@kangentic/branding 2.0.1 → 2.1.0

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  # Kangentic Branding
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- Single source of truth for ALL Kangentic content assets - the icon, the
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+ Single source of truth for the Kangentic brand assets - the icon, the
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  mascot, and the social image - consumed by the website (kangentic.com),
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- the desktop app, and the mobile app. Content changes here, version bumps,
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- consumers update - never edit an asset inside a consumer repo.
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-
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- ## Versioning
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- The package major tracks the brand generation (semver):
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- - **v1 - blue K (2025)**: the original blue disc K. Frozen verbatim in
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- `archive/v1/` (app icon ladder + ICO/ICNS in `app/`, website logo and
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- favicons in `web/`) so the brand's history and progression stay
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- comparable. Never regenerated, never edited.
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- - **v2 - Warm Craft (2026)**: the current line. Cream, ink, rust, amber;
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- the two-tier mark below. Minor/patch bumps for refinements within the
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- line; the next full rebrand becomes v3 and this line moves to
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- `archive/v2/` first (the `/release` skill enforces it).
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- ## The mark (v2): a two-tier system
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- | Asset | Mark | Use |
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- | `assets/brandmark-small.svg` | F4k board glyph knockout: three column holes through the rust disc, amber card mid-drop (letterless) | **THE APP ICON** (taskbar, dock, favicons, tray, stores) and in-page marks at nav/header size |
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- | `assets/brandmark.svg` | Card-K knockout: rust disc, card-shaped alpha hole, floating rust K with severed amber arm-tip | Large in-page/marketing display only (hero, social, print) |
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- | `assets/brandmark-filled.svg` | Card-K with the card painted cream (fixed appearance) | Large display on unknown grounds |
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- The tier is picked by DISPLAYED size, never raster resolution - a 1024px
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- app icon still renders at taskbar/dock size, so every icon raster is F4k.
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- Both marks are knockouts (true alpha holes, the page or OS theme flows
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- through) and share the "holes in the rust disc" DNA. The split exists
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- because at small display the card-K fails structurally (the rust K merges
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- with the rust ring); the letterless board glyph won the live in-header
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- review. Full rationale, geometry, and decision history:
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- `.claude/skills/icon-drafting/SKILL.md`.
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- ## The production tree: `resources/`
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- Everything each surface ships, generated by `npm run gen:icons`, two-tier
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- by displayed context (card-K where the mark shows large, F4k where the OS
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- shows it small):
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- - **`resources/desktop/`** - Electron set: `icon.ico` (16-256),
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- `icon.icns` (16-1024), the full PNG ladder. Tiered per entry - the OS
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- pulls card-K at 128+ (dock, Finder-large) and F4k at 16-64 (taskbar).
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- - **`resources/web/`** - favicons (F4k), apple-touch + manifest squares
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- (F4k, opaque cream), `logo.png` (card-K, shown large in search), both
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- brandmark SVGs
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- - **`resources/mobile/`** - iOS App Store 1024, Play Store 512, Android
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- adaptive layers. All F4k: these are single masters the OS downscales to
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- the small installed icon, so card-K would shrink to an illegible mini-K.
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- Per-file tables and the exact per-surface mark: `resources/README.md`.
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- `exploration/icon-concepts/preview.png` shows the desktop tier boundary on
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- light and dark (a review artifact, not a shipped resource).
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- ## The mascot: the Overseer
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- A separate asset from the brandmark, by design (mascot = personality, icon
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- = app identity). A soft amber pixel blob with three sparkle eyes, authored
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- as an ASCII map and rendered to a crisp rect-grid SVG by the shared sprite
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- engine (`scripts/lib/sprite.mjs`).
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- - `assets/mascot/overseer.svg` - the canonical inline mascot (amber on
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- transparency, theme-agnostic). `npm run gen:sprites`.
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- - `resources/social/og-image.png` (1200x630) - the share image: pixel
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- wordmark + the Overseer, no font dependency. `npm run gen:og`.
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- - `exploration/mascot/` - alternates and retired poses (kangaroo, board
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- creature, rust Overseer). Full rationale and decision history:
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- `.claude/skills/sprite-drafting/SKILL.md`.
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- Every rejected creature round and the superseded mascot-based icon sets
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- are frozen in `archive/mascot-explorations/` so the progression is never
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- lost.
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- ## Regenerating
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+ the desktop app, and the mobile app. Assets change here, a release ships,
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+ consumers update. Never edit an asset inside a consumer repo.
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+ Published as [`@kangentic/branding`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@kangentic/branding).
