{
  "schema": "brand-kit@2",
  "palette": {
    "paper": "#FFFFFF",
    "surface": "#E8EFF8",
    "ink": "#294172",
    "ink_muted": "#6F81A6",
    "accent": "#51A2DA",
    "accent_dark": "#3C6EB4",
    "on_accent": "#FFFFFF",
    "accent_secondary": "#DB3279",
    "night": "#294172",
    "on_night": "#FFFFFF",
    "accent_on_night": "#51A2DA",
    "role_note": "Hexes are all published (guide.pdf p.15-17). The role assignment is our reading: the guide sets its own headings and body copy in Dark Fedora Blue on white (p.5, p.7-9, p.11-13, p.21-24), shows the logo in New Fedora Blue (p.7), and gives tints but no surface color. Dark Fedora Blue is also the most-used brand hex on fedoraproject.org (measure step, 2026-10-30).",
    "extras": [
      {
        "name": "Dark Fedora Blue",
        "hex": "#294172",
        "role": "Main palette. The deepest brand blue: the guide's own heading and body text color on white, and our ink and dark ground",
        "rgb": "41, 65, 144",
        "cmyk": "100/57/0/38",
        "pantone": "541",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.15"
      },
      {
        "name": "Fedora Blue",
        "hex": "#3C6EB4",
        "role": "Main palette. The classic Fedora blue: the Freedom badge fill on p.5, the darker stop of the logo's gradient-mask variant (our reading), and our accent_dark for pressed and hover states",
        "rgb": "60, 110, 180",
        "cmyk": "100/46/0/0",
        "pantone": "2935",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.15"
      },
      {
        "name": "New Fedora Blue",
        "hex": "#51A2DA",
        "role": "Main palette. The logo color of the default horizontal and vertical lockups; our primary accent",
        "rgb": "81, 162, 218",
        "cmyk": "88/20/0/0",
        "pantone": "299",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.15",
        "also": "guide.pdf p.7; https://fedoraproject.org/assets/images/logos/fedora-logo-official.svg fills #51a2da (observed 2026-10-30)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Freedom Purple",
        "hex": "#A07CBC",
        "role": "Main palette. The Freedom foundation's named color; the middle of the palette spectrum between the blues and Friends Magenta",
        "rgb": "160, 124, 188",
        "cmyk": "46/53/0/0",
        "pantone": "2087",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.15"
      },
      {
        "name": "Friends Magenta",
        "hex": "#DB3279",
        "role": "Main palette. The Friends foundation color (Friends badge on p.5); the Colors chapter tint (p.14-17); our accent_secondary. Also the strike color of the guide's 'don't' crosses (p.11-13)",
        "rgb": "219, 50, 121",
        "cmyk": "0/100/0/0",
        "pantone": "226",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.15"
      },
      {
        "name": "Features Orange",
        "hex": "#E59728",
        "role": "Main palette. The Features foundation color (Features badge on p.5); the Do's and Don'ts chapter tint (p.10-13); the Open Sans marker bubble on p.19",
        "rgb": "229, 151, 40",
        "cmyk": "0/36/100/0",
        "pantone": "130",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.15"
      },
      {
        "name": "First Green",
        "hex": "#79DB32",
        "role": "Main palette. The First foundation color (First badge on p.5); the Typography chapter tint (p.18-19)",
        "rgb": "121, 219, 50",
        "cmyk": "60/0/100/0",
        "pantone": "7488",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.15"
      },
      {
        "name": "Black",
        "hex": "#000000",
        "role": "Neutral ramp, step 1. The one-color black logo, and the dark ground the guide shows the dark-background logo variants on",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16",
        "also": "guide.pdf p.7"
      },
      {
        "name": "Neutral 2",
        "hex": "#1D252E",
        "role": "Neutral ramp, step 2 (near-black blue-grey)",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Neutral 3",
        "hex": "#4C4C4C",
        "role": "Neutral ramp, step 3 (dark grey)",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Neutral 4",
        "hex": "#8C8C8C",
        "role": "Neutral ramp, step 4 (mid grey)",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Neutral 5",
        "hex": "#DEDEDE",
        "role": "Neutral ramp, step 5 (light grey): hairlines and quiet fills",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "White",
        "hex": "#FFFFFF",
        "role": "Neutral ramp, step 6. Page ground of every content page in the guide; the one-color white logo; text on brand-tinted grounds",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Dark Fedora Blue 1",
        "hex": "#152139",
        "role": "Dark Fedora Blue ramp, darkest shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Dark Fedora Blue 2",
        "hex": "#1F3156",
        "role": "Dark Fedora Blue ramp, shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Dark Fedora Blue 4",
        "hex": "#6F81A6",
        "role": "Dark Fedora Blue ramp, tint; our ink_muted for secondary text",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Dark Fedora Blue 5",
        "hex": "#D8E1EE",
        "role": "Dark Fedora Blue ramp, lightest tint",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Fedora Blue 1",
        "hex": "#1E3762",
        "role": "Fedora Blue ramp, darkest shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Fedora Blue 2",
        "hex": "#2D5387",
        "role": "Fedora Blue ramp, shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16",
        "site": "fedoraproject.org: the edition name wordmarks (WORKSTATION, SERVER...) on the edition cards are #2D5387 (observed 2026-10-31)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Fedora Blue 4",
        "hex": "#8FAED9",
        "role": "Fedora Blue ramp, tint",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Fedora Blue 5",
        "hex": "#E8EFF8",
        "role": "Fedora Blue ramp, lightest tint; our surface for quiet panels",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "New Fedora Blue 1",
        "hex": "#295178",
        "role": "New Fedora Blue ramp, darkest shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "New Fedora Blue 2",
        "hex": "#3D7AA8",
        "role": "New Fedora Blue ramp, shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16",
        "site": "fedoraproject.org: hover fill of the Learn More buttons, hover:bg-fp-newblue-700 (observed 2026-10-31)"
      },
      {
        "name": "New Fedora Blue 4",
        "hex": "#AAD0EE",
        "role": "New Fedora Blue ramp, tint. Also in the color-blind safe set (p.17). Close to the 'similarly-colored background' the guide forbids under the logo (p.11)",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "New Fedora Blue 5",
        "hex": "#DCEBF8",
        "role": "New Fedora Blue ramp, lightest tint",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Freedom Purple 1",
        "hex": "#503E68",
        "role": "Freedom Purple ramp, darkest shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Freedom Purple 2",
        "hex": "#6E5685",
        "role": "Freedom Purple ramp, shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Freedom Purple 4",
        "hex": "#CFBDDD",
        "role": "Freedom Purple ramp, tint",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Freedom Purple 5",
        "hex": "#ECE5F1",
        "role": "Freedom Purple ramp, lightest tint",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Friends Magenta 1",
        "hex": "#72193B",
        "role": "Friends Magenta ramp, darkest shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Friends Magenta 2",
        "hex": "#B32963",
        "role": "Friends Magenta ramp, shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Friends Magenta 4",
        "hex": "#ED97BB",
        "role": "Friends Magenta ramp, tint",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Friends Magenta 5",
        "hex": "#F9DDE9",
        "role": "Friends Magenta ramp, lightest tint",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Features Orange 1",
        "hex": "#784C14",
        "role": "Features Orange ramp, darkest shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Features Orange 2",
        "hex": "#AC721E",
        "role": "Features Orange ramp, shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Features Orange 4",
        "hex": "#F2CA92",
        "role": "Features Orange ramp, tint",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Features Orange 5",
        "hex": "#FBEEDB",
        "role": "Features Orange ramp, lightest tint",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "First Green 1",
        "hex": "#3D6F1D",
        "role": "First Green ramp, darkest shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "First Green 2",
        "hex": "#589F25",
        "role": "First Green ramp, shade",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "First Green 4",
        "hex": "#BBED97",
        "role": "First Green ramp, tint",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "First Green 5",
        "hex": "#E9F9DD",
        "role": "First Green ramp, lightest tint",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.16"
      },
      {
        "name": "Color-blind safe Light Green",
        "hex": "#AFEA85",
        "role": "Color-blind safe palette (p.17), shown with its protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia renderings; for charts and status where hue must stay distinguishable. Name is ours; the guide gives hex only",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.17"
      },
      {
        "name": "Color-blind safe Amber",
        "hex": "#F5A326",
        "role": "Color-blind safe palette (p.17); data and status color. Name is ours",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.17"
      },
      {
        "name": "Color-blind safe Lavender",
        "hex": "#B193C8",
        "role": "Color-blind safe palette (p.17); data and status color. Name is ours",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.17"
      },
      {
        "name": "Color-blind safe Green",
        "hex": "#38BC3B",
        "role": "Color-blind safe palette (p.17); data and status color. Name is ours",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.17"
      },
      {
        "name": "Color-blind safe Orange",
        "hex": "#EB7434",
        "role": "Color-blind safe palette (p.17); data and status color. Name is ours",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.17"
      },
      {
        "name": "Color-blind safe Deep Purple",
        "hex": "#603E79",
        "role": "Color-blind safe palette (p.17); data and status color. Name is ours",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.17"
      },
      {
        "name": "Color-blind safe Yellow",
        "hex": "#FFD117",
        "role": "Color-blind safe palette (p.17); data and status color. Name is ours",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.17"
      },
      {
        "name": "Editions gray (gray-100)",
        "hex": "#F3F4F6",
        "role": "Ground of the editions band, the diagonal wedge that cuts the hero, and the support cards",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ computed style, class bg-gray-100 / fill-gray-100 (2026-10-31)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Footer gray (gray-200)",
        "hex": "#E5E7EB",
        "role": "Footer ground (social row, link columns, legal row)",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ computed style, class bg-gray-200 (2026-10-31)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Card copy gray (gray-700)",
        "hex": "#374151",
        "role": "Edition card description text; mega-menu group labels",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ computed style, class text-gray-700 (2026-10-31)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Panel copy (gray-900)",
        "hex": "#111827",
        "role": "Body text inside the Additional Fedora Downloads panel",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ computed style, class text-gray-900 (2026-10-31)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Legal link gray (fp-gray-darkest)",
        "hex": "#535961",
        "role": "Footer legal links and the help line",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ computed style, class text-fp-gray-darkest (2026-10-31)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Legal link hover (fp-gray)",
        "hex": "#9A9FA6",
        "role": "Hover color of the footer legal links",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ computed style, class hover:text-fp-gray (2026-10-31)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Release circle blue (blue-400)",
        "hex": "#60A5FA",
        "role": "The Latest Release circle in the hero; hover is the same at 75% alpha (#60A5FABF)",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ computed style, class bg-blue-400 (2026-10-31)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Menu sheet gray (neutral-100)",
        "hex": "#F5F5F5",
        "role": "Ground of the opened desktop mega menu and phone menu sheet",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ computed style, class bg-neutral-100 (2026-10-31)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Downloads panel, rendered left",
        "hex": "#DEF6CC",
        "role": "What the downloads panel renders at its green end: rgba(121,219,50,0.25) over #FFFFFF. Build the rgba gradient, not this flat hex",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ computed style, class bg-gradient-to-r from-fp-green/25 (2026-10-31)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Downloads panel, rendered right",
        "hex": "#CEDBEC",
        "role": "What the downloads panel renders at its blue end: rgba(60,110,180,0.25) over #FFFFFF",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ computed style, class to-fp-blue/25 (2026-10-31)"
      }
    ]
  },
  "typography": {
    "display": {
      "family": "Montserrat",
      "weight": 600,
      "fallback_stack": "Montserrat, \"Helvetica Neue\", Arial, sans-serif",
      "real": "Montserrat (SIL Open Font License 1.1, Google Fonts). The guide's recommended titling / headline face; also the face of the Fedora Editions logos",
      "stand_in": false,
      "load": "Google Fonts: Montserrat 300-800 with italics",
      "weights_shown": "Light, Normal, Semi-Bold, Bold, Ultra-Bold, each with italic (p.19)",
      "prov": "published",
      "source": "guide.pdf p.18",
      "also": [
        "guide.pdf p.19",
        "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/brand/"
      ],
      "site": {
        "weight": 600,
        "size_px": "60 hero H1 at 1440 (line height 60px); 30/700 edition card titles; 24/600 uppercase labels (EVENTS:); 20/400 side statements",
        "tracking": "normal",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (measure step, 2026-10-30)"
      },
      "weight_note": "The guide names the face, not a headline weight. 600 is what fedoraproject.org sets its hero in, and what the guide's own white chapter titles look like (our reading)."
