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Translate the genre of that design, such as broadcast graphics, packaging type or signage, never a brand's logo, mascot, exact colours or products.", "Modern is carried mostly by brands (Finish Line, Ciroc Vodka, Express): it is the design this audience sees every day. Translate the genre of that design, such as broadcast graphics, packaging type or signage, never a brand's logo, mascot, exact colours or products.", "style tags returned no tags." ] }, "reading": { "clusters": [ { "id": "c1", "name": "Quiet-storm sleeve", "reading": "The strongest surprise: this comedy audience's music is smooth, romantic neo-soul and hip-hop soul, not loud funk. The night should feel like putting on a late record, slow and grown, before the jokes land.", "layers": [ "palette", "typography", "imagery", "motion" ], "conventions": [ "neo-soul album sleeves: warm earth-toned duotone in cocoa, copper and dusty rose, soft and low-lit", "late-90s R&B sleeve titles: a high-contrast serif set lowercase, wide-tracked, floating in empty space", "vinyl back covers: Side A and Side B tracklists with running times" ], "refs": [ { "name": "Neo Soul", "kind": "look quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Soulful", "kind": "mood quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Smooth", "kind": "mood quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Romance", "kind": "meaning quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Maxwell", "kind": "music", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Anthony Hamilton", "kind": "music", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Mary J. Blige", "kind": "music", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Flowing Silhouettes", "kind": "surface", "mark": "new" } ], "surprise": true }, { "id": "c2", "name": "The trickster on a bare stage", "reading": "The comedy they love is intimate, microphone-driven and eccentric: the trickster who punctures the polished line. Against the smooth sleeve, the jokes arrive as interruptions.", "layers": [ "voice", "interaction" ], "conventions": [ "black-box stand-up: one microphone, a bare wall and a single wash of coloured light", "sketch and roast asides: the heckle scrawled across the polished line" ], "refs": [ { "name": "The trickster", "kind": "meaning quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Eccentric", "kind": "mood quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Humor loving", "kind": "meaning quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Humorous", "kind": "mood quality", "mark": "predicted" }, { "name": "This Is Not Happening", "kind": "TV", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Comedy Central Roasts", "kind": "TV", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "A Black Lady Sketch Show", "kind": "TV", "mark": "new" } ], "surprise": true }, { "id": "c3", "name": "Warm back room", "reading": "Warm, observational, neighbourhood stories: the room matters as much as the stage. The practical facts belong to the bar itself, written the way a bar writes them.", "layers": [ "layout", "structure", "voice" ], "conventions": [ "neighbourhood bar guest checks: ruled tab paper with handwritten lines and a total", "lamp-lit sitcom living rooms: amber light on worn wood" ], "refs": [ { "name": "Warm", "kind": "look quality", "mark": "predicted" }, { "name": "Community", "kind": "meaning quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "The Last O.G.", "kind": "TV", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "I Want You Back", "kind": "film", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Celebratory", "kind": "tone", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Nostalgic", "kind": "tone", "mark": "new" } ], "surprise": true } ], "setAside": [ { "name": "Paschal's Restaurant & Bar", "kind": "place", "mark": "new", "reason": "An Atlanta restaurant; the night is in a Chicago bar's back room and the page names no other venue." }, { "name": "The Westin Atlanta Airport", "kind": "place", "mark": "new", "reason": "An airport hotel in another city: travel noise, not the taste of a comedy night." }, { "name": "Hpnotiq", "kind": "brand", "mark": "new", "reason": "A single liqueur brand whose look is its bottle trade dress; nothing to translate without copying it." }, { "name": "Metallica: 72 Seasons - Global Premiere", "kind": "film", "mark": "new", "reason": "A metal concert premiere, outside what the comedy, soul and sitcom works share." } ], "approach": "A one-page site built like a neo-soul record sleeve that a trickster has scribbled on: a cocoa-and-copper duotone ground, a lowercase high-contrast serif title, a slowly turning record drawn in SVG, and the evening laid out as Side A (every Tuesday) and Side B (the first-Tuesday open mic) with