# BRUTALIST CINEMA - /seen/

## THE UNFORGETTABLE AESTHETIC

This is not another media dashboard. This is **BRUTALIST CINEMA** - aggressive, unapologetic, and impossible to forget.

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## THE ONE THING YOU'LL REMEMBER

**MASSIVE TYPOGRAPHY + HOT PINK SHADOWS**

Titles at 120px+. Hot pink (#FF006E) offset shadows on everything. Pure black backgrounds. Hard edges. No curves. No gradients. No blur. Just raw, uncompromising visual impact.

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## DESIGN MANIFESTO

### Typography
- **Font**: Space Grotesk (geometric, bold, commanding)
- **Mono**: JetBrains Mono (for technical elements)
- **Scale**: MASSIVE. H1 at 7rem (112px). Uppercase everything.
- **Tracking**: Tighter than tight (-0.04em)
- **Line Height**: 0.9 (stacked, aggressive)

### Color System
- **Background**: Pure black (#000000)
- **Foreground**: Pure white (#FFFFFF)
- **Primary**: Hot Pink (#FF006E) - THE signature color
- **Secondary**: Pure White (high contrast moments)
- **Tertiary**: Electric Yellow (#FFFF00)
- **Semantic**: Pure RGB (Red #FF0000, Green #00FF00, Yellow #FFFF00)

### Spatial Rules
- **NO ROUNDED CORNERS**: Everything is 0px border-radius
- **THICK BORDERS**: 3px minimum, 4px standard, 8px for emphasis
- **BRUTAL SHADOWS**: 8px 8px 0 hot pink (offset, no blur)
- **HARD EDGES**: No gradients, no blur, no soft transitions

### Motion System
- **NO EASING**: steps() animation only
- **INSTANT**: 100ms max duration
- **HARD CUTS**: No smooth transitions
- **GLITCH EFFECTS**: Scanlines, flicker, clip-path animations

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## COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE

### Buttons
```
- 3px borders
- Hot pink shadow (8px 8px 0)
- Hover: translate(-4px, -4px) + bigger shadow
- Active: snap back to origin
- Uppercase text, bold, tracking-wider
```

### Cards
```
- 4px borders
- Outline color borders
- Hot pink shadow on hover
- No backdrop blur
- Scanline overlay
```

### Badges
```
- 2px borders
- Solid backgrounds
- Uppercase, bold, mono font
- No transparency
```

### Metric Cards
```
- 4px borders
- Brutal shadows
- Massive numbers (5xl)
- Icon in bordered box
- Hover: translate + shadow increase
```

### Media Cards
```
- 4px borders
- Diagonal stripe background
- 2px hot pink accent line
- Massive monogram (8xl)
- Hard progress bar (no animation)
```

### Sidebar
```
- 4px right border (hot pink)
- Scanline overlay
- Brutal nav items with shadows
- Mono font for labels
- Uppercase everything
```

### Top Bar
```
- 4px bottom border (hot pink)
- Scanline overlay
- Massive page titles (8xl)
- Mono font for descriptions
```

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## VISUAL EFFECTS

### Noise Texture
- SVG fractal noise overlay
- 8% opacity
- Mix-blend-mode: overlay
- Fixed position, covers everything

### Scanlines
- Repeating linear gradient
- 2px transparent, 2px white at 3% opacity
- Applied to sidebar, top bar, cards

### Glitch Effect
- Clip-path animation
- Red/yellow chromatic aberration
- 2-3s duration, infinite loop
- Applied to headings on hover

### Brutal Stripes
- 45deg diagonal repeating gradient
- 20px transparent, 20px hot pink at 5%
- Background pattern for cards

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## TYPOGRAPHY SCALE

```
H1: 7rem (112px) - WELCOME BACK
H2: 4rem (64px) - CONTINUE
H3: 2.5rem (40px) - Section titles
Body: 0.875rem (14px) - Content
Small: 0.75rem (12px) - Meta
Tiny: 0.625rem (10px) - Labels
```

All uppercase. All bold. All tracked tight.