    },
    "body": {
      "family": "Open Sans",
      "weight": 400,
      "fallback_stack": "\"Open Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", Arial, sans-serif",
      "real": "Open Sans (SIL Open Font License 1.1, Google Fonts). The guide's recommended body text / copy face",
      "stand_in": false,
      "load": "Google Fonts: Open Sans 300-800 with italics",
      "weights_shown": "Light, Normal, Semi-Bold, Bold, Ultra-Bold, each with italic (p.19)",
      "prov": "published",
      "source": "guide.pdf p.18",
      "also": [
        "guide.pdf p.19"
      ],
      "site": {
        "weight": 400,
        "size_px": "30 hero lead (line height 36px); 18 body, uppercase eyebrow '100% FREE & OPEN SOURCE' at 18",
        "tracking": "normal",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (measure step, 2026-10-30)"
      }
    },
    "calibration": "Both faces are the real, openly licensed faces; no stand-ins. The guide publishes no type scale, sizes, leading or tracking; site sizes above are measurements, and the full scale comes from the anatomy step. Note the booklet itself sets its running text in Montserrat (light, justified), not Open Sans (observed, p.4-6, p.14, p.18): Open Sans is the recommendation for copy, Montserrat is what the booklet's designer used throughout."
  },
  "style": {
    "shape": "The Fedora bubble: a circle with one square corner (the logo's container shape), reused as badge, swatch chip and marker",
    "corners": "Fully round shapes with a single square corner; pill-shaped hex labels (p.16-17). No radius values published",
    "imagery": "Full-bleed 3D renders of floating Fedora bubbles and infinity f's, tinted monochrome in one palette color per chapter",
    "linework": "Flat white glyphs inside bubbles (Four Foundations, p.5); no stroke spec",
    "print": "Always CMYK for professionally printed collateral (banners, T-shirts, hats, stickers) or blue prints purple",
    "prov": "published",
    "source": "guide.pdf p.5, p.14-17",
    "note": "Shape and imagery descriptions are observed in the guide's own pages; the CMYK rule is stated (p.14)."
  },
  "voice": {
    "tone": [
      "Plain-spoken",
      "Welcoming",
      "Principled",
      "Playful"
    ],
    "tone_prov": "inferred",
    "tone_note": "Fedora publishes no tone-of-voice guide. These four words are our reading of its published copy: 'in plain English' (guide.pdf p.4), a vision of 'inclusive, welcoming, and open-minded communities' (Mission page), the Freedom foundation's hard line on free software (p.5), and the guide's own jokes ('true story!' p.14; 'We don't do hats either' p.13).",
    "is_not": [
      [
        "Plain-spoken",
        "Dumbed down"
      ],
      [
        "Welcoming",
        "Exclusive to experts"
      ],
      [
        "Principled",
        "Dogmatic"
      ],
      [
        "Playful",
        "Unserious about quality"
      ]
    ],
    "notes": [
      "Say what it is in plain words first: the guide's own 'What is Fedora?' gives the formal definition, then 'in plain English' it makes an operating system and makes it easy to use (p.4, paraphrase).",
      "Write as 'we' to 'you'. The community speaks as we; the reader is you (p.4, p.26).",
      "Lead with the people: Fedora 'is our people', not bits and bytes (Mission page, paraphrase). Contributors of any skill level are invited in.",
      "Freedom is a principle, stated plainly, but practical: the Magazine still covers popular non-free software where useful (Chrome is its example).",
      "Warm and a little funny where it helps the point: the purple DVDs story (p.14), no hats (p.13), Beefy's mustard progress bar (p.23).",
      "Short sentences, active voice, present tense, imperative instructions (Fedora Magazine writing guidelines).",
      "Fedora Linux is the operating system; the Fedora Project is the community (observed: homepage and docs use the names this way).",
      "Trademark rules govern how others write about Fedora: adjective use, exact spelling, no plurals or abbreviations. Fedora's own pages do use the possessive (\"Fedora's mission\")."
    ],
    "rules": [
      {
        "id": "headline-case",
        "kind": "headline_case",
        "value": "sentence",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/",
        "scope": "Editorial (Magazine) titles and headings, and edition card titles on fedoraproject.org ('The leading Linux desktop', observed). On the homepage the hero H1 and section H2s are Title Case (observed 2026-10-31): follow that on a landing page."
      },
      {
        "id": "spelling",
        "kind": "spelling",
        "value": "en-US",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/",
        "note": "US English is the project's lingua franca."
