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name: mmd-document-style
description: Use when writing, formatting, or reviewing any MMD / MMD Steel Group IT document meant to look official — memos, policies, status reports, audits, process docs, or anything going out under the MMD or Baobab name as a Word or PDF file. Triggers on "MMD format", "MMD branded", "MMD Word doc", "MMD report", "baobab-red", "house style", or "make this look like an MMD document".
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# MMD document house style

MMD Steel Group IT documents follow one house style. The goal is a document that reads as
official, dense, and quick to scan on a page — not a slide deck blown up to paper size.

## Type and layout

- **Body text: 8-8.5pt.** MMD documents run small and dense. Do not default to 11-12pt body
  copy — that is web-writing habit, not this house style.
- **Title: 12pt maximum, bold, ink-black.** Titles are not hero headlines. No title larger than
  12pt, ever, on an MMD document.
- Prefer a serif or a clean UI serif (Aptos is the standard MMD body font) over a display
  sans for body copy — it reads better dense and small.
- Subtitle (if any): italic, in the accent red, smaller than the title.
- A short grey metadata block under the title works well: Prepared by / for, date, status —
  then a red rule dividing it from the body.

## Color

- Accent: baobab red, `#8B1A1A`. Use it sparingly — section numbers, the title-divider rule,
  small accents. It is not a background color and not a body-text color.
- Ink: `#1A1A1A` for headings and emphasis. Body: `#333333`. Supporting greys: `#666666` /
  `#999999`.
- Never invent a new palette or reach for a different red. If baobab red looks wrong for a
  specific document, that is a house-style question to raise, not something to improvise
  around locally.

## Density and content rules

- No dashboards, no oversized stat cards, no decorative whitespace. A working MMD document is
  a working surface, not a poster.
- Every table should be tight: minimal row padding, real data, no placeholder or "illustrative"
  rows presented as if real.
- Cut narration about the document itself ("this report was prepared using...", "how this
  document is organized"). State the content; do not explain the act of writing it.
- Footer convention: `MMD Steel Group IT | CONFIDENTIAL | Your partner in steel`.

## Producing the file

If a local MMD document-rendering pipeline is available in the working environment (Markdown
in, branded `.docx`/`.pdf` out, built on the real MMD policy-document template with the logo
header and footer baked in), prefer it over hand-building a Word document from scratch — it
already encodes the header, footer, and color/type rules above. If no such pipeline is
available, apply every rule in this skill by hand: 8-8.5pt body, <=12pt title, baobab red as a
sparing accent only, dense layout, real content only.

## What NOT to do

- Do not use a different brand red, a different footer line, or a heavier/larger title "for
  emphasis" — house style is fixed centrally, not per document.
- Do not pad a short document with restated headings, a table of contents for a two-page memo,
  or decorative section dividers.
- Do not present sample/placeholder figures as if they were real reported numbers.