# The Quoin Press — Element Inventory (production canon)

Canonical sheets: 01_key_art_v2 · 02_turnaround · 03_zone_press_room ·
04_zone_composing_room · 05_zone_poster_alley · 06_props · 07_materials.
Where sheets disagree at sub-element level, THIS FILE is canon (L5).

## Palette (one palette, all sheets)
- cast-iron black #26242a (press, brayer, bicycle)
- oiled oak #7a5a38 (base board, benches, cabinets, drawer fronts)
- paper cream #ece4d2 (sheets, bales, posters)
- vermilion ink #c23b2a (ink, poster motifs, press pinstripes)
- printer's navy #24455c (apron, cloth)
- matte brass #b08d43 (bolt heads, drawer pulls, galley edging — never
  emissive)
- lead-type grey #8a8d92 (type, quoin key, composing stick)
- ochre poster accent #c99a3f (alley posters)
- worn brick #8a5444 (walls, alley)
- warm lamp amber (interior mood; green-shaded lamp in the press room)

## Hero: the hand press (Albion-class hand-lever platen press)
- Overall: ~0.90 m tall machine on a chamfered oiled-oak base board;
  matte cast-iron black with THIN VERMILION PINSTRIPES tracing the
  frame edges.
- Frame: single tall ARCH with rounded cast shoulders (NOT twin posts;
  the press-room zone's tall-post variant is drift) + crown FINIAL
  (turned spire: bulb, neck, tip ball).
- Screw: central brass-collared screw column with a heavy hex nut,
  driving a flat square PLATEN (plain flat slab — key art v1's ribbed
  dome is drift).
- Bed: long flat bed rolling on TWO straight rails toward the viewer,
  carrying a type form locked in a rectangular iron CHASE; a printed
  sheet (cream, vermilion sun-motif ornament, NO words) lies on it.
- Lever: on the machine's RIGHT — swept iron bar with a round WOODEN
  BALL grip (key art v1+v2 agree; turnaround front panel's right-side
  crank is drift).
- Rounce: small crank with a wooden grip on the machine's LEFT,
  winding the bed via a cord drum under the bed.
- Fittings: matte brass bolt heads on the columns; NO exposed gears,
  NO cylinder roller, NO spoked wheels.

## Zone A — The Press Room
- The hand press (canon above) on its oak bench, right of centre.
- Drying lines: twine with wooden pegs, printed sheets in vermilion/
  black abstract layouts (never readable text).
- Long oak workbench; ink slab (dark stone) with brayer; paper reams
  shelved and stacked below.
- Green-shaded oil lamp (the room's light); small window, cool dusk.
- Wide oak floorboards flecked with ink spots.

## Zone B — The Composing Room
- Type-case cabinets: tall oak, shallow drawers, small brass pulls.
- Sloped composing frame on top with an open case of lead type.
- Composing table: smooth pale stone top; locked type form in its
  chase + wooden mallet (for planing type down).
- Galley rack with leaning brass-edged galley trays.
- Printer's navy apron on a wall hook; pinned paper notes; candle lamp.

## Zone C — The Poster Alley
- Layered pasted posters (ochre/vermilion/cream, abstract ornaments,
  peeling corners) on worn brick.
- The shop's bow window: small panes, warm glow, paper stacks inside.
- Delivery bicycle: black frame, big front basket of paper-wrapped
  parcels (print jobs, not bread).
- Hanging shop sign: a turned wooden cylinder — the brayer-roller sign.
- Worn cobbles; cool blue dusk; brick lane.

## Props (sheet 06, left-to-right canon)
1. Composing stick — flat adjustable iron-and-oak tray, one line deep.
2. Ink brayer — black rubber cylinder, dark turned handle (dark iron/
   ebonised finish is canon per the prop sheet).
3. Vermilion ink tin — low round matte tin, lid off, thick red ink.
4. Paper bale — cream sheets tied with jute string in a cross.
5. Quoin key — T-shaped iron tightening key.
6. Type-case drawer — oak, compartment grid of lead type, brass pull.
7. Proof galley tray — shallow three-sided wooden tray, brass-edged.

## Materials (sheet 07, 8 swatches)
1. Matte cast iron (mill texture) · 2. Oiled oak (grain) · 3. Cream
paper (fibre tooth) · 4. Wet vermilion ink (glossy — the ONE glossy
material) · 5. Lead type (embossed letterforms) · 6. Matte aged brass
(dull) · 7. Printer's navy cloth (apron weave) · 8. Worn brick
(mortar lines).