The placeholder was a bare beamed-pair glyph in solid black on a
transparent ground — invisible against the dark Minstrel surface and
without any visual edge to anchor the card layout. Real album covers
have content that defines their boundary; the placeholder needs the
same affordance to keep the layout grid feeling intentional.
Wraps the user-supplied glyph in:
- iron-tone (#1E2228) fill matching the card surface so the placeholder
reads as a card without artwork rather than a hole in the page;
- pewter (#3F4651) border on the inside edge, consistent with how real
cards feel framed;
- ash-tone (#9C9A92) recolor + 0.7x downscale + recenter so the glyph
sits comfortably inside the border without clipping.
Hex hard-coded because static SVGs can't resolve CSS variables;
matches the FabledSword tokens exactly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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