Graphics: visual identity, shipped assets, and regeneration

# Graphics: visual identity, shipped assets, and regeneration


## The identity (decided once; every asset reads as one hand)

- **Motif**: topographic contour lines forming a mountain summit, with a dashed ascent path
  climbing through phase nodes to an amber summit flag (frontier = the edge of mapped
  territory; the ascent = the convergence loop; the two double-ringed nodes below the peak =
  the two clean passes).
- **Palette**: background #0B0E14, contour lines #2A3242 (inner rings #39445A), text ink
  #E9ECF1, muted text #6B7280 and #9CA3AF, ONE accent #F5A623 (amber: summit, flag, command
  text). Nothing else.
- **Type**: lowercase monospace wordmark, tracked wide; all captions mono.
- **Banned**: purple or blue-pink gradients, glow blobs, glassmorphism, 3D renders, robots,
  brains, circuit boards, sparkles, lens flares, stock photos, drop shadows.

## Shipped assets (v1, vector, fully reproducible)

`hero.svg` (1500x500, displayed full-width) and `social-preview.svg` / `social-preview.png`
(1280x640, for GitHub Settings, Social preview) are generated deterministically by
[`gen-assets.mjs`](gen-assets.mjs) in this folder (seeded wobble, seeds 41 and 97; no
randomness at run time). To tweak: edit the script, run `node assets/gen-assets.mjs` from
the repo root, and verify by screenshotting the SVGs at their native sizes and actually
looking at them before committing.

## Optional: regenerating with an image model (Gemini, GPT, etc.)

If you want a richer illustrated hero, art-direct the model with the identity above.
Generate 4+ candidates varying ONE named axis (contour density, summit position, path
curvature); reruns of one prompt count as one candidate. If text garbles, generate without
text and overlay type yourself (mono font, #E9ECF1).

Hero prompt (3000x1000):