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+ ## What's here
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+ - **The mark** - `assets/brandmark*.svg`. A two-tier system: the card-K
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+ (the letter) where the mark shows large, the F4k board glyph where the
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+ OS shows it small. Tier is keyed to displayed size, not raster
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+ resolution. For in-app chrome the consumer themes, two `currentColor`
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+ variants tint with the surface's foreground when inlined (or used as a
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+ CSS mask): `brandmark-mono-amber.svg` (theme-tinted disc, amber card
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+ kept - the default themed lockup) and `brandmark-mono.svg` (pure
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+ single color, all shape as alpha - strict monochrome, tray-template
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+ source).
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+ - **The mascot** - `assets/mascot/overseer.svg`. The Overseer, a pixel-art
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+ amber blob, authored as an ASCII map and rendered to a crisp SVG.
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+ - **The production tree** - `resources/`. Everything each surface ships:
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+ `desktop/` (Electron .ico/.icns + PNG ladder), `web/` (favicons,
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+ manifest icons, logo), `mobile/` (store + adaptive icons), and
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+ `social/og-image.png`. See `resources/README.md` for the per-file table.
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+ `assets/` is the vector home (consumer-agnostic SVGs); `resources/` holds
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+ the shipped per-consumer files, mostly rasters for surfaces that cannot
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+ take an SVG. The `resources/web/brandmark*.svg` files are byte copies of
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+ the `assets/` ones so the website deploys a single folder.
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+ Older brand lines and rejected explorations are frozen under `archive/`.
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+ ## Use it
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  ```bash
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- npm run gen # exploration sheets + canonical assets/
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- npm run gen:icons # production resources/
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  ```
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- All geometry lives in `scripts/lib/mark.mjs` (the K is frozen path data -
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- no font dependency at render time). Generated output is committed; the
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- release pipeline fails if committed assets drift from the harness.
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+ Copy or import from
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+ `node_modules/@kangentic/branding/{assets,resources}/`. A git submodule
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+ also works for consumers that can't take an npm dependency.
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+ ## Regenerate
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- ## Consuming
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+ Assets are generated and committed - never hand-edit one. To change an
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+ asset, edit the generator and rerun:
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- Preferred: npm - `npm install @kangentic/branding`, copy or import from
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- `node_modules/@kangentic/branding/{assets,resources}/`. A git submodule
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- also works if a consumer can't take an npm dependency, with the usual
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- submodule pointer-bump caveats.
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+ ```bash
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+ npm install
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+ npm run gen # canonical assets/ + exploration sheets
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+ npm run gen:icons # production icon tree -> resources/
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+ npm run gen:sprites # mascot -> assets/mascot/
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+ npm run gen:og # social image -> resources/social/
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+ ```
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+ All mark geometry lives in `scripts/lib/mark.mjs` (the K is frozen path
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+ data, so there's no font dependency at render time). Generators are
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+ deterministic; the release pipeline fails if committed output drifts.
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- ## Releasing
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+ ## Release
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- `/release [patch|minor|major]` in Claude Code: determinism gate (regenerate
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- + verify no drift), version bump, changelog, tag, GitHub release, npm
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- publish. Major bumps are reserved for brand generations and require
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- archiving the outgoing line.
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+ `/release [patch|minor|major]` in Claude Code handles the determinism
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+ gate, version bump, changelog, tag, GitHub release, and npm publish. The
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+ package major tracks the brand generation (v1 blue K, v2 Warm Craft); a
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- ## Migration status
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+ ## Deeper docs
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- Moved here: the brandmark geometry + harness, canonical marks, the
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- production icon tree, v1 archive. Still in consumer repos, migrating during
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- the production build-out: mascot sprite pipeline (`gen-sprites.mjs`), OG
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- image builder (`gen-brand.mjs`) - both in kangentic.com `scripts/` - and
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- the Warm Craft exploration history in the app repo's `resources/rebrand/`.
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+ The full mark rationale, geometry, and decision history live in the
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+ project's Claude Code skills (`icon-drafting`, `sprite-drafting`,
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  "name": "@kangentic/branding",
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- "version": "2.0.1",
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  "description": "Kangentic brand assets: the two-tier brandmark (card-K / F4k board glyph), icon sets, and the drafting harness that generates them. Single source of truth for the website, desktop app, and mobile app.",
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  "type": "module",
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  "gen": "node scripts/gen-brandmark.mjs",
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  "gen:icons": "node scripts/gen-icons.mjs",
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  "gen:sprites": "node scripts/gen-sprites.mjs",
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- "gen:og": "node scripts/gen-og.mjs"
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+ "gen:og": "node scripts/gen-og.mjs",
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+ "gen:review": "node scripts/gen-review.mjs",
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+ "check": "node scripts/check-invariants.mjs"
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+ including the theme-tinted in-app pair: `brandmark-mono-amber.svg`, the
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+ `brandmark-mono.svg`, pure currentColor for strict monochrome). The
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  | File | Use | Mark |
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+ requires .ico/.icns/.png for the packaged app icon, and Electron's
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+ `Tray`) decodes PNG/JPEG/ICO/ICNS only. The raster ladder is a requirement of
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