{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-20",
 "name": "THE OPTIMAL READING CARD",
 "handle": "optimal-reading-card",
 "number": "Nº 1338",
 "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
 "wing": "THE CRAFT GATES",
 "role": "the legibility seat — checks that a surface is actually easy on the eyes",
 "tagline": "WHITE GROUND · DARK INK · RIGHT SIZE · RIGHT MEASURE · NO FLASHING",
 "hue": "#3F6FB0",
 "punch": "F63BF7D54FD31A3A3C24338B",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 17/17 · AUDIT 12/12",
 "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": "a reading surface (a page, a slide, a document) needs to be checked for legibility",
 "wakes_all": [
  "a reading surface (a page, a slide, a document) needs to be checked for legibility",
  "a person says 'this is hard to read', 'optimal reading', 'check the contrast / type / spacing'",
  "a design needs to meet the reading law before it goes out"
 ],
 "loop": [
  "measure · take each surface's colours, type size, line length, line height and motion",
  "check · against the reading law: contrast, 16px body / 14px floor, 45–80 char measure, gentle leading",
  "flag · a dark ground, faint contrast, tiny type, a too-wide line, or any flashing motion",
  "hold · the surface does not pass until every reading rule is met"
 ],
 "law": "Nothing ships until it is proven. A craft gate checks the work against every representative case and every reading rule, records the evidence, and refuses to pass what it has not proven. The maker holds the standard; the gate holds the line.",
 "limit": "It checks the numbers you give it (or simple CSS) against the reading law; it does not render the page — pair it with THE EVERY REP CARD to check every surface, not just one.",
 "never": [
  "passes a dark ground where the reading law calls for white/light ground with dark ink",
  "passes flashing, blinking or strobing motion on a reading surface",
  "passes text below the contrast or size floor, however good the rest looks"
 ],
 "handoff": "Checking every surface, not just one → THE EVERY REP CARD. The studio's reading format → Stillpoint.",
 "machine": "scripts/optimalread.py · check · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 17/17 · witnessed in Claude 2026-10-20 on the studio's own example inputs · the dated run in the box (RUN.md)",
 "faces": [
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg"
 ],
 "box": [
  "AUDIT.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "LICENSE-NOTE.md",
  "MANIFEST.md",
  "MY-LEDGER.md",
  "RUN.md",
  "SKILL.md",
  "START-HERE.md",
  "TIN.md",
  "card-machine.svg",
  "card.json",
  "card.svg",
  "references/THE-METHOD.md",
  "references/THE-NUMBERS.md",
  "references/THE-READING-LAW.md",
  "scripts/optimalread.py",
  "system/short-prompt.md"
 ],
 "hundred": "Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25, × 4 = 100; 98 is the ceiling → 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY",
 "disclaimer": "Not legal, tax or financial advice · not a payment card · no refunds · © Lund Studio LLC",
 "seated": "12.357.107"
}