--- name: Agency Landing colors: primary: "#18160F" on-primary: "#F4F1EA" cream: "#F4F1EA" warm-white: "#F9F7F3" paper: "#FDFCF9" ink: "#18160F" ink-soft: "#38352E" ink-muted: "#78746C" ink-faint: "#B4B0A8" ink-ghost: "#D8D4CC" accent: "#B8935A" accent-warm: "#A07840" accent-pale: "#E8D9BE" rule: "#E2DED6" rule-dark: "#C8C4BC" typography: display-lg: fontFamily: Cormorant Garamond fontSize: 138px fontWeight: "300" lineHeight: "1" letterSpacing: -0.026em display-md: fontFamily: Cormorant Garamond fontSize: 84px fontWeight: "300" lineHeight: "1.04" letterSpacing: -0.026em display-sm: fontFamily: Cormorant Garamond fontSize: 69px fontWeight: "300" lineHeight: "1.1" letterSpacing: -0.026em headline-lg: fontFamily: Cormorant Garamond fontSize: 58px fontWeight: "400" lineHeight: "1" letterSpacing: -0.017em headline-md: fontFamily: Cormorant Garamond fontSize: 33px fontWeight: "400" lineHeight: "1.14" letterSpacing: -0.01em headline-sm: fontFamily: Cormorant Garamond fontSize: 30px fontWeight: "400" lineHeight: "1.2" letterSpacing: -0.012em body-lg: fontFamily: Cormorant Garamond fontSize: 21px fontWeight: "300" lineHeight: "1.88" body-md: fontFamily: Cormorant Garamond fontSize: 19px fontWeight: "300" lineHeight: "1.82" label-sm: fontFamily: DM Mono fontSize: 11px fontWeight: "400" letterSpacing: 0.22em textTransform: uppercase rounded: none: 0px spacing: container-padding-desktop: 64px container-padding-mobile: 24px section-margin: 136px components: nav: backgroundColor: rgba(244, 241, 234, 0.92) textColor: "{colors.ink}" padding: 0 64px hero: backgroundColor: "{colors.cream}" textColor: "{colors.ink}" accentColor: "{colors.accent}" work-card: backgroundColor: "{colors.warm-white}" textColor: "{colors.ink-soft}" tagColor: "{colors.ink-muted}" case-card: backgroundColor: "{colors.paper}" textColor: "{colors.ink-soft}" borderColor: "{colors.rule}" padding: 52px 44px 48px statement: textColor: "{colors.ink}" accentColor: "{colors.accent-warm}" pullquote: backgroundColor: "{colors.ink-ghost}" textColor: "{colors.ink-faint}" ruleColor: "{colors.rule-dark}" number-item: accentColor: "{colors.accent-pale}" button-primary: backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}" textColor: "{colors.on-primary}" --- ## Brand & Style Meridian is a creative agency that shapes ideas into culture. The brand identity is sophisticated, elegant, and timeless. It heavily leverages a minimalist layout with beautifully structured typography, large imagery, and considered white space to let the content breathe. The overall feel is premium, editorial, and confident. ## Colors The color palette is built on warm, organic neutrals accented by a refined gold tone. - **Backgrounds:** `cream`, `warm-white`, and `paper` are used in subtle succession to differentiate sections without strong visual borders. - **Typography (Ink):** Black is softened to `ink` and `ink-soft` to reduce harsh contrast, creating a more print-like reading experience. - **Accents:** `accent` (a muted gold) is used sparingly for interactive elements, hover states, and small structural rules, adding a touch of understated luxury. - **Rules:** Very delicate borders (`rule`, `rule-dark`) are used to create structure and grid lines, echoing editorial layouts. ## Typography The typographic system is rooted in classic editorial design, contrasting a highly legible, elegant serif with a functional, typewriter-esque monospace font. - **Primary Display & Body:** `Cormorant Garamond`. It's used at extremely large, fluid sizes (`clamp()`) for headlines to create dramatic impact, and at lighter weights (300) for body copy to maintain elegance. Italics are used thoughtfully for emphasis within headlines. - **Labels & Microcopy:** `DM Mono` is utilized for eyebrows, indices, tags, and small structural labels. It's always used in uppercase with wide letter-spacing (`0.22em`), providing a utilitarian contrast to the fluid curves of the Garamond. ## Layout & Spacing The layout embraces strong grid structures and generous padding, drawing inspiration from high-end print design. - **Grids:** The design employs varied grid structures—from expansive 55/45 splits in the hero to strict, bordered multi-column layouts in the "Cases" and "Numbers" sections. - **Borders as Structure:** Unlike modern web design which often relies on shadows or distinct background colors for cards, Meridian uses 1px solid borders (`var(--rule)`) to construct its layout, creating a visible "framework" that feels architectural. - **Whitespace:** Massive margins and padding (e.g., 136px padding on sections) give elements room to exist individually. ## Animation & Interaction Interactions are deliberate, smooth, and refined, never distracting from the content. - **Scroll Reveals:** Elements fade and slide up gently as they enter the viewport, establishing a slow, considered reading pace. - **Hover States:** Hover effects on cards often involve a subtle background shift (e.g., to `warm-white`) or an animated accent line expanding from the bottom edge. Image hovers feature delicate scale and filter (saturation/contrast) transitions. - **Link Highlights:** Navigation and inline links use expanding underlines rather than color shifts, maintaining the monochromatic primary palette.