      },
      {
        "id": "person",
        "kind": "person",
        "value": "we_you",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.4"
      },
      {
        "id": "inclusive-lists",
        "kind": "prefer",
        "term": "allowlist / denylist",
        "over": [
          "whitelist",
          "blacklist"
        ],
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/"
      },
      {
        "id": "inclusive-roles",
        "kind": "prefer",
        "term": "primary / secondary (or primary / replica, active / standby)",
        "over": [
          "master / slave"
        ],
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/"
      },
      {
        "id": "red-hat",
        "kind": "prefer",
        "term": "Red Hat",
        "over": [
          "Redhat",
          "RedHat"
        ],
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/"
      },
      {
        "id": "third-party-style",
        "kind": "prefer",
        "term": "Copr, NVIDIA, Perl, ThinkPad",
        "over": [
          "COPR",
          "Nvidia",
          "nVidia",
          "PERL",
          "Thinkpad"
        ],
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/"
      },
      {
        "id": "active-voice",
        "kind": "guidance",
        "text": "Use active voice and the imperative for instructions; watch -ing words, which usually signal passive voice",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/"
      },
      {
        "id": "present-tense",
        "kind": "guidance",
        "text": "Present tense unless describing actual future plans ('your program starts', not 'will start')",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/"
      },
      {
        "id": "short-sentences",
        "kind": "guidance",
        "text": "Write clearly and use shorter sentences; cut weak forms of 'to be'. Clarity beats brevity when a longer sentence reads easier",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/"
      },
      {
        "id": "markup",
        "kind": "guidance",
        "text": "Italics for commands, package names and UI labels inside a sentence; never mix monospace into a proportional sentence; bold only for an extremely important phrase",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/"
      },
      {
        "id": "tm-exact",
        "kind": "guidance",
        "text": "Use 'Fedora' in its exact form: never abbreviate, hyphenate, pluralize, make an acronym of, or combine it with other words or designs",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/trademarks/"
      },
      {
        "id": "tm-adjective",
        "kind": "guidance",
        "text": "Third parties use the mark as an adjective ('Fedora Linux', 'Fedora Workstation'), never as a verb or possessive",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/trademarks/"
      },
      {
        "id": "tm-registered",
        "kind": "guidance",
        "text": "Third-party uses: the first or most prominent mention carries ®, plus the trademark attribution statement. Fedora's own homepage shows neither (observed 2026-10-31).",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/trademarks/"
      },
      {
        "id": "names",
        "kind": "guidance",
        "text": "'Fedora Linux' for the operating system, 'the Fedora Project' for the community, edition names as 'Fedora Workstation', 'Fedora Server' and so on",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (2026-10-30)"
      },
      {
        "id": "copr-caveat",
        "kind": "guidance",
        "text": "Software from Copr always carries a caveat that it isn't officially supported by Fedora infrastructure",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/"
      },
      {
        "id": "foss-first",
        "kind": "guidance",
        "text": "Prefer free software and officially packaged software in examples; use libvirt/KVM rather than VirtualBox, and Fedora-family distributions unless the point is cross-distribution",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/"
      }
    ],
    "approved": {
      "phrases": [
        "Freedom, Friends, Features, First",
        "It's Your Operating System",
        "built with love by you",
        "100% Free & Open Source",
        "free and open source",
        "Fedora Linux",
        "the Fedora Project",
        "upstream"
      ],
      "words": [
        "community",
        "contributors",
        "free",
        "open source",
        "upstream",
        "innovative"
      ],
      "prov": "published",
      "source": "guide.pdf p.4-5; https://fedoraproject.org/ (observed 2026-10-30)"
    },
    "banned": [
      "whitelist",
      "blacklist",
      "master/slave",
      "Redhat",
      "RedHat",
      "COPR",
      "Fedoras (plural)",
      "FC / FDR or any Fedora acronym"
    ],
    "prov": "published",
    "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/",
    "also": [
      "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/trademarks/",
      "guide.pdf p.4"
    ]
  },
  "spec": {
    "source": "guide.pdf",
    "how": "Read from the 26-page booklet's page renders (text is outlined, so no text layer), with palette pages re-rendered at 200 dpi to read every hex, plus the HTML edition, trademark guidelines and Mission page (fetched 2026-10-30)",
    "provenance": "published",
    "icons": {
      "grid": "not published",
      "stroke": "not published",
      "style": "Solid white pictograms (open hands, two figures, gears, trophy) centered in a foundation-colored bubble above a bold uppercase label with a full stop (p.5)",
      "site": "fedoraproject.org draws UI icons from Bootstrap Icons and Font Awesome sprites (observed 2026-10-30)",
      "prov": "published",
      "source": "guide.pdf p.5"
    },
    "signature": [
      {
        "name": "The Fedora bubble",
        "where": "Logo container; Four Foundations badges (p.5); palette swatch chips (p.15); color ramp tabs and hex pills (p.16-17); typeface markers (p.19)",
        "spec": "A circle with one square corner, the logo's own container shape. In the logo the square corner sits bottom left; as badges and chips it is turned so the square corner sits top right. Filled flat with one palette color; white glyph or label inside",
        "once": "one bubble per item; never a second shape language beside it",
        "dont": "redraw the bubble with all corners round, stretch it, or put a hat on it (p.12-13)",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.5"
      },
      {
        "name": "Four Foundations color coding",
        "where": "The Four Foundations badges and every chapter of the booklet",
        "spec": "Each foundation owns a hue: Friends Magenta #DB3279, Features Orange #E59728, First Green #79DB32; the Freedom badge is filled Fedora Blue #3C6EB4 though the palette names Freedom Purple #A07CBC. The booklet tints whole chapters the same way: blue intro and logo (p.1-9), orange do's and don'ts (p.10-13), magenta colors (p.14-17), green typography (p.18-19), violet characters (p.20-25)",
        "dont": "switch colors inside the logo or stray from the palette (p.11-12)",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.5"
      },
      {
        "name": "Tinted 3D bubble render",
        "where": "Cover, contents, chapter openers and back cover full-bleed (p.1, 3, 4, 6, 10, 14, 18, 20, 26); header band on every content page",
        "spec": "A render of floating 3D Fedora bubbles and infinity f's, duotoned in a single palette hue with a lighter wash of the same hue. Openers: full bleed, white Montserrat SemiBold title and light white body left aligned in the middle third. Content pages: the render as a top band about one fifth of the page tall (observed: band ends at 210 of 1053 px), white title bottom-left, then a white page",
        "once": "one hue per render",
        "dont": "mix two foundation hues in one render, or set text over the busy left side without the tint",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.1",
        "files": [
          "img-001-000.png",
          "img-011-009.png"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Palette spectrum",
        "where": "The Main Palette page (p.15); echoed by the ramps on p.16",
        "spec": "One continuous vertical gradient running Dark Fedora Blue #294172, Fedora Blue #3C6EB4, New Fedora Blue #51A2DA, Freedom Purple #A07CBC, Friends Magenta #DB3279, Features Orange #E59728, First Green #79DB32. Each ramp on p.16 fades its hue from darkest shade to near white",
        "dont": "add hues outside the palette",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.15"
      },
      {
        "name": "Community characters",
        "where": "Panda, Badger, Beefy and Colúr (p.20-24); usable in different projects",
        "spec": "Hand-drawn, loose-line cartoon mascots with expressive poses. Panda: grey and black with glowing ears and nuclear-symbol belly (green, yellow or red). Badger: grey with dark mask and red sash, the Fedora Badges mascot. Beefy: hot dog whose mustard shows progress. Colúr: blue pigeon with a Freedom-to-First spectrum belly, the Flock mascot",
        "once": "one character per piece, matched to its context (Badger for badges, Colúr for Flock, Beefy for progress)",
        "dont": "redraw them in a new style; use the published poses",
        "prov": "published",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.20",
        "files": [
          "img-021-020.png",
          "img-022-022.png",
          "img-023-024.png",
          "img-024-026.png"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "page": {
      "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/",
      "date": "2026-10-31",
      "prov": "observed",
      "how": "Measured with Playwright at 1440x900 and 390x844 at scrollY 0 (computed styles, boxes, the site CSS bundle for hover rules), checked against ref/home-*.png. All y values are page y at scrollY 0. Note: ref/home-desk-fold.png and the slices were captured with the page scrolled about 27px (the fixed nav sits over the channels row there); build the unscrolled state given here.",
      "voices": "Two voices. (1) The homepage voice, which a landing page follows: plain and institutional. One Title Case headline (\"It's Your Operating System\"), a one-sentence lead, an uppercase tagline, then sentence-case edition titles of 3-5 words (\"The leading Linux desktop\") over one or two factual sentences each; CTAs are fixed labels (\"Download Now\", \"Learn More\"); section titles are Title Case nouns (\"Additional Fedora Downloads\", \"Support Resources\"). No jokes, no mascots, no Four Foundations badges on the homepage. (2) The guide's campaign/booklet voice (warm, a little funny, the 3D bubble renders, mascots, foundation colors per chapter) governs brand pieces and campaigns, not this page. The guide stays brand law for logo, palette and faces; the site is how it is applied on the web: the site uses Tailwind grays (#F3F4F6, #E5E7EB, #374151, #111827) and a blue-400 circle (#60A5FA) that the guide never names; keep them on web pages built from this spec only.",
      "announcement": {
        "summary": "Not a top bar: a right-aligned pill inside the hero, between the channels row and the headline. Flush to the right edge, rounded on the left only.",
        "text": "🎉 Fedora Linux 45 Beta released!  (party-popper emoji, a space, then the link)",
        "href": "https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-45-beta",
        "ground": "#3C6EB4 (bg-fp-blue), border-radius 6px 0 0 6px, padding 16px, no border, no shadow",
        "desktop": "x 1080-1440 (w 360 = lg:w-1/4, touching the right edge), y 128-188 (h 60); link Open Sans 18px/28px 700 #FFFFFF, underlined (thickness auto, offset 2.7px), starting x 1122 after the 26px emoji",
        "phone": "x 90-390 (w 300, shrink-wrapped to its content, right edge flush), y 128-184 (h 56); link 16px/24px 700 white underlined",
        "resting_state": "Static; no motion."
      },
      "nav": {
        "summary": "Fixed 54px bar with a left-to-right blue gradient: white Fedora logo (bubble + wordmark) at left, five white text menus and a sun icon (theme toggle) flush right. Phone: logomark only at left, white hamburger at right.",
        "ground": "linear-gradient(to right, #51A2DA, #3C6EB4), full width; text white",
        "height": "54px desktop and phone (--nh: 54px). position fixed, top 0, z above the hero. Page content starts with padding-top 48px, so the hero top (y 48) runs 6px under the nav.",
        "border": "none; no shadow",
        "logo": {
          "variant": "one-color white horizontal logo: the bubble logomark (32x32) with the \"fedora\" wordmark to its right; on phone the logomark only",
          "px": "logomark 32x32 at x 16 y 11; wordmark svg box 127x32 at x 16 y 11 (the wordmark art starts about x 54, so the two overlap in one 127x32 box); hit area 143x48 at x 8 y 3 with 8px padding. Hover opacity 0.5 (300ms ease-in-out)",
          "position": "left, vertically centred",
          "file": "nav-logomark-white.svg",
          "file_wordmark": "nav-logo-wordmark-white.svg"
        },
        "links": {
          "count": 5,
          "labels": "Get Fedora, Contributors, Connections, Help, Languages",
          "size": "14px/20px Open Sans",
          "weight": 400,
          "color": "#FFFFFF",
          "alignment": "flush right: label boxes (each padded 0 8px) at x 971.5, 1059.7, 1158.7, 1255.9, 1302.2, ending x 1388; y 17-37. Then the 20x20 white sun icon at x 1396 y 18 (16px right inset). No dividers, no chevrons.",
          "menus": "Each label opens a full-width mega panel under the bar (ground #F5F5F5, left column of group labels Open Sans 24px/30px 600 #374151, items with a 16px #3C6EB4 icon and 500-weight #3C6EB4 label plus a #374151 description). Groups, verbatim: Get Fedora: Editions, Atomic Desktops, Spins, Labs, Miscellaneous. Contributors: Accounts & Apps, Packaging & Development, Contributor Guides, New Contributors. Connections: News & Publications, Ask Fedora, Project Discussion, Social & Events. Help: Ask Fedora, User Guides, Documentation, About. Languages: Translations, Add a translation. Closed at rest."
