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      "$description": "Source-of-truth color swatches from palette wired@1.0.0",
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        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Primary ink — the Wired absolute black."
      },
      "espresso": {
        "$value": "#2B1000",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Warm dark brown — body emphasis and feature surface."
      },
      "cream": {
        "$value": "#FAF8F1",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Newsprint-like cream canvas — the Wired paper tone."
      },
      "cream-light": {
        "$value": "#FEFCF5",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Lighter cream — quiet inset surface."
      },
      "cream-pale": {
        "$value": "#F9F7EF",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Pale cream — alternate background."
      },
      "white": {
        "$value": "#FFFFFF",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Bright white — high-contrast canvas alternate."
      },
      "gray-divider": {
        "$value": "#E5E5E5",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Quiet rule weight."
      },
      "signature-red": {
        "$value": "#EB0000",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "The Wired masthead red — the brand's identity color."
      },
      "signature-red-deep": {
        "$value": "#D00000",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Deeper red — pressed and editorial emphasis."
      },
      "signature-red-bright": {
        "$value": "#FF3030",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Brighter red for live-update pulses and accents."
      },
      "red-faint": {
        "$value": "#FFB0B0",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Pale red surface tint."
      },
      "kicker-yellow": {
        "$value": "#FDC11C",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Section-tag yellow — the kicker accent."
      },
      "kicker-yellow-warm": {
        "$value": "#FFC035",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Warmer yellow variant; quiet kicker."
      },
      "amber": {
        "$value": "#FFA922",
        "$type": "color",
        "$description": "Amber accent — feature highlights."
      }
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          "Iowan Old Style",
          "Apple Garamond",
          "Baskerville",
          "Times New Roman",
          "serif"
        ],
        "$type": "fontFamily",
        "$description": "heading role → Playfair Display (playfair-display@1.0.0)"
      },
      "weight": {
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          "$value": 400,
          "$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"
        },
        "$description": "Available font weights"
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          "Charter",
          "Georgia",
          "Times New Roman",
          "serif"
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        "$type": "fontFamily",
        "$description": "body role → PT Serif (pt-serif@1.0.0)"
      },
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          "$value": 400,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "700": {
          "$value": 700,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "$description": "Available font weights"
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          "BlinkMacSystemFont",
          "Segoe UI",
          "Roboto",
          "Helvetica Neue",
          "Arial",
          "sans-serif"
        ],
        "$type": "fontFamily",
        "$description": "sans 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"
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          "$value": 400,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "500": {
          "$value": 500,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
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        "600": {
          "$value": 600,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "700": {
          "$value": 700,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
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        "800": {
          "$value": 800,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
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        "900": {
          "$value": 900,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "$description": "Available font weights"
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          "JetBrains Mono",
          "Fira Code",
          "Menlo",
          "Monaco",
          "Consolas",
          "Liberation Mono",
          "monospace"
        ],
        "$type": "fontFamily",
        "$description": "mono role → JetBrainsMono Nerd Font (jetbrainsmono-nerdfont@1.0.0)"
      },
      "weight": {
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          "$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,
          "$type": "fontWeight"
        },
        "$description": "Available font weights"
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        "type": "contrastRatio",
        "target": "text-primary",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "Black (#000000) on cream (#FAF8F1) gives ~19:1 — past AAA. The Wired magazine voice depends on dense, type-heavy pages; the enhanced contrast target supports the long feature format and the type-led identity system.\n",
        "against": "background",
        "minRatio": 7,
        "standard": "WCAG-AAA"
      },
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        "type": "colorChoice",
        "target": "roles.colors.mark",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "The Wired wordmark is rendered in signature red or black. The kicker yellow is reserved for section markers (the brand's signature yellow tags) — substituting it for the mark would conflict with the published masthead identity.\n",
        "allowed": [
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          "signature-red-deep",
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      },
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        "type": "contextRestriction",
        "target": "roles.colors.accent",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "The Wired kicker yellow signals editorial categories — it is a tag color, not a link or emphasis color. Using it for body emphasis or default links would dilute the magazine's section-marking grammar.\n",
        "allowedContexts": [
          "kicker",
          "section-tag",
          "editorial-category",
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          "body-emphasis"
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        "type": "fontPairing",
        "target": "typography.display",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "Wired feature openers pair the Wired Display face with body type at an aggressive size step — display headlines are dramatically larger than body to support the magazine-feature voice. A 1.75× minimum ratio preserves that hierarchy when the Playfair Display substitute stands in.\n",
        "requires": "prose",
        "minSizeRatio": 1.75
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      {
        "type": "forbiddenTreatment",
        "target": "logo",
        "severity": "error",
        "rationale": "The Wired wordmark is a heavily standardized identity mark across thirty years of issue covers. Recoloring, stretching, rotating, or applying gradients conflicts with the magazine's identity discipline.\n",
        "treatments": [
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          "rotated",
          "drop-shadow",
          "gradient-fill",
          "on-busy-photo"
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      },
      {
        "type": "accessibilityRequirement",
        "target": "*",
        "severity": "warning",
        "rationale": "WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.4.6 (Contrast Enhanced) — Level AAA. Wired's long-form features and reading-app surfaces benefit from the enhanced contrast target, especially given the warm cream canvas vs. cooler white.\n",
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        "criterion": "1.4.6"
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        "type": "enumMembership",
        "target": "typography.heading.fontWeight",
        "severity": "warning",
        "rationale": "Wired Display is published across Regular through Black on the live site. The display weight range is integral to the magazine's typographic voice; weights outside this band should be avoided in the Playfair Display substitute.\n",
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          "600",
          "700",
          "800",
          "900"
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      },
      {
        "type": "compositionConstraint",
        "target": "roles.colors.accent",
        "severity": "recommendation",
        "rationale": "Kicker yellow reads cleanest on black, the cream canvas, or its cream-light variant. Placing it adjacent to the signature red collapses the chromatic hierarchy that separates section-tag (yellow) from identity (red).\n",
        "pairsWith": [
          "black",
          "cream",
          "cream-light"
        ],
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    "com.brand-atoms.provenance": {
      "source": "https://www.wired.com/",
      "license": "Proprietary — All Rights Reserved",
      "attribution": "Condé Nast — visual identity captured from the deployed HTML and inline styles at wired.com. WIRED, Condé Nast, the Wired Display / Wired Display Slab / Wired Mono / Apercu / Proxima Nova / Breve Text / Lab Grotesque typefaces are property of Condé Nast.\n",
      "importedDate": "2026-05-19",
      "notes": "Derived from live site CSS at https://www.wired.com/ on 2026-05-19; no public brand guide located. The proprietary Wired Display, Wired Display Slab, and Wired Mono typefaces are declared on the live site (font-family declarations extracted from the HTML head) but are not publicly distributed. Open-source substitutes — playfair-display@1 for the display serif/slab role, pt-serif@1 for body prose, inter@1 for sans — are referenced from the brand atom.\n"
    },
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