From 7ca6ee0666674fb6d22bf7e7b79a561d1c76d882 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bryan Van Deusen Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 22:20:00 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?feat:=20new=20curator=20brand=20mark=20?= =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=94=20traced=20logo=20+=20redrawn=20glyph?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Replaces the placeholder folder glyph with the new logo: a white-gloved hand presenting a framed work, which says what the app is for far better than the old mark did. Two assets, because one cannot serve both jobs. Measured, not assumed: rendered at 22px the full logo is unreadable mush, so favicon.svg stays a separate, much simpler mark. logo.svg — traced from the source raster with potrace, then repainted from the design tokens. Segmentation notes, since this is the part that is easy to get wrong on a re-do: hue does NOT separate the glove from the frame's highlights (both sit near 38 degrees) and neither does saturation alone. The split is a connected-component fill seeded inside the cuff, dilated first so it can cross the dark outline strokes that cut the fingertips off from the palm. The source plate was a warm brown (#1B1105), not the app's cool obsidian (#14171A) — side by side it read as a logo sitting on its own warmer card. It is dropped entirely: the mark is transparent and the frame interior shows whatever surface hosts it. The source gold was #AA7E39, which is within a couple of points of accent.curator #A87338 — so the mark now shares one colour with nav-active text and the wordmark rather than nearly sharing it. The glove goes to text.parchment for the same reason. favicon.svg — hand-drawn rather than traced. At 16px a traced mark carries hundreds of wobble nodes that read as fuzz and can never be tidied. Ring + frame + star merged into a blob at that size, so it keeps two elements: the frame and the star. Frame over a plain ring because it carries the meaning, and it is the full logo's own centrepiece; the glove, cufflink, finials and sparkle rays are deliberately absent rather than drawn and lost. The favicon keeps its obsidian plate so the tab icon is self-contained against any browser chrome; on the nav that plate is invisible because it matches --fc-chrome-rgb exactly. logo.svg has no plate at all. Both files carry a comment explaining why they are shaped this way, so the next edit does not undo the reasoning. The old favicon is one revert away in history. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LNXXULQDjVZmbuNa2G9mD9 --- README.md | 2 + frontend/public/favicon.svg | 25 +++++- frontend/public/logo.svg | 165 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 frontend/public/logo.svg diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2770fd4..a7c35e0 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ + + # FabledCurator diff --git a/frontend/public/favicon.svg b/frontend/public/favicon.svg index 6b07fb4..9cb1c69 100644 --- a/frontend/public/favicon.svg +++ b/frontend/public/favicon.svg @@ -1,5 +1,24 @@ - + + FabledCurator + - + + diff --git a/frontend/public/logo.svg b/frontend/public/logo.svg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff3db36 --- /dev/null +++ b/frontend/public/logo.svg @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ + + FabledCurator + + + + + + + + \ No newline at end of file