Anthony, on the gallery with the Brands filter and Agentic Emissive
selected: "why doesn't brands change?" It could not. Every brand file
was byte-identical across all four colour styles — github.webp was the
same 606-byte file in hq, matte, machined and emissive — because a
colour style stopped at the drawn icons and a brand's coloured form was
just the line mark recoloured to the owner's hex.
The three agentic styles now re-render the marks in their material,
pinned to the owner's own mark: same geometry, same colour, new surface.
hq keeps the flat marks a first-release reader already has.
Spec:
- Rule 7 said "a set does not redraw them", which forbade exactly this.
It now says what a re-rendering may and may not do: geometry, counters
and figure/ground are fixed, only the surface changes.
- Rule 8 gains the third provenance: a re-rendered mark is `both`, the
geometry its owner's and the material the set's.
- Rule 10 covers every colour style rather than hq alone, and says what
a material that works by emitting light does with a mark too dark to
emit: its own colour where it can, a lighter tint of the same hue
where it is dark but still coloured, neutral white where there is no
hue left. 85, 4 and 22 of the 111.
- Rule 12 says how a reader tells the two apart without comparing files:
a flat style writes `svg` and `made_by: human`, a re-rendering style
writes no `svg` and `made_by: both`.
- Rule 13 gains `ground`. It already observed that a near-black style is
right on a terminal and illegible on paper, but gave a reader no way
to know which style that was.
Gallery:
- Honours `ground: dark`, so emissive draws on the dark tiles it needs.
Without it the 22 marks that emit neutral white — GitHub, Apple,
OpenAI — were invisible on a white tile, which is the same class of
bug as the one that started this.
- In the detail hero each style tile carries its own ground, so a
dark-only style sitting beside three light ones still shows something.
The hosted set carries the new brand webp for the three agentic styles
and drops the 333 flat marks they no longer reference.
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* OpenIcon: a set may carry several colour styles
Rules 12 and 13. HQ was the first colour style and it was drawn beside
glossy 3D emoji masters, which reads as the decade it borrows from, so
a colour style cannot be one look forever: the reference set now carries
four, HQ plus three flat-material agentic styles.
Rule 12 makes more than one a map rather than a second name: `styles`
lists them, `style_info` describes each, and each icon carries a `styles`
map whose entries are shaped exactly as rule 9's `hq` block. A set with
an HQ style keeps writing the old top-level `hq` block and per-icon `hq`
key as the same objects under their older name, so a reader written
against the first HQ release keeps working.
Rule 13 makes a style say what it is for. The choice between colour
styles is a choice of surface: near-black bodies with lit accents are
right on a dark terminal and illegible on paper, and only the set knows
which is which. A family shares a prefix and the family name alone means
its default member, so `agentic` means `agentic-matte`.
The gallery follows the manifest instead of a simple/HQ switch: one tab
per style the set has actually drawn, labelled and explained from
`style_info`, and the detail pane shows every style an icon has.
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* openicon gallery: serve the three agentic styles
The hosted copy of the reference set gets the new styles' 64 and 128px
webp and the brand SVGs, plus the manifest that now lists all four
colour styles, so the gallery's tabs have something behind them.
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A set may add a full-colour HQ style beside the canonical simple one:
styles: [simple, hq], a top-level hq block (sizes, webp_sizes, provenance,
coverage) and an hq block per icon (png, webp, svg for brands, made_by,
hex, hex_source). Same silhouette as simple, falls back to simple, brand
colour must be the owner's with its source, provenance is per style.
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One openicon.json naming every icon (kebab-case keys, unique aliases,
shared keywords), 24x24 currentColor SVGs with a stated grid, and three
terminal glyphs per icon: a Nerd Font character with its codepoint and
glyph name, a Unicode symbol and a 1-4 character ASCII spelling, picked
nerd > unicode > ascii. Brand logos carry brand: true, a trademark note,
source and licence. made_by + W3C AI disclosure per set and per icon.
Mapping from Lucide, Tabler, Font Awesome, Nerd Fonts and Simple Icons.
Landing page shows 47 icons from the reference set (profullstack/openicon).
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