Pattern book · house style

The atelier, itemised.

Baste's own clothes are deliberately quiet — paper, ink, thread and chalk — so that every persona's generated palette is the loudest thing on the page. This is everything the house style is made of.

Type

Three hands.

A Didone for display, a grotesque for reading, a mono for measurements.

DisplayFittedBodoni ModaHeadlines, numerals, persona names. Italic for the one word that matters.
TextAa GgInstrument SansInterface and long-form. 14–20px.
Measure#D2402AIBM Plex MonoTokens, slugs, commands, chalk notes.
  1. display · clamp(48px,7.4vw,104px)Cut to fit one person.
  2. h2 · clamp(36px,4.6vw,60px)Baste first. Cut later.
  3. h3 · 28pxMany fittings, not one answer.
  4. lead · 20pxGeneric interfaces fit everyone, so they fit no one.
  5. body · 16pxBaste reads films, music, rooms and obsessions as measurements.
  6. small · 13pxSame screen, same code — only the fitting changes.
Cloth

Eleven colours, all of them working.

  • #F1ECE2
    paperGround — pattern paper1.0:1 on paper
  • #FBF9F4
    cardFresh sheet, raised surfaces1.1:1 on paper
  • #E9DFCB
    muslinToile, pinboards1.1:1 on paper
  • #1C1B19
    inkText, primary actions14.6:1 on paper
  • #6E6A61
    ink-mutedSecondary text (4.9:1 on paper)4.6:1 on paper
  • #D2402A
    threadBasting stitch — the signature mark4.0:1 on paper
  • #A9311E
    thread-inkThread as text, emphasis5.7:1 on paper
  • #2F55A4
    chalkTailor's chalk — annotation6.0:1 on paper
  • #F0C534
    tapeTape measure, selection1.4:1 on paper
  • #2E7D5B
    pinSuccess, live4.2:1 on paper
  • #191814
    nightTerminal, inverse panels15.1:1 on paper
Basting stitch

12px stitch, 8px gap. Section seams, active tabs, progress.

Chalk line

Annotation leaders and measurement notes.

Pin

Pinned references, the idle easter egg.

Toy garden

The cloth shader.

The backdrop and every persona swatch is one fragment shader: a plain weave, shot with two yarn colours, draped in breathing folds that gather toward your pointer. Pull the threads.

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Notions

Icons.

Reicon outlines (MIT) for the everyday set; tailoring glyphs drawn to match where Reicon had none.

  • needle
  • thread
  • spool
  • tape-measure
  • button
  • scissors
  • pin
  • ruler
  • ruler-pen
  • shirt
  • hanger
  • swatch
  • palette
  • layers
  • wand
  • sparkle
  • pen
  • pen-sparkle
  • image
  • image-sparkle
  • video
  • video-cut
  • type
  • code
  • terminal
  • download
  • copy
  • globe
  • shuffle
  • grid
  • folder
  • check
  • plus
  • arrow-right
Proof

The same pattern, three fittings.

One component, cut three times from three personas' generated tokens.

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