        },
        "actions": [
          "Theme toggle: 20x20 Font Awesome sun (white) at x 1396 y 18; no button chrome. File nav-fa-sun.svg"
        ],
        "sticky": "position fixed for the whole page; ground and height never change on scroll",
        "phone": {
          "shows": "white logomark 32x32 at x 16 y 11; white 3-bar hamburger centred in a 62x54 hit box at x 328-390. No text labels, no CTA.",
          "menu": "Tapping the hamburger drops a sheet: the blue gradient bar grows to 140px with four icon tabs (Get Fedora, Contributors, Connections, Help; 24px white icon over a 14px white label; the active tab is a dark navy rounded pill), then a #F5F5F5 sheet of accordion rows (Editions, Atomic Desktops, Spins, Labs, Miscellaneous) in Open Sans 24px/46px 600 #374151 with a chevron at right; opened rows list items with a 24px #3C6EB4 icon and a 16px #3C6EB4 label.",
          "cta": "none in the bar"
        }
      },
      "hero": {
        "summary": "Full-width blue vertical gradient (Fedora Blue at top to New Fedora Blue at bottom), all white text: a CHANNELS row of five social icons top left, the announcement pill flush right, a centred Montserrat headline, a centred two-line Open Sans lead, an uppercase tagline, a 192px light-blue circle with Latest Release 44, then a row with EVENTS: Flock at left and the Digital Public Good mark at right. The bottom edge is a diagonal: a #F3F4F6 wedge that rises from the left (y 888) to the right edge (y 768).",
        "desktop": {
          "section": "header y 48-939 (891px); ground linear-gradient(to bottom, #3C6EB4, #51A2DA); flex column; margin-bottom -4px so the editions band tucks under the wedge",
          "column_split": "one centred column (container max-width 1280, x 80-1360) for headline, lead, tagline and circle; the channels row and the events/DPG row are full-width rows with their own insets (channels x 32; events x 80; DPG right edge x 1360)",
          "vertical_anchors": "channels row y 76-108 (24px top margin, translate-y 4px); announcement pill y 128-188; H1 y 204-264; lead y 296-368 (2 lines); tagline y 392-420; circle y 452-644; events/DPG row y 660-752 (EVENTS: y 692, Flock y 724; DPG statement y 669-737, DPG mark y 660-746); diagonal wedge svg y 768-939",
          "text_max_width": "H1 one line, 1280px box (renders about 818px wide); lead box 853px (w-4/6 of 1280) centred x 293-1147, breaks after \"clouds,\"; tagline one line",
          "media": "no photo. Two image slots: the white Digital Public Goods Alliance mark (112x85.6 at x 1248 y 660) and the white wedge svg. The circle is a CSS circle, not an image.",
          "cta_size": "the only hero CTA is the circle itself (a link to #editions): 192x192, radius 9999px, padding 40px, #60A5FA; hover #60A5FABF"
        },
        "phone": {
          "order": "channel icons (centred, no CHANNELS: label), announcement pill (right-aligned), H1, lead, tagline, circle, then EVENTS: Flock (left) and the DPG mark (right, no statement text), wedge",
          "alignment": "all centred except the events/DPG row (space-between with 32px side insets) and the pill (flush right)",
          "sizes": "header y 48-724 (676px). Icons 32px at x 103, 143, 183, 223, 263, y 76. Pill x 90-390 y 128-184. H1 36px/40px 600, 2 lines (\"It's Your Operating / System\"), y 200-280, full width. Lead 16px/24px in a 260px box (x 65-325), 4 lines, y 296-392. Tagline 16px/24px y 400. Circle 128x128 at x 131 y 440, padding 12px; \"Latest Release\" 12px/16px; \"44\" 48px/48px 700. EVENTS: Montserrat 16px/24px 600 at x 32 y 604; Flock 14px/20px y 628 with a 20px arrow. DPG mark 112x85.6 at x 246 y 584. Wedge svg y 678-724 (390x46.3): left edge y 710, right edge y 678."
        },
        "at_rest": {
          "ground": "linear-gradient(to bottom, #3C6EB4 0%, #51A2DA 100%) over the whole header (y 48-939 desktop), no image, no texture, no overlay",
          "diagonal": "An inline SVG at the bottom of the header, full width 1440x170.8 (viewBox 3047 814.969 1200.032 142.328, preserveAspectRatio none), path M3047 915 v42.297 h1200.032 V814.969 Z filled #F3F4F6: a wedge whose top edge runs from the left edge at y 888 straight up to the right edge at y 768, solid #F3F4F6 below it to the band bottom. Use hero-diagonal.svg at width 100%, height 170.8px desktop / 46.3px phone (it scales with width: height = width x 0.1186).",
          "release_number": "The circle prints the published number 44 (static in the server-rendered HTML: <span>44</span>; no counter animation). Latest Release label 14px/20px 400 at y 508; 44 Open Sans 60px/60px 700 at y 528, centred.",
          "motion": "None at rest. Hover only: channel icons, EVENTS link and DPG link fade to opacity 0.5 (500ms ease-out); hovering a channel icon reveals its name (Open Sans 14px/16px 500 white) centred under it."
        },
        "media": "DPG mark: digital-public-goods.svg (white on transparent, 153x117 natural). Wedge: hero-diagonal.svg. Channel icons: channel-fa-matrix.svg, channel-fa-mastodon.svg, channel-fa-square-linkedin.svg, channel-fa-instagram.svg, channel-fa-youtube.svg (white, 32x32, 40px pitch). Flock arrow: hero-fa-arrow-right.svg (white 20x20).",
        "type": "H1 Montserrat 600 60px/60px #FFFFFF centred (48px/48px at 768-1279, 36px/40px under 768), margin-bottom 32px (16px under 1024). Lead Open Sans 400 30px/36px #FFFFFF centred, margin-bottom 24px. Tagline Open Sans 400 18px/28px uppercase \"100% FREE & OPEN SOURCE\". CHANNELS: Open Sans 600 24px/32px uppercase white, then icons from x 181 at 40px pitch (desktop only label). EVENTS: Montserrat 600 24px/32px uppercase; Flock Open Sans 400 20px/28px with a 20px right arrow 5px after. DPG statement Montserrat 400 20px/28px right-aligned in a 224px box: \"A Registered Digital / Public Good\", 16px gap to the mark.",
        "cta": "No buttons in the hero. The circle links to #editions; Flock links to /flock; the DPG mark links to https://digitalpublicgoods.net/.",
        "proof": "The Digital Public Good mark is the only proof element."
      },
      "sections": [
        {
          "name": "Editions",
          "summary": "Light gray band of six white edition cards, 2 per row, centred, each with a square product mark that pokes 24px above the card top, a small fedora wordmark plus the edition name to its right, a green-to-blue gradient title, a description and a Download Now link + Learn More button pinned to the bottom.",
          "ground": "#F3F4F6",
          "desktop": {
            "band": "y 935-2385 (1450px); padding 0 32px; inner container x 80-1360 with padding 32px 16px; cards in a centred flex-wrap with 64px column and row gap, plus 16px top and bottom margin on each card",
            "grid": "2 columns of 384px at x 304 and 752 (64px gap), centred; row tops y 983, 1513, 1987; rows 434, 378 and 350 tall (each row as tall as its longest card); 96px between rows (64 gap + 2x16 margins)",
            "card": "384px wide, #FFFFFF, radius 12px, shadow 0 10px 15px -3px rgba(0,0,0,0.1), 0 4px 6px -4px rgba(0,0,0,0.1), padding 80px 16px 16px, overflow-x clip",
            "order": "row 1 Workstation, KDE Plasma Desktop; row 2 Server, Cloud; row 3 CoreOS, IoT"
          },
          "phone": {
            "band": "y 720-2888; padding 0 16px; container padding 32px 8px",
            "grid": "1 column, cards 342px wide at x 24; card tops y 768, 1136, 1556, 1876, 2248, 2568; 48px between cards (16 gap + 2x16 margins)",
            "card": "same card; title 20px/28px 700; description 16px/24px; Learn More 119.7x38 (padding 8px 16px, 16px 500); Download Now 16px",
            "note": "The KDE PLASMA DESKTOP name (260px) runs past the card's right edge and is clipped by the card (overflow-x clip): it reads \"KDE PLASMA DESKTC\". Keep the clip."