running times. Handwritten asides interrupt the smooth copy, and tickets are written on a bar guest check. The newsletter form is a request line." }, "dna": { "thesis": "Second Drink is a neo-soul record sleeve for a Tuesday night, smooth and warm, that a trickster has scribbled jokes across.", "devices": [ { "id": "dna1", "layer": "palette", "device": "Last-call sleeve duotone: cocoa ground, copper light, dusty rose and olive, with no black and no gold", "anchors": [ { "name": "Neo Soul", "kind": "look quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Warm", "kind": "look quality", "mark": "predicted" } ], "qualities": [ "Neo Soul", "Warm" ], "translation": "Neo-soul sleeves print warm portraits in an earth duotone. The page ground is cocoa, the light is copper, text is warm rose-cream, and olive and rose carry the secondary panels. My interpretation, not Qloo's colours.", "convention": "neo-soul album sleeves: warm earth-toned duotone in cocoa, copper and dusty rose, soft and low-lit", "tokens": { "colors": [ "#2e1b14", "#c9652e", "#e9a99a", "#7f8a5a", "#f4dcc6" ] }, "surprise": true, "moved": { "colors": [ "#c9652e", "#e9a99a", "#7f8a5a" ], "fonts": [], "ids": [] }, "method": "css-palette", "why": "Custom properties carry the duotone through every section.", "cluster": "Quiet-storm sleeve", "check": "present" }, { "id": "dna2", "layer": "typography", "device": "Lowercase sleeve title: Prata set lowercase and wide-tracked for the name and headings, Alegreya Sans for reading, Caveat for the scrawled asides", "anchors": [ { "name": "Soulful", "kind": "mood quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Smooth", "kind": "mood quality", "mark": "new" } ], "qualities": [ "Soulful", "Smooth" ], "translation": "The late-90s R&B sleeve title floats a high-contrast serif in lowercase with air around it, which reads soulful and smooth. A calligraphic humanist sans keeps the facts warm. The handwriting belongs to the trickster's interruptions.", "convention": "late-90s R&B sleeve titles: a high-contrast serif set lowercase, wide-tracked, floating in empty space", "tokens": { "fonts": [ "Prata", "Alegreya Sans", "Caveat" ], "css": [ "text-transform: lowercase", "letter-spacing: 0.08em" ] }, "surprise": true, "moved": { "colors": [], "fonts": [ "Prata", "Alegreya Sans", "Caveat" ], "ids": [] }, "method": "library-font", "why": "Prata, Alegreya Sans and Caveat come from the library, set lowercase and tracked in CSS.", "cluster": "Quiet-storm sleeve", "check": "present" }, { "id": "dna3", "layer": "structure", "device": "The evening as a back-cover tracklist: Side A is every Tuesday, Side B is the first-Tuesday open mic, each line with its time", "anchors": [ { "name": "Maxwell", "kind": "music", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Romance", "kind": "meaning quality", "mark": "new" } ], "qualities": [ "Smooth", "Romance" ], "translation": "A vinyl back cover lists songs with their running times. Here the doors, the show and the sign-up become the tracks, read top to bottom like a slow side.", "tokens": { "ids": [ "side-a", "side-b", "tracklist" ] }, "surprise": true, "moved": { "colors": [], "fonts": [], "ids": [ "side-a", "side-b", "tracklist" ] }, "method": "css-layout", "why": "Two side panels with a tracklist grid of times and titles.", "cluster": "Quiet-storm sleeve", "check": "present" }, { "id": "dna4", "layer": "voice", "device": "Trickster asides: handwritten interruptions that puncture the smooth sleeve copy", "anchors": [ { "name": "The trickster", "kind": "meaning quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Eccentric", "kind": "mood quality", "mark": "new" } ], "qualities": [ "The trickster", "Eccentric" ], "translation": "The trickster and the eccentric sketch voice cut in on the polished line. Each section has one smooth line and one scrawl that undercuts it.", "tokens": { "ids": [ "asides" ], "copy": [ "The second one is when the night starts.", "No names on the poster. You'll find out who's funny.", "Five minutes is longer than you think." ] }, "surprise": true, "moved": { "colors": [], "fonts": [], "ids": [ "asides" ] }, "method": "copy", "why": "The asides are written lines placed beside the smooth copy.", "cluster": "The trickster on a bare stage", "check": "present" }, { "id": "dna5", "layer": "imagery", "device": "Flowing-silhouette record: an inline SVG LP with grooves, a copper label and a microphone drawn in one curving line", "anchors": [ { "name": "Flowing Silhouettes", "kind": "surface", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Neo Soul", "kind": "look quality", "mark": "new" } ], "qualities": [ "Flowing Silhouettes", "Neo Soul" ], "translation": "A drawn record in flowing curves stands for the soul sleeve without any work's artwork; the microphone in one continuous line ties it to