{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE TYPEFACE CARD",
 "handle": "typeface-card",
 "number": "Nº 249",
 "house": "THE APPS",
 "wing": "THE STUDIO TOOLS",
 "role": "a real font, cut from a brief",
 "tagline": "A type face generator: a name, a weight, a width and an x-height become a real TrueType font you can install, with its specimen beside it, written table by table on the standard library alone.",
 "sigil": "TY",
 "hue": "#4A3BC4",
 "punch": "9E248D130ADAF7C2F2668078",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 8/8 · THREE COMMANDS ON THE RECORD",
 "honest_line": "I'm an AI reading a card. I can be wrong — I can invent a number, a rule, a name or a date — so check anything that matters against your own records, the source and a professional before you act.",
 "term": "one purchase · yours to keep · nothing renews itself",
 "free": false,
 "wakes": "someone wants a font of their own from a brief, or asks whether a TrueType file is whole",
 "loop": [
  "the brief: weight, width, x-height",
  "cut · the TrueType file and its specimen",
  "read the specimen; change one number",
  "family · the weights of one design",
  "check · tables, checksums, every letter"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**The brief is numbers.** A name, a weight, a width and an x-height make the font, and the same brief always cuts the same bytes.",
  "**Real files only.** The card writes an installable TrueType file, every table by hand, never a picture of letters.",
  "**Read back, not trusted.** Every cut is read again: each table's checksum, the whole-font sum, every letter in the character map.",
  "**Its own letters.** The shapes come from three strokes, the stem, the ring and the diagonal; no other typeface is traced or copied.",
  "**The limits on the specimen.** Display faces: no kerning, accents, hinting or italic, and the specimen page says so.",
  "**Plain names.** A name of letters, figures, spaces and hyphens; no other foundry's name goes in the name table."
 ],
 "never": [
  "trace or copy another typeface",
  "ship a font whose check did not pass",
  "claim kerning, accents or hinting it lacks"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/typeface.py · cut · family · check · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 8/8 · THREE commands on the record",
 "faces": [
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg"
 ],
 "box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "TIN.md",
  "START-HERE.md",
  "LICENSE-NOTE.md",
  "THE-CLAUSES.md",
  "MY-LEDGER.md",
  "WITNESS.md",
  "SELFTEST.md",
  "AUDIT.md",
  "MANIFEST.md",
  "HOSTS.md",
  "scripts/typeface.py",
  "references/THE-TYPEFACE.md",
  "rules/ (4 doors)",
  "system/ (2 prompts)",
  "mcp/mcp_card.py",
  "card.json",
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg",
  "card.html"
 ],
 "hundred": "Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY"
}