A style guide for any carrier: the same hand works in HTML, in slides, in
native mobile or desktop UI — pencil-line cards, marker highlights, sticky
notes and tape, diagrams that carry the argument. The platform-neutral
vocabulary (values and roles) lives in references/02-components.md;
assets/base.css is the worked Web instance of it. The skill is self-contained
and advisory: compose from the vocabulary, keep the hand, and close with the
self-check at the end of references/03-composition.md.
The hand
- Pencil-line ink in three alphas (
#2a2a2aon white,#202723on paper); shadows are small hard offsets or soft paper lifts. - One focal marker accent per screen; the highlight sits on the phrase that carries the verdict.
- The handwritten face is the reading voice: titles, annotations and body all speak it. A neutral system sans appears only inside realistic device frames and on dense scan surfaces; mono speaks for precise objects (versions, files, logs).
- Titles are verdicts or questions; open with a TL;DR stamp card; diagrams carry the argument and prose carries verdicts, conditions, key facts; close each teaching beat with a takeaway lane.
- Leave hand-made marks on the page — scribble underline, tape, sticky note, rough card, band highlight, pencil annotation; two or more, one of them early, is what keeps a page from reading as a generic report.
- Emoji attach to nodes, roles, files, tools, incidents.
Working with it
- Look at the content first.
references/03-composition.mdlists each element (canvas, card, note, tape, highlight, annotation, density, stage) with its options and the content signals that suit each; set the dials per element, and let the known-good combinations serve as examples rather than presets. - Compose from the vocabulary: parameters and roles in
references/02-components.md, grammar inreferences/01-grammar.md, the practice inreferences/04-practice.md. On the Web,assets/base.cssplusassets/snippets/are the worked instance and its specimens (references/05-web-instance.md); on any other carrier reproduce the parameters in that platform's idiom. On the Web, one HTML file is the default deliverable. - Look at
assets/examples/— one specimen at default dials, one with every dial turned — for the range of the hand; then compose your own page. - Before delivering, run the self-check at the end of
references/03-composition.md.
Where things live
references/— 01 grammar, 02 vocabulary (platform-neutral), 03 composition and self-check, 04 practice, 05 web instance.assets/base.css— the Web instance of the vocabulary (v1.3.0).assets/fonts/— LXGW WenKai Lite subsets (SIL OFL) for the handwritten voice.assets/snippets/,assets/examples/— Web specimens; open them in a browser.