--- name: Mocha Archive Terminal colors: surface: '#121221' surface-dim: '#121221' surface-bright: '#383849' surface-container-lowest: '#0d0d1c' surface-container-low: '#1a1a2a' surface-container: '#1e1e2e' surface-container-high: '#292839' surface-container-highest: '#333344' on-surface: '#e3e0f7' on-surface-variant: '#cdc3d1' inverse-surface: '#e3e0f7' inverse-on-surface: '#2f2f40' outline: '#968e9a' outline-variant: '#4a444f' surface-tint: '#d9b9ff' primary: '#e2c7ff' on-primary: '#3f1e66' primary-container: '#cba6f7' on-primary-container: '#57377f' inverse-primary: '#704f98' secondary: '#a8c8ff' on-secondary: '#003062' secondary-container: '#124988' on-secondary-container: '#8fbaff' tertiary: '#c8ceff' on-tertiary: '#212c62' tertiary-container: '#a8b2f1' on-tertiary-container: '#39437a' error: '#ffb4ab' on-error: '#690005' error-container: '#93000a' on-error-container: '#ffdad6' primary-fixed: '#eedbff' primary-fixed-dim: '#d9b9ff' on-primary-fixed: '#290350' on-primary-fixed-variant: '#57377f' secondary-fixed: '#d5e3ff' secondary-fixed-dim: '#a8c8ff' on-secondary-fixed: '#001b3c' on-secondary-fixed-variant: '#0e4685' tertiary-fixed: '#dee0ff' tertiary-fixed-dim: '#bac3ff' on-tertiary-fixed: '#09154c' on-tertiary-fixed-variant: '#38437a' background: '#121221' on-background: '#e3e0f7' surface-variant: '#333344' typography: headline-xl: fontFamily: Inter fontSize: 2rem fontWeight: '700' lineHeight: 2.5rem letterSpacing: -0.02em headline-lg: fontFamily: Inter fontSize: 1.5rem fontWeight: '600' lineHeight: 2rem letterSpacing: -0.015em headline-sm: fontFamily: Inter fontSize: 1.125rem fontWeight: '600' lineHeight: 1.5rem letterSpacing: -0.01em body-lg: fontFamily: Inter fontSize: 1rem fontWeight: '400' lineHeight: 1.5rem body-md: fontFamily: Inter fontSize: 0.875rem fontWeight: '400' lineHeight: 1.25rem body-sm: fontFamily: Inter fontSize: 0.75rem fontWeight: '400' lineHeight: 1rem label-md: fontFamily: JetBrains Mono fontSize: 0.8125rem fontWeight: '500' lineHeight: 1.125rem label-sm: fontFamily: JetBrains Mono fontSize: 0.6875rem fontWeight: '500' lineHeight: 0.875rem code-md: fontFamily: JetBrains Mono fontSize: 0.8125rem fontWeight: '400' lineHeight: 1.25rem code-sm: fontFamily: JetBrains Mono fontSize: 0.6875rem fontWeight: '400' lineHeight: 1rem rounded: sm: 0.125rem DEFAULT: 0.25rem md: 0.375rem lg: 0.5rem xl: 0.75rem full: 9999px spacing: gutter: 0.75rem margin: 1rem space-xs: 0.25rem space-sm: 0.5rem space-md: 0.75rem space-lg: 1rem space-xl: 1.5rem --- ## Brand & Style This design system establishes a high-density, terminal-adjacent archival workspace tailored for local storage utilities, self-hosted media indexers, and massive metadata catalogs. The aesthetic synthesizes modern utilitarian minimalism with tactical developer tool ergonomics. It prioritizes information density, deterministic navigation, and prolonged visual comfort during low-light browsing sessions. Interfaces built with this system feel swift, local-first, engineered, and rigorously organized. Visual noise is aggressively suppressed; structure is created via layered dark surfaces and strict typographical hierarchies rather than decorative borders or heavy drop shadows. High-saturation taxonomy accents serve strictly semantic duties—routing the eye through deep tag trees, cryptographic checksums, storage volumes, and safety ratings without fatigue. ## Colors The palette is rooted in a layered, warm-tinted dark foundation with functional chromatic categorization. ### Surface Architecture - **Crust (`#11111b`)**: Global structural chrome, status bars, and deepest canvas sinks. - **Mantle (`#181825`)**: Application rails, persistent panels, toolbars, and primary viewport backgrounds. - **Base (`#1e1e2e`)**: Active work surfaces, content display fields, and preview canvas. - **Surface0 (`#313244`)**: Interactive container backings, inactive input wells, and resting component boundaries. - **Surface1 (`#45475a`)**: Hover highlights, subtle interior structural lines, and elevated tooltips. - **Surface2 (`#585b70`)**: Active selection states, focused borders, and drag handles. ### Text & Iconography - **Text (`#cdd6f4`)**: High-contrast body copy, active inputs, and primary values. - **Subtext1 (`#bac2de`)**: Secondary labels, section headers, and active state indicators. - **Subtext0 (`#a6adc8`)**: Metadata keys, column identifiers, and timestamps. - **Overlay0 (`#6c7086`)**: Placeholder text, inactive controls, disabled states, and structural icon fills. ### Accents & Rating Semantics - **Mauve (`#cba6f7`)**: Primary action intent, keyboard focus triggers, and copyright categorization. - **Blue (`#89b4fa`)**: Navigational links, dynamic filtering, informational highlights, and general taxonomy. - **Lavender (`#b4befe`)**: Tertiary controls, filter operators, and logical modifiers. - **Green (`#a6e3a1`)**: Safe rating (`s`), verified file integrity, matches, and success responses. - **Peach (`#fab387`)**: Questionable rating (`q`), unverified states, warnings, and species taxonomy. - **Red (`#f38ba8`)**: Explicit rating (`e`), destructive actions, corruption alerts, and blacklist locks. - **Yellow (`#f9e2af`)**: Starred items, bookmarked queries, and artist taxonomy. ### Metadata Taxonomy Roles Tag tokens apply foreground colors paired with 10% opacity tints of the same hue on `Surface0` backgrounds: - **Artist**: `#f9e2af` - **Copyright**: `#cba6f7` - **Character**: `#a6e3a1` - **Species**: `#fab387` - **General**: `#89b4fa` - **Meta**: `#9399b2` ## Typography Typography establishes an intentional contrast between narrative/UI structural elements (`Inter`) and raw data points (`JetBrains Mono`). ### Rules & Application - Use `Inter` for layout hierarchy, navigation labels, button labels, modal headers, and descriptive UI documentation. - Use `JetBrains Mono` strictly for: - Cryptographic hashes (MD5, SHA-256). - Storage paths, pool directories, and UNIX file permissions. - Tag token text and tag post-counts. - File resolutions (e.g., `3840x2160`), bitrates, color spaces, and file sizes. - Post IDs, internal sequence counters, and UTC timestamps. - Tabular figures (`tnum`) must be enforced globally for `JetBrains Mono` to ensure that vertical numerical data columns remain aligned across dense table and sidebar views. ## Layout & Spacing The layout model is driven by a flexible, high-density utility grid designed to adapt between deep media discovery canvases and compact metadata inspection panels. ### Layout Model - **Inspector Layout**: A persistent 3-tier layout consisting of a fixed 64px left global navigation rail, an auto-collapsible 260px metadata hierarchy sidebar, and an auto-fitting masonry/grid canvas. - **Fluid Canvas**: Media grids adjust from 2 to 8 columns based on thumbnail zoom sliders, using CSS Grid with dynamic `minmax()` constraints and a standardized `0.75rem` (`gutter`) boundary. - **Compact Padding**: Interactive components employ compressed internal metrics (`space-xs` and `space-sm`) to maximize visible information density per vertical screen inch. ### Responsive Breakpoints - **Mobile (< 768px)**: Metadata panels collapse into a sliding bottom drawer. The media grid fixes to a 2-column layout with `0.5rem` gutters and `0.75rem` outer canvas margins. - **Tablet (768px - 1024px)**: Left rail persists. Sidebar transitions to an overlay toggle. Media grid utilizes 3 to 4 fluid columns. - **Desktop (> 1024px)**: Full multi-pane viewport. Three columns: Navigation/Filter sidebar (280px), Content stream (fluid), and Active Item Inspector (340px, collapsible). ## Elevation & Depth Visual depth is achieved through **tonal layering** and **subtle surface borders**, completely avoiding heavy drop shadows to retain a crisp, utilitarian screen presence. ### Depth Hierarchy - **Level 0 (Canvas Base)**: `Crust (#11111b)` forms the base environment underneath all views and side navigation wells. - **Level 1 (Structural Paneling)**: `Mantle (#181825)` elevated above Crust, partitioned with a 1px solid `Surface0 (#313244)` edge. - **Level 2 (Containers & Cards)**: `Base (#1e1e2e)` for post cards, table rows, and media backings. Uses 1px `Surface0 (#313244)` outline. - **Level 3 (Interactive Floating Wells)**: Dropdown menus, contextual popovers, and quick-tag menus sit on `Surface0 (#313244)` with a 1px border of `Surface1 (#45475a)` and a 4px ambient tint: `box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(17, 17, 27, 0.6)`. Focus states reject fuzzy drop shadows in favor of a crisp 2px offset outline using `Mauve (#cba6f7)`. ## Shapes This design system uses a **Soft (`roundedness: 1`)** geometry specification (baseline `0.25rem` / 4px, `rounded-lg` at `0.5rem` / 8px). - **Micro Controls**: Checkboxes, tag badges, status pills, and thumbnail corner overlays use strict `0.25rem` radii. - **Standard Controls**: Inputs, buttons, segmented selectors, and dropdown triggers use `0.375rem` (6px). - **Major Containers**: Media cards, modal dialogs, storage pool panels, and image viewing canvases use `0.5rem` (`rounded-lg`). - **Pill Shapes (`9999px`)**: Reserved exclusively for safety rating badges (`Safe`, `Questionable`, `Explicit`) and active search-token pills in the omnibar. ## Components ### Buttons - **Primary**: Background `Mauve (#cba6f7)`, text `Crust (#11111b)`, font `Inter` semibold. Hover: lightens brightness by 10%. Active: scales down to `0.98`. Focus: 2px ring of `Mauve` with a 2px `Base` gap. - **Secondary/Ghost**: Background `Surface0 (#313244)`, text `Text (#cdd6f4)`, border 1px solid `Surface1 (#45475a)`. Hover: background `Surface1 (#45475a)`. - **Destructive**: Background `transparent`, text `Red (#f38ba8)`, border 1px solid `Red` at 40% opacity. Hover: background `Red` at 15% opacity. ### Chips & Taxonomy Badges - **Tag Badges**: Mono-font (`JetBrains Mono`), `0.6875rem`, letter-spacing normal. - Structure: A 1px border matching the taxonomy category color at 30% opacity, background set to category color at 10% opacity, text set to the pure category color. - Hover: Background shifts to 20% opacity; shows append/negate controls (`+`, `-`). - **Rating Pills**: Compact badges positioned over thumbnails or in item manifests. - `Safe`: Text `Crust`, background `Green (#a6e3a1)`. - `Questionable`: Text `Crust`, background `Peach (#fab387)`. - `Explicit`: Text `Crust`, background `Red (#f38ba8)`. ### Input Fields & Omnibar - **Resting**: Background `Mantle (#181825)`, border 1px solid `Surface0 (#313244)`, text `Text (#cdd6f4)`, placeholder `Overlay0 (#6c7086)`. Font: `JetBrains Mono` for syntax inputs, `Inter` for general forms. - **Focused**: Border color `Mauve (#cba6f7)`, background `Base (#1e1e2e)`, box-shadow `0 0 0 1px #cba6f7`. - **Tag Autocomplete Inputs**: Displays color-coded prefixes (`artist:`, `series:`, `md5:`) matching taxonomy tokens within the text caret flow. ### Media Cards - **Shell**: Background `Base (#1e1e2e)`, border 1px solid `Surface0 (#313244)`, overflow hidden. - **Image Frame**: Center-cropped preview with an aspect ratio of 1:1 in grid mode. - **Card Overlays**: Hover reveals a `Mantle (#181825)` gradient at the bottom containing file dimensions, extension label (e.g., `WEBM`, `PNG`), and file size in `JetBrains Mono` sm. Top corners feature safety rating pill (left) and favorite/star status (right). ### Checkboxes & Radio Elements - **Box**: 14x14px, background `Mantle (#181825)`, border 1px solid `Surface2 (#585b70)`, border radius 3px. - **Checked**: Background `Mauve (#cba6f7)`, border `Mauve (#cba6f7)`, checkmark icon tinted `Crust (#11111b)`. ### Data Tables & Lists - **Rows**: Alternating stripes of `Base (#1e1e2e)` and `Mantle (#181825)`. Border bottom 1px solid `Surface0 (#313244)`. - **Row Hover**: Background `Surface0 (#313244)` at 50% opacity. - **Cell Metric Formatting**: Aligned right for sizes, IDs, and dimensions; formatted using `JetBrains Mono`. ### Storage & Pool Indicators - **Capacity Bars**: 4px high track in `Surface0 (#313244)`, fill color defaults to `Blue (#89b4fa)`. Transitions to `Peach (#fab387)` at 80% capacity and `Red (#f38ba8)` at 95% capacity.