# Color

## Purpose

Color establishes the shared cosmic instrument family, provides restrained class differentiation, and supports accessible interface states.

## Invariants

- Core tokens: Void #020305; Midnight #061019; Bone #F6E9C8; Warm Gold #E5B554; Aged Brass #85511D.
- Class accents are subordinate to silhouette and border grammar.
- Selected state uses cyan plus a doubled contour; warning and high-attention states add shape or label, never color alone.
- Interface body text meets WCAG AA; critical small text should target AAA where practical.

## Production Rules

- Author masters in sRGB and embed the profile.
- Check accents against both Midnight and Warm Gold; avoid vibration and clipped saturation.
- Use Bone for readable labels, not as a large enamel fill unless conceptually necessary.
- Create grayscale and common color-vision-deficiency proofs for each new class batch.

## 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

- [ ] Contrast tests pass for text and controls.
- [ ] No two adjacent concepts rely only on hue to differ.
- [ ] Accent area remains restrained and does not overpower the central mechanism.
- [ ] Print proof preserves dark-field separation.
- [ ] Color profile and token version 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.
