Compass mark — the needle
The Compass product mark, a sibling to the Rigel counter-star R specified in identity.md. Rigel is the company (a star); Compass is the product (an agentic software factory). The company mark is the counter-star R; the product needs its own mark for the places Compass appears on its own.
What it is
Section titled “What it is”A compass needle floating inside a diamond bezel, built on the SAME locked tile as the R:
- Tile: the same locked rounded-corner tile as the R — navy
#011627ground,shape-rendering="crispEdges", identical to the R’s construction (see identity.md). - Needle: two-tone directional. The NORTH half is lit phosphor
#b57eff(the brand’s lit/active color, see color.md); the SOUTH half is hollow (outline only). North-solid / south-hollow is the universal magnetized-needle read, and it degrades to a clear north-pointer at favicon size. - Accent: purple lives on the mark, so the tile keeps its accent. The one-accent rule (see color.md) exempts the mark itself, the same exemption granted to the R sigil.
- Placement: centered on the true tile center on both axes (symmetric).
Status
Section titled “Status”Placeholder. It is wired as the footer Compass-repo icon and is usable as a placeholder but needs more iteration. The R mark is LOCKED; the Compass mark is NOT yet locked.
Rules it inherits
Section titled “Rules it inherits”As a true sibling to the R, the Compass mark honors the identity system’s construction discipline rather than sitting beside it as a foreign object:
- Same pixel grid, same navy tile, same
crispEdgesrendering. - Purple
#a66ef5/ phosphor#b57effdrawn from the locked palette (see color.md). - The 16px icon floor applies, since it is a bitmap tile mark.
Requirement: the Compass mark honors the R’s tile discipline
Section titled “Requirement: the Compass mark honors the R’s tile discipline”The Compass mark SHALL be constructed on the same locked navy #011627 tile as
the R with shape-rendering="crispEdges", SHALL draw its accent only from
the locked purple/phosphor palette, and SHALL NOT be rendered below the 16px
icon floor; there is no smaller fallback glyph (see identity.md
§“Clear space and minimum size”).
Scenario: the Compass mark is applied to a surface
Section titled “Scenario: the Compass mark is applied to a surface”- Given a surface that shows the Compass product mark
- When the mark is rendered
- Then it is drawn on the locked navy tile with
crispEdges, its lit north half uses phosphor#b57efffrom the locked palette, and it is never placed below 16px. - And below the 16px floor the mark is omitted rather than shrunk, matching the R’s floor rule (see identity.md).