Sage-olive surface (#8E9871) is the most specific color in this collection. It is not green. It is not gray. It is the color of sage leaves in late afternoon sun, and it is completely ownable. Against white, it creates strong visual separation — the sections with olive surfaces feel like the farm, the white sections feel like the table.

Fraunces is an expressive optical serif with playful formal qualities — its bowls are slightly swollen, its serifs are slightly irregular. It reads as artisanal and considered without being precious. At weight 500 with tight heading line-height, it creates display headings that feel like they were set by hand.

Space Grotesk for body has a slightly mechanical quality — the monospace heritage shows in consistent character widths — that creates interesting contrast with the Fraunces headings. Craft heading, utilitarian body. The 14px base is compact and dense, like a well-edited magazine rather than a landing page optimized for bounce rate.

Tinted shadow with a dark-green hue. The green in the shadow is not visible — it is felt. Cards seem to exist in a garden context even when the shadow is the only hint. The generous 8px space unit (double the standard) creates a roomy spatial system. The active scale at 0.99 creates barely a movement on interaction — more like a breath than a press.