The typography

Typefaces, weights, sizes and spacing.

The part

What it is

Including the fallback. A typeface that is unavailable in the systems the organisation actually uses will be substituted, and the substitution is the real specification.

Licensing belongs here too, since type licences are the most commonly breached brand asset obligation.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.

Typeface
The face and weights used.
Text shared type
Fallback
What is used where the face is unavailable, which is the real specification in practice.
Text shared type
Licence
Links to the licence obligation, since type licences are commonly breached.
Reference shared type