          },
          "anatomy": [
            "Mark: square edition mark image 78x78 (Server 78x81) at card x +16, top -24px (bottom-aligned in a 78x78 box), so it overhangs the card top by 24px. Files: mark-workstation.webp, mark-kde-plasma-desktop.webp, mark-server.webp, mark-cloud.webp, mark-coreos.webp, mark-iot.webp",
            "Edition lockup right of the mark, 7.8px gap: the \"fedora\" wordmark 51.4x14.2 in #51A2DA at card y +8 (card-fedora-wordmark.svg), and under it the edition name 17.9px tall in #2D5387 at card y +28 (Montserrat-style caps wordmark): card-name-workstation.svg 168.6 wide, card-name-kde-plasma-desktop.svg 260.1, card-name-server.svg 91.5, card-name-cloud.svg 79.8, card-name-coreos.svg 92.7 (its O is magenta, keep the file as is), card-name-iot.svg 32.3",
            "Title at card y +80: Montserrat 700 30px/36px, text filled with linear-gradient(to right, #79DB32, #51A2DA) clipped to the text (background-clip text, color transparent); padding 6px 0 12px; margin-bottom 16px; 2 lines in 352px (\"The leading Linux / desktop\")",
            "Description at card y +186: Open Sans 400 18px/28px #374151, 352px wide, margin-bottom 64px (room for the action row)",
            "Action row pinned 24px from the card bottom: \"Download Now\" left at x +16 (Open Sans 16px/24px #3C6EB4, underline, offset 4px; hover opacity 0.75); \"Learn More\" button right at x +205 (146.6x48, #51A2DA fill, white Open Sans 18px/28px 500, padding 12px 24px, radius 4px; hover #3D7AA8, 300ms ease-in-out)",
            "Title and description together are one link to the edition page (/workstation, /kde, /server, /cloud, /coreos, /iot); Download Now goes to /<edition>/download"
          ],
          "components": [
            "edition_card",
            "button_primary",
            "text_link_download"
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Additional Fedora Downloads",
          "summary": "White band: a centred dark-blue H2, then one wide rounded panel with a pale green-to-blue gradient holding four short text blocks (Atomic Desktops, Spins, Labs on row 1; Miscellaneous centred alone on row 2).",
          "ground": "#FFFFFF band; panel linear-gradient(to right, rgba(121,219,50,0.25), rgba(60,110,180,0.25)) rendering #DEF6CC at left to #CEDBEC at right; on phone the gradient runs top to bottom",
          "desktop": {
            "heading": "section y 2385-2526, padding 48px 32px 32px; H2 \"Additional Fedora Downloads\" Montserrat 600 36px/40px #294172 centred, y 2433 (padding 7.2px 0 14.4px)",
            "panel": "x 80-1360 (1280), y 2526-3250 (724), radius 8px, padding 24px 0 32px, margin-bottom 64px; centred flex-wrap, 16px gap",
            "blocks": "320px wide text blocks with 16px margin: row 1 at x 192, 560, 928 (y 2566); Miscellaneous at x 560, y 2936"
          },
          "phone": {
            "heading": "H2 30px/36px 2 lines (\"Additional Fedora / Downloads\") y 2936-3026, section padding 48px 16px 16px",
            "panel": "x 16-374, y 3042-4172, gradient to bottom (green top, blue bottom), radius 8px; blocks stacked 320px wide at x 35: y 3082, 3288, 3591, 3893",
            "type": "block H3 24px/32px 600; body 16px/24px; Learn More 16px/24px 600"
          },
          "anatomy": [
            "Block: H3 Montserrat 600 30px/36px #294172 (padding 6px 0 12px, then 8px), body Open Sans 400 18px/28px #111827 max 320px with 8px below, then \"Learn More\" Open Sans 600 18px/28px #294172, no underline at rest; hover #51A2DA underlined, offset 4px",
            "Links: Atomic Desktops /atomic-desktops, Spins /spins, Labs /labs, Miscellaneous /misc",
            "No icons, no images, no card borders inside the panel"
          ],
          "components": [
            "gradient_panel",
            "text_link_learn_more"
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Support Resources",
          "summary": "White band: centred dark-blue H2 and three light gray cards in a row, each with a 40px dark-blue icon left of a dark-blue H3, a centred sentence and a bold black link.",
          "ground": "#FFFFFF band; cards #F3F4F6",
          "desktop": {
            "band": "container x 80-1360, y 3314-3754, padding-bottom 48px; header padding 48px 0 32px; H2 \"Support Resources\" Montserrat 600 36px/40px #294172 centred at y 3362",
            "grid": "3 cards 384x218 at x 112, 528, 944, y 3456; 32px gap, centred",
            "card": "#F3F4F6, radius 6px, padding 32px, no shadow, no border; flex column, items centred"
          },
          "phone": {
            "band": "y 4204-5013; H2 30px/36px one line y 4252; cards 358x198 stacked at x 16, y 4322, 4536, 4750 (16px gap)",
            "type": "H3 24px/32px; body 16px/24px centred in 294px; link 16px/24px 600"
          },
          "anatomy": [
            "Card head row: 40x40 icon in #294172, 16px gap, then H3 Montserrat 600 30px/36px #294172; the pair is centred (Documentation icon x 153.5, title x 209.5)",
            "Icons (Font Awesome solid): book (support-fa-book.svg), envelope (support-fa-envelope.svg), comments (support-fa-comments.svg)",
            "Sentence: Open Sans 400 18px/28px #000000 centred, 320px wide, 8px below",
            "Link: Open Sans 600 18px/28px #000000, no underline at rest; hover #294172 underlined (offset 1px). Labels and targets: Fedora Docs https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/, Fedora Discussion https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/ask, Fedora Chat https://matrix.to/#/#fedora:fedoraproject.org"
          ],
          "components": [
            "support_card"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "footer": {
        "summary": "Light gray footer in three parts (social row, four link columns, logo + legal row) followed by a black Red Hat sponsorship bar.",
        "ground": "#E5E7EB for the footer; #000000 for the Red Hat bar",
        "anatomy": [
          "Social row: section padding 24px 32px 32px, content max 1280 (x 80). Title \"Social Media Channels\" Open Sans 600 24px/32px #000000 at y 3778, 4px below; links in a row at x 80, 240, 400, 560, 720 (each 144px basis + 16px gap) y 3818: 24px black icon, 4px gap, label Open Sans 18px/28px #000000. Labels, in order: Matrix, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube. Hover underlined #294172. Icons: footer-fa-matrix.svg, footer-fa-mastodon.svg, footer-fa-square-linkedin.svg, footer-fa-instagram.svg, footer-fa-youtube.svg",
          "Link columns: nav padding 24px 32px, 4-column grid, 64px column gap, columns 272px at x 80, 416, 752, 1088, top y 3896. Column head Open Sans 600 24px/32px #000000; links Open Sans 400 18px/28px #000000 on a 28px pitch from y 3930, no bullets, no underline.",
          "Verbatim columns. Editions: Workstation, KDE Plasma, Server, Cloud, CoreOS, IoT. Atomic Desktops: Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic, COSMIC Atomic. Spins: Xfce Desktop, Cinnamon Desktop, MATE+Compiz Desktop, i3 Tiling WM, LXQt Desktop, LXDE Desktop, SOAS Desktop, Sway Tiling WM, Budgie Desktop, Miracle Desktop, KDE Mobile Desktop, COSMIC Desktop. Labs: Astronomy, Design Suite, Games, Jam, Python Classroom, Scientific, Security Lab. (A fifth column, Languages, shows only on phone.)",
          "Logo + legal row: section padding 32px, y 4288-4417, three columns 200 / flexible / 200 inside max 1280. Left: the full-color horizontal logo (fedora-logo-official.svg, New Fedora Blue #51A2DA) drawn in a 200px-wide box at x 60, vertically centred on y 4344; the visible lockup is about 147x42. Centre: legal links in one centred row at y 4322, 16px gap, Open Sans 18px/28px #535961, underlined (offset 1px), hover #9A9FA6: Privacy Statement, Legal, Code of Conduct, Sponsors. Under it, centred, y 4358: \"Help improve this website on the CMS or the GitLab repo.\" in #535961 with CMS and GitLab repo underlined. Right: DPG badge (dpg-badge.svg) 48px tall, right edge x 1360 (125.7x48 including 8px side padding).",
          "Red Hat bar: #000000, padding 32px, y 4417-4537 (120px). Left 200px column: the \"Sponsored by Red Hat\" logo PNG 168x40 at x 80 y 4449 (logo-sponsored-by-red-hat.png). Centre: \"Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat.\" Open Sans 18px/28px #FFFFFF at x 449 y 4449, and under it on its own line \"Learn more about the relationship between Red Hat and Fedora.\" white at opacity 0.6, underlined (hover opacity 0.75). Right 200px column empty.",
          "No postal address, phone number or copyright line appears on the page. Trademark text is not on the homepage."
        ],
        "phone": "Social row padding 16px: title 24px/32px; links in 2 columns at x 16 and 176 on a 28px pitch (Matrix, Mastodon / LinkedIn, Instagram / YouTube), 16px/24px. Link columns collapse to accordion rows at x 16, 40px pitch, Open Sans 600 24px/32px with a 20px chevron-right at x 354: Editions, Atomic Desktops, Spins, Labs, Languages (closed at rest). Then the color logo left and the DPG badge right (x 248-374) on one row, legal links centred on two lines (Privacy Statement, Legal / Code of Conduct, Sponsors) in 16px/24px, then the help line centred on two lines. Red Hat bar padding 16px: logo 168x40 at x 16, then the sentence and the 0.6-opacity link (2 lines) at x 32."
