Monastic / Liturgical Minimal

# Monastic / Liturgical Minimal — style sheet

> Ascetic devotion and radical silence: pristine unbleached vellum fields, classical humanist book serif, solitary rubricated initials (vermilion cinnabar drop caps), single wide-margin text column, marginalia glosses, and total absence of badges or decorative chrome.

Derived from 3 curated reference(s) in the `monastic-vellum` family. Counts are how many references use a value, so a value used once is a lead, not a rule. Paste this into DESIGN.md as a starting system, then verify against the images.

## Type

- Centaur — 2/3
- Arrighi — 1/3
- Bembo Book — 1/3
- Courier — 1/3
- EB Garamond — 1/3
- Plantin — 1/3
- Poliphilus — 1/3

## Color

- `#1c1917` dark neutral — 2/3
- `#e7e2d4` light neutral — 2/3
- `#f7f4eb` light neutral — 2/3
- `#0b2545` dark neutral — 1/3
- `#134074` chromatic — 1/3
- `#7f1d1d` chromatic — 1/3
- `#991b1b` chromatic — 1/3
- `#8da9c4` muted — 1/3
- `#ffffff` light neutral — 1/3

Readable pairs from these swatches, most-used first (WCAG AA body text needs 4.5:1):
- `#1c1917` / `#f7f4eb` — 15.9:1
- `#1c1917` / `#e7e2d4` — 13.5:1
- `#1c1917` / `#ffffff` — 17.5:1
- `#0b2545` / `#f7f4eb` — 14:1

## Moves

### typography

- Two-line cinnabar rubricated drop-cap (color: #991B1B; font-size: 3.2em; line-height: 0.85; float: left; margin-right: 0.15em) anchoring an unadorned single column. — 49-aldus-manutius-hypnerotomachia-poliphili-1499
- Generous leading (line-height: 1.75) paired with justified measure and hyphenation enabled (hyphens: auto; text-align: justify) to produce architectural text blocks. — 50-fitzcarraldo-editions-the-radical-monocolor-volume
- Marginalia glosses set in 8.5pt Arrighi italic aligned precisely to the baseline grid of the 13pt body measure, acting as conversational sidebars. — 51-bruce-rogers-the-oxford-lectern-bible
- Section head-pieces drawn from classical printer's flowers (fleurons) rendered as monochromatic SVG vector glyphs rather than photographical banners. — 51-bruce-rogers-the-oxford-lectern-bible

### grid/layout

- Golden canonical text block: page margins set to medieval 2:3:4:6 ratio (inner, top, outer, bottom) creating a peaceful, contemplative breathing frame. — 49-aldus-manutius-hypnerotomachia-poliphili-1499

### component pattern

- Zero interface chrome: navigation is concealed in a discreet folio number at the lower outer margin, treating the screen as a tactile leaf. — 49-aldus-manutius-hypnerotomachia-poliphili-1499

### color

- Single monolithic ink wash (pure Yves Klein or deep Prussian blue) wrapped over 100% of the viewport, with white type as the sole luminous presence. — 50-fitzcarraldo-editions-the-radical-monocolor-volume

## References

- 49-aldus-manutius-hypnerotomachia-poliphili-1499 — Aldus Manutius: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) (exemplar)
- 50-fitzcarraldo-editions-the-radical-monocolor-volume — Fitzcarraldo Editions: The Radical Monocolor Volume
- 51-bruce-rogers-the-oxford-lectern-bible — Bruce Rogers: The Oxford Lectern Bible