{
  "name": "Vaporsoft",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "source": "src/styles/global.css",
  "note": "Machine-readable mirror of the CSS custom properties. global.css is what ships and is authoritative; scripts/check-palette.mjs fails if the two disagree, or if any brand SVG uses a hex outside this file.",
  "canonical": "https://www.vaporsoft.dev/brand/palette.json",

  "core": {
    "carmine":  { "hex": "#a11f31", "rgb": [161, 31, 49], "css": "--vapor-carmine",  "role": "The only accent. Never substituted, never approximated." },
    "ink":      { "hex": "#07080b", "rgb": [7, 8, 11],    "css": "--vapor-ink",      "role": "Dark-theme ground." },
    "paper":    { "hex": "#f2ede6", "rgb": [242, 237, 230], "css": "--vapor-paper",  "role": "Light-theme ground, and dark-theme text." },
    "graphite": { "hex": "#121318", "rgb": [18, 19, 24],  "css": "--vapor-graphite", "role": "Light-theme text and rules." }
  },

  "theme": {
    "dark": {
      "canvas":  "#07080b",
      "surface": "#07080b",
      "text":    "#f2ede6",
      "muted":   "rgba(242, 237, 230, 0.78)",
      "line":    "rgba(242, 237, 230, 0.14)"
    },
    "light": {
      "canvas":  "#f2ede6",
      "surface": "#f4efe8",
      "text":    "#121318",
      "muted":   "rgba(18, 19, 24, 0.72)",
      "line":    "rgba(18, 19, 24, 0.12)"
    }
  },

  "atmosphere": {
    "note": "Stops of the fixed background gradient, top to bottom. Not for foreground use.",
    "dark":  ["#06070a", "#090b0f", "#07080b"],
    "light": ["#f7f3ed", "#f4efe8", "#f2ede6"]
  },

  "ramp": {
    "note": "Anchored on carmine, roughly constant luminance ratio (~1.6) between stops. Used by the CRISPR disc. Shades read on light grounds, tints on dark.",
    "shades": ["#801c2b", "#641a26", "#491822", "#2d151d"],
    "anchor": "#a11f31",
    "tints":  ["#b44f5b", "#c3777e", "#d39ea1", "#e2c6c3"]
  },

  "functional": {
    "live": { "hex": "#2ea44f", "role": "Status dot for a running service. Signal only — not a brand colour, never decorative." }
  },

  "retired": {
    "note": "Values that shipped before 2026-09-16 and are wrong anywhere they appear. The check script rejects them on sight. #f7f3ed is absent deliberately: it is a valid atmosphere stop in CSS, it was only wrong as an icon plate, where the surface value belongs.",
    "#a42839": "#a11f31",
    "#9b1f30": "#a11f31",
    "#121418": "#121318"
  },

  "svg": {
    "note": "A brand SVG may only use these. Derived, not a separate list to maintain: the four core values, the two theme grounds and surfaces, and the ramp. Anything else in public/brand/**.svg fails the check.",
    "allow": ["core.*", "theme.dark.canvas", "theme.dark.text", "theme.light.canvas", "theme.light.surface", "theme.light.text", "ramp.*"]
  }
}