      },
      "dark_ground": {
        "secondary_button": "none on the page; on the blue gradient, actions are white text links or white icons that fade to opacity 0.5 on hover",
        "link": "#FFFFFF, underlined (announcement link 700 weight); on #000000 the Red Hat link is white at opacity 0.6, underlined",
        "muted_text": "#FFFFFF at opacity 0.6 (Red Hat bar link); the hero uses no gray text",
        "hairline": "none: no rules or borders on the blue or black grounds",
        "logo_variant": "one-color white horizontal logo (nav-logomark-white.svg + nav-logo-wordmark-white.svg, or fedora-logo-white-official.svg) on the blue gradient; the black bar carries only the Red Hat logo"
      }
    },
    "bands": [
      {
        "label": "Navigation",
        "ground": "#51A2DA",
        "content": "white logo left; Get Fedora, Contributors, Connections, Help, Languages + sun icon right",
        "desktop": "1440x54 fixed; gradient to right #51A2DA to #3C6EB4; links 14px/20px white flush right ending x 1388",
        "phone": "390x54 fixed; logomark x 16, hamburger x 328-390",
        "anatomy": [
          "Gradient left to right: linear-gradient(to right, #51A2DA, #3C6EB4)",
          "Menus open a #F5F5F5 mega panel; closed at rest"
        ]
      },
      {
        "label": "Hero",
        "ground": "#3C6EB4",
        "content": "CHANNELS row, announcement pill, H1, lead, tagline, Latest Release 44 circle, EVENTS: Flock + Digital Public Good, diagonal wedge",
        "desktop": "y 48-939; vertical gradient #3C6EB4 top to #51A2DA bottom; centred column x 80-1360; circle 192px #60A5FA at y 452",
        "phone": "y 48-724; same gradient; H1 36px 2 lines; circle 128px",
        "anatomy": [
          "Ground is linear-gradient(to bottom, #3C6EB4, #51A2DA)",
          "Bottom edge: #F3F4F6 wedge svg rising left (y 888) to right (y 768)",
          "Latest Release prints 44 (static)"
        ]
      },
      {
        "label": "Editions",
        "ground": "#F3F4F6",
        "content": "six white edition cards, 2 per row",
        "desktop": "y 935-2385; cards 384px at x 304 and 752, 64px gap; radius 12px, shadow-lg",
        "phone": "y 720-2888; cards 342px stacked, 48px apart",
        "anatomy": [
          "Mark overhangs card top by 24px",
          "Gradient title #79DB32 to #51A2DA",
          "Download Now link + Learn More button pinned 24px from the bottom"
        ]
      },
      {
        "label": "Additional Fedora Downloads",
        "ground": "#FFFFFF",
        "content": "centred H2, gradient panel with 4 text blocks",
        "desktop": "H2 y 2433; panel x 80-1360 y 2526-3250 radius 8px; blocks 320px (3 + 1)",
        "phone": "H2 2 lines; panel 358px, gradient top to bottom, blocks stacked",
        "anatomy": [
          "Panel gradient rgba(121,219,50,0.25) to rgba(60,110,180,0.25)",
          "Learn More links #294172 600, no underline"
        ]
      },
      {
        "label": "Support Resources",
        "ground": "#FFFFFF",
        "content": "centred H2, 3 gray cards with icon + title, sentence, link",
        "desktop": "H2 y 3362; cards 384x218 at x 112, 528, 944, 32px gap",
        "phone": "cards 358px stacked, 16px gap",
        "anatomy": [
          "Cards #F3F4F6 radius 6px padding 32px, no shadow",
          "40px #294172 icons: book, envelope, comments"
        ]
      },
      {
        "label": "Footer: social + link columns",
        "ground": "#E5E7EB",
        "content": "Social Media Channels row; Editions, Atomic Desktops, Spins, Labs columns",
        "desktop": "y 3754-4288; content x 80-1360; 4 columns of 272px, 64px gap",
        "phone": "2-column social list; columns become accordion rows plus Languages",
        "anatomy": [
          "Heads Open Sans 600 24px/32px black",
          "Links Open Sans 18px/28px black, 28px pitch"
        ]
      },
      {
        "label": "Footer: logo + legal",
        "ground": "#E5E7EB",
        "content": "color Fedora logo, legal links, help line, DPG badge",
        "desktop": "y 4288-4417; 200 / centre / 200 columns",
        "phone": "logo + badge row, links centred on 2 lines",
        "anatomy": [
          "Legal links #535961 underlined: Privacy Statement, Legal, Code of Conduct, Sponsors"
        ]
      },
      {
        "label": "Red Hat sponsor bar",
        "ground": "#000000",
        "content": "Sponsored by Red Hat logo; sponsorship sentence and link",
        "desktop": "y 4417-4537 (120px), padding 32px",
        "phone": "padding 16px, logo then text stacked",
        "anatomy": [
          "Link white at opacity 0.6, underlined"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "layout": {
      "page_margin": {
        "desktop": 80,
        "phone": 16
      },
      "container_max": 1280,
      "section_padding": {
        "desktop": 48,
        "phone": 48
      },
      "columns": 2,
      "columns_phone": 1,
      "gutter": 64,
      "gutter_phone": 16,
      "card_gap_note": "Editions cards 64px apart (96px between rows: 64 + 2x16 card margins); support cards 32px; download blocks 16px plus 16px margins. Phone: 48px between edition cards, 16px between support cards.",
      "nav_height": 54,
      "hero_text_max": 853,
      "note": "Measured on https://fedoraproject.org/ (2026-10-31) at 1440 and 390. Content uses the Tailwind container: 1280px at 1440 (x 80-1360). Exceptions: the hero channels row (x 32) and announcement pill (flush right), the 1440 full-bleed gradient and wedge. Editions: 2 x 384px cards centred with 64px gap (x 304-1136). Phone: 16px gutter (edition cards sit at 24px: 16 band padding + 8 container padding); hero events row 32px. Breakpoints are Tailwind defaults: sm 640, md 768 (desktop nav appears, hero H1 48px), lg 1024 (cards 2-up, lead 30px), xl 1280 (H1 60px).",
      "prov": "observed",
      "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
      "section_padding_note": "48px above each H2 section (pt-12) and 32px under the heading (pb-8) at both widths; the editions band has 32px top/bottom inside its container; sides 32px desktop (content then sits in the 1280 container), 16px phone."
    },
    "breakpoints": {
      "phone_max": 767,
      "all": [
        640,
        768,
        1024,
        1280
      ],
      "note": "Tailwind defaults from the site CSS bundle: sm 640, md 768 (desktop nav appears; hero H1 48px), lg 1024 (edition cards 2-up; lead 30px; body 18px), xl 1280 (H1 60px). Phone values here apply below 768.",
      "prov": "observed",
      "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)"
    },
    "type": [
      {
        "role": "Hero H1",
        "id": "display-xl",
        "face": "Montserrat",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 60,
          "phone": 36
        },
        "line_height": 1,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 600,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "case": "Title Case",
        "color": "#FFFFFF",
        "size_md": 48,
        "line_px": {
          "desktop": 60,
          "phone": 40
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Hero lead",
        "id": "lead",
        "face": "Open Sans",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 30,
          "phone": 16
        },
        "line_height": 1.2,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 400,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "color": "#FFFFFF",
        "line_px": {
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          "phone": 24
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Section H2",
        "id": "display-m",
        "face": "Montserrat",
        "size": {
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          "phone": 30
        },
        "line_height": 1.111,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 600,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "color": "#294172",
        "padding": "0.2em 0 0.4em",
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          "desktop": 40,
          "phone": 36
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Edition card title",
        "id": "title-gradient",
        "face": "Montserrat",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 30,
          "phone": 20
        },
        "line_height": 1.2,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 700,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "fill": "linear-gradient(to right, #79DB32, #51A2DA) clipped to text",
        "line_px": {
          "desktop": 36,
          "phone": 28
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Block and support H3",
        "id": "title-l",
        "face": "Montserrat",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 30,
          "phone": 24
        },
        "line_height": 1.2,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 600,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "color": "#294172",
        "line_px": {
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          "phone": 32
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Hero side labels (EVENTS:)",
        "id": "label-display",
        "face": "Montserrat",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 24,
          "phone": 16
        },
        "line_height": 1.333,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 600,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "case": "uppercase",
        "color": "#FFFFFF",
        "line_px": {
          "desktop": 32,
          "phone": 24
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "DPG statement",
        "id": "statement",
        "face": "Montserrat",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 20,
          "phone": 20
        },
        "line_height": 1.4,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 400,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "note": "desktop only (hidden under 768), right-aligned",
        "line_px": {
          "desktop": 28,
          "phone": 28
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "CHANNELS: label / footer heads",
        "id": "label-ui",
        "face": "Open Sans",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 24,
          "phone": 24
        },
        "line_height": 1.333,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 600,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "case": "CHANNELS: uppercase; footer heads Title Case",
        "line_px": {
          "desktop": 32,
          "phone": 32
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Body",
        "id": "body",
        "face": "Open Sans",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 18,
          "phone": 16
        },
        "line_height": 1.556,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 400,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "color": "#374151 on cards, #111827 in the panel, #000000 elsewhere",
        "line_px": {
          "desktop": 28,
          "phone": 24
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Tagline",
        "id": "eyebrow",
        "face": "Open Sans",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 18,
          "phone": 16
        },
        "line_height": 1.556,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 400,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "case": "uppercase",
        "line_px": {
          "desktop": 28,
          "phone": 24
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Release number",
        "id": "numeral",
        "face": "Open Sans",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 60,
          "phone": 48
        },
        "line_height": 1,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 700,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "line_px": {
          "desktop": 60,
          "phone": 48
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Release label",
        "id": "caption",
        "face": "Open Sans",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 14,
          "phone": 12
        },
        "line_height": 1.429,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 400,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "line_px": {
          "desktop": 20,
          "phone": 16
