases nearly everything in Latin; on Chinese this is a no-op but ensure no parent rule attempts it (some browsers may render unpredictably).
- **Full-width punctuation**: use `，。：；！？` (full-width) not `,.:;!?` (half-width). The full-width forms include their own surrounding whitespace and align to the CJK em-box.
- **No period on display headlines**: Chinese headlines drop the terminal `。` — the headline's visual closure is enough.
- **Pangu spacing (盘古之白)**: insert a thin space between CJK and adjacent Latin/numerals. Write `使用 Claude` not `使用Claude`; `2024 年` not `2024年`. Especially important in this system since Stardos numerals frequently sit beside Chinese labels.
- **One font per sentence**: don't mix NSC and Noto Sans SC inside a single line. The serif/sans switch should happen at element boundaries, not mid-phrase.

### Aesthetic Notes for This System

Noto Serif SC 900 against a saturated accent fill (magenta, orange, teal) reproduces the poster-loud register of the system well — the heavy Song strokes have similar visual mass to Stardos Stencil's chunky stencil glyphs. The system's identity (industrial signage / municipal stencil) shifts slightly toward "Chinese newspaper headline" in CJK, which is a related but distinct register; for projects where the industrial stencil feel is essential, lean on Stardos for Latin words and accept that pure-Chinese headlines will read as authoritative newspaper-poster type rather than skate-deck stencil.

The matrix pill convention (teal=yes, mustard=partial, magenta=no) translates directly — replace the uppercase Barlow text inside pills with NSC 700 sentence-case Chinese labels (`是` / `部分` / `否`). Pill width may grow to accommodate Chinese (single-character labels are tightest); keep the 999px radius and accept slightly wider pills.

The 540px section-divider numeral pattern is one of the system's strongest moments and works beautifully with Chinese — `一` `二` `三` rendered at 540px NSC 900 against the black field carries equal visual authority to Stardos at the same size. For two-digit numerals, NSC 900 will be narrower than Stardos at the same px, so consider bumping to 600–620px to maintain the "numeral fills the canvas" register.

### Known CJK Gap

- Barlow Condensed has no condensed CJK equivalent. The system's uppercase-heavy-condensed-tracked chrome aesthetic cannot be reproduced; Noto Sans SC 900 is the closest fallback but lacks the condensed proportion. Accept that Chinese chrome will feel slightly wider than Latin chrome.
- Bowlby One is Latin-only and lives in a single place (the 320px quote-mark inside quote panels). For Chinese quote panels, replace with `「` (full-width left corner bracket) or `『` rendered in NSC 900 at 320px in the original `{colors.magenta}` or `{colors.teal}` — this is the conventional Chinese quote-opening glyph and reads correctly without the Bowlby weight.
- Stardos Stencil is a single weight (700). NSC ships with 400, 500, 700, 900; the system specifies weight 700 for everything in Stardos, but for CJK you should use NSC 900 to match visual mass — the spec's "weight 700" is a Latin convention that doesn't apply.
- The pill convention's `letter-spacing: 0.04–0.14em` is meaningless on CJK and should be zeroed for any Chinese pill content.

## Iteration Guide

1. Any new headline uses Stardos Stencil uppercase at weight 700. The stencil ink-break is the system's most recognizable trait.
2. Any new card uses 22–26px border-radius and a saturated accent fill from the seven-color palette. The tablet form factor is the default container.
3. Any new tablet must include a stencil numeral above its headline. A tablet without a numeral is just a card.
4. Any new chrome, label, pill, or legend uses uppercase Barlow Condensed at weight 600–900 with letter-spacing of at least 0.04em.
5. Any new body paragraph uses Inter at 18–24px. Inter is the system's only sentence-case face.
6. Status pills inside matrix layouts follow the fixed color convention (teal/mustard/magenta/paper-bordered). Don't invent new statuses with new colors — extend by reusing the existing palette.
7. Numerals always run weight 700 with negative letter-spacing (typically –0.02em). Smaller weight stencil numerals break the system.
8. Cool fills (teal, blue, black) flip text to `{colors.bone}`. Warm and mid fills (sienna, magenta, orange, mustard, olive, paper, bone) stay with `{colors.ink}`.
9. Section-divider slides use the 540px-numeral + 120px-headline + black-field pattern. Don't compress section dividers into smaller frames — the scale IS the divider.
10. The bone field visible between and around cards is structural. Don't shrink it to fit more content; if content doesn't fit, reduce content.

## Known Gaps

- The system depends on the external `deck-stage.js` script for slide scaling and navigation. Without it, slides render at intrinsic 1920×1080.
- All four font families (Stardos Stencil, Bowlby One, Barlow Condensed, Inter) load from Google Fonts. If fonts fail, fallbacks (serif, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial) lose the stencil and condensed personality entirely.
- Stardos Stencil is a single-weight typeface — there is no weight axis. The system uses font-weight: 700 as a label but the face actually has only one weight; specifying 400 in the quote-text token renders nearly identically.
- Bowlby One appears in exactly one place (the 320px quote-mark). It is a heavyweight asset for a single glyph; if the quote panel is unused, Bowlby One is dead weight in the font load.
- The organic-shape SVG blobs on the agenda slide are inline SVG paths with hand-tuned bezier curves — they are not parametric and adding a new shape requires drawing it.
- The chart plot SVG uses hardcoded coordinates inside a fixed-aspect SVG; data updates require manually recomputing point positions.
- The seven-accent palette doesn't strictly map colors to semantic roles outside the matrix. Decks may follow loose conventions (orange = primary, teal = secondary) but the system doesn't enforce them.
- Cover hero, numeral-tablet, and section-headline all use generous letter-spacing in the negative direction — at very small viewport scaling, glyphs may touch. The deck-stage's uniform scaling avoids this in practice.
