LatentImage

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Pantagruel's Pen · design system · Rev. C Cyanotype · Syne / Literata / Departure Mono

The specification below is a single self-contained page. It carries a live console: switch register between Plate and Latent, and pigment between cyanotype and verdigris, and every plate, wireframe and figure on it re-inks.

Specification

Rev. C · current Latent Image Current. Cyanotype locked, verdigris retained. Adds full paper and deck specifications, and the position on null results. 259 KB Rev. B Latent Post-human reframe. Five pigment systems, two registers, nine candidate faces, all live-switchable. 420 KB Rev. A Phosphor Plate First exploration. Print core plus screen finish, vermilion and acid green, system fonts. Superseded. 79 KB

For agents and tooling

llms.txt tokens.json syne literata departure mono

/llms.txt is the short form: the registers, both pigments, the three type roles, the six principles, and the position on null results, in plain text. /tokens.json is the same palette and scale as data. Both are served with permissive CORS, so a tool can fetch them directly.

Pigment

ground#E9E4D7
ink#0F3050
mark#0F4C81
rule-hi#98A6B2
sunk#DED8C7

Cyanotype, Plate register. Ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide, 1842 — the pigment Anna Atkins used for the first book illustrated photographically. Full values, including the Latent register and verdigris, are in tokens.json.