Neither is referenced by the app or the build; branding/archive/README.md
says what each one was and why it did not survive the sizes an app icon
is actually drawn at.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-11 12:03:28 -07:00

README.md

Branding

The mark is a container with its right wall opened, so the enclosure itself is the letter C, holding a >_ prompt. Container plus shell, in one closed shape — no type inside the icon, so nothing goes illegible when the app is 16 px tall in a taskbar.

Files

File	What it is
`triple-c-mark.svg`	The mark alone, transparent. Use on any ground.
`triple-c-mark-small.svg`	Optical variant for 32 px and below.
`triple-c-icon.svg`	The app icon: mark at 70% on a `#0D1117` tile, 22% corner radius.
`triple-c-icon-small.svg`	The app icon at small sizes — small mark, drawn at 82%.
`triple-c-lockup-dark.svg`	Horizontal lockup for dark backgrounds. Wordmark is outlined, so no font is needed to render it.
`triple-c-lockup-light.svg`	The same for light backgrounds.
`triple-c-icon-1024.png`	Master raster, generated.
`build-icons.py`	Regenerates every packaged icon from the SVGs.

Palette

Role	Dark ground	Light ground
Frame	`#58A6FF` (`--accent`)	`#1F6FEB` (`--accent-emphasis`)
Prompt	`#F0821E`	`#C4610F`
Tile	`#0D1117` (`--bg-primary`)	—
Wordmark	`#E6EDF3` (`--text-primary`)	`#131C25`

The frame and prompt colours are the app's own accent tokens from app/src/index.css, which is why the icon sits on the app's chrome instead of fighting it. Orange is the only equity carried over from the previous marks, and it is now an accent rather than a background.

Two sources, not one

build-icons.py renders sizes ≥ 48 px from triple-c-icon.svg and sizes ≤ 32 px from triple-c-icon-small.svg. At small sizes the cursor bar closes up against the chevron and a 12 px frame stroke resamples to a grey smear, so the small variant drops the cursor, widens the mouth, thickens the strokes and draws the mark larger inside the tile.

This matters most for icon.ico: Windows picks the 16 px entry for the window corner and 24/32 px for the taskbar. The previous .ico contained a single 16 px image, which Windows then upscaled everywhere else — the likely cause of screenshot_for_fix/task_bar_icon_not_correct.png. The current one carries 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 128 and 256, each rendered from vector rather than downsampled from one bitmap.

Regenerating

pip install cairosvg pillow
python3 branding/build-icons.py

Writes app/src-tauri/icons/{32x32,128x128,128x128@2x,icon}.png, icon.ico, icon.icns, app/public/favicon.svg and branding/triple-c-icon-1024.png. Do not hand-edit those — edit the SVG and re-run.

The lockups are committed sources, not generated: their wordmark is Liberation Mono Bold converted to outlines (-1.6 tracking, 44 px cap height), so re-cutting it needs the font and fonttools.