Guide · 03
Title acts
The studio keeps the frame. Each title brings its own ground, ink and type. Joy lives here: the frame is quiet so that every title can arrive in its own colour.
How to build an act
- Take the ground from the key art’s dominant tone and the ink from its lightest or darkest tone.
- Ink on ground reaches 4.5:1. 3:1 is allowed only for titles of 24px bold or larger.
- Keep the ground at least 0.10 OKLab from
lazaward-600, so the point stays the studio’s. - Use the title’s own type if it has some; otherwise Kufam.
- No gold on black, no green with gold.
The Act builder card runs these checks on any image and refuses an act that fails.
What never changes
- The frame bar: 44px of
kohl-1000carrying “A NUBAYIN UNIVERSE PRODUCT” in Kufam 500 at 11px, tracked +0.14em. Same height, same words and same place on every act. - Navigation and footer stay in the studio’s surfaces. No act colour leaks into them.
- One act per page. An act is never a card in someone else’s colour, never rounded and never shadowed.
- The act’s own art direction rules inside it. XPRSHUN’s silhouette album cover, for example, stays as designed. An artist’s released work appears as released wherever NUBAYIN shows it (K8).
The register
| Act | Owner | Ground | Ink | Title type | Ratio | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Quiet Return (Chapter I) | XPRSHUN | #596B7B blue-hour sky |
#F4EFE6 paper |
Newsreader Italic | 4.81:1 | Live: renders in XPRSHUN’s own tokens |
New titles join this register when they have real key art. Placeholders never stand in for titles that don’t exist.