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Nav link",
        "id": "nav",
        "face": "Open Sans",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 14,
          "phone": 14
        },
        "line_height": 1.429,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 400,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "color": "#FFFFFF",
        "line_px": {
          "desktop": 20,
          "phone": 20
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Button",
        "id": "button",
        "face": "Open Sans",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 18,
          "phone": 16
        },
        "line_height": 1.556,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 500,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "line_px": {
          "desktop": 28,
          "phone": 24
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Text link (Download Now)",
        "id": "link",
        "face": "Open Sans",
        "size": {
          "desktop": 16,
          "phone": 16
        },
        "line_height": 1.5,
        "tracking_px": 0,
        "weight": 400,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "color": "#3C6EB4",
        "decoration": "underline, offset 4px",
        "line_px": {
          "desktop": 24,
          "phone": 24
        }
      }
    ],
    "components": {
      "button_primary": {
        "fill": "#51A2DA",
        "text": "#FFFFFF",
        "border": "none",
        "radius": 4,
        "padding": "12px 24px (phone 8px 16px)",
        "height": 48,
        "example": "Learn More on edition cards (146.6x48 desktop, 119.7x38 phone)",
        "text_style": "Open Sans 18px/28px 500 (phone 16px/24px)",
        "states": {
          "hover": {
            "prov": "observed",
            "css": {
              "background-color": "#3D7AA8",
              "transition": "all 300ms ease-in-out"
            }
          }
        },
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "padding_x": 24,
        "weight": 500,
        "font_size": 18,
        "face": "body"
      },
      "text_link_download": {
        "text": "#3C6EB4",
        "decoration": "underline, offset 4px",
        "text_style": "Open Sans 16px/24px 400",
        "states": {
          "hover": {
            "css": {
              "opacity": "0.75"
            }
          }
        },
        "example": "Download Now",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)"
      },
      "text_link_learn_more": {
        "text": "#294172",
        "decoration": "none at rest",
        "text_style": "Open Sans 18px/28px 600",
        "states": {
          "hover": {
            "css": {
              "color": "#51A2DA",
              "text-decoration": "underline",
              "text-underline-offset": "4px"
            }
          }
        },
        "example": "Learn More (downloads panel)",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)"
      },
      "release_circle": {
        "fill": "#60A5FA",
        "text": "#FFFFFF",
        "size": "192x192 desktop, 128x128 phone",
        "radius": 9999,
        "padding": "40px (phone 12px)",
        "anatomy": "Latest Release 14px/20px over 44 at 60px/60px 700, centred",
        "states": {
          "hover": {
            "css": {
              "background-color": "#60A5FABF"
            }
          }
        },
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)"
      },
      "announcement_pill": {
        "fill": "#3C6EB4",
        "radius": 6,
        "padding": "16px",
        "text_style": "Open Sans 18px/28px 700 white underlined link after an emoji",
        "position": "flush right edge, 360px wide desktop",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)",
        "radius_note": "6px on the left corners only (6px 0 0 6px); the pill runs off the right edge (observed 2026-10-31)"
      },
      "edition_card": {
        "fill": "#FFFFFF",
        "radius": 12,
        "shadow": "0 10px 15px -3px rgba(0,0,0,0.1), 0 4px 6px -4px rgba(0,0,0,0.1)",
        "padding": "80px 16px 16px",
        "width": 384,
        "anatomy": "78px mark overhanging 24px above the card at x +16; fedora wordmark (#51A2DA) + edition name (#2D5387) right of it; gradient title; #374151 description; Download Now link bottom-left and Learn More button bottom-right, both 24px from the bottom",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)"
      },
      "support_card": {
        "fill": "#F3F4F6",
        "radius": 6,
        "padding": 32,
        "width": 384,
        "shadow": "none",
        "anatomy": "40px #294172 icon + H3 centred row, centred sentence, bold black link",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)"
      },
      "gradient_panel": {
        "fill": "linear-gradient(to right, rgba(121,219,50,0.25), rgba(60,110,180,0.25)); to bottom on phone",
        "radius": 8,
        "padding": "24px 0 32px",
        "width": 1280,
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)"
      }
    },
    "motion": [
      {
        "name": "link-fade",
        "duration_ms": 500,
        "easing": "ease-out",
        "use": "Hero links (channel icons, EVENTS, DPG) and footer DPG badge fade to opacity 0.5 on hover",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ site CSS (hover:opacity-50 ease-out duration-500), 2026-10-31"
      },
      {
        "name": "button-hover",
        "duration_ms": 300,
        "easing": "ease-in-out",
        "use": "Learn More fill #51A2DA to #3D7AA8; nav logo opacity 0.5; legal link color change",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ site CSS (duration-300 ease-in-out), 2026-10-31"
      },
      {
        "name": "footer-link",
        "duration_ms": 150,
        "easing": "ease-in-out",
        "use": "Footer social links underline and turn #294172 on hover; mega-menu item backgrounds",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ site CSS (duration-150 ease-in-out), 2026-10-31"
      },
      {
        "name": "none-at-rest",
        "use": "No entrance animations, counters, carousels or parallax on the homepage: the release number is static text (44). Build every element in its resting state.",
        "prov": "observed",
        "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/ (Playwright, 1440x900 and 390x844, scrollY 0, 2026-10-31)"
      }
    ]
  },
  "system": {
    "fixed": [
      "The Infinity f logo exactly as supplied: no adjusting, recoloring, rearranging, stretching, home-made variants or hats (p.11-13)",
      "One palette, the same on screen, web and print; CMYK values for professional print (p.14-15)",
      "Montserrat for titles, Open Sans for copy (p.18)",
      "The Four Foundations and their hues (p.5)",
      "Trademark attribution and ® on first mention (trademark guidelines)"
    ],
    "flex": "Which Foundation hue leads. Blue is always the anchor (logo, ink); a piece may take magenta, orange, green or purple as its tint, the way each booklet chapter does, and may add a mascot. The guide sets no limit on how much color; it limits by rule (palette only, logo untouched).",
    "traits": [
      {
        "is": "Plain-spoken",
        "not": "Dumbed down",
        "text": "Gives the precise definition, then says it 'in plain English' (paraphrase).",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.4",
        "prov": "inferred"
      },
      {
        "is": "Welcoming",
        "not": "Exclusive to experts",
        "text": "A place for anyone who wants to help, regardless of technical skill (paraphrase).",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.5",
        "prov": "inferred"
      },
      {
        "is": "Principled",
        "not": "Dogmatic",
        "text": "Chooses free alternatives, yet covers popular non-free software where it truly helps users (paraphrase).",
        "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/",
        "prov": "inferred"
      },
      {
        "is": "Playful",
        "not": "Unserious about quality",
        "text": "Jokes about purple DVDs and hats, mascots with a mustard progress bar, but strict logo rules (paraphrase).",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.13-14",
        "prov": "inferred"
      },
      {
        "is": "Innovative",
        "not": "Unstable",
        "text": "The latest in stable and robust free software (paraphrase).",
        "source": "guide.pdf p.5",
        "prov": "inferred"
      }
    ]
  },
  "formats": [
    {
      "format": "Landing page",
      "level": 3,
      "must": "Build it the way fedoraproject.org is built (kit.spec.page from the anatomy step): blue gradient hero with the white horizontal logo top left, Montserrat 600 Title Case hero headline in white, Open Sans lead, New Fedora Blue / Fedora Blue / Dark Fedora Blue as the working colors, white or light sections below, the Red Hat sponsor bar at the foot of the footer (no trademark line on the homepage, observed 2026-10-31)",
      "flex": "Which editions or sections appear; a Foundation hue as a section accent; a mascot in a supporting role"
    },
    {
      "format": "Slide deck",
      "level": 3,
      "must": "Section openers as a full-bleed render tinted in one Foundation hue with white Montserrat title; content slides white with Dark Fedora Blue type; horizontal logo, untouched",
      "flex": "Which Foundation hue per section; bubbles as bullets or stat badges"
    },
    {
      "format": "Social post",
      "level": 4,
      "must": "One Foundation hue or brand blue as ground, white Montserrat headline, logo from official files, palette only",
      "flex": "Mascot, render texture, which hue"
    },
    {
      "format": "Print and merchandise",
      "level": 2,
      "must": "CMYK or Pantone values only (p.14-15); official logo; Council permission for merchandise",
      "flex": "Ground color and mascot"
    },
    {
      "format": "Event booth banner",
      "level": 4,
      "must": "Large horizontal logo on white or a dark-background variant on Dark Fedora Blue; CMYK print; Colúr for Flock events",
      "flex": "Foundation hue band, render texture"
    },
    {
      "format": "Docs or Magazine article",
      "level": 1,
      "must": "Magazine writing rules: sentence case, US English, active voice; featured images from the provided assets and fonts only",
      "flex": "Featured image hue"
    },
    {
      "format": "Team or app logo",
      "level": 0,
      "must": "Published sub-logo template: logo or bubble with the name in uppercase Montserrat, Dark Fedora Blue; requested through the Design team",
      "flex": "Horizontal or vertical template"
    }
  ],
  "checks": [
    {
      "name": "Logo hidden",
      "text": "Cover the infinity-f. It should still read as Fedora: a blue gradient field with a diagonal cut, white Montserrat Title Case headline, Open Sans copy, and the blue release circle."
    },
    {
      "name": "Swap test",
      "text": "Put another Linux distribution's logo on it. If the Fedora blues, the edition cards with their own marks and the plain, community-first copy don't feel out of place, it's generic, and it goes back."
    }
  ],
  "examples": [
    {
      "chapter": "color",
      "do": {
        "ground": "#3C6EB4",
        "text": "It's Your Operating System",
        "ink": "#FFFFFF"
      },
      "do_caption": "White Montserrat on the Fedora blues: the homepage hero (observed 2026-10-31).",
      "dont": {
        "ground": "#51A2DA",
        "text": "It's Your Operating System",
        "ink": "#3C6EB4"
      },
      "dont_caption": "Blue on blue: the guide bans the logo on similarly colored grounds."
    },
    {
      "chapter": "color",
      "do": {
        "ground": "paper",
        "text": "Learn More",
        "button": true,
        "button_fill": "#51A2DA"
      },
      "do_caption": "New Fedora Blue button, white Open Sans: the edition-card CTA (observed 2026-10-31).",
      "dont": {
        "ground": "paper",
        "text": "Learn More",
        "button": true,
        "button_fill": "#DB3279"
      },
      "dont_caption": "Foundation hues are accents for campaigns and mascots, not the homepage's working CTA color (observed 2026-10-31)."
