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Prototemplate: GT's brand identity lab

The living brand guidelines for General Translation, and the design lab that produced them: sixteen art directions and three full sites built as live pages (never mockups), plus the tooling that judges them. The Dossier (/d/singularity-dossier) is the completed direction — the canonical statement of the identity in application. The index (/) is the working file: the anatomy wall (the flagship cut into section tiles, light and dark, desktop and mobile) and the capabilities ledger (what the system can do, each entry pointing at where it runs live). /compare sweeps two directions against each other in synced same-origin frames; /brand is the identity book; /present walks the deck; /docs serves the written canon and, right below this tour, the whole build log — the laws, the auditors, and every library running live.

Run it

pnpm install
pnpm dev        # http://localhost:3006

Read first

doc what it holds
BRAND.md the identity canon: the name, the idea, the character and voice, the mark, color, type, language as material — and the Dossier as the completed reference
DESIGN.md the visual canon: the four-color system, the line law, rails/grounds/seams, the doubled line, iso, the 1-bit language, moving type, motion discipline, the mobile type ladder, the svh/dvh law, the two read lines
ARCHITECTURE.md the code map: directions registry, the toolchain SSOT + fork rescoping, the component inventory
docs/SHIP-LOOP.md the verify/ship procedure every round runs (line audit, ratchet, tsc, filming, mirror build)
docs/LIBRARIES.md the library index — the live version is /craft

Agent sessions: the same material is wired as skills under .agents/skills/gt-redesign (umbrella) and the focused redesign-* skills.

The one-paragraph tour

Every page runs on the laws: hairlines drawn exactly once (scripts/lint-lines.mjs fails the round otherwise), four absolute colors plus one spectral accent per page, dark mode as a pure token remap, and one mobile type ladder (DESIGN.md §12). src/app/d/toolchain is the single source of truth the fork directions import and re-skin by root-class rescoping; src/lib holds the visual engines; src/components/shared holds the instruments. src/lib/directions.ts registers every direction — the index, presenter, and sitemap all follow it. The anatomy wall's tiles come from docs/harness/gallery-shoot.mjs under deterministic names (ARCHITECTURE.md, "The gallery pipeline") — a missing tile just drops from the wall.

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A design lab where every prototype is a real, localized page, with a scroll presenter and build log. This repo also contains eighteen art directions for the General Translation website redesign.

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