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        { "block_key": "rich-text", "title": "Body", "slot": "main", "sort_order": 1, "content": { "html": "<p>A soft shadow asks you to squint. A hard border does not. It draws the edge, holds the block, and tells you where one thing ends and the next begins. We reach for the line first because it is honest.</p><p>The border is the cheapest structure in design. One rule, one weight, and a page stops being a soup of floating cards. It prints. It reads on a bad screen in bright sun. It survives a screenshot pasted into a slide deck at quarter size.</p><p>We came to it the hard way. Early on we chased depth — blurs, gradients, shadows stacked three deep to fake a little lift. It looked fine in the file and fell apart in the wild. On a cheap monitor the shadows vanished and the whole layout went flat.</p><p>A border never vanishes. It is one pixel or it is four, and it is there in every rendering context you will ever ship into. When a client forwards a mockup to their printer, the printer sees the same edges we did.</p><p>There is a discipline in it too. A border forces you to decide where a thing begins. You cannot let a section bleed vaguely into the next and hope the eye sorts it out. You commit to the edge, and the commitment shows.</p><p>Weight is the only variable that matters. A hairline says these belong together, quietly. A four-pixel rule says stop here, this is a wall. We keep two weights on most projects and never more than three. Past that the borders start arguing with each other.</p><p>Colour is where the energy comes from. The border stays black. Then we add one loud accent — a single hot hue — and let it do all the shouting. Black holds the structure; the accent carries the mood. That split keeps a loud page from turning to noise.</p><p>Offset is the last trick. Take a bordered block and drop a hard shadow four pixels down and right — no blur, just a second solid shape. Now the block sits on the page like a physical object. It reads as printed, stamped, real. It is the whole brutalist move in one property.</p><p>None of this is nostalgia. We are not printing zines. We are building interfaces that have to survive resizing, dark mode, reduced motion, and a decade of browser churn. Hard edges survive all of it because there is nothing to degrade.</p><p>So we start with the line. Draw the edge, hold the block, pick one loud colour, offset the shadow. That is the whole trick, and it has never once let us down on a real screen in bright sun.</p>" } }
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