Primer is Shane Carruth's 2004 time-travel film, shot for $7,000 on 16mm under $23 Walmart fluorescent banks. The look is washed-out, overexposed, flat suburban-garage realism — cool greenish-beige and pale fluorescent blue-gray, deadpan and engineered.

This design system distills that whiteboard-engineer language into an interface: monospace data blocks, taped-index-card surfaces, plain utilitarian grids, and a low-contrast palette that never warms into cream and never bleaches to white.