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Heretic — decoded design system

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Heretic's design system, decoded live by Mozaika: measured color roles, type scale, buttons with real hover/focus states, motion and the brand's own tokens.

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Decoded design system

Heretic's decoded design system: background #080A08, text #E6E4DA; type scale h1 72px / h2 48px / body 14px; 8px spacing base; 0px base radius. The single interactive/action color is #080A08 — used only on interactive or must-notice elements (buttons, links, key highlights), never on large fills.

Color roles

RoleValue
bg#080A08
surface#151714
border#292A27
text#E6E4DA
text_muted#91918A
button_bg#080A08
button_text#B4FF39

Using these colors

Typography

Spacing

Radii

Shadows (elevation)

Motion

Micro-interactions run at 640ms (dominant) with cubic-bezier(0.16, 1, 0.3, 1).

Native design tokens

TokenValue
--h-ink#080a08
--h-surface#0a0c0a
--h-surface-2#0b0e0b
--h-char#0e120e
--h-hover#0c100c
--h-rule#141914
--h-rule-strong#1e241c
--h-rule-soft#161b15
--h-bone#e6e4da
--h-bone-dim#a7a99b

…and 87 more measured on the page.

Button states (measured)

Layout (measured)

Motion choreography (measured)

Load order: div.flex → div.h-rise×4 → span.inline-block → h1.h-rise → div.relative → div.absolute×2

Scroll reveal: 28 elements rest at opacity 0, translateY(16px), animate in over 0.64s cubic-bezier(0.16, 1, 0.3, 1).

Stagger: div ×11 — 80ms apart.

Responsive (measured)

Install it

Drop this measured system into any shadcn/Tailwind project in one command:

npx shadcn add https://mozaika.design/r/decode/heretic.quest

Or as a Meta Astryx theme — a ready defineTheme file with the measured hover/press states baked in:

curl -o src/themes/heretic.theme.ts https://mozaika.design/api/astryx/decode/heretic.quest.ts

registry item · astryx theme · or query it over MCP: get_design_system("Heretic")

Export: DESIGN.md

# Heretic — Design System

> dark — deep decode (measured live)

## Colors

| Role | Value |
|------|-------|
| bg | `#080A08` |
| surface | `#151714` |
| border | `#292A27` |
| text | `#E6E4DA` |
| text_muted | `#91918A` |
| button_bg | `#080A08` |
| button_text | `#B4FF39` |

**Using these colors**

- **Action color** `#080A08` — the single interactive color; it appears only on things you click or must notice (buttons, key highlights), never on large fills or backgrounds.
- **Page coverage** (full-page screenshot pixels): `#080A08` 95.1% · `#42492F` 4.9%

## Typography

- Heading: **Spectral** _(free fallback: Newsreader)_
- Body: **JetBrains Mono**
- Mono: **JetBrains Mono** _(measured)_

| Role | Size / weight · line-height · tracking |
|------|------------------------------------------|
| hero | 72px / 200 · lh 73px · tracking -1.8px |
| h2 | 48px / 300 · lh 48px · tracking -1.2px |
| h3 | 40px / 300 · lh 40px · tracking -1px |
| body | 14px / 400 · lh 20px |
| small | 12px / 400 · lh 16px · tracking 1.68px |
| eyebrow | 12px / 400 · tracking 1.68px |

- Weight ladder: 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 — use these exact measured weights, not the 400/600 defaults.

> **Fonts —** Spectral may be proprietary — safe free fallback: Newsreader (Google Fonts). JetBrains Mono — free, on Google.

