apple-designlisted
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# apple-design
Apple's design guidance as local reference. The agent's job is to **cite**: open the page, quote
the rule, name the system component. Read before you cite; Apple rewrote large parts of the HIG
for Liquid Glass (2025) and reintroduced its design principles (June 2026), so recall is stale.
| Path | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| `references/hig-index.md` | Routing table: every HIG page grouped as Apple groups them, with Apple's one-line summary, platforms, and the date Apple last changed it |
| `references/hig/<slug>.md` | One file per HIG page, Apple's own wording and headings, all six platforms. `## Specifications` sections hold the numbers (type sizes, control sizes, contrast, icon sizes) |
| `references/resources.md` | The rest of developer.apple.com/design: Figma/Sketch kits, fonts, SF Symbols, Icon Composer, bezels, the learning pathway |
| `scripts/pull_hig.py` | Regenerates `hig/` and `hig-index.md` from Apple's site. Not needed for a task |
## Steps
1. **Pin the platform and the artifact.** Which platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS,
visionOS), which framework, and what is in front of you: a screenshot, a mockup, source, a
description, or a question. Say what the artifact cannot show (a code fragment shows no
contrast; a JPEG shows no exact colors).
2. **Load the pages, then read them.** Start from the always-load set for the branch, add pages
from the routing table below, and take anything else from `hig-index.md`. About ten files