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name: arwa-design
description: Use this skill to generate well-branded interfaces and assets for the Alabama Rural Water Association (ARWA), either for production or throwaway prototypes/mocks/etc. Contains essential design guidelines, colors, type, fonts, assets, and UI kit components for prototyping. ARWA is a non-profit founded 1977 serving rural Alabama water and wastewater utilities.
user-invocable: true
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Read the README.md file within this skill, and explore the other available files.

If creating visual artifacts (slides, mocks, throwaway prototypes, etc), copy assets out and create static HTML files for the user to view. If working on production code, you can copy assets and read the rules here to become an expert in designing with this brand.

If the user invokes this skill without any other guidance, ask them what they want to build or design, ask some questions, and act as an expert designer who outputs HTML artifacts _or_ production code, depending on the need.

**Non-negotiables specific to ARWA:**
- The mission statement is: *"Dedicated to Improving the Quality of Life for Rural Alabamians."* — verbatim, always, never reworded or abbreviated. When used as a signature treatment, set it in tracked-out uppercase serif with breathing room.
- Logo is a combination mark: the droplet monogram (`assets/logo/monogram-droplet.svg`, `-inverse.svg`, `-sm.svg`) always leads; the `ARWA` wordmark is set in Fraunces 144 Black and supports. For sub-brands, monogram + wordmark + hair rule + sub-brand name. See `preview/logo-primary.html` and `preview/logo-lockups.html`.
- Never mix Heroicons / Lucide / Font Awesome with this system. Use `assets/icons/icons-infrastructure.svg` and `assets/icons/icons-ui.svg` — both are one drawing system.
- No emoji in product chrome. Sentence case for everything except the wordmark, mission-as-signature, and tracked-out eyebrows.
- Avoid anything that reads like Alabama Power or Birmingham Water Works (no bluish-purple gradients, no glassy chrome, no utility-logo tropes).

**Starting points:**
- Always import `colors_and_type.css` first.
- Import `motion.css` if anything moves.
- For the wordmark, load Fraunces from Google Fonts (`opsz@9..144,wght@900`) and pair it inline with `assets/logo/monogram-droplet.svg`. Don't depend on `logo.css` — it's deprecated in favor of the SVG monogram system.
- For data-dense work, use the `ui_kits/rates-dashboard/` components as a reference — they're the stress-tested density baseline.