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  "id": "nintendo",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "name": "Nintendo",
  "description": "Nintendo Co., Ltd. is the Kyoto-headquartered Japanese consumer electronics and video-game company behind the Switch / Switch 2 consoles, the Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, Animal Crossing, and Splatoon franchises, and the Nintendo eShop digital storefront. The brand voice is family-friendly, playful, and quietly proprietary — long-running IP custody combined with restrained visual identity. Visually, Nintendo is light-first by construction: a white page canvas with the iconic Nintendo Red (#E60012) as the primary action color, a deep navy (#3946A0) as the secondary, and a charcoal-on-paper neutral type ramp. The documented description-tag accents (violet, green, blue, red, charcoal) provide category badging without overwhelming the restrained chrome.\nTypography is the Geologica Variable family (open-source via Google Fonts), declared on the live site as --theme-font-family.\n",
  "provenance": {
    "source": "https://www.nintendo.com/",
    "license": "Proprietary — All Rights Reserved",
    "attribution": "Nintendo Co., Ltd. / Nintendo of America Inc. — visual identity captured from the deployed stylesheet on nintendo.com (--theme-color-*, --theme-colors-button-*, --theme-font-* design-token families declared under the \"Nintendo Light Theme\"). Nintendo, the Nintendo logo, Switch, Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, and associated marks are trademarks of Nintendo Co., Ltd.\n",
    "importedDate": "2026-05-19",
    "notes": "Derived from live site CSS at https://www.nintendo.com/ on 2026-05-19; Nintendo's published brand-guidelines documents are partner-portal-only and not publicly accessible. The captured tokens come from a deployed design-system theme declared as \"Nintendo Light Theme\" (--theme-name, --theme- status: approved). The display typeface is Geologica Variable (open-source via Google Fonts) declared as --theme-font-family — this atom references inter@1 as the open-source rendering substitute because no `geologica` atom exists in this catalog yet. assets: [] per the encyclopedia's trademark-redistribution policy.\n"
  },
  "tags": [
    "nintendo",
    "gaming",
    "red",
    "light-first",
    "japanese",
    "family-friendly"
  ],
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        "description": "The iconic Nintendo Red — --theme-color-primary. Used for the wordmark, primary CTA fills, inline links (--theme- colors-text-link), and the red description-tag accent.\n",
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        "aliases": []
      },
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        "id": "nintendo-navy",
        "name": "Nintendo Navy",
        "value": "#3946A0",
        "description": "Secondary brand color — --theme-color-secondary. Used for secondary CTAs (button-background-secondary), focus rings (--theme-color-focus), and the blue description-tag accent.\n",
        "aliases": []
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        "id": "nintendo-navy-hover",
        "name": "Nintendo Navy Hover",
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        "description": "Pressed / active variant of Nintendo Navy — --theme-color- secondaryHover.\n",
        "aliases": []
      },
      {
        "id": "nintendo-navy-light",
        "name": "Nintendo Navy Light",
        "value": "#BDC3E8",
        "description": "Pale navy surface — --theme-color-secondaryLight. Quiet branded background tint.\n",
        "aliases": []
      },
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        "description": "Primary body text — --theme-color-darkGray2 and --theme- colors-text-standard. Nintendo's body-text ink across the light-first design system.\n",
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        "description": "Deepest neutral — --theme-color-darkGray1. Headlines and high-emphasis text.\n",
        "aliases": []
      },
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        "description": "Secondary text — --theme-color-darkGray3.\n",
        "aliases": []
      },
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        "description": "Tertiary text and quiet icon fills — --theme-color- darkGray4.\n",
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        "description": "Border / divider — --theme-color-lightGray1.\n",
        "aliases": []
      },
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        "description": "Default UI line — --theme-color-lightGray2 and --theme- colors-ui-line. Disabled-button background.\n",
        "aliases": []
      },
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        "id": "cloud-light",
        "name": "Cloud Light",
        "value": "#EFEFEF",
        "description": "Quaternary surface — --theme-color-lightGray3. Hover state for quaternary buttons.\n",
        "aliases": []
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        "aliases": []
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        "description": "Documented blue description-tag accent — --theme-colors- descriptionTag-blue.\n",
        "aliases": []
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        "id": "tag-yellow",
        "name": "Tag Yellow",
        "value": "#BEA000",
        "description": "Warning icon color — --theme-colors-alert-warningIcon. Used on caution banners and maintenance notices.\n",
        "aliases": []
      }
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      "rationale": "The Nintendo wordmark renders in Nintendo Red (#E60012) on light surfaces, white on dark surfaces, and pure black for monochrome contexts. The description-tag accents (violet, green, blue, yellow) are category badging affordances, not identity colors; substituting them for the mark fill misrepresents the brand.\n",
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