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@@ -27,11 +27,18 @@ replace in
 | `05_PrivacyIllustration` | 5 Privacy promise | `PrivacyIllustration` |
 | `06_NotificationPrivacyIllustration` | 6 Reminder privacy | *new* |
 | `07_ForecastIllustration` | 7 First forecast | *new* |
+| `EmptyStateIllustration` | — not onboarding | `EmptyStateIllustration` |
 
 Each stem exists as `Light/<stem>_light.webp` and `Dark/<stem>_dark.webp`, at
 **identical dimensions per card**, so a theme switch swaps the image without
 moving the layout.
 
+`EmptyStateIllustration` is the odd one and deliberately unnumbered: it is
+Today's "nothing logged yet" state, not an onboarding step, and it is also drawn
+in the onboarding previews. Its ring is empty because nothing has been logged —
+the same ring the other illustrations fill with cycle-day markers, which is what
+makes the empty state read as *waiting* rather than *broken*.
+
 ## What these got right, and why it is worth not undoing
 
 Each of these was a correction during review, and every one of them would be easy
@@ -64,13 +71,21 @@ Tracked as **#29**, which stays open until the app renders these:
 2. Add the light/dark preview pair per step, per [`../README.md`](../README.md).
 3. Reconcile step copy — `PRODUCT_PLAN.md` owns the screen wording.
 
-`EmptyStateIllustration`, the Today "nothing logged yet" state, has no card here.
-Onboarding would otherwise ship real art while Today keeps a placeholder visible
-in the same session.
+**One inconsistency to settle when these are redrawn:** the fourteen onboarding
+illustrations are contained cards with a rounded frame, and the two
+`EmptyStateIllustration` files are full-bleed with no frame. Both scale
+acceptably at the 110–160 dp these are actually drawn at — checked by rendering
+them at size rather than assumed — but the frame should be consistent across the
+set, or deliberately absent from all of it.
+
+A second, smaller one: `TodayScreen.kt` currently calls
+`EmptyStateIllustration(color = ..., size = ...)` with a single colour. These are
+full-colour drawings, so the vector version will not take a colour parameter and
+that call site changes with it.
 
 ## Format
 
-WebP at the delivered resolution — 204 KB for all fourteen, against 3.4 MB as
+WebP at the delivered resolution — 312 KB for all sixteen, against 6.8 MB as
 PNG, and the same format [`../../data/img/`](../../data/img/) uses for the marks
 privacyllc.dev renders. The delivery `.zip` archives are deliberately not
 tracked; see [`.gitignore`](.gitignore).