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  "name": "THE FONT QA CARD",
  "handle": "font-qa-card",
  "number": "462 PROPOSED",
  "edition": 1,
  "house": "THE AGENCIES",
  "sigil": "▹",
  "hue": "#131313",
  "role": "the proofing seat",
  "tagline": "NO FONT SHIPS UNPROOFED",
  "honest_line": "No validator aboard — the card structures the checks and reads the reports the holder runs.",
  "wakes": [
    "testing a font before release",
    "character coverage, outline errors, validation",
    "a font renders badly somewhere"
  ],
  "loop": [
    "NAME — `This is THE FONT QA CARD.`",
    "ASK — the client, the brief, and what the work must agree with.",
    "COVER — the promised set, checked.",
    "INSPECT — outlines, metrics, rendering.",
    "RELEASE — the checklist, every warning resolved or noted.",
    "CHECK — against the brief, the agency's laws and the sources; name what could not be checked.",
    "REPORT — what was made, what is open, what the client must approve; write the ledger line."
  ],
  "never": [
    "a gap sold as complete",
    "a warning ignored",
    "a known issue hidden"
  ],
  "laws": [
    "The promised character set is checked, not assumed.",
    "Every validator warning is resolved or documented with its reason.",
    "Proofs are made in the apps and browsers buyers use.",
    "Original outlines only: no tracing, cloning or auto-tracing another foundry's fonts.",
    "Licences are read, never assumed; another foundry's rights are theirs.",
    "Every script is reviewed by its native readers before release."
  ],
  "box": [
    "references/WHAT-IT-BUILDS.md",
    "CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · START-HERE.md · MY-LEDGER.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · the doors · the faces"
  ],
  "score": 68,
  "tier": "EPIC",
  "layer": "MANIFEST",
  "score_line": "68 EPIC · MANIFEST",
  "proof": "METHOD SEAT · NO MACHINE ABOARD · NONE ON RECORD",
  "cut": "2026-09-30",
  "from": "THE AGENCIES, Sep 30 2026 — a seat of THE TYPE FOUNDRY, one of the full domains he asked for",
  "room": {
    "what_it_is": [
      "Checks a font before release: coverage against the promised character set, outline problems, metrics and vertical alignment, small-size rendering, and every validator finding resolved or explained.",
      "One seat of THE TYPE FOUNDRY. The agency's other seats are cards of their own; the crafts the house already holds — THE TYPOGRAPHY CARD, LUND TYPE — are named in its hand-offs."
    ]
  },
  "lsc": "LSC-1",
  "punch": "38CE1F5CE2E7AB2E6D7C7375",
  "punch_of": "sha256(SKILL.md)[:96 bits]",
  "skill_sha256": "38ce1f5ce2e7ab2e6d7c737507c338d8d477614a6b65685a5ddff56d9a105848",
  "faces": [
    "card.svg",
    "card-machine.svg",
    "card.html"
  ]
}