The model · July 2026

Design System

The living spec that keeps every Garden surface one thing — soil tokens, type, glyph grammar, components, and the intermediary logotype. The canonical source is garden.css; this page renders it.

Logotype · "network sprout"

The intermediary mark: a sprout whose leaf-tips are network nodes — research directions seeded from common soil, faintly interconnected. Loam ground, sprout-green stem, seed-gold nodes. It ships as favicon.svg and scales from browser tab to hub brandmark. The wordmark is the serif face tracked wide; the two may appear together or the mark may stand alone once a surface has established the brand.

Network sprout mark Network sprout mark at navigation scale Network sprout mark at favicon scale
CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH GARDEN
ASTARITA×NORMANDALE

Soil tokens

Every color on every surface is one of these variables — never a hardcoded hex in a page. Each token carries its own dark-scheme and print value, so artifacts theme and print without per-page work.

ground--ground
card--card
sand--sand
ink--ink
ink-soft--ink-soft
leaf · primary--leaf
leaf-deep--leaf-deep
sprout--sprout
seed · accent--seed
bloom · accent--bloom
band · loam--band
line--line

Semantic aliases: --ok (leaf) · --warn (seed) · --hold (bloom). The loam band keeps a constant deep tone in both themes, and text on it is always solid — never opacity-faded.

Type

Display · serifBuild the soil; the field grows itself.
WordmarkGARDEN
EyebrowWork the field · July 2026
Body · sansWorking prose is the system sans at 15.5px/1.55; strong lifts to full ink.
Lede · serif italicOne italic serif sentence saying what the artifact is for.
Data · monocrg_console_v1 · fieldbuilding-consciousness.pages.dev

Glyph grammar

Custom icons only — no icon fonts, no libraries. Inline SVG on a 24×24 grid, stroke-width:1.7, round caps and joins, no fills except small node dots, always currentColor. Each page owns exactly one glyph, defined once in nav.js and echoed on its hub card.

hub · trellis
console
call sheet
thesis · sprout
map · beds
roadmap · path
protocol · branch
rfp · seed packet

Components

Status chips — the four build states
done  live  in development  holding
Stat card
10
Conference targets
3 workshops expected produced
3
Skills shipped
woo-detector · ontology-mapper · paper-to-code
Loam takeaway band

One serif sentence that carries the point.

A supporting line in solid band-ink-2 — never opacity-faded.

Rules of the Garden

  1. Hub-and-spoke, no routing machinery. Flat self-contained leaves behind one grouped hub; groups are phases of the operation.
  2. Three artifact temperatures. Hot working surfaces (stateful, weekly), warm model canvases (steer the work), cold print leaves (made to leave the screen). Hubs place hot first.
  3. Names say what the artifact is. Kebab-case noun phrases — field-thesis, not page2.
  4. Self-contained. Every leaf works from file://: no CDNs, no webfonts, no external requests.
  5. Tokens only. A page may add layout CSS, never new colors. New color = a new token in garden.css with dark and print values.
  6. Shared layers stay minimal. One nav.js (single source of IA), one stylesheet. Extract a shared data layer only when a third surface needs the same state — never earlier.
  7. Honest data. Deadlines and figures we haven't confirmed are labeled verify or TBD — epistemic hygiene applies to our own surfaces first.