The brand accent was rune gold. It is now mallorn green: --gold becomes
--leaf in tokens.css and everywhere it resolved, and the mark's wafer is
the green of the leaves lembas travels wrapped in rather than the biscuit
inside. Yellow is left to mean exactly one thing in the interface -- a
warning -- instead of two.
Two knock-on choices the rename forced:
- Code keywords move from the brand accent to --warning. Strings are
--success, which is green; keywords in leaf green beside them is not
a colour scheme.
- --success itself leans teal now. Two greens a hue apart read as one
colour rendered badly, and an unread dot has to be tellable from a
brand badge at a glance.
The mark is redrawn, not just recoloured. The blade is ovate -- widest a
third up from the base, rounded where the stem meets it, drawn out only
at the tip -- because the old one was pointed at both ends and read as an
eye. It is also much larger relative to the tile: at 16px the silhouette
is all that survives, and a small leaf on a large tile is a green square
with a smudge on it. Veins sweep towards the tip and shorten as the blade
narrows. The score cross is thinner and fainter so it stays texture.
A single diagonal score was tried first and rejected: behind a diagonal
leaf it does not read as scoring, it reads as a line struck through the
mark.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Establish the LLeMbas foundation: FastAPI/Jinja/SQLite layout, the ORM
schema, and the original SVG identity.
Notable decisions, all recorded in comments at the point they matter:
- No Alembic. SQLite only, schema created at startup, so models carry a
few columns nothing reads yet (Message.parent_id for branching,
content_parts_json for multimodal turns). Adding them later to a live
database without migrations is the painful path.
- Sessions are server-side rows keyed by a SHA-256 of the cookie value,
not JWTs, so logout and bans revoke access immediately.
- Upstream API keys are Fernet-encrypted with a key derived from
LEMBAS_SECRET_KEY. decrypt() fails soft to "" so rotating the secret
degrades to re-entering keys rather than crashing the admin UI.
- Artwork is generated by scripts/build_artwork.py rather than hand-drawn
per file: the mallorn leaf appears in the icon, favicon, lockup and
banner, and one source is the only way those stay in sync. The wordmark
is Source Serif 4 (OFL) converted to outlines, because a README banner
cannot load a webfont and <text> would render in whatever serif the
viewer happens to have.
- Icons live in a template partial, not assets/, because same-document
<use href="#id"> is universally supported and the cross-document form
is not.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jaroslav Beneš
