Eight fresh directions plus two refinements of the shipped mark, each authored as a real currentColor SVG in the app's house style rather than as a description — so any of them can be dropped straight in, and the favicon tile is a mechanical derivation.
Every mark was rendered and looked at, not reasoned about. That changed the set three times: the braid came out as a plain multiplication sign and was rebuilt with actual over/under crossings, the anchor was rebalanced to three-fold symmetry, and the first return-arc read even more like a copyright glyph than the current mark does.
The finding that matters
It isn't one of the eight. The mark shipping today fails at 16px — its outer strokes rasterise away and the 2.5px gap to the node fills in, so the favicon renders as an indeterminate smear. Concept 09 fixes that in five lines, independent of any rebrand.
03 Braid is the most distinctive mark here and cannot be the icon — at 16px the weave collapses, and thicker strokes can't fix it because the crossings need room
01, 05, 07 are documented so the reasoning against them is on record: Venn diagrams aren't ownable, the three-spoke hub sits close to the Mercedes mark, and the knot is the infinity symbol
This branch is exploration and record-keeping — it ships no app assets.
Eight fresh directions plus two refinements of the shipped mark, each
authored as a real currentColor SVG in the app's house style rather than
as a description, so any of them can be dropped straight in and the
favicon tile is a mechanical derivation.
Every mark was rendered at 120/32/24/16px and looked at, which changed
the set three times: the braid came out as a plain multiplication sign
and was rebuilt with actual over/under crossings, the anchor was
rebalanced to three-fold symmetry, and the first return-arc read even
more like a copyright glyph than the current one.
The finding that matters is not one of the eight. The mark shipping
today fails at 16px — its outer strokes drop out to rasterisation and
the 2.5px gap to the node fills in, so the favicon renders as a smear.
Concept 09 fixes that in five lines and is worth taking regardless of
whether anything here replaces the mark.
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Eight fresh directions plus two refinements of the shipped mark, each authored as a real
currentColorSVG in the app's house style rather than as a description — so any of them can be dropped straight in, and the favicon tile is a mechanical derivation.Review page: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/b7a50728-1842-46c5-9bb1-fbca5324052f — every mark on both grounds, at 88/32/24/16px, plus a simulated browser-tab strip at true favicon size.
Method
Every mark was rendered and looked at, not reasoned about. That changed the set three times: the braid came out as a plain multiplication sign and was rebuilt with actual over/under crossings, the anchor was rebalanced to three-fold symmetry, and the first return-arc read even more like a copyright glyph than the current mark does.
The finding that matters
It isn't one of the eight. The mark shipping today fails at 16px — its outer strokes rasterise away and the 2.5px gap to the node fills in, so the favicon renders as an indeterminate smear. Concept 09 fixes that in five lines, independent of any rebrand.
That fix is adopted separately in #24.
Outcome
This branch is exploration and record-keeping — it ships no app assets.
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