# Cottagecore

Schema: 1.0.0 · Content revision: f5fd78058ba2
Resource base: https://mejohnc.org (or the preview host used to obtain this file).

A contemporary pastoral aesthetic of gardens, domestic craft, and rural imagery. It is a mood and storytelling vocabulary, not evidence of how an object was produced.

## Visual family
Romantic worlds. Editorial family: shared visual vocabulary, not a claim of common origin.

## Visual cues
- Botanical detail
- Domestic craft
- Pastoral imagery

## Build it
1. Use real material or process photographs.
2. Keep botanical framing outside the text.
3. Let captions explain the pictured activity.

## Example
A gardening notebook with seasonal photographs, plant names, and practical observations.

## Typography
Use a readable serif for the journal voice and a plain face for plant names, dates, and instructions.

## Practical consequences
- Starting projects: Publication, Store, Portfolio. These are suggestions, not restrictions.
- Reading/layout: spacious; quiet visual emphasis.
- Asset work: Garden, craft, or process photography grounds the visual mood.
- Complexity: medium. Allow time for a coherent decorative or image layer and responsive checks.

## Limits
Romantic imagery standing in for product facts or implying a handmade origin without support.

## Reading the collected reference board
Notice the garden scenes, domestic objects, and handmade-looking illustration. Captions and practical details can make this imagery more than a general rural mood.

## Context
Contemporary screen interpretation. The recipe is a modern web adaptation.
No single inventor or exact founding date is asserted for this interpretation.

## Implementation files
- [page](/territories/cottagecore/)
- [guide](/territories/cottagecore/guide.md)
- [brief](/territories/cottagecore/brief.md)
- [tokens](/territories/cottagecore/tokens.json)
- [checks](/territories/cottagecore/checklist.md)
- [example](/territories/cottagecore/example/)
- [versionedGuide](/territories/v1/cottagecore/guide.md)
- [versionedTokens](/territories/v1/cottagecore/tokens.json)