ai-video-admin-frontend/DESIGN.md

version: alpha name: ai-video-admin-design description: A quietly editorial admin surface for managing AI video assistants, rendered in a navy palette with both a dark and a light theme. The dark canvas is deep navy (#070b16) holding off-white ink (#f1f5ff); the light canvas is a cool off-white (#f3f5fb) holding deep-navy ink (#0c1426). Brand voltage is photographic, not chromatic — soft pastel atmospheric gradient orbs (mint → peach → lavender → sky → rose) drift behind hero copy as the only "color" moments. Display runs Cormorant Garamond Light at weight 300 — the editorial signature; Inter carries body, navigation, captions. CTAs are subtle pills: a deep-navy ink pill in light, inverting to an off-white pill in dark. There is no neon accent and no saturated CTA color. colors: primary: "#1b2741" primary-active: "#0c1426" ink: "#0c1426" body: "#44516c" body-strong: "#1b2741" muted: "#5d6b86" muted-soft: "#94a0bd" hairline: "#e3e7f1" hairline-soft: "#eef1f8" hairline-strong: "#cbd3e4" canvas: "#f3f5fb" canvas-soft: "#f9fafd" surface-card: "#ffffff" surface-strong: "#e9edf7" on-primary: "#ffffff" gradient-mint: "#a7e5d3" gradient-peach: "#f4c5a8" gradient-lavender: "#c8b8e0" gradient-sky: "#a8c8e8" gradient-rose: "#e8b8c4" semantic-error: "#dc2626" semantic-success: "#16a34a" colors-dark: primary: "#e8edf9" primary-foreground: "#0c1426" ink: "#f1f5ff" foreground: "#e8edf9" body: "#a6b2cb" muted: "#93a0bb" muted-soft: "#6c7a96" hairline: "#1b2740" hairline-soft: "#141d30" hairline-strong: "#283450" canvas: "#070b16" canvas-soft: "#0b1322" surface-card: "#0e1626" surface-strong: "#18233a" gradient-mint: "#5fae9b" gradient-peach: "#c08a6b" gradient-lavender: "#8a78ad" gradient-sky: "#5f86b8" gradient-rose: "#b07d8c" semantic-error: "#f87171" semantic-success: "#4ade80" typography: display-mega: fontFamily: "'Cormorant Garamond', 'Times New Roman', serif" fontSize: clamp(2.5rem, 5vw, 4rem) fontWeight: 300 lineHeight: 1.05 letterSpacing: -0.03em display-xl: fontFamily: "'Cormorant Garamond', serif" fontSize: clamp(2rem, 4vw, 3rem) fontWeight: 300 lineHeight: 1.08 letterSpacing: -0.02em display-lg: fontFamily: "'Cormorant Garamond', serif" fontSize: 36px fontWeight: 300 lineHeight: 1.17 letterSpacing: -0.01em display-md: fontFamily: "'Cormorant Garamond', serif" fontSize: 32px fontWeight: 300 lineHeight: 1.13 letterSpacing: -0.01em display-sm: fontFamily: "'Cormorant Garamond', serif" fontSize: 24px fontWeight: 300 lineHeight: 1.2 letterSpacing: 0 title-md: fontFamily: "'Inter', sans-serif" fontSize: 20px fontWeight: 500 lineHeight: 1.35 letterSpacing: 0 title-sm: fontFamily: "'Inter', sans-serif" fontSize: 18px fontWeight: 500 lineHeight: 1.44 letterSpacing: 0 body-md: fontFamily: "'Inter', sans-serif" fontSize: 16px fontWeight: 400 lineHeight: 1.5 letterSpacing: 0.01em body-strong: fontFamily: "'Inter', sans-serif" fontSize: 16px fontWeight: 500 lineHeight: 1.5 letterSpacing: 0.01em body-sm: fontFamily: "'Inter', sans-serif" fontSize: 15px fontWeight: 400 lineHeight: 1.47 letterSpacing: 0.01em caption: fontFamily: "'Inter', sans-serif" fontSize: 14px fontWeight: 400 lineHeight: 1.5 letterSpacing: 0 caption-label: fontFamily: "'Inter', sans-serif" fontSize: 12px fontWeight: 600 lineHeight: 1.4 letterSpacing: 0.08em textTransform: uppercase button: fontFamily: "'Inter', sans-serif" fontSize: 14px fontWeight: 500 lineHeight: 1.0 letterSpacing: 0 nav-link: fontFamily: "'Inter', sans-serif" fontSize: 14px fontWeight: 400 lineHeight: 1.4 letterSpacing: 0 rounded: none: 0px sm: "calc(0.75rem * 0.6)" # ~7px md: "calc(0.75rem * 0.8)" # ~10px lg: 0.75rem # 12px (--radius) xl: "calc(0.75rem * 1.4)" # ~17px 2xl: "calc(0.75rem * 1.8)" # ~22px 3xl: "calc(0.75rem * 2.2)" # ~26px pill: 9999px full: 9999px spacing: xxs: 4px xs: 8px sm: 12px base: 16px md: 20px lg: 24px xl: 32px xxl: 48px section: 96px components: app-shell: backgroundColor: "{colors.canvas}" textColor: "{colors.ink}" typography: "{typography.body-md}" sidebar: backgroundColor: "{colors.surface-card}" textColor: "{colors.body}" borderColor: "{colors.hairline}" width: 252px width-collapsed: 76px topbar: backgroundColor: "{colors.canvas}" textColor: "{colors.ink}" borderColor: "{colors.hairline}" height: 81px button-primary: backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}" textColor: "{colors.on-primary}" typography: "{typography.button}" rounded: "{rounded.pill}" height: 40px button-outline: backgroundColor: transparent textColor: "{colors.ink}" typography: "{typography.button}" rounded: "{rounded.pill}" borderColor: "{colors.hairline-strong}" height: 40px nav-item: backgroundColor: transparent textColor: "{colors.muted}" typography: "{typography.nav-link}" rounded: "{rounded.pill}" height: 44px nav-item-active: backgroundColor: "{colors.surface-strong}" textColor: "{colors.ink}" hero-band: backgroundColor: "{colors.canvas-soft}" textColor: "{colors.ink}" typography: "{typography.display-xl}" rounded: "{rounded.3xl}" borderColor: "{colors.hairline}" padding: 64px feature-card: backgroundColor: "{colors.surface-card}" textColor: "{colors.ink}" typography: "{typography.title-sm}" rounded: "{rounded.2xl}" borderColor: "{colors.hairline}" padding: 24px section-card: backgroundColor: "{colors.surface-card}" textColor: "{colors.ink}" rounded: "{rounded.2xl}" borderColor: "{colors.hairline}" padding: 24px icon-plate: backgroundColor: "{colors.surface-strong}" textColor: "{colors.ink}" rounded: "{rounded.full}" size: 40px text-input: backgroundColor: "{colors.canvas}" textColor: "{colors.ink}" typography: "{typography.body-md}" rounded: "{rounded.md}" borderColor: "{colors.hairline-strong}" badge-pill: backgroundColor: "{colors.surface-strong}" textColor: "{colors.muted}" typography: "{typography.caption-label}" rounded: "{rounded.pill}" padding: 4px 12px brand-icon: backgroundColor: "{colors.primary} + sky/lavender gradient orb overlay" textColor: "{colors.on-primary}" rounded: "{rounded.xl}" size: 44px avatar: backgroundColor: "{colors.primary} + sky gradient orb overlay" textColor: "{colors.on-primary}" rounded: "{rounded.full}" size: 32px gradient-orb: background: "radial-gradient with one of {colors.gradient-*}" blur: 48-64px opacity: 0.45-0.6

