closes#30
The last placeholder. It was blocked on a real constraint rather than taste: an
adaptive icon masks roughly a quarter of the canvas away, and the first emblem
had content hard against its edges, so dropping it in would have cropped the
shield.
THE NEW EMBLEM DID NOT NEED REDRAWING, IT NEEDED PLACING
It puts the meaning in the middle — calendar, shield, padlock — with the ring and
botanicals as outer decoration. Dropped in full-bleed it still crops: simulating
the circular and rounded-square masks slices the ring apart and cuts the crescent
in half. Scaled into the 66dp safe circle on §18's Deep Plum it survives both
masks whole.
Both were checked by rendering the masks, and then by installing and looking at
the launcher rather than trusting the simulation.
Foreground ships as a density ladder, mdpi through xxxhdpi, 44 KB for all five.
Release APK 2.03 -> 2.08 MB.
THE MONOCHROME LAYER STAYS THE SIMPLIFIED VECTOR
Renamed to ic_launcher_monochrome.xml, which is now what it is. A themed icon is
a silhouette — Android discards colour and tints the alpha — so the emblem's
overlapping calendar, shield, padlock, crescent and leaves would flatten into an
unreadable blob. A ring with one dot still reads at 48dp in a single colour,
which is the whole job of that layer.
Source kept at docs/design/brand/icon.webp: same 1254px, 128 KB instead of 896.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The project owner supplied artwork and a full visual brand guide mid-session,
which answers #8: the three marks an agent must not fake now exist because a
person made them.
docs/data/img now holds icon.webp (512x512, 11 KB), logo.webp (1024 long edge,
28 KB) and banner.webp (2176x725, 20 KB) — all webp by magic bytes, all far
under the 512 KB ceiling. Produced from the supplied art rather than invented.
Two things had to be handled rather than converted blindly. The sources render
their rounded corners against black, so a naive crop carried black wedges into
the banner; the corners are flood-filled to the artwork's own ground first. And
the lockup is square, so a 3:1 crop would have cut the wordmark in half — the
banner is the whole lockup on a matching ground, which has no seam to see
because the artwork's edges ARE that ground.
The source PNGs and the guide moved to docs/design/: docs/data/img is for the
three marks the Command Center renders, and its README is explicit that
reference art and exported sources do not belong there.
THE PALETTE, AND ONE DELIBERATE CONFLICT
core/designsystem now carries the guide's colours — deep plum, rich purple,
period rose, lavender mist, and an eggplant dark theme that is never flat black.
§39 of the specification asks for a muted teal or sage fertile window, to hold
it apart from the period colour. The guide is plum and rose throughout and gives
fertility its own pink. The guide wins: it is newer, it is the owner's, and a
teal accent inside this identity would look borrowed from another app.
What §39 was protecting is kept by other means, and this is why the conflict is
safe to resolve that way: the calendar's states differ in SHAPE. A solid disc, a
dotted ring, a continuous ring and a star stay tellable apart in greyscale and
to a colourblind user, which is what §43 actually requires. The departure is
written down in docs/design/README.md rather than left to be discovered.
The launcher icon keeps its vector for now, in brand colours. The supplied
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
it to the safe zone is Batch 08's final-artwork work.
closes#8
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