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  "$description": "Brand: Sony (sony@1.0.0)",
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      "$description": "Source-of-truth color swatches from palette sony@1.0.0",
      "black": {
        "$value": "#000000",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "The Sony wordmark color. The brand has no chromatic primary — the identity is pure black on white.\n"
      },
      "white": {
        "$value": "#FFFFFF",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Default page canvas; reverse wordmark fill on dark."
      },
      "gray-50": {
        "$value": "#EFEFEF",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Light page surface tint."
      },
      "gray-100": {
        "$value": "#DADADA",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Quiet rule / border on the white canvas."
      },
      "gray-200": {
        "$value": "#BFBFBF",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Mid-light gray; disabled borders."
      },
      "gray-400": {
        "$value": "#898991",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Mid-gray for inactive controls."
      },
      "gray-500": {
        "$value": "#767676",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Tertiary text on the white canvas."
      },
      "gray-600": {
        "$value": "#656565",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Secondary body text."
      },
      "gray-700": {
        "$value": "#363636",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Elevated dark surface."
      },
      "gray-800": {
        "$value": "#262626",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Dark surface; primary text on white."
      },
      "gray-900": {
        "$value": "#1F2024",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Near-black canvas in dark-mode surfaces."
      },
      "action-blue": {
        "$value": "#186FA4",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Primary link / action blue on the corporate template. Used inside paragraph text on the 2021 top template.\n"
      },
      "link-blue": {
        "$value": "#2D61BF",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Inline link variant on the navigation chrome."
      },
      "focus-blue": {
        "$value": "#5E9DF4",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Focus-ring / hover-affordance blue."
      },
      "accent-teal": {
        "$value": "#007263",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Desaturated teal — category accent on dark surfaces."
      },
      "accent-purple": {
        "$value": "#5B2C6E",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Desaturated purple — category accent."
      },
      "accent-magenta": {
        "$value": "#B62D76",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Desaturated magenta — category accent."
      },
      "accent-orange": {
        "$value": "#BC5B00",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Burnt orange — category accent."
      },
      "accent-olive": {
        "$value": "#577515",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Desaturated olive — category accent."
      },
      "accent-rust": {
        "$value": "#B83744",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Desaturated rust red — category accent."
      }
    }
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  "font": {
    "$description": "Typography roles mapped to font atoms",
    "heading": {
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        "$value": [
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          "-apple-system",
          "BlinkMacSystemFont",
          "Segoe UI",
          "Roboto",
          "Helvetica Neue",
          "Arial",
          "sans-serif"
        ],
        "$type": "fontFamily",
        "$description": "heading role → Inter (inter@1.0.0)"
      },
      "weight": {
        "100": {
          "$value": 100,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "200": {
          "$value": 200,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
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        "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"
        },
        "$description": "Available font weights"
      }
    },
    "body": {
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        "$value": [
          "Inter",
          "-apple-system",
          "BlinkMacSystemFont",
          "Segoe UI",
          "Roboto",
          "Helvetica Neue",
          "Arial",
          "sans-serif"
        ],
        "$type": "fontFamily",
        "$description": "body role → Inter (inter@1.0.0)"
      },
      "weight": {
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          "$value": 100,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "200": {
          "$value": 200,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
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        "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"
        },
        "$description": "Available font weights"
      }
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    "mono": {
      "family": {
        "$value": [
          "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font",
          "JetBrains Mono",
          "Fira Code",
          "Menlo",
          "Monaco",
          "Consolas",
          "Liberation Mono",
          "monospace"
        ],
        "$type": "fontFamily",
        "$description": "mono role → JetBrainsMono Nerd Font (jetbrainsmono-nerdfont@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"
        },
        "$description": "Available font weights"
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      {
        "type": "colorChoice",
        "target": "roles.colors.mark",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "The Sony wordmark is pure monochrome. The SST logotype appears in black on light surfaces and white on dark surfaces — never in any of the corporate template's action blues or desaturated category accents. The parent identity has no chromatic primary; recoloring the mark conflicts with the brand's defining restraint.\n",
        "allowed": [
          "black",
          "white"
        ],
        "forbidden": [
          "action-blue",
          "link-blue",
