{
  "name": "THE VARIABLE FONT CARD",
  "handle": "variable-font-card",
  "number": "461 PROPOSED",
  "edition": 1,
  "house": "THE AGENCIES",
  "sigil": "▸",
  "hue": "#131313",
  "role": "the axis seat",
  "tagline": "ONE FILE, EVERY STYLE BETWEEN",
  "honest_line": "No font compiler aboard — the card plans axes, instances and tests; interpolation happens in the holder's tools.",
  "wakes": [
    "variable fonts, axes, masters",
    "weight, width or optical-size axes",
    "variable fonts on the web"
  ],
  "loop": [
    "NAME — `This is THE VARIABLE FONT CARD.`",
    "ASK — the client, the brief, and what the work must agree with.",
    "AXES — tags, ranges, defaults.",
    "MASTERS — compatibility and instances.",
    "TEST — the full range in real browsers.",
    "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": [
    "incompatible masters",
    "a range the font can't draw",
    "an untested axis"
  ],
  "laws": [
    "Every master is point-compatible, or it does not interpolate.",
    "Registered axes use their registered tags; custom axes are documented.",
    "The default instance is the one most people see; it is chosen deliberately.",
    "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": [
      "Plans variable fonts: the axes — weight, width, optical size or custom — the masters and their compatibility, the named instances, and how the font behaves on the web.",
      "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": "0975D0EFCE9AE408BECF386A",
  "punch_of": "sha256(SKILL.md)[:96 bits]",
  "skill_sha256": "0975d0efce9ae408becf386aca4e3a275883803be7093f35265b87007d6c244a",
  "faces": [
    "card.svg",
    "card-machine.svg",
    "card.html"
  ]
}