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docs: record the brief the remaining art is judged against 

"Welcoming, and visibly private" is the owner's directive for the app's artwork,
and it needs somewhere to live that outlasts the issues it was given for. A brief
that exists only in issue bodies disappears the day those issues close.

docs/design/README.md owns what the app should feel like, so the artwork section
now carries it, along with why the two halves are stated together: onboarding
today opens warm and then turns into a form, and the privacy idea appears on one
screen out of seven.

Also notes that the enclosure motif already in PrivacyIllustration is the cheaper
route to the second half than a padlock, which would read as a security product
rather than a calm one.

The work itself stays in the tracker as #29 to #32.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -149,6 +149,23 @@ emblem has content close to its edges and an adaptive icon masks about a quarter
of the canvas away, so dropping it in unmodified would crop the shield. Fitting of the canvas away, so dropping it in unmodified would crop the shield. Fitting
it to the safe zone is Batch 08's final-artwork work. it to the safe zone is Batch 08's final-artwork work.
### What the artwork has to do
Two things at once, stated by the owner and recorded here because it is the brief
every remaining art issue is judged against: **welcoming, and visibly private.**
Not alternating between them screen by screen — a warm opening followed by a bare
form is how onboarding reads today, and the privacy idea currently appears on
exactly one screen out of seven.
Welcoming is the harder half to get right without breaking [Tone](#tone): warmth
here means an app that looks like it was made with care, never one that
celebrates a period or decorates it. Private is already half-solved in the
vocabulary — `PrivacyIllustration` encloses a ring in a shield, and enclosure
reads as protection without reaching for a padlock, which would read as a
security product rather than a calm one.
The remaining art is tracked as issues #29 to #32, not listed here.
The visual language is deliberately narrow — **overlapping circular forms** and The visual language is deliberately narrow — **overlapping circular forms** and
nothing else. §42's forbidden list (blood drops, tampons, pads, uterus imagery, nothing else. §42's forbidden list (blood drops, tampons, pads, uterus imagery,
gender symbols, anatomy) is a product decision rather than squeamishness: this gender symbols, anatomy) is a product decision rather than squeamishness: this