Hallmark was telling good models what to build. This splits it into a floor
that binds and a library that offers, and bans the eyebrow outright.
The eyebrow. Gate 54 goes from geometry to existence: short inert type before a
heading that announces it is banned in every arrangement, and no brief earns it
back. The detector inverts from CSS-first to DOM-first, so it now sees flex and
block stacks, heads declared inside a media query, class-less headings, and the
word "overline". Small type before a heading survives only when it carries a
fact, a destination, or an identifier, which keeps captions, field labels,
datelines, unit labels and linked chips legal. references/section-entry.md is the
replacement: twelve ways into a section, ten of them pointing at material the
skill already had.
Themes stay themes. A written contract in theme-axes.md says a theme carries
material and never a page plan, and all 24 are trimmed to it: 4,070 lines down to
2,861. Lumen loses a mandatory hero apparatus and a fixed section sequence; hum
loses 45 lines of global layout rules filed under a theme. Fake brands, invented
people and shippable taglines come out. Genre files stop mandating nav and footer
archetypes they disagreed with the themes about.
Tiers. All 58 gates gain one: 34 carry a Floor clause nothing ships through, 18
are Reflex gates a build with an argument can waive on the record, 6 never block.
Fifteen gates split so a real floor stops dragging a taste threshold behind it.
Gates 42 and 43 stop ordering a rotation through the catalog and instead ask that
the default be named rather than defaulted into. A waiver declares itself in the
stamp with guard evidence the linter re-derives; three per artifact, one per
gate, Floor never waivable, and an over-cap waiver lets its gate fire so waiving
twelve is worse than waiving none.
The catalogs stop being a mandatory pick. Step 2 asks for a designed page shape
stated in plain words; the named shapes are there when a starting point helps.
Anti-repetition moves from "rotate the codes" to "differ from your last three and
say how", which constrains sameness without constraining invention.
Contradictions. Display line-height had three ranges and now has one owner. The
outlier face was capped at two slots by one line and uncapped by the next. Gate
39 hard-coded 44px against finish.md's 32-40px allowance. Gate 14 banned padding
animation that floating-nav.md prescribes. Gate 57's theme list had drifted to 20
of 24. F3 and gate 51 fought over overflow-wrap; break-word settles it.
Evidence. 201 eyebrows removed across 38 example pages and 32 across the archived
test builds, each replaced with a real opening rather than deleted; aggregate
failures fell while doing it. The marketing site drops its own section labels and
moves hero labels below the lede. A cold build through the revised skill lands
0 FAIL / 0 WARN, names its own structure instead of picking a code, and argues
with a Reflex gate rather than waiving it.
color.md's 3%-vs-5% contradiction resolves to 5% everywhere. The gate
moves from judged-only to M/R:
- static half (sloplint.mjs check23, WARN-grade): flags accent tokens
painting viewport-scale rules (body/section/hero-class selectors, or
rules sized >= 40dvh / 320px / inset 0) and display-size accent text.
Posture-aware via the stamp comment (Drenched skips; Committed and
dark papers are structurally exempt because fields and papers are
never accent tokens); alpha-thinned washes and atmospheric radial
blooms pass
- render half (sloplint-render.mjs, 1280x800 only, undeclared-posture
pages): resolves the accent tokens to sRGB and sums painted area on a
16px union grid (no double-counting of nested rects); > 8% FAIL,
> 5% WARN, atmospheric thresholds 30/20. Along the way the render
tier gains a real colour parser: modern Chrome serializes computed
values and canvas fillStyle in their authored space, so oklch is now
converted with the same math sloplint uses (the old rgb-only regex
would have silently skipped every oklch page)
Verified in the browser: a full-bleed accent fixture measures 94.2%
painted (FAIL) and the live coral landing measures 0% (pass); the static
half flags the fixture's three sites and stays quiet on all canonical
examples. Also: garden-01's pre-existing zero-chroma mask-matte token
gains 0.005 chroma so the full example sweep is 0-FAIL again.
The example was ported from the proposal mockup with oklch(x% 0 0) neutrals;
the shipped Grid theme tokens carry a faint cool cast (0.003-0.010 at hue 255).
Bring the example's palette in line: 7 FAILs -> sloplint clean.
- scripts/imagegen.mjs: opt-in generated-still hook via Together's images
endpoint (FLUX.1.1-pro default, gemini-3-pro-image optional), cache by
prompt hash, provenance sidecar. No key -> graceful exit 3, falls back
to CSS-art / placeholder (verified). Wired into tier-e-generated.md +
SKILL Step 4 as opt-in, never auto-fires.
