{
  "$description": "Brand: Cohere (cohere@1.0.0)",
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    "swatches": {
      "$description": "Source-of-truth color swatches from palette cohere@1.0.0",
      "ink-deep": {
        "$value": "#101010",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Deepest near-black accent — gradient ground."
      },
      "ink": {
        "$value": "#17171C",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Primary dark canvas — Cohere Command surface ground."
      },
      "ink-elevated": {
        "$value": "#212121",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Elevated surface on dark canvas."
      },
      "ink-quiet": {
        "$value": "#2E2E2E",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Subtle border on dark canvas."
      },
      "paper": {
        "$value": "#FAFAFA",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Light canvas — near-white marketing surface."
      },
      "paper-elevated": {
        "$value": "#F2F2F2",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Subtle elevated surface on paper canvas."
      },
      "paper-quiet": {
        "$value": "#E0E0E0",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Border / quiet divider on paper canvas."
      },
      "coral": {
        "$value": "#FF7759",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Coral — the signature gradient origin stop."
      },
      "coral-soft": {
        "$value": "#FFD9D0",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Pale coral — tinted backgrounds and quiet accents."
      },
      "coral-deep": {
        "$value": "#CA492D",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Pressed-coral variant for hover state."
      },
      "mauve": {
        "$value": "#7670C5",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Mid gradient stop — mauve violet."
      },
      "cobalt": {
        "$value": "#4C6EE6",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Cobalt — the signature gradient endpoint."
      },
      "cobalt-soft": {
        "$value": "#8FA6F9",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Soft cobalt for tinted surfaces."
      },
      "cobalt-pale": {
        "$value": "#E5EBFF",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Pale cobalt — tinted background."
      },
      "violet": {
        "$value": "#9B60AA",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Magenta-violet secondary accent."
      },
      "violet-soft": {
        "$value": "#D18EE2",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Soft violet for tinted backgrounds."
      },
      "violet-pale": {
        "$value": "#EDDAF4",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Pale violet tint."
      },
      "jade": {
        "$value": "#355146",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Deep jade — editorial and data-viz accent."
      },
      "jade-soft": {
        "$value": "#71867E",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Soft jade for borders and quiet accents."
      },
      "navy": {
        "$value": "#142253",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Deep navy — editorial accent."
      },
      "navy-mid": {
        "$value": "#2D4CB9",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Mid navy — link / focus state."
      },
      "ember": {
        "$value": "#B30000",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Ember-red — destructive action."
      },
      "text-on-paper": {
        "$value": "#17171C",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Body text on the Paper canvas."
      },
      "text-secondary": {
        "$value": "#616161",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Secondary text on Paper canvas."
      },
      "text-tertiary": {
        "$value": "#9CA3AF",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Tertiary text on Paper canvas."
      }
    }
  },
  "font": {
    "$description": "Typography roles mapped to font atoms",
    "heading": {
      "family": {
        "$value": [
          "Space Grotesk",
          "-apple-system",
          "BlinkMacSystemFont",
          "Segoe UI",
          "Roboto",
          "Helvetica Neue",
          "Arial",
          "sans-serif"
        ],
        "$type": "fontFamily",
        "$description": "heading role → Space Grotesk (space-grotesk@1.0.0)"
      },
      "weight": {
        "300": {
          "$value": 300,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "400": {
          "$value": 400,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "500": {
          "$value": 500,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "600": {
          "$value": 600,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "700": {
          "$value": 700,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "$description": "Available font weights"
      }
    },
    "body": {
      "family": {
        "$value": [
          "Space Grotesk",
          "-apple-system",
          "BlinkMacSystemFont",
          "Segoe UI",
          "Roboto",
          "Helvetica Neue",
          "Arial",
          "sans-serif"
        ],
        "$type": "fontFamily",
        "$description": "body role → Space Grotesk (space-grotesk@1.0.0)"
      },
      "weight": {
        "300": {
          "$value": 300,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "400": {
          "$value": 400,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "500": {
          "$value": 500,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "600": {
          "$value": 600,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "700": {
          "$value": 700,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "$description": "Available font weights"
      }
    },
    "mono": {
      "family": {
        "$value": [
          "Geist Mono",
          "SFMono-Regular",
          "Menlo",
          "Monaco",
          "Consolas",
          "Liberation Mono",
          "Courier New",
          "monospace"
        ],
        "$type": "fontFamily",
        "$description": "mono role → Geist Mono (geist-mono@1.0.0)"
      },
      "weight": {
        "100": {
          "$value": 100,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "200": {
          "$value": 200,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "300": {
          "$value": 300,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "400": {
          "$value": 400,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "500": {
          "$value": 500,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "600": {
          "$value": 600,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "700": {