Overview

AI 视频助手管理台 reads like a quietly editorial print magazine that happens to be an admin console. It ships in two themes built from one navy palette:

• Dark navy (default): deep-navy canvas {colors-dark.canvas} (#070b16) holding off-white ink {colors-dark.ink} (#f1f5ff).
• Light navy: cool off-white canvas {colors.canvas} (#f3f5fb) holding deep-navy ink {colors.ink} (#0c1426).

The brand voltage is photographic, not chromatic: soft pastel atmospheric gradient orbs (mint, peach, lavender, sky, rose) drift behind hero/feature panels as the only "color" moments. There is no neon accent, no saturated CTA color, and no cyan/blue dev-console gradient anymore.

Type pairs Cormorant Garamond Light (display serif at weight 300 — the open-source substitute for Waldenburg) with Inter for body, navigation, captions, and buttons. The display weight at 300 is the editorial signature — never bold. Latin display runs in the serif; CJK display falls back to the system serif/sans at weight 300 (still light/editorial).

CTAs are subtle pills: in light mode the primary is a deep-navy ink pill ({component.button-primary}); in dark mode it inverts to an off-white pill ({colors-dark.primary} → off-white, text {colors-dark.primary-foreground}). The secondary is a transparent hairline-outline pill.

Key Characteristics:

• One navy palette, two themes; dark is the default, persisted to localStorage with a no-flash bootstrap script in layout.tsx.
• Off-white / deep-navy ink. No saturated CTA color — ink pill only.
• Display runs Cormorant Garamond Light at weight 300 — editorial voice.
• Body runs Inter at 400/500 with subtle +0.01em tracking.
• Pastel gradient orbs (5 tokens) used as atmospheric decoration only.
• Pill geometry ({rounded.pill}) for every CTA, nav item, and badge; {rounded.2xl} for cards, {rounded.3xl} for hero bands.
• Hairline borders + a single soft shadow tier — no layered-surface dev-console stack.
• 96px section rhythm; ~40px page padding; 1180px max content width.

