Brand Atom · Amendment · Round 2 · 2026-05-11

V Height + Monogram/Favicon Refinements

Round 1 locked the wordmark dot at 0.22em + 2px nudge. Round 2 addresses the remaining issues operator surfaced from the screenshot review: V is too high relative to baseline, V might benefit from cap-height instead of x-height, monogram M3 clips at the right edge, favicon C3 isn't centered as V+dot group.

LOCKED from Round 1: dot size 0.22em, margin-left calc(0.04em + 2px), margin-bottom 0.005em, dot color clay-bright on dark. All wordmark variants below inherit these.
01 · Wordmark

V height — lowercase vs uppercase

Same V path geometry in both. Only the CSS .bk-v height and the SVG viewBox change. The current spec uses height: 0.56em (slightly above lowercase x-height). Operator proposed uppercase: V top matches "l" cap-height so "Vecreal" reads as a capitalized word, not a lowercase one.

V1 · LOWERCASE (current spec, alignment-fixed)
V height 0.56em — slightly above x-height of "ecreal"
height 0.56em viewBox 10 14 44 37 reads as lowercase "v"
22px · sm
ecreal.
32px · md
ecreal.
48px · lg
ecreal.
64px · xl
ecreal.
96px · hero
ecreal.
V2 · UPPERCASE (proposed)
V height 0.72em — matches "l" cap-height; reads as "Vecreal"
height 0.72em viewBox 10 14 44 37 reads as uppercase "V"
22px · sm
ecreal.
32px · md
ecreal.
48px · lg
ecreal.
64px · xl
ecreal.
96px · hero
ecreal.
V3 · TALL (alternative — full ascender height)
V height 0.80em — matches "l" full ascender, slightly above cap
height 0.80em viewBox 10 14 44 37 reads as uppercase "V", taller than cap-height
22px · sm
ecreal.
32px · md
ecreal.
48px · lg
ecreal.
64px · xl
ecreal.
96px · hero
ecreal.
02 · Monogram (Open Variant)

M3 (r=7, cx=52) — alignment + clipping fix

M3 selected from Round 1, but original viewBox 10 14 48 38 clips the right edge at dot cx=52 r=7 (right edge at x=59, viewBox x_max=58). Also dot bottom extends below V tip with the increased radius. Three fix candidates compared below.

M3-A · EXPANDED VIEWBOX, original dot cy
viewBox widened to 50; dot cy=46 (original) — dot bottom extends below V tip
viewBox 10 14 50 38 dot cx=52 cy=46 r=7
M3-A · @sizes
16px
24px
32px
48px
64px
M3-B · DOT SHIFTED UP (bottom aligned with V tip)
viewBox widened; dot cy=44 — dot bottom (y=51) matches V curve tip (y=51)
viewBox 10 14 50 38 dot cx=52 cy=44 r=7
M3-B · @sizes
16px
24px
32px
48px
64px
M3-C · V SHIFTED LEFT (keeps viewBox at 48)
V path -3 left; dot cx=50 cy=44 r=7 — content shifted, viewBox unchanged
viewBox 10 14 48 38 V shifted -3 (x=[7, 51]) dot cx=50 cy=44 r=7
M3-C · @sizes
16px
24px
32px
48px
64px
03 · Favicon / Contained App Icon

C3 (r=7, cx=48) — centering + alignment

C3 selected from Round 1. With original V position (centered in tile) and the new bigger dot to the right, V+dot together is off-center within the 64×64 tile. Two fixes compared: shift V left to re-center V+dot as a group, and adjust dot cy so the dot's bottom aligns with the V tip at the new size.

C3-A · DOT SHIFTED UP (V position unchanged)
V at original; dot cy=42 — content asymmetric in tile
V x=[14, 50] (unchanged) dot cx=48 cy=42 r=7 group center x=33.5 (tile center 32)
C3-A · @sizes
16px · favicon
24px
32px
48px
64px
C3-B · V SHIFTED LEFT 2, dot adjusted
V x=[12, 48]; dot cx=46 cy=42 — V+dot group centered ≈32.5 (near tile center)
V x=[12, 48] (shifted -2) dot cx=46 cy=42 r=7 group center x=32.5 (tile center 32)
C3-B · @sizes
16px · favicon
24px
32px
48px
64px
C3-C · V SHIFTED LEFT 3, fully centered
V x=[11, 47]; dot cx=45 cy=42 — V+dot group centered ≈31.5 (slight overshoot left)
V x=[11, 47] (shifted -3) dot cx=45 cy=42 r=7 group center x=31.5 (tile center 32)
C3-C · @sizes
16px · favicon
24px
32px
48px
64px
Tab preview · 16px favicons in fake tab bars
A/B/C contained variants compared at actual favicon size
Vecreal · GC Intelligence [ C3-A ]
Vecreal · GC Intelligence [ C3-B ]
Vecreal · GC Intelligence [ C3-C ]

How to lock in: review and reply with three picks in the format Wordmark V1/V2/V3 · Monogram M3-A/B/C · Favicon C3-A/B/C. PC will execute the full atomic propagation across reference-design-system.html, reference-visual-mockups.html, wordmark.svg, monogram SVGs, and all coming-soon HTML files in one commit.

Round-1 lock-in (already decided, applied here): dot size 0.22em, dot margin-left calc(0.04em + 2px), dot margin-bottom 0.005em, monogram dot bumped to r=7 (open variant) / r=7 (contained variant).

What's not changing in Round 2: V geometry (path coordinates), V color (clay-bright on dark / clay-light on light), letter-spacing (-0.05em), V margin-right (-0.07em).