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Workshop archive
Closed brand workshops in reverse chronological order. Each entry kept verbatim so the iteration history is searchable — when a brand decision looks odd, the workshop that drove it is here. See CHANGELOG.md for the corresponding amendment outcomes.
2026-05-11 evening · explored, closed with no action
Wordmark — uppercase ECREAL sizing exploration
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Workshopwordmark-uppercase-ecreal-2026-05-11No action taken — operator reviewed 5 uppercase ECREAL size variants (100% / 80% / 70% / 60% / 50% of V cap-height) against the rev-4 lowercase reference and chose to keep the locked rev-4 lowercase wordmark. Kept as audit trail; not propagated.
2026-05-11 evening · rev-4 wordmark dot tune (Option D5)
Dot placement diagnostic + 9-variant comparison
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Round 4wordmark-dot-placement-round4-2026-05-11Locked Option D5 here. 9 variants × 3 sizes; em-based
translateY+ 0.20em vs 0.21em vs 0.22em comparison. Root-cause: optical overshoot + size-proportional vertical shift. -
Round 3wordmark-dot-placement-round3-2026-05-11Diagnostic round — switched from
margin-bottomtotransform: translateYafter discovering the flex baseline cancellation issue. -
Round 2wordmark-dot-placement-round2-2026-05-110.20em + 0.21em dot batch with px-based vertical (didn't work as expected — surfaced the flex/margin issue).
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Round 1wordmark-dot-placement-2026-05-11Initial 6-variant placement workshop (1px / 2px closer × 1px / 2px down).
2026-05-11 afternoon · rev-3 wordmark rebalance (Option F)
7-variant rebalance — softer V + dot in lockstep
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Workshopwordmark-rebalance-2026-05-11Locked Option F (V 0.66em + dot 0.20em + V-e -0.11em). 7 variants × 3 sizes addressing over-balanced rev-2 (two heavyweight anchors).
2026-05-11 morning · rev-2 wordmark amendment (uppercase V + larger dot + D-half favicon)
Five-round amendment workshop
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Round 5amendment-workshop-2026-05-11-round5-darkfaviconDark-mode favicon variants (DA / DB / DC / DD) — L variant locked as universal contained app-icon.
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Round 4amendment-workshop-2026-05-11-round4Uppercase vs lowercase V adjudication + D vs D-half (r=7 vs r=6.5) favicon dot. D-half locked.
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Round 3amendment-workshop-2026-05-11-round3V-to-e gap and V-to-dot gap final tuning.
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Round 2amendment-workshop-2026-05-11-round2V height + monogram/favicon refinements.
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Round 1amendment-workshop-2026-05-11Initial wordmark + monogram dot variants.
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Translationwordmark-svg-translation-reviewSVG-to-CSS pixel-parity sweep verifying the wordmark.svg viewBox fix (1700 → 2048 = 1 em).