{
  "name": "THE SPACING CARD",
  "handle": "spacing-card",
  "number": "460 PROPOSED",
  "edition": 1,
  "house": "THE AGENCIES",
  "sigil": "▷",
  "hue": "#131313",
  "role": "the rhythm seat",
  "tagline": "EVEN COLOUR ON THE PAGE",
  "honest_line": "No font editor aboard — the card writes the plan, the tables and the proofs; values are entered and tested in the holder's editor.",
  "wakes": [
    "spacing or kerning a font",
    "sidebearings, kerning classes, proof strings",
    "text that looks uneven"
  ],
  "loop": [
    "NAME — `This is THE SPACING CARD.`",
    "ASK — the client, the brief, and what the work must agree with.",
    "SPACE — sidebearings from the controls.",
    "KERN — classes, then the pairs that matter.",
    "PROOF — at text and display sizes.",
    "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": [
    "kerning over bad spacing",
    "copied kerning data",
    "a sign-off without text proofs"
  ],
  "laws": [
    "Space first, kern second: kerning does not fix bad spacing.",
    "Proof at the sizes the font will be read.",
    "Classes keep kerning consistent; exceptions are few and written down.",
    "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": [
      "Spaces and kerns a font so text reads with an even rhythm: sidebearings from the control letters, kerning classes, the pairs that matter most, and proofs at text sizes.",
      "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": "AFDE28D0F6509DCFBD608C28",
  "punch_of": "sha256(SKILL.md)[:96 bits]",
  "skill_sha256": "afde28d0f6509dcfbd608c28e2a7f3190855ba2cd93bf46455ba436d4c938617",
  "faces": [
    "card.svg",
    "card-machine.svg",
    "card.html"
  ]
}