FAC 001 — New Wave UI System

001 — New Wave UI System

F Factory Records Aesthetic

Cold paper. One blue. Extreme type scale. The album sleeve as interface — after Peter Saville, after Factory Records. 1978 — 1988.

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FAC 002

Foundation

Colour Palette

Cold off-white paper stock. Electric blue — the single Pantone accent, used with discipline. The tonal range from deep ink to near-white. No warmth in the primaries. No gradients. Every field is an absolute.

Paper

Ground

#ECEAE6

Cold

Surface

#E8E8EE

Ink

Primary

#111010

Mid

Structure

#3C3A36

Muted

Secondary

#7A7872

Faint

Subtle

#A8A6A0

Blue

Accent

#0057FF

Blue Pale

Ghost

#DDEAFF

Accent Structure Ground Neutral

FAC 003

Typography

Type System

Two typefaces, maximum contrast. League Spartan — condensed Swiss grotesque of severe geometric beauty, used at extreme sizes. Space Mono — the typewriter, the catalogue entry, the machine output. Scale collision is the defining gesture.

League Spartan Space Mono

Display — League Spartan / 208px Ultra

Heading — League Spartan / 80px Ultra

Factory

Subhead — League Spartan / 32px Light

System Catalogue

Body — League Spartan / 16px Regular

Peter Saville's sleeves for Factory Records established an aesthetic language that equated visual restraint with artistic seriousness. The white space was not emptiness — it was pressure.

Small — Space Mono / 14px

Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures. New Order's Blue Monday. Each sleeve assigned a catalogue number, archived in sequence, as though music were industrial output rather than artistic expression.

Label — Space Mono / 12px

FAC 051 — Unit 04 — Sequence C

Mono Bold — Space Mono / 14px

const record = { cat: 'FAC-051', blue: '#0057FF' }

FAC 004

Actions

Button System

Flat colour fields — the silkscreen block. The hard offset shadow is a register shift, ink printed slightly out of alignment. A flood sweep crosses the surface on hover. No radius anywhere. The corner is the argument.

Variants

Sizes

Icon Buttons

Status Badges

Active Archived Pending Suspended

FAC 005

Input Fields

Form Elements

Fields are cold paper surfaces with a letterpress bottom border. On focus the electric blue bar materialises on the left — a registration mark acknowledging contact. Each label carries a catalogue number. Error is the single red note.

A1 Studio Name As registered in the catalogue archive

A2 Transmission Address

A3 Access Code

A4 Catalogue Reference — Error INVALID FORMAT — alphanumeric and hyphens only

A5 Release Code — Confirmed CONFIRMED — record located in central archive

A6 Sleeve Notes Maximum 800 characters

FAC 005b

Selector

Dropdown Select

B1 Movement

B2 Release Year

FAC 006

Selection

Radio & Checkbox

Each item carries a catalogue number — the archive logic applied to selection. When chosen, the blue left bar marks the record as active. Click to select. Click again to release.

Radio — Select one release

Unknown PleasuresJoy Division — FAC 023 — 1979. The sleeve that changed everything. FAC 023 CloserJoy Division — FAC 025 — 1980. Bernard Pierre Wolff's crypt photographs. FAC 025 Blue MondayNew Order — FAC 073 — 1983. The 12-inch die-cut floppy disc sleeve. FAC 073 Power, Corruption and LiesNew Order — FAC 075 — 1983. Henri Fantin-Latour's roses, decoded. FAC 075

Checkboxes — Design principles

One accent colour, used with absolute disciplineThe Pantone blue is earned through restraint — not scattered across every element P-01 Extreme scale contrast as primary tensionThe display face occupies the full measure; the body text whispers beside it P-02 The catalogue number as structural elementEvery artefact is archived; the number is part of the design, not a label P-03 White space as pressure, not emptinessThe void is active — it makes the type heavier and the colour more absolute P-04

FAC 007

Signals

Alert System

Four signal states — each a catalogue entry. Coloured band, identifying glyph, title separated by a hairline rule, body below. The electric blue carries confirmation. Ink carries caution. Red appears once — for error only.

Notice

The next catalogue session opens on the first Thursday of October. All registered studios must submit formal sleeve proposals before the archive review board convenes.

Confirmed

The release has been registered under catalogue reference FAC-051-NW. All rights are logged and the record is now active in the central archive.

Attention

The submitted sleeve design uses three separate accent colours. Restraint is required — reduce to a single Pantone reference before resubmitting to the catalogue board.

Rejected

The catalogue reference does not conform to the archive naming convention. Correct the format and resubmit. Non-conforming entries cannot be issued a number.