## Spacing
- base unit: 8px (inferred from the measured scale)
- measured scale: 2px, 4px, 8px, 12px, 16px, 24px, 32px, 40px, 48px, 64px — snap all gaps/padding to these

## Radius
- base: 0px
- button: 0px

## Buttons

| Button | Fill / text | Border | Radius | Padding | Font | Shadow |
|--------|-------------|--------|--------|---------|------|--------|
| primary | `#080A08` / `#B4FF39` | 1px solid rgb(180, 255, 57) | 0px | 8px 16px 8px 16px | 500 12px / 1.68px | none |

**States (measured, not guessed)**

- primary focus: background `#B4FF39` · color `#080A08` · outline `1px solid rgb(180, 255, 57)`
- transition: `background-color 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1)`

## Shadows (elevation)
- card: `rgba(180, 255, 57, 0.12) 0px 40px 120px -50px`
- overlay: `rgba(180, 255, 57, 0.18) 0px 40px 120px -50px`

## Motion
- durations: 640ms (dominant) · 150ms · 240ms
- easings: `cubic-bezier(0.16, 1, 0.3, 1)` (dominant) · `cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1)`
- animated properties: transform, opacity, color, background-color

Micro-interactions use the dominant duration + easing; nothing on the page animates slower than the longest duration above — don't invent springier motion.

## Their own tokens (verbatim from :root)

| Token | Value |
|-------|-------|
| `--h-ink` | `#080a08` |
| `--h-surface` | `#0a0c0a` |
| `--h-surface-2` | `#0b0e0b` |
| `--h-char` | `#0e120e` |
| `--h-hover` | `#0c100c` |
| `--h-rule` | `#141914` |
| `--h-rule-strong` | `#1e241c` |
| `--h-rule-soft` | `#161b15` |
| `--h-bone` | `#e6e4da` |
| `--h-bone-dim` | `#a7a99b` |
| `--h-bone-faint` | `#c9ccbe` |
| `--h-ash` | `#7c846f` |

_…and 85 more measured on the page._

Prefer these names when extending their system — it's the brand's actual vocabulary.

## Layout (measured)
- container max 1240px · common grid: 12-col
- nav: 65px sticky · backdrop blur(14px) · border-bottom 1px solid rgb(20, 25, 20) · bg rgba(8, 10, 8, 0.78)

| Section (y) | Height | Cols | Gap | Pad y | Split |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98 | 994 | 12 | 48 | 0/0 | — |
| 1092 | 163 | 3 | 1 | 0/0 | — |
| 1255 | 756 | 12 | 64 | 0/0 | — |
| 2011 | 1191 | 12 | 64 | 0/0 | — |
| 3202 | 2146 | 2 | 24 | 0/0 | 39/61 |

## Motion choreography (measured)
Load order: `div.flex` @0ms → `div.h-rise`×4 @0ms → `span.inline-block` @0ms → `h1.h-rise` @0ms → `div.relative` @0ms → `div.absolute`×2 @0ms
- `div.h-rise` ×4 — opacity 0→1 · transform translateY(16px)→none — 640ms cubic-bezier(0.16, 1, 0.3, 1)
- `h1.h-rise` — opacity 0→1 · transform translateY(16px)→none — 640ms cubic-bezier(0.16, 1, 0.3, 1) (delay 80ms)
- `p.h-rise` — opacity 0→1 · transform translateY(16px)→none — 640ms cubic-bezier(0.16, 1, 0.3, 1) (delay 160ms)
- `div.pointer-events-none` — opacity 0→1 · transform rotate(-3deg) scale(1.5)→rotate(-3deg) scale(1) — 600ms ease-out (delay 500ms)
- `span.inline-block` — opacity 1→1 · transform scale(1)→scale(1) — 2400ms ease-in-out · loops
- `span.ml-1` — opacity 1→0 — 1100ms steps(1) · loops
- stagger: `div` ×11 — 80ms apart
- scroll reveal: 28 elements rest at opacity 0, translateY(16px), animate in over 0.64s cubic-bezier(0.16, 1, 0.3, 1) (27 revealed during the drive).

Rebuild the timeline, not just the durations — order, delays and staggers above are the choreography.

## Components (measured)
- card ×4: pad 24px 24px 24px 24px · r 0px · bg #0A0C0A
  - hover: font-weight `400` · letter-spacing `normal`

## Responsive (measured)
- breakpoints: 640px · 1024px
- mobile (390px): hero 48px · body 16px · nav: hamburger

## How to apply
Paste the Tailwind `@theme` (or CSS variables) as your base, then build each
section to its spec — verify every color, radius, and font against these tokens.
Hover/focus states, shadows and motion timings above are measured from the live page — match them exactly, don't re-guess them.

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