Colors

The two colors / colors-dark blocks above are the source of truth and are wired into globals.css as the shadcn variables (--background, --foreground, --card, --primary, --border, --muted-foreground, …) plus editorial extras (--ink, --body-text, --surface-strong, --hairline*, --canvas-soft, --gradient-*). Tailwind utilities like bg-background, text-ink, border-hairline, bg-surface-strong, and text-muted-foreground resolve to the active theme automatically.

Primary (CTA)

• Light {colors.primary} (#1b2741): deep-navy ink pill, white text. Press → {colors.primary-active} (#0c1426).
• Dark {colors-dark.primary} (#e8edf9): off-white pill, deep-navy text (#0c1426). The editorial inversion — used scarcely.

Surfaces

• Canvas — page floor. Light #f3f5fb / Dark #070b16.
• Canvas Soft — hero/placeholder bands. Light #f9fafd / Dark #0b1322.
• Surface Card — content cards, popovers. Light #ffffff / Dark #0e1626.
• Surface Strong — icon plates, badges, active nav. Light #e9edf7 / Dark #18233a.

Hairlines

• Hairline — default 1px divider/card outline. Light #e3e7f1 / Dark #1b2740.
• Hairline Soft — lighter divider. Light #eef1f8 / Dark #141d30.
• Hairline Strong — input/outline-button border. Light #cbd3e4 / Dark #283450.

Text

• Ink — display & primary text. Light #0c1426 / Dark #f1f5ff.
• Body — running copy. Light #44516c / Dark #a6b2cb.
• Muted — descriptions, sub-labels. Light #5d6b86 / Dark #93a0bb.
• Muted Soft — captions, placeholders. Light #94a0bd / Dark #6c7a96.

Atmospheric Gradient Orbs (signature)

Five pastel stops — gradient-mint, gradient-peach, gradient-lavender, gradient-sky, gradient-rose. In dark mode they shift to lower-chroma navy-compatible variants (e.g. sky #a8c8e8 → #5f86b8). They appear ONLY as soft, blurred radial blooms behind hero/feature/placeholder copy and as the orb overlay on the brand icon/avatar. Never as button fills, text colors, or flat card surfaces.

Semantic

• Success — Light #16a34a / Dark #4ade80.
• Error — Light #dc2626 / Dark #f87171.

Typography

Font Family

Cormorant Garamond is the display serif (--font-display, weight 300) — the open-source substitute for the licensed Waldenburg Light. Inter carries body, navigation, captions, and buttons (--font-sans). Geist Mono is loaded for monospace. Helper classes in globals.css: .font-display, .display-mega/-xl/-lg/-md/-sm, .caption-label.

Hierarchy

Token	Size	Weight	Tracking	Use
{typography.display-mega}	clamp 40–64px	300	-0.03em	Marketing-scale hero
{typography.display-xl}	clamp 32–48px	300	-0.02em	Homepage hero h1
{typography.display-lg}	36px	300	-0.01em	Page titles
{typography.display-md}	32px	300	-0.01em	Section heads
{typography.display-sm}	24px	300	0	Card group titles
{typography.title-md}	20px	500	0	Component titles (Inter)
{typography.title-sm}	18px	500	0	List labels
{typography.body-md}	16px	400	+0.01em	Default body
{typography.body-strong}	16px	500	+0.01em	Emphasized body
{typography.body-sm}	15px	400	+0.01em	Compact body
{typography.caption-label}	12px	600	+0.08em, UPPER	Section labels, badges
{typography.button}	14px	500	0	CTA pill
{typography.nav-link}	14px	400	0	Sidebar nav

Principles

• Display weight stays at 300. Cormorant Garamond Light is the editorial signature. Never bold display copy.
• Subtle tracking on body. Inter at +0.01em (applied globally on body).
• Negative tracking on display. Tighter as size grows (-0.01em → -0.03em).
• Caption labels are the editorial section marker — uppercase, 600, +0.08em.

Layout

Spacing & Container

• Base unit 4px; section rhythm 96px ({spacing.section}).
• Page padding: px-8 py-10. Max content width 1180px.
• Sidebar: 252px expanded, 76px collapsed.

Whitespace Philosophy

Generous editorial pacing. Hero bands get large internal padding (64px) with a gradient orb in a corner; content cards sit 16–24px apart.

Elevation & Depth

The system uses hairline + soft drop. Cards float above the canvas via a 1px hairline and a single subtle shadow tier (shadow-sm, deepening to shadow-md on hover). Atmospheric depth comes from the gradient orbs, not from layered surface steps.

