Proto-Cubism — UI Kit v1.0
A design system rooted in the earth. Warm pigments, geological weight, the passage of light across faceted planes. After Cézanne. Before Braque. 1900 — 1908.
01 — Foundation
Earth pigments on warm linen — raw umber, burnt sienna, terre verte, yellow ochre, rose madder. Every swatch runs from a lighter, warm-tinted variant down to its full body, echoing the way Cézanne modulated tone across the faceted surfaces of Mont Sainte-Victoire.
02 — Typography
Two typefaces, each with a distinct register. DM Sans — a warm, humanist grotesk for all text: approachable yet precise, with optical sizing that preserves legibility from caption to display. Weights run from 200 Extralight through 700 Bold, giving a full tonal range. DM Mono — the mechanical register for code, captions, and data fields.
Volume
Solid Form
Passage of Light
Cézanne treated every surface as a mosaic of small, directional planes, each receiving light at a slightly different angle. His method laid the structural groundwork for all that followed — the dissolution of the single viewpoint.
The apple, the mountain, the bather — all reduced to the same fundamental geometry. Not a copy of nature, but a parallel construction of equivalent weight and solidity.
Section Identifier — Foundation — 01
const volume = { pigment: 'raw-umber', tone: 'passage' }
04 — Input Fields
Fields rest on warm chalk — the ground before the pigment is applied. Focus draws a soft ochre glow, as though light has gathered on that particular plane. Error states blush in rose madder; success breathes in terre verte.
04b — Selector
05 — Selection
Selection reveals a warm sienna passage along the left edge — as if the eye has moved to rest on that particular facet of the composition. The ochre glow emanates from within, not imposed from without.
Radio — select one ground06 — Feedback
Alerts wear their pigment on the left edge — a vertical stroke of colour that names the mood before the words do. Backgrounds are warm tinted grounds; the tone shifts from light to shadow across the surface, as on a sphere seen in studio light.
Notice
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Verified
The work has been authenticated and entered into the catalogue raisonné. Accession number PROTO-1904-CEZ has been assigned and confirmed.
Attention Required
The varnish layer shows micro-crazing consistent with rapid atmospheric changes. The work should be stabilised before any further transport.
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