# Build brief: Light Academia

Resource base: https://mejohnc.org (or the preview host used to obtain this file).

Use this direction within the user’s requested project and existing design constraints.

## Illustrative use case, not project requirements
A literature notebook with quotations, sources, and spacious chapter navigation.

A contemporary scholarly mood centered on daylight, paper, and reflective reading. It shares the bookish cues of dark academia with a lighter tonal range.

## Essential cues
- Paper colors
- Daylight imagery
- Scholarly hierarchy

## Recipe
- Use clear chapter headings.
- Limit the text measure.
- Pair warm surfaces with dark ink-colored text.

## Optional decoration
Paper tone and typesetting can carry a text-led page.

## Avoid
Faint beige text or decorative book imagery replacing useful information about the material.

## Values and validation
Read [tokens](/territories/light-academia/tokens.json) and [acceptance checklist](/territories/light-academia/checklist.md). Use [the working example](/territories/light-academia/example/) to inspect color roles, spacing, hierarchy, and interaction states. It is a UI translation, not a reproduction of historical art. Tokens describe the base UI; [example CSS](/territories/assets/example.css) contains the style-specific composition and decorative layer. Preview navigation with `?navigation=top`, `?navigation=sidebar`, or `?navigation=tabs`; combine with `project`. Use [Compare](/territories/compare/) for mobile (390 px), tablet (820 px), and desktop (1440 px) viewports.

## Delivery
Preserve real content and existing working behavior. Check keyboard, narrow layout, error, empty, and success states. Report any departures from this recipe with a reason. Do not claim to have inspected a preview or run checks that you could not access.

Schema 1.0.0; revision f5fd78058ba2.