# Build brief: Neo-Brutalism

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 workshop registration page with outlined tickets and a high-contrast booking button.

A contemporary web treatment combining assertive borders, flat color, and hard offset shadows. Its visual weight comes from outlines, spacing, and sharply separated color areas.

## Essential cues
- Heavy outlines
- Flat saturated fills
- Offset shadows

## Recipe
- Choose a consistent border weight.
- Use a hard shadow to signal elevation.
- Keep labels literal and states distinct.

## Optional decoration
Flat fills, borders, and hard shadows work without illustration.

## Avoid
Copying one brand as the definition of the style or using hard shadows on noninteractive decoration indiscriminately.

## Values and validation
Read [tokens](/territories/neo-brutalism/tokens.json) and [acceptance checklist](/territories/neo-brutalism/checklist.md). Use [the working example](/territories/neo-brutalism/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.