    }
  ],
  "make_it_yours": {
    "note": "Everything above transfers. These are Fedora's own and must be replaced with yours: name and logo, purpose, positioning, messaging pillars, proof, taglines and boilerplate.",
    "replace": [
      "identity",
      "purpose",
      "positioning",
      "messaging.pillars",
      "messaging.proof_points",
      "messaging.taglines",
      "messaging.boilerplate"
    ],
    "reference": {
      "purpose": {
        "mission": {
          "text": "Fedora creates an innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that lets developers and community members build tailored solutions for their users (paraphrase).",
          "prov": "published",
          "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/",
          "paraphrase": true
        },
        "vision": {
          "text": "A world where everyone benefits from free and open source software built by inclusive, welcoming, open-minded communities (paraphrase).",
          "prov": "published",
          "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/",
          "paraphrase": true
        },
        "brand_purpose": {
          "text": "A consistent, recognizable logo that is taken seriously, to help lead the advancement of free and open source software and content (paraphrase).",
          "prov": "published",
          "source": "guide.pdf p.6",
          "paraphrase": true
        },
        "story": {
          "text": "Fedora is a community project sponsored by Red Hat, which also owns its trademarks. Its features flow upstream and into other distributions, and its fast release cycle keeps it ahead (Fedora Linux 44 is current, 45 in beta as of 2026-10-30). The current identity is the Infinity design logo; the brand booklet was written by Jess Chitas in 2022 and revised in 2024, and the community mascots were redrawn by intern Lauryn Dake in 2021, with Colúr added for Flock in 2022.",
          "prov": "published",
          "source": "guide.pdf p.2",
          "also": [
            "guide.pdf p.21-24",
            "https://fedoraproject.org/ (observed 2026-10-30)",
            "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
          ],
          "paraphrase": true
        },
        "values": [
          {
            "name": "Freedom",
            "means": "We are dedicated to free software and content: free alternatives over proprietary or patent-encumbered code (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "guide.pdf p.5"
          },
          {
            "name": "Friends",
            "means": "We are a strong, caring community; anyone who shares the values can help, at any skill level (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "guide.pdf p.5"
          },
          {
            "name": "Features",
            "means": "We care about excellent software, built openly with upstream for everyone's benefit (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "guide.pdf p.5"
          },
          {
            "name": "First",
            "means": "We are committed to innovation: the latest stable, robust, useful free software (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "guide.pdf p.5"
          }
        ]
      },
      "positioning": {
        "statement": {
          "text": "An innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers, built with love by you.",
          "prov": "observed",
          "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/",
          "source_note": "2026-10-30 (homepage hero lead, trimmed)"
        },
        "category": {
          "text": "Free and open source Linux operating system and its community; a platform, not just a distribution (paraphrase).",
          "prov": "published",
          "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
        },
        "audience": {
          "text": "Software developers and community members building solutions for their users, and everyone from home desktop users to enterprise customers (paraphrase of the Mission and First foundation).",
          "prov": "published",
          "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
        },
        "problem": {
          "text": "Proprietary and patent-encumbered software trades users' control for short-term ease of use; Fedora believes the user should control their computing (paraphrase).",
          "prov": "published",
          "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
        },
        "promise": {
          "text": "It's your operating system: the latest free software, stable and robust, with no ads and your data your own (paraphrase).",
          "prov": "observed",
          "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/",
          "also": [
            "https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/"
          ]
        },
        "differentiators": [
          {
            "text": "Completely free: 100% free and open source, legally redistributable, with proprietary and patent-encumbered code kept out.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/",
            "also": [
              "guide.pdf p.5",
              "https://fedoraproject.org/"
            ]
          },
          {
            "text": "First to the future: the latest stable technology on a rapid release cycle, showing where the operating system is heading.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
          },
          {
            "text": "Upstream-first: features built with upstream projects, then adopted by other Linux distributions.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
          },
          {
            "text": "Community-built and backed by Red Hat: volunteers and Red Hat staff together; 'Backed by Red Hat' on Workstation.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/",
            "also": [
              "https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/ (observed 2026-10-30)",
              "https://fedoraproject.org/sponsors"
            ]
          },
          {
            "text": "Private by default on the desktop: free, no ads, your data belongs to you.",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/",
            "source_note": "2026-10-30"
          }
        ],
        "alternatives": [
          {
            "text": "Long-term-stability Linux distributions, which Fedora says serve a different need (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
          },
          {
            "text": "Proprietary operating systems, which Fedora aims to equal or exceed with free software (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
          },
          {
            "text": "Distributions that bundle proprietary or patent-encumbered components for short-term ease of use (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
          },
          {
            "text": "Non-free tooling in how-tos, such as VirtualBox where libvirt/KVM is the Fedora platform choice.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/"
          }
        ]
      },
      "messaging": {
        "taglines": [
          {
            "text": "It's Your Operating System",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/",
            "source_note": "2026-10-30",
            "where": "Homepage hero H1, Montserrat 600, white on the blue gradient"
          },
          {
            "text": "Freedom. Friends. Features. First.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "guide.pdf p.5",
            "where": "The Four Foundations, each set as a one-word label with a full stop inside its bubble badge"
          },
          {
            "text": "built with love by you",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/",
            "source_note": "2026-10-30",
            "where": "Close of the homepage hero lead line"
          },
          {
            "text": "The leading Linux desktop",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/",
            "source_note": "2026-10-30",
            "where": "Fedora Workstation headline on the homepage and Workstation page"
          },
          {
            "text": "Fedora always aims to provide the future, first.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/",
            "where": "Close of the First foundation"
          }
        ],
        "attributes": [
          "plain-spoken",
          "welcoming",
          "principled",
          "playful"
        ],
        "pillars": [
          {
            "name": "Freedom",
            "claim": "Dedicated to free software and content: Fedora chooses free alternatives to proprietary code and limits patent-encumbered code (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "guide.pdf p.5",
            "proof": [
              "p-redistributable",
              "p-free",
              "p-dpg"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "Friends",
            "claim": "A strong, caring community with a place for anyone who wants to help, whatever their technical skill (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "guide.pdf p.5",
            "proof": [
              "p-thousands",
              "p-anyone",
              "p-redhat"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "Features",
            "claim": "Fedora cares about excellent software and builds it openly with upstream projects, so every free software user benefits (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "guide.pdf p.5",
            "also": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/",
            "proof": [
              "p-upstream",
              "p-everydistro",
              "p-13months"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "First",
            "claim": "Committed to innovation: the latest stable, robust, powerful free software, delivered by a rapid release cycle (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "guide.pdf p.5",
            "also": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/",
            "proof": [
              "p-rapid",
              "p-release",
              "p-everydistro"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "Yours",
            "claim": "Your computer, your control: free, no ads, and your data belongs to you (paraphrase of the homepage promise and Workstation page).",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/",
            "source_note": "2026-10-30",
            "proof": [
              "p-noads",
              "p-free"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "proof_points": [
          {
            "id": "p-redistributable",
            "kind": "fact",
            "text": "Releases are predictable and 100% legally redistributable for everyone.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
          },
          {
            "id": "p-free",
            "kind": "fact",
            "text": "100% Free & Open Source",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/",
            "source_note": "2026-10-30"
          },
          {
            "id": "p-dpg",
            "kind": "fact",
            "text": "A Registered Digital Public Good (Digital Public Goods Alliance badge).",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/",
            "source_note": "2026-10-30"
          },
          {
            "id": "p-thousands",
            "kind": "fact",
            "text": "The community includes thousands of individuals with different views and approaches (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "guide.pdf p.4"
          },
          {
            "id": "p-anyone",
            "kind": "fact",
            "text": "There's a place in Fedora for anyone who wants to help, regardless of technical skill level (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "guide.pdf p.5"
          },
          {
            "id": "p-redhat",
            "kind": "fact",
            "text": "Red Hat is the primary sponsor, providing full-time staff, infrastructure, hardware and bandwidth, event funding and legal counsel (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/sponsors",
            "source_note": "2026-10-30"
          },
          {
            "id": "p-upstream",
            "kind": "fact",
            "text": "Features are developed in concert with upstream communities, so all free software users benefit even without Fedora (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
          },
          {
            "id": "p-everydistro",
            "kind": "fact",
            "text": "Whatever Linux distribution you use, you rely on code developed within the Fedora Project (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
          },
          {
            "id": "p-rapid",
            "kind": "fact",
            "text": "The rapid release cycle is a major enabler of Fedora's ability to innovate (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/"
          },
          {
            "id": "p-13months",
            "kind": "fact",
            "text": "Each Workstation version is updated for approximately 13 months; upgrades are quick and easy (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/",
            "source_note": "2026-10-30"
          },
          {
            "id": "p-noads",
            "kind": "fact",
            "text": "It's free, there are no ads, and your data belongs to you.",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/",
            "source_note": "2026-10-30"
          },
          {
            "id": "p-release",
            "kind": "fact",
            "text": "Latest release 44; Fedora Linux 45 Beta released (as of 2026-10-30).",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/",
            "source_note": "2026-10-30"
          }
        ],
        "key_messages": [
          {
            "area": "Workstation",
            "headline": "Fedora Workstation",
            "body": "the leading Linux desktop, polished and easy to use, with GNOME and a complete developer toolset (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/"
          },
          {
            "area": "Server",
            "headline": "Fedora Server",
            "body": "a community server OS with the best and latest datacenter technologies (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/"
          },
          {
            "area": "CoreOS",
            "headline": "Fedora CoreOS",
            "body": "an automatically updating, minimal, container-focused OS (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/"
          },
          {
            "area": "IoT",
            "headline": "Fedora IoT",
            "body": "a trusted open source foundation for IoT ecosystems (paraphrase).",
            "prov": "observed",
            "source": "https://fedoraproject.org/"
          }
        ],
        "boilerplate": {
          "text": "The Fedora Project is a community of people working together to build a free and open source software platform and to share user-focused solutions built on it. In plain English: Fedora makes an operating system, Fedora Linux, and makes it easy to do useful things with it. The community shares four values, the Four Foundations: Freedom, Friends, Features and First. Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat.",
          "prov": "published",
          "source": "guide.pdf p.4",
          "also": [
            "https://fedoraproject.org/sponsors"
          ],
          "paraphrase": true
        },
        "claim_boundaries": [
          {
            "text": "Never imply sponsorship, endorsement or affiliation by the Fedora Project or Red Hat where none exists.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/trademarks/"
          },
          {
            "text": "Never imply Fedora or Red Hat is responsible for a third party's products or services.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/trademarks/"
          },
          {
            "text": "Don't promise community support beyond what every user gets (OEM and appliance rules).",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/trademarks/"
          },
          {
            "text": "'Fedora Remix' only for remixes that include modified or non-Fedora materials, with the remixer's brand more prominent.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/trademarks/"
          },
          {
            "text": "Merchandise and swag with Fedora Trademarks need Council permission.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/trademarks/"
          },
          {
            "text": "Copr builds are not official; say so whenever you mention them.",
            "prov": "published",
            "source": "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/writing-guidelines/"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}