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| name | kanagi |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| description | Workshop-specimen language for a heritage Japanese blade maker selling craft to professional buyers. Plaster ground, graphite ink, one oxide-red seal. Use for craft-heritage launch and distribution decks where material precision is the argument. |
| inspiration | Sakai forge workshops, museum specimen sheets, Japanese export stamps, Kenya Hara's white, tool-catalog flat lays |
| typography_kit | Spectral 500/600 for headlines (chiseled serif), Archivo for body, IBM Plex Mono for spec data |
| color_kit | plaster ground, bone cards, graphite ink, one oxide-red seal accent, walnut as a rare material note |
| image_style | studio flat lays and macro forge photography, directional light, honest material texture, no people's faces |
| forbidden | vermillion-on-black japonisme, cherry blossoms, brush-stroke calligraphy clichés, gradient text, rounded-corner cards, decorative katakana |
Kanagi: the workshop specimen sheet
Every slide is a specimen card from the maker's bench: one artifact, measured,
stamped, filed. The deck reads like an export dossier from a workshop that has
done one thing for ninety years.
Voice
Calm, declarative, material. Sentences carry weight by being short. Numbers are
spoken like measurements, not marketing. Never exclamatory, never poetic about
"the soul of steel"; the steel's hardness number says it.
Structure
Open on the blade itself (cover bleed). Establish lineage (heritage statement).
Show the making (craft rows). Show the goods (range split). Prove the material
(steel metric). Read the market (chart). Let a chef speak (voice bleed). Offer
the deal (partnership cards). Lay out the path (roadmap rows). Close with the
seal and one ask (closing bleed).
Visual system
- Ground is plaster (#EFEAE2); exhibits sit on bone cards (#F8F5EE) with
graphite hairlines. Ink is near-black graphite (#26272B).
- One accent: oxide seal red (#B5402A). Deployed like a stamp: the seal mark,
step numerals, one rule terminal per slide at most. Never as a card edge.
- Headlines Spectral 500/600, sentence case, tight leading. Body Archivo
16.5 to 19px. All measurements and labels in IBM Plex Mono at 14px or above.
- Whitespace is generous but content bands are sized to their content and
centered; nothing stretches to fill.
Graphic system
- Signature mark: the Kanagi seal. A 28px oxide-red square outline with an
inset notch at the lower right (inline SVG), like a maker's hanko. It appears
at the same size in the masthead of every interior slide and at 96px on the
closing slide. It never rotates, never recolors.
- Surface: paper grain. Bleed slides and the heritage statement carry a low
opacity feTurbulence grain over the ground so flats read as paper stock.
- Structural device: the edge rule. Section rules are 1px graphite
hairlines that terminate in a short 18px stroke angled at 24 degrees (the
blade tip), drawn with a ::after element. Dividers between ledger rows stay
plain hairlines.
- Depth moment: the profile curve. A single oversized blade-profile path
(graphite at 5 to 7% opacity) bleeds off the right edge of the cover and the
closing, behind content. One per slide maximum, never on data slides.
Density
Statement and bleed slides are editorial: one claim, generous air. Craft,
range, roadmap and partnership run balanced. Steel and market may run
data-dense. Body text never drops below 16.5px; mono labels never below 14px.
Style anchors
- A museum specimen sheet: object, caption, catalog number
- A Sakai forge bench under one north-facing window
- An export crate stencil: stamped, exact, unsentimental
- A steel hardness certificate, typeset in a single mono column
- The oxide-red customs seal on kraft paper
