style-pack-expressive-editorial

A style pack for the design direction: expressive editorial. Chosen by name in design.md.

The look

• Type: large display headings against a calm reading size; strong contrast in weight and scale.
• Colour: restrained palette with one bold moment per screen.
• Spacing: wide margins, uneven rhythm on purpose, long reading measure kept short.
• Radius: sharp or minimal.
• Density: low.
• Motion: slow reveals and scroll-led transitions, used sparingly.

Do and don't

• Do: lead with the heading or image; let one element dominate each screen.
• Don't: fill the page evenly or give every block the same weight.

Within the design system

This pack never overrides a token and never replaces a component. It guides the choices the design system leaves open: layout, hierarchy, spacing between groups, emphasis and imagery. How far those choices may depart from today's screens is the departure latitude in design.md; the pack works inside that latitude. Where the system already decides something, the system wins.