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## ANIMATION RULES

### Allowed
- Instant opacity changes (steps(1))
- Hard position snaps (steps(2-3))
- Glitch/flicker effects
- Scanline scrolling

### Forbidden
- Smooth easing (cubic-bezier)
- Fade transitions
- Scale animations (except brutal-scale)
- Rotation (except glitch)
- Blur effects

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## INTERACTION PATTERNS

### Hover States
```
Button: translate(-4px, -4px) + shadow increase
Card: translate(-4px, -4px) + shadow change
Nav Item: translate(-2px, 0) + border color
```

### Active States
```
Button: translate(0, 0) + shadow decrease
Card: border color change
Nav Item: hot pink background + shadow
```

### Focus States
```
4px solid hot pink ring
No offset
Instant appearance
```

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## SCROLLBAR DESIGN

```
Width: 12px
Track: Surface container + 2px border
Thumb: Hot pink + 2px black border
Hover: Brighter pink
```

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## ACCESSIBILITY

### Contrast Ratios
- White on black: 21:1 (AAA)
- Hot pink on black: 8.5:1 (AA)
- Yellow on black: 19.5:1 (AAA)

### Focus Indicators
- 4px solid hot pink
- High visibility
- Instant appearance

### Motion
- Respects prefers-reduced-motion
- Disables glitch/flicker effects
- Keeps instant transitions

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## BROWSER SUPPORT

- Chrome/Edge 90+
- Firefox 88+
- Safari 14+
- No IE11 (uses CSS Grid, custom properties)

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## THE BRUTALIST CHECKLIST

✅ Pure black background
✅ Hot pink accent color
✅ Zero border radius
✅ Thick borders (3-4px)
✅ Offset shadows (no blur)
✅ Massive typography (7rem+)
✅ Uppercase everything
✅ Mono font for technical elements
✅ Scanline overlays
✅ Noise texture
✅ Hard-cut animations
✅ Glitch effects
✅ No gradients
✅ No blur
✅ No smooth easing

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## COMPARISON: BEFORE vs AFTER

### Before (Neo-Cinematic)
- Soft rounded corners (3xl)
- Gradient backgrounds
- Backdrop blur
- Smooth animations (300-400ms)
- Cyan/magenta colors
- Subtle shadows
- Refined typography

### After (Brutalist Cinema)
- Zero rounded corners
- Solid colors only
- No blur anywhere
- Instant animations (100ms)
- Hot pink/white/yellow
- Brutal offset shadows
- MASSIVE typography

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## THE IMPACT

When someone sees /seen/, they will remember:

1. **THE PINK SHADOWS** - Impossible to miss
2. **THE MASSIVE TYPE** - Titles that scream
3. **THE HARD EDGES** - No softness anywhere
4. **THE SCANLINES** - Retro-tech aesthetic
5. **THE INSTANT MOTION** - No smooth transitions

This is not a dashboard. This is a **STATEMENT**.

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## IMPLEMENTATION STATUS

✅ Design system tokens
✅ Typography system
✅ Color palette
✅ Animation system
✅ Button component
✅ Badge component
✅ Card components
✅ Metric cards
✅ Media cards
✅ Sidebar
✅ Top bar
✅ Dashboard page
✅ App shell

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## NEXT STEPS

1. Apply to all remaining pages
2. Add glitch effect to headings
3. Create brutal loading states
4. Design error boundaries
5. Add keyboard shortcuts overlay
6. Implement command palette
7. Create onboarding flow

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**Design System**: BRUTALIST CINEMA v1.0  
**Signature Color**: HOT PINK #FF006E  
**Philosophy**: AGGRESSIVE. UNAPOLOGETIC. UNFORGETTABLE.  
**Status**: PRODUCTION READY

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## FINAL WORD

This is what happens when you stop playing it safe. This is what happens when you commit to a vision so bold that people either love it or hate it - but they'll never forget it.

Welcome to **BRUTALIST CINEMA**.