- site/examples/{grid,field,ledger,arcade}-01: canonical builds from the
proposal mockups, all sloplint 0-FAIL, referenced by each theme spec.
- one canonical top-of-file order: stamp, critique line, direction contract
- theme-axes.md: the 20-row Rotation lookup now ships inside the skill
- tier taxonomies unified by name; craft tiers keep construction letters
- S1 reworked to stacked-numbered (the old side-column head was gate 54's
own auto-fail); carnival + lumen examples brought up to gates 54/55/24;
sloplint: mask/filter exemption on gate 22, precision fix + FAIL grade
on gate 54, 15-line stamp window
- variants playbook matches the scripts byte for byte (request ids, riff
shape, fallback wording, flow order); draft-sweep exceptions written
into slop-test, custom-theme, and SKILL
- study.md: italic roles diagnosed as-is, built roman; preview-examples
regenerated for v1.2
Carnival: fixed the three palette drops whose second accent failed contrast,
tightened the display tracking, and added section-rhythm, alignment, and
drop-selection guidance so the theme lands well-aligned and readable by
default. Lightened and tightened the Carnival headers on the landing.
Anti-slop guards (skill references): heading-to-body alignment coherence as a
principle rather than a rigid rule; centered overlays and command palettes must
center via their container; and a hero headline is never only a number, a lead
figure always pairs with words.
Worked Examples: added three generated pages to the landing carousel, a
small-batch honey farm, a risograph print fair, and an experimental type
studio, after fixing their nav centering and section alignment.
Media: removed the Soroe example card along with the unused scroll-videos,
poster stills, and orphaned thumbnails it left behind, and bumped the asset
cache-bust so the restyled CSS reloads.
Swap the Hum carousel card from Sprout (hum-02) to Bubble (hum-07), the
guided sourdough Narrative Workflow build. Keep only one custom example in
the showcase, the Mend Assembly repair-cafe poster; the other bespoke pages
stay in the repo but off the landing. Untrack hum-02 so only featured builds
ship, refresh the scroll-demos manifest, and bump the cache version.
Merge the clear duplicates (gradient text into the gradient gate, macrostructure-
repeat into the structural-fingerprint gate, the overflow-x:clip mandate into the
horizontal-scroll gate, emoji-icon into the icon-libraries gate), collapse the five
contrast gates to two, the five input-state gates to one, and the four hero gates to
two. No coverage lost. Renumber 1–57 and update every gate-number and gate-total
reference across SKILL.md, the reference docs, the landing copy, and the example builds.
Adds Carnival, Lumen, Hum, and Cobalt to the catalogue (now 20 themes),
each with its own tokens block, hero archetype, landing copy, and spec doc.
Introduces Custom as a first-class route: when a brief carries real
creative intent, Hallmark designs the whole page from first principles —
palette, type, and structure — rather than recolouring a catalogue theme.
Ships five worked custom examples and a README section.
Rewrites the per-theme landing copy and reconciles every catalogue count
across the site and the skill (20 themes · 21 macrostructures · 50
component archetypes · 70 slop-test gates). Drops the last competitor
references from the CSS comments, fixes the genre rosters, and ignores
the local example explorations so only the featured builds ship.
Each .ex-card div is now an <a target="_blank" rel="noopener"> wrapping the same content. The hover-play video, prompt line, and .ex-card styles all work unchanged (the class already had color: inherit + focus-visible). Added one CSS line — text-decoration: none on .ex-card — so the <a> doesn't underline the card.
Linked destinations:
- examples/tally/ — SaaS, modern-minimal (from /Users/youssef/test-hallmark-9)
- examples/wayfare/ — travel booking, atmospheric (from test-hallmark-12)
- _tests/09-slow-pour/ — small-batch coffee subscription (already in site)
- examples/bananastudio/ — creative studio with playful motion (from test-hallmark-6)
- _tests/06-anya-portfolio/ — software architect personal site (already in site)
- examples/najm/ — Moroccan fashion (from test-hallmark-7)
- _tests/11-soroe-ceramics/ — small ceramics studio (already in site)
- examples/hyperlane/ — developer infrastructure (from test-hallmark-15)
site/examples/ adds ~308 KB total across the 5 copied projects. The other 3 already live under site/_tests/ so no copying needed for them.
Youssef