Identity — the counter-star R
The corporate mark: a heavyweight bitmap R that holds a knocked-out four-point star, plus the sigil-led wordmark built from it. The chase-light idiom (see spine.md) is the motion layer on top of this mark and does not reopen it. The Compass product mark is a sibling to this company mark, specified separately in compass-mark.md.
The counter-star
Section titled “The counter-star”A heavyweight bitmap slab R with a true 4-point star knocked out of its enclosed counter. The letter holds the star — R and star share the same pixels. The R is the company; the star is Rigel itself, Beta Orionis. One device carries both, which is why nothing else in the system ever needs a second logo, badge, or emblem.
Construction and rendering:
- Tile: the R sits on a rounded-corner tile with a safe margin, so it never touches the tile edge. It is a bitmap mark on a fixed pixel grid — a heavy stem and diagonal leg, a solid bowl, the star a knocked-out plus with corner ticks.
- Rendering: the bitmap face is the mark.
shape-rendering="crispEdges", always — no anti-aliased redraws, no vector smoothing, no outlining. - Master asset: the navy icon SVG is the locked master; every other rendition (mono, maskable, coral, phosphor) derives from it.
The wordmark is sigil-led
Section titled “The wordmark is sigil-led”The leading bitmap R is the mark; Departure Mono carries the trailing I-G-E-L, sized to sit against the R on a shared baseline so its pixel grid keeps the word coherent with the mark while staying live text. There is no tagline; the wordmark alone is the lockup.
Which mark on which surface
Section titled “Which mark on which surface”| surface | asset | notes |
|---|---|---|
| favicon 16–64 | navy icon | rounded tile, transparent corners |
| apple-touch (180) | square icon | full-bleed square; iOS masks its corners |
| PWA any-purpose 192/512 | navy icon | |
| PWA maskable 192/512 | maskable icon | generous safe zone; survives circle/squircle crops |
| monochrome / pinned-tab / notification | mono icon | fog R, zero purple, identical geometry; also the CI/automation-bot machine-identity avatar |
| machine-identity avatar (agent) | coral icon | coral R (#f78c6c, from the syntax palette, no state meaning); a scoped one-accent exception for GitHub avatars only |
| loading / active | phosphor icon | the only permitted #b57eff use |
| wordmark default | fog wordmark | all fog (bitmap R + Departure I-G-E-L), mono-native |
| wordmark hero / site header | accent wordmark | leading R purple, star knocked to navy, I-G-E-L fog |
| light mode / print | mono wordmark | navy on fog, polarity inversion only |
| CLI banner | R: mark | SECONDARY, terminal-only — never a primary icon |
| social / OG | OG card (1200×630) | accent wordmark on navy, slate RIGEL · BETA ORIONIS footer |
Clear space and minimum size
Section titled “Clear space and minimum size”- Clear space: one stem width on all sides of icon or wordmark. Inside the app tile the safe area already provides it.
- Minimum size, icon: 16px is the floor — judged at true 16px nearest-neighbor; below 16px use nothing (no shrunken fallback glyph exists or is permitted).
- Minimum size, wordmark: 24px tall.
Dead ideas
Section titled “Dead ideas”Do not resurrect: the lit foot-pixel star; icon + RIGEL two-R lockups; open-bowl R variants; any gradient treatment.
Requirement: the icon never renders below its 16px floor
Section titled “Requirement: the icon never renders below its 16px floor”The counter-star icon SHALL NOT be rendered below 16px, and the wordmark SHALL NOT be rendered below 24px tall; there is no smaller fallback glyph.
Scenario: a surface needs a mark smaller than the floor
Section titled “Scenario: a surface needs a mark smaller than the floor”- Given a context that would place the icon below 16px (or the wordmark below 24px)
- When the mark is applied
- Then the mark is omitted rather than shrunk — no downscaled or substitute glyph is used.
Requirement: no icon-beside-wordmark lockup
Section titled “Requirement: no icon-beside-wordmark lockup”Because the wordmark is sigil-led (its leading R is the mark), a composed icon-beside-wordmark lockup SHALL NOT be built — it would place two Rs on one lockup.
Scenario: a lockup is composed
Section titled “Scenario: a lockup is composed”- Given a surface needing a brand lockup
- When the lockup is assembled
- Then the wordmark stands alone as the lockup, and the icon does not reappear beside the word.
- And an icon-only context adjacent to a text context (e.g. a browser tab’s favicon beside the page title) is fine — only a composed two-R lockup is banned.