# Class Borders

## Purpose

Border grammar communicates Primary Class before the user reads a label. It is a structural language, not decorative variety.

## Invariants

- Forces: radiating cardinal pressure marks; accent #F3B61F.
- Cosmologies: nested celestial rings; accent #7C5CFC.
- Beings & Roles: paired witness apertures; accent #4DD7C8.
- Worlds & Places: four horizon gates; accent #5CC47C.
- Technologies: circuit-orbit braid; accent #22C4E5.
- Artifacts & Resources: reliquary corners and registration studs; accent #E28B39.
- Factions & Institutions: interlocking heraldic arcs; accent #B56AF2.
- Programs & Operations: segmented clearance track; accent #E25766.
- Systems & Regimes: gridded governance lattice; accent #D6A642.
- Events & Thresholds: broken ring crossed by a threshold ray; accent #FF7452.
- States & Experiences: pulsing inner halo; accent #61B8FF.
- Myths & Storyworlds: story-knot and ancestral notches; accent #E6C56A.
- Hypotheses & Lenses: split-lens frame; accent #A3E5FF.
- All Classes retain the shared rounded-square silhouette and four cardinal registration points.
- Classification never depends on accent color alone.

## Production Rules

- Build borders as reusable master components with locked registration anchors.
- Reserve the central 48–64% symbol field; class grammar should frame rather than invade it.
- Test every border against at least three light and three dark central motifs.
- Version a border change separately because it affects the entire class.

## States, Scale, and Accessibility

- Meaning and class remain legible at 96, 256, 512, 1024, and 2048 pixels.
- Selected, hover, focus, disabled, and high-attention states add interface contours outside the master art; they never destructively recolor the source.
- No state, class, claim, or evidence condition depends on color alone; accessible live text supplies title, class, evidence, and safety information.

## Quality Gate

- [ ] Every class is distinguishable in grayscale and outline-only views.
- [ ] Border weight and stud scale are optically consistent across all thirteen Classes.
- [ ] No border resembles a protected franchise insignia.
- [ ] Focus and selected contours remain distinguishable from class structure.
- [ ] Component version and affected cards are recorded.

## Rights and Provenance

Every asset must be original or used under documented permission. Record card ID, prompt or source file, creator/tool, model version where relevant, date, dimensions, color profile, source references, rights status, and checksum. Franchise-derived entries use critical symbolic abstraction and may not reproduce protected logos, characters, costumes, frames, screenshots, or production art. Sacred and community-held imagery requires context and authority; do not turn it into generic decoration.
