# Luckiest Man Ventures Design System

> One design language every Luckiest Man Ventures product is built on. Made to be read by people and pulled by machines from one address. Warm editorial palette, low radius, no pills. This file is the index an LLM or agent reads first; every value below is a real, fetchable asset.

## Quick facts

- System: Luckiest Man Ventures Design System (edition 01, v1.0.0)
- Umbrella: Luckiest Man Ventures is the holding company and the house. lightbreak is one product in the portfolio, not the umbrella, and is always lowercase.
- Palette: warm only. No cool blue.
- Core colors: navy #123260, rust #c24c32, gold #e6bf4a, cream #f5efe3, warm-white #fffaf0 (never #ffffff), ink #171717.
- Fonts: Fraunces (display), Source Serif 4 (body), Inter (UI), JetBrains Mono (metadata).
- Radius: 2 to 8px only. No pills or fully-rounded shapes.

## Machine layer (fetch these)

- [tokens.json](https://brand.luckiestmanventures.com/tokens.json): every color, ramp, font, radius, spacing, shadow, and motion value as structured data.
- [tokens.css](https://brand.luckiestmanventures.com/tokens.css): paste-ready CSS custom properties, the single source of truth.
- [USE-THIS.md](https://brand.luckiestmanventures.com/USE-THIS.md): how to apply the system, with a copy-paste prompt starter.
- [llms.txt](https://brand.luckiestmanventures.com/llms.txt): this index.

## Pages (human reference)

- [Cover](https://brand.luckiestmanventures.com/): the system at a glance.
- [Color](https://brand.luckiestmanventures.com/color): core colors, tonal ramps, warm neutrals, functional states.
- [Type](https://brand.luckiestmanventures.com/type): the four families, the scale, and pairing.
- [Components](https://brand.luckiestmanventures.com/components): the card system, buttons, tags, forms, data, callouts.
- [Motion](https://brand.luckiestmanventures.com/motion): five durations, six easings, live patterns with code.
- [Shells](https://brand.luckiestmanventures.com/shells): two real SaaS application shells.
- [Brands](https://brand.luckiestmanventures.com/brands): the six brands the system serves.
- [For LLMs](https://brand.luckiestmanventures.com/for-llms): the machine layer, explained.

## Brands

The system serves six real brands today. Each inherits the house grammar. Per-brand accent colors are PARKED: none is assigned yet, so do not infer or fabricate a color for any single brand. Use the shared house palette.

- Luckiest Man Ventures (Parent): the holding company and the house itself.
- lightbreak (Product): newsletter-operator SaaS. Always lowercase.
- greetform (Product): survey and lead capture.
- Local Media HQ (Platform): operator platform and education.
- Modern Media Engine (Studio): build and growth engine.
- Texas AI Lab (Studio): applied AI studio.

## Rules an agent must follow

- Warm palette only. No cool blue.
- warm-white is #fffaf0, never #ffffff.
- Low radius only (2 to 8px). No pills or fully-rounded shapes.
- Do not put white or warm-white cards on cream sections. On cream, use navy-body or boxless cards.
- No same-color-on-same-color fills. Every boxed element must contrast its section background.
- Alternate light (cream) and dark (navy or rust) sections. Never place two dark sections adjacent.
- lightbreak is always lowercase and is one product, not the roof. Luckiest Man Ventures is the umbrella.
- Do not use em dashes.

## Prompt starter

Use the Luckiest Man Ventures design system at brand.luckiestmanventures.com. Pull tokens from /tokens.json. Core colors: navy #123260, rust #c24c32, gold #e6bf4a, cream #f5efe3, warm-white #fffaf0, ink #171717. Fonts: Fraunces (display), Source Serif 4 (body), Inter (UI), JetBrains Mono (metadata). Cream pages, warm palette, low radius (2 to 8px), no pills, alternating light and dark sections. Editorial operator aesthetic, not generic SaaS. lightbreak is one product in the portfolio, not the umbrella.