Level	Treatment	Use
Canvas	{colors.canvas}	App background, topbar
Card	{colors.surface-card}	Content cards, popovers
Hairline border	1px {colors.hairline}	Card/input outlines
Soft drop	shadow-sm → shadow-md on hover	Card elevation
Gradient orb	blurred radial bloom, opacity 0.45–0.6	Atmospheric depth only

Shapes

Border Radius Scale (--radius: 0.75rem = 12px)

Token	Approx	Use
{rounded.md}	~10px	Form inputs
{rounded.lg}	12px	Compact elements
{rounded.xl}	~17px	Brand icon
{rounded.2xl}	~22px	Feature/section cards
{rounded.3xl}	~26px	Hero/placeholder bands
{rounded.pill}	9999px	All buttons, nav items, badges
{rounded.full}	9999px	Avatars, icon plates

Components

App Shell

app-shell — bg-background text-foreground. Flex row: sidebar left, main column right (topbar + scrollable content at px-8 py-10).

Sidebar

sidebar — bg-sidebar, border-right {colors.hairline}, width 252/76px. Brand block: gradient-orb brand icon + serif wordmark + uppercase 管理台 caption-label. Nav items are pill-shaped (44px); active uses bg-sidebar-accent with foreground text.

Top Bar

topbar — bg-background, border-bottom hairline, height 81px. Right-aligned: Help outline pill, theme toggle (sun/moon), notification bell, user avatar pill — all hairline-outline style.

Buttons (pills)

button-primary — ink pill (light) / off-white pill (dark), {rounded.pill}, height 40px (size="lg"). button-outline — transparent pill, 1px {colors.hairline-strong} border, text ink; hover bg-surface-strong.

Hero & Atmospheric

hero-band — bg-canvas-soft, {rounded.3xl}, hairline border, 64px padding, with 1–2 blurred gradient orbs (sky + lavender) behind editorial display copy, a caption-label eyebrow, and two CTAs. gradient-orb — blurred radial bloom in one of the five pastel tokens; pure atmosphere, holds no content.

Cards

feature-card / section-card — bg-card, {rounded.2xl}, hairline border, shadow-sm. Icon plate is a 40px {colors.surface-strong} circle with neutral foreground icon (no colored accent).

Forms & Tags

text-input — bg-background, text ink, 1px {colors.hairline-strong} border, {rounded.md}; focus thickens border to ring. badge-pill — bg-surface-strong, caption-label text, {rounded.pill}.

Brand Elements

brand-icon / avatar — {colors.primary} base with a sky/lavender gradient-orb overlay, {rounded.xl} (icon) / {rounded.full} (avatar). The pastel orb replaces the old cyan→blue gradient.

Theming

• Two themes from one palette: .dark toggles the variable set in globals.css. Dark is the default <html className="dark">.
• A ThemeToggle (sun/moon) in the topbar flips documentElement.classList and writes localStorage.theme.
• A no-flash inline script in layout.tsx applies the stored theme before paint (defaults to dark).

Do's and Don'ts

Do

• Reserve {colors.primary} (ink/off-white pill) for primary CTAs.
• Use Cormorant Garamond Light at weight 300 for every display headline. Never bold.
• Use Inter at +0.01em tracking for body.
• Use atmospheric gradient orbs (mint/peach/lavender/sky/rose) as decoration only.
• Use the pill shape for every CTA, nav item, and badge.
• Drive color from semantic tokens (bg-card, text-ink, border-hairline) so both themes work — never inline hex.

Don't

• Don't reintroduce the cyan/blue dev-console accent or layered-navy surface stack.
• Don't bold display copy — it sits at weight 300.
• Don't use gradient orbs as button fills, text colors, or flat card backgrounds.
• Don't use sharp 0px or {rounded.xl} corners on CTAs — pill geometry is the brand button.
• Don't drop body Inter to weight 300 to match the serif — body stays at 400/500.

Responsive Behavior

Name	Width	Key Changes
Mobile	< 640px	Feature grid 1-up; sidebar collapsed; user name hidden; display sizes shrink via clamp
Tablet	640–1024px	Feature grid 2-up
Desktop	1024–1280px	Feature grid 3-up; full sidebar
Wide	> 1280px	Content caps at 1180px

Touch Targets

• Nav items 44px; primary buttons 40px (size="lg").
• Sidebar collapses to 76px icon-only via toggle.

Known Gaps

• Cormorant Garamond covers Latin only; CJK display headings fall back to the system serif/sans at weight 300. A bundled light CJK serif (e.g. a Noto Serif SC weight) is not yet wired in.
• Several inner pages (Components, History, Test, Workflow, Profile) currently use the shared PlaceholderPage editorial header and await real content.
• Animation timings (orb drift, hero entrance, theme cross-fade) out of scope.
• Form validation states beyond focus not yet documented.