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Brand updates

What changed in the brand system, and when.

Brand systems drift quietly. This is the record of what moved, so an asset saved six months ago can be checked against what is true now.

  1. Added

    The brand portal

    This site. 22 pages and 54 downloadable assets, generated from the live design system rather than written by hand. It replaces the single scrolling brands page, which could not deep-link to a specific rule.

  2. Fixed

    Type specimens were rendering in the wrong face

    The old brands page set its specimens with var(--font-manrope) and var(--font-playfair) — two custom properties that are not defined anywhere in the codebase. An undefined var() makes the whole font-family declaration invalid at computed-value time, so the property was inherited instead: the Playfair Display specimens were rendering in Manrope. They now use the real variables, --font-sans and --font-serif.

  3. Changed

    Contrast rules are now measured, not asserted

    Every approved pairing carries a real WCAG ratio. Two are now formally banned: mauve on cream and cream on mauve, both at 2.11:1. This is the numeric backing for the dual-accent rule that was previously stated without evidence.

  4. Changed

    Shareefico moved out

    The Shareefico brand system used to live on this domain, which meant it was rendered in Itqan’s fonts and could not show its own type accurately. It now has its own portal at brands.shareefi.co, built from the Shareefico codebase.

Adding an entry

Log anything that would make a previously-correct decision wrong: a retired asset, a changed hex, a new rule. Cosmetic edits to this portal do not belong here.