# Foundations

> The primitives — colour, typography, spacing, shape, and motion. Everything else composes from these.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/brand/v2.0.0/llms.txt)

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Foundations are the values the rest of the system is built from. They are
deliberately small in number and fixed: a component may choose *which* token to
use, but it does not invent new ones.

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Section pages:

- [Colour](/brand/v2.0.0/docs/foundations/color/): Three 12-step scales in two modes, their step roles, and the contrast rules that govern them.
- [Typography](/brand/v2.0.0/docs/foundations/typography/): Three typefaces, three jobs, and a fixed type ramp.
- [Space, shape, and motion](/brand/v2.0.0/docs/foundations/space-shape-motion/): The 4px spacing base, the radius and elevation ladders, and the motion tokens.