stand-up.", "tokens": { "svg": [ "record-art" ] }, "surprise": true, "method": "inline-svg", "why": "No picture generator: an inline SVG record with grooves and a one-line microphone.", "cluster": "Quiet-storm sleeve", "check": "present" }, { "id": "dna6", "layer": "motion", "device": "Slow turntable: the record turns at a lazy pace, with a pause button and a reduced-motion stop", "anchors": [ { "name": "Smooth", "kind": "mood quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Soulful", "kind": "mood quality", "mark": "new" } ], "qualities": [ "Smooth", "Soulful" ], "translation": "No pacing tags came back, so the motion follows the Smooth mood: one slow continuous turn, never a bounce.", "tokens": { "css": [ "animation: spin 12s linear infinite" ], "ids": [ "spin-toggle" ], "keyframes": [ "spin" ] }, "surprise": true, "moved": { "colors": [], "fonts": [], "ids": [ "spin-toggle" ] }, "method": "css-motion", "why": "One keyframe rotation on the record, with a pause button and a reduced-motion stop.", "cluster": "Quiet-storm sleeve", "check": "present" }, { "id": "dna7", "layer": "layout", "device": "Bar guest check for the money: tickets and the drink minimum written on a ruled tab with a total line", "anchors": [ { "name": "The Last O.G.", "kind": "TV", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "I Want You Back", "kind": "film", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Community", "kind": "meaning quality", "mark": "new" } ], "qualities": [ "Warm", "Community", "Observational" ], "translation": "Warm, observational neighbourhood stories live in places like this bar. The prices sit where a bar writes them: on a guest check, ruled, with handwritten amounts.", "tokens": { "ids": [ "the-tab" ] }, "surprise": true, "moved": { "colors": [], "fonts": [], "ids": [ "the-tab" ] }, "method": "css-layout", "why": "A ruled guest check built with repeating gradients and a grid.", "cluster": "Warm back room", "check": "present" }, { "id": "dna8", "layer": "interaction", "device": "Request line: the newsletter form as a late-night radio request card, plus a script that names the next Tuesday and whether it is an open-mic night", "anchors": [ { "name": "Romance", "kind": "meaning quality", "mark": "new" }, { "name": "Community", "kind": "meaning quality", "mark": "new" } ], "qualities": [ "Romance", "Community" ], "translation": "Quiet-storm radio takes requests late at night; the sign-up asks for one thing, an email. The next-Tuesday line is computed from the weekly schedule and the first-Tuesday rule, so it states no new fact.", "tokens": { "ids": [ "request-line", "next-tuesday" ] }, "surprise": true, "moved": { "colors": [], "fonts": [], "ids": [ "request-line", "next-tuesday" ] }, "method": "interaction-script", "why": "A small script computes the next Tuesday and whether it is the first of the month, and confirms the request-card form.", "cluster": "Warm back room", "check": "present" } ], "stats": { "devices": 8, "layers": [ "palette", "typography", "structure", "voice", "imagery", "motion", "layout", "interaction" ], "surpriseAnchored": 8, "measuredAnchored": 8, "predictionAnchored": 0, "qualityAnchored": 8 } }, "departure": { "sketch": { "palette": [ "#0d0a0b", "#7a0f1a", "#d4a63a", "#f3e9d8", "#3b1f5e" ], "fonts": [ "Anton", "Zilla Slab" ], "sections": [ "hero", "the-night", "tickets", "open-mic", "newsletter", "find-us" ] }, "palette": [ { "color": "#2e1b14", "nearest": "#0d0a0b", "delta": 15, "moved": false }, { "color": "#c9652e", "nearest": "#d4a63a", "delta": 36, "moved": true }, { "color": "#e9a99a", "nearest": "#f3e9d8", "delta": 29, "moved": true }, { "color": "#7f8a5a", "nearest": "#f3e9d8", "delta": 42, "moved": true }, { "color": "#f4dcc6", "nearest": "#f3e9d8", "delta": 7, "moved": false } ], "fonts": [ { "name": "Prata", "moved": true }, { "name": "Alegreya Sans", "moved": true }, { "name": "Caveat", "moved": true } ], "ids": [ "side-a", "side-b", "tracklist", "asides", "spin-toggle", "the-tab", "request-line", "next-tuesday" ], "threshold": 20 }, "decisions": [ { "question": "shared", "ask": "What do the things they love have in common?", "decision": "Palette and type: should the page read as a loud concert-comedy marquee or as something smoother?", "guess": "Loud: gold-on-black marquee, swagger, big-stage concert comedy; music would be 70s-80s soul and funk.", "answer": [ { "label": "Look", "names": [ "Warm", "Neo Soul", "Clean Typography", "Modern" ] }, { "label": "Mood", "names": [ "Soulful", "Smooth", "Humorous", "Eccentric" ] }, { "label": "Meaning", "names": [ "The trickster", "Romance", "Community", "Humor loving" ] } ], "requests": 0 }, { "question": "tone", "ask": "What emotional tone runs through what they love?", "decision": "Voice of the copy: raunchy and boastful, or warm and smooth?", "guess": "Irreverent, