---
version: alpha
name: Asteriskmag
description: Light design system extracted from asteriskmag.com (DOM-true values, Emblematic extractor 0.2.0, 2026-11-12).
colors:
  background: "#FAF8F0"
  on-surface: "#000000"
  primary: "#2D90CF"
  color-4: "#EF4E76"
typography:
  display-lg:
    fontFamily: Noe Text
    fontSize: 18px
    fontWeight: 700
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: Atlas Grotesk
    fontSize: 21.6px
    fontWeight: 700
  body-md:
    fontFamily: Noe Text
    fontSize: 16.2px
    fontWeight: 400
  body-sm:
    fontFamily: Atlas Grotesk
    fontSize: 14.58px
    fontWeight: 400
  label-md:
    fontFamily: Atlas Grotesk
    fontSize: 16.2px
    fontWeight: 700
    letterSpacing: 0.02em
rounded: {}
spacing:
  xxs: 3.5px
  xs: 9px
  sm: 18px
  md: 36px
  lg: 54px
  xl: 68px
  2xl: 90px
  base: 6px
components:
  button-secondary:
    textColor: "{colors.primary}"
    rounded: 0px
    padding: 9px
    height: 40px
    typography: "{typography.label-md}"
  input:
    rounded: 0px
    padding: 0px
    height: 31px
omitted:
  - section: rounded
    reason: no rounded corners on painted elements
---

# Asteriskmag

> Extracted from [https://asteriskmag.com/](https://asteriskmag.com/) on 2026-11-12 by Emblematic. Every value below was read from the rendered DOM (computed styles, `document.fonts`, and the fonts Chrome actually used to paint text), not estimated from pixels. When the YAML front matter and this prose disagree, the YAML wins. Copy values from this file exactly; don't transcribe them from memory. Don't copy logos, imagery, illustrations or marketing copy.

## Overview

Asteriskmag uses a light canvas (#FAF8F0) with a palette led by #2D90CF. Type is set in **Noe Standard** (display), **Noe Text**, with 16px body text. Layout: fluid container, top-fixed+transparent navigation, 15 sections. Built with google-tag-manager.

## Colors

Area-weighted from painted backgrounds, text and borders on the 1440px light capture. Roles are inferred from usage (largest background, most text, interactive fills). Every hex is an exact computed value; a role marked *unverified* is a best guess that has not passed review, so its canonical token (e.g. `primary`) is left out of the front matter.

| Token | Hex | OKLCH | Role | Share of paint | CSS variable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `background` | `#FAF8F0` | 0.978 0.011 95.2 | bg | 82.5% | `--c-bg` |
| `on-surface` | `#000000` | 0 0 0 | text | 6.1% | `--c-text` |
| `primary` | `#2D90CF` | 0.626 0.13 241.8 | accent | 2.5% | `--c-primary` |
| `color-4` | `#EF4E76` | 0.656 0.198 9.6 | other | 8.8% | — |

Contrast: text on background 19.75:1, accent 3.29:1.

The site does not change under `prefers-color-scheme: dark`.

## Typography

| Family | Role | Weights | Share of text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **Noe Standard** | display | 100, 400, 600, 900 | 50.6% | webfont |
| **Atlas Grotesk** | other | 100, 400, 700, 900 | 32.0% | webfont |
| **Noe Text** | body | 400, 700 | 17.4% | webfont |

Scale (px): 11, 14.5, 16, 18, 21.5, 29. Effective ratio ≈ 1.219 (close to a minor third). Body 16px at line-height normal; display 18px with tracking 0em. Headings are sentence case. On a 390px viewport the body is 16px and display 18px.

## Layout

Spacing follows a 6px base unit; the most used steps are 3.5, 9, 18, 36, 54, 68, 90px. Sections open with about 53px of space before their first line of text. Content sits in a fluid container on a 3-column grid. Text density 0.096 (text area / page area).

Section order (desktop). Kinds below the review threshold are shown as *section*:

1. **nav** (86px, bg #FAF8F0)
2. **hero** — “We Are All Playable Characters” (879px, bg #FAF8F0)
3. **section** — “Living Well” (129px, bg #FAF8F0)
4. **section** — “The Dream of an Aristotelian Machine” (159px, bg #FAF8F0)
5. **section** — “Six Gutenberg Revolutions in a Row” (145px, bg #FAF8F0)
6. **section** — “Why Don’t We Live in an Art Nouveau World?” (159px, bg #FAF8F0)
7. **section** — “How to Turn a Philanderer Into a Father” (159px, bg #FAF8F0)
8. **section** — “A Brief History of Our Place in the Universe” (163px, bg #FAF8F0)
9. **section** — “Marginal Grains” (354px, bg #FAF8F0)
10. **section** — “So You Want to Fight the Loneliness Epidemic” (212px, bg #FAF8F0)
11. **section** — “In Search of the Universal Language” (163px, bg #FAF8F0)
12. **section** — “Dead Poet Society” (129px, bg #FAF8F0)
13. **section** — “The Optimal Amount of Coercion Is Non-Zero” (163px, bg #FAF8F0)
14. **section** — “Christianity as an Alignment Technology” (129px, bg #FAF8F0)
15. **section** — “Blinking Out” (129px, bg #FAF8F0)

## Shapes

Dominant corner radius 0px; radii in use: none. Borders: hairline (1px).

## Components

- **button-secondary**: textColor `#2D90CF`, rounded `0px`, padding `9px 18px`, height `40px`, fontFamily `Atlas Grotesk`, fontSize `16.2px`, fontWeight `700`, border `1px solid #2D90CF` (e.g. “Sign up”)
- **input**: rounded `0px`, height `31px`, padding `0px 0px`, border `1px solid #2D90CF`

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do reserve `#2D90CF` for primary actions and highlights; it covers only 2.5% of the painted page.
- Do set body copy in Noe Text at 16px.
- Do use Noe Standard only for display sizes, not for body text.
- Don't introduce font weights beyond 100, 400, 600, 700, 900.
- Don't add drop shadows; depth comes from tone and borders.
- Do keep corners at 0px for most controls.
- Do snap spacing to multiples of 6px.
- Don't copy this site's logos, illustrations, photography or copy; use the system, not the brand assets.

## Provenance

Spec v2, extractor 0.2.0. Render quality: **ok**. Vision pass: not run. Fields below confidence 0.7 are hedged or left out above: `color.accent_strategy`, `components`, `layout.columns`, `layout.hero`, `layout.section_count`, `sections[].kind`, `space.section_padding_px`. Full per-field provenance is in `spec.json`.