Karesansui — the dry rock garden of Zen monasteries — composes a whole landscape from raked grey gravel and a few weathered stones. At Ryōan-ji in Kyoto, fifteen moss-rocks sit on a bed of pale chert gravel, arranged so that no single vantage shows them all at once. The design language borrows that discipline: cool grey ground, muted moss-green stone, asymmetric placement, and long quiet margins where nothing happens on purpose.

This is a system about ma — the active emptiness between things. Restraint is the rule, not the exception. Type is calligraphic and serif, colour stays inside a narrow grey/moss family, and ornament gives way to space. Every element earns its place by sitting alone.