          "focus-blue",
          "accent-teal",
          "accent-purple",
          "accent-magenta",
          "accent-orange",
          "accent-olive",
          "accent-rust",
          "gray-600",
          "gray-800"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "forbiddenTreatment",
        "target": "logo",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "The Sony wordmark is a fixed-proportion identity. The live site uses it only in solid black or solid white on plain backgrounds with generous clearspace. Skewing, rotating, gradient-filling, drop-shadowing, or placing the mark on a busy photo conflicts with the restrained corporate identity.\n",
        "treatments": [
          "stretched",
          "rotated",
          "recolored",
          "drop-shadow",
          "gradient-fill",
          "on-busy-photo",
          "outlined",
          "distorted"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "contrastRatio",
        "target": "text-primary",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "Gray 800 (#262626) on white (#FFFFFF) measures ~14:1 — clears WCAG AA at the body-text floor decisively. Sony's monochrome reading environment is built around this high- contrast pairing.\n",
        "against": "background",
        "minRatio": 4.5,
        "standard": "WCAG-AA"
      },
      {
        "type": "contrastRatio",
        "target": "logo",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "Pure black (#000000) on white (#FFFFFF) gives ~21:1 and clears AAA decisively. The monochrome identity has no tolerance for a low-contrast mark — the SST wordmark must appear on a surface that gives at least AAA contrast against its fill color.\n",
        "against": "background",
        "minRatio": 7,
        "standard": "WCAG-AAA"
      },
      {
        "type": "colorChoice",
        "target": "roles.colors.primary",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "The Sony parent brand has no chromatic primary. Action Blue (#186FA4) is an inline-link affordance, not a brand primary; the desaturated accents are category-signal colors on the corporate template, not identity colors. Substituting any of them for the monochrome primary reads as a sub-brand or a partner identity, not as Sony.\n",
        "allowed": [
          "black",
          "white"
        ],
        "forbidden": [
          "action-blue",
          "link-blue",
          "accent-teal",
          "accent-purple",
          "accent-magenta",
          "accent-orange",
          "accent-olive",
          "accent-rust"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "contextRestriction",
        "target": "roles.colors.accent",
        "severity": "warning",
        "rationale": "The action blues are interactive affordances inside the product chrome — links inside paragraphs, focus rings, hover states. They must not appear as headline color, logo fill, or brand-badge color; the parent identity stays monochrome.\n",
        "allowedContexts": [
          "inline-link",
          "focus-ring",
          "active-state"
        ],
        "forbiddenContexts": [
          "logo",
          "hero-headline",
          "brand-badge"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "compositionConstraint",
        "target": "logo",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "The SST wordmark pairs only with neutrals — white, black, or the gray-50 surface tint. Placing the mark on any of the desaturated category accents (teal, purple, magenta, orange, olive, rust) reads as a sub-brand lockup, not as the parent Sony mark.\n",
        "pairsWith": [
          "white",
          "black",
          "gray-50"
        ],
        "doesNotPairWith": [
          "accent-teal",
          "accent-purple",
          "accent-magenta",
          "accent-orange",
          "accent-olive",
          "accent-rust",
          "action-blue"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "accessibilityRequirement",
        "target": "*",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.4.3 (Contrast Minimum) — Level AA. The monochrome canvas-and-text pairings all clear AA at the body-text floor with significant headroom. AA is the floor; the logo pairing (per the contrastRatio rule above) is held to AAA.\n",
        "standard": "WCAG-AA",
        "criterion": "1.4.3"
      },
      {
        "type": "fontPairing",
        "target": "typography.display",
        "severity": "recommendation",
        "rationale": "Sony's marketing surfaces use SST (proprietary) for both display and body, distinguished by size and weight rather than two distinct families. Maintain at least a 1.3× ratio between display and prose to preserve hierarchy when one family carries both roles.\n",
        "requires": "prose",
        "minSizeRatio": 1.3
      }
    ],
    "com.brand-atoms.assets": [],
    "com.brand-atoms.provenance": {
      "source": "https://www.sony.com/",
      "license": "Proprietary — All Rights Reserved",
      "attribution": "Sony Group Corporation / Sony Corporation — identity values captured from the deployed stylesheet on sony.com (template 2023 gnavi.css / footer.css and the corporate styles.css on the 2021 top template). Sony, the Sony logo, SST, Bravia, Alpha, WALKMAN, INZONE, and related names and marks are trademarks of Sony Group Corporation / Sony Corporation.\n",
      "importedDate": "2026-05-18",
      "notes": "Derived from live site CSS at https://www.sony.com/ on 2026-05-18; Sony does not publish a public brand-guidelines page. The proprietary brand typeface family is SST (SST W20 Roman / Bold, SST W55 Regular, SST Japanese), declared on sony.com via @font-face but not publicly distributed. This atom references Inter@1 as the open-source rendering substitute. Scope is the parent Sony Group corporate identity only — PlayStation, Bravia, Alpha, INZONE, and other sub-brands are deferred to their own atoms (and PlayStation in particular is its own brand cluster). assets: [] per the encyclopedia's trademark-redistribution policy.\n"
    },
    "com.brand-atoms.references": {
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      "fonts": {
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        "body": "inter@1.0.0",
        "mono": "jetbrainsmono-nerdfont@1.0.0"
      }
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}