{
  "name": "Sishu Cartoon Natural",
  "version": "2.1",
  "date": "2026-10-08",
  "purpose": "A simple Odia monthly children’s magazine organized by issue, article and writer.",
  "navigation": [
    "This month",
    "Past issues",
    "Books",
    "Writers",
    "Write"
  ],
  "supporting_pages": [
    "Editor’s note",
    "About",
    "Contact"
  ],
  "ebook_policy": "Quiet book reader with original pages; only source-compared text enters reading mode. Raw OCR stays in editorial review.",
  "foundation": "Human Natural storytelling through expressive, hand-drawn 2D cartoons.",
  "palette": {
    "paper": "#fffcf6",
    "ink": "#3e3530",
    "terracotta": "#a53628",
    "leaf": "#49634b",
    "indigo": "#364c69",
    "ochre": "#ac792e",
    "rule": "#e5dbcc"
  },
  "type": {
    "odia_body": "Noto Serif Oriya",
    "odia_navigation": "Noto Sans Oriya",
    "body_px": 20,
    "body_line_height": 2,
    "card_title_px": 21,
    "author_px": 14,
    "minimum_control_px": 14
  },
  "layout": {
    "card_ratio": "3:2",
    "image_fit": "contain",
    "desktop_columns": 3,
    "tablet_columns": 2,
    "phone_columns": 1,
    "desktop_gap_px": 28,
    "phone_gutter_px": 20,
    "motion": "none"
  },
  "preservation": [
    "Keep original editorial text, titles, bylines, punctuation and poem line breaks.",
    "Keep printed covers unchanged.",
    "Preserve original archive illustrations unless replacement is specifically commissioned.",
    "Do not infer that a scanned or downloadable book is digital-only."
  ],
  "art_rules": [
    "Read the complete article before briefing its image.",
    "Choose one emotional anchor and a lived moment; do not collect every noun into one scene.",
    "Use bold ink outlines and flat painted colour; allow quieter areas and visible paper.",
    "Use settings, clothing and cultural details supported by the text; do not make every story rural or nostalgic.",
    "Allow wonder and fantasy when the story calls for them; retain internally believable gesture, scale and space.",
    "Vary distance, viewpoint, palette and emotional tone across the edition.",
    "Keep title and author as real page text outside the image.",
    "Never present an invented face as a real author portrait."
  ],
  "brief_fields": [
    "article_id",
    "original_title",
    "original_author",
    "source_text_path",
    "reader_feeling",
    "mode",
    "text_evidence",
    "scene",
    "viewpoint",
    "palette",
    "continuity_notes",
    "avoid",
    "alt_text",
    "asset_path",
    "prompt",
    "review_notes"
  ],
  "review": [
    "Does the scene belong to this text?",
    "Is its emotion appropriate for the intended readership?",
    "Are anatomy, gesture, perspective and object interactions credible?",
    "Are cultural details grounded rather than decorative stereotypes?",
    "Does the subject read at roughly 320 pixels wide?",
    "Does it differ usefully from adjacent cards?",
    "Are title, byline, text and original protected assets intact?"
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "current_art_manifest": "data/article-art.json",
    "reference_status": "Current edition artwork is the starting reference, not a requirement to imitate every composition."
  }
}