          "$value": 700,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "800": {
          "$value": 800,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "900": {
          "$value": 900,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "$description": "Available font weights"
      }
    }
  },
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    "com.brand-atoms.rules": [
      {
        "type": "contrastRatio",
        "target": "text-primary",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "Paper (#FAFAFA) on Ink (#17171C) gives roughly 17:1 — clears AAA decisively in both modes. Cohere's enterprise-reader posture, with long benchmark tables and model-card prose, justifies an AAA target rather than the AA floor.\n",
        "against": "background",
        "minRatio": 7,
        "standard": "WCAG-AAA"
      },
      {
        "type": "colorChoice",
        "target": "roles.colors.primary",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "Coral (#FF7759) is the gradient origin and the dominant brand action color on cohere.com. Mauve and cobalt are the second and third gradient stops — they belong WITH coral as a ramp, not standing alone as the interactive primary. Violet, ember, and navy are editorial secondaries reserved for data viz and illustration accents.\n",
        "allowed": [
          "coral",
          "coral-deep"
        ],
        "forbidden": [
          "mauve",
          "cobalt",
          "violet",
          "ember",
          "navy"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "colorChoice",
        "target": "roles.colors.identity",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "Cohere's identity surface is the dark Ink canvas (#17171C) — Command product surfaces, the docs reader, and the hero gradient module all render on Ink ground. The marketing Paper canvas is the secondary mode. The gradient colors flow ACROSS the identity surface; they are never the identity ground themselves.\n",
        "allowed": [
          "ink",
          "ink-deep"
        ],
        "forbidden": [
          "paper",
          "coral",
          "cobalt",
          "mauve"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "forbiddenTreatment",
        "target": "logo",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "The Cohere wordmark and the coral-mauve-cobalt gradient are precise brand assets. The mark may carry the documented gradient fill, but arbitrary single-color recoloring, skewing, or drop-shadow effects conflict with the brand's precise, enterprise posture.\n",
        "treatments": [
          "stretched",
          "rotated",
          "drop-shadow",
          "on-busy-photo",
          "recolored-non-gradient",
          "low-contrast-fill"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "enumMembership",
        "target": "typography.heading.fontWeight",
        "severity": "warning",
        "rationale": "The CohereVariable family is delivered on cohere.com with Regular (400), Medium (500), SemiBold (600), and Bold (700) cuts. Display weights outside this band are not in the licensed variable-font cut on the live site.\n",
        "allowed": [
          "400",
          "500",
          "600",
          "700"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "fontPairing",
        "target": "typography.display",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "CohereVariable serves both display and prose roles on cohere.com — the typographic hierarchy is established by size and weight within a single family. A 1.5× minimum display-to-prose size ratio preserves that hierarchy.\n",
        "requires": "prose",
        "minSizeRatio": 1.5
      },
      {
        "type": "compositionConstraint",
        "target": "roles.colors.primary",
        "severity": "recommendation",
        "rationale": "Coral reads cleanest against the dark Ink canvas, the light Paper canvas, or its sibling gradient stops (mauve, cobalt). Placing coral adjacent to ember, violet, or navy introduces chromatic conflict — the warm-red and the cool-violet fight for the same eye position without resolving into a ramp.\n",
        "pairsWith": [
          "ink",
          "ink-deep",
          "paper",
          "mauve",
          "cobalt"
        ],
        "doesNotPairWith": [
          "ember",
          "violet",
          "navy"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "contextRestriction",
        "target": "roles.colors.accent",
        "severity": "warning",
        "rationale": "Cobalt (#4C6EE6) is the gradient endpoint and appears as a link / focus state on cohere.com. Large cobalt background fills conflict with the brand's Ink-and-Paper canvas system where the gradient is a directional arc, not a flood fill.\n",
        "allowedContexts": [
          "link",
          "focus-ring",
          "data-viz-primary",
          "gradient-stop"
        ],
        "forbiddenContexts": [
          "large-fill",
          "background",
          "hero"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "accessibilityRequirement",
        "target": "*",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.4.3 (Contrast Minimum) — Level AA. The brand's Paper-and-Ink composition clears AA effortlessly; consumers must preserve the property when composing coral, mauve, or cobalt tints against either canvas.\n",
        "standard": "WCAG-AA",
        "criterion": "1.4.3"
      }
    ],
    "com.brand-atoms.assets": [],
    "com.brand-atoms.provenance": {
      "source": "https://cohere.com/",
      "license": "Proprietary — All Rights Reserved",
      "attribution": "Cohere — visual identity captured from the deployed stylesheet on cohere.com (Tailwind utility-class palette and the proprietary CohereVariable / CohereText / CohereMono / CohereColor font-family stack). Cohere, Command, Embed, Rerank and associated marks are property of Cohere.\n",
      "importedDate": "2026-05-18",
      "notes": "Derived from live site CSS at https://cohere.com/ on 2026-05-18; no public brand guide located. The proprietary CohereVariable family is declared on cohere.com via @font-face but is not publicly distributed; the live site stack falls back to Space Grotesk and Inter. This atom references space-grotesk@1 as the open-source rendering substitute for the sans/display role and geist-mono@1 as the substitute for the mono role.\n"
    },
    "com.brand-atoms.references": {
      "palette": "cohere@1.0.0",
      "fonts": {
        "heading": "space-grotesk@1.0.0",
        "body": "space-grotesk@1.0.0",
        "mono": "geist-mono@1.0.0"
      }
    }
  }
}