Identity sheet
Field journal, precision instrument
Natural-history editorial warmth over forensic exactitude. Status is always carried by words and symbols — never by color alone.
The mark
An original geometric canary: a spine stroke, a wing of parallel strokes, and a tail. The same strokes recur as probe-path branches and excerpt brackets — the feather becomes a trace.
Typography
Newsreader display italic
Source Sans 3 carries interface and explanatory prose — quiet, legible, and warm enough to sit beside the serif.
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Self-hosted via Fontsource, latin subsets — Newsreader 400/500 with italics, Source Sans 3 400/600/700, IBM Plex Mono 400/500. All three faces are SIL Open Font License; license notices ship in public/licenses/FONTS.txt.
Palette
Ivory paper
#f3f0e7
primary field
Ink
#20251f
text, rules, marks
Canary
#e6bc34
identity, selection, flight path
Teal
#2e6f63
passed checks only
Brick
#a8402e
failed checks only
Slate
#5d6670
unknown, not run, muted
Status grammar
Passed, failed, not run, and unknown are distinct states and are never merged. A silent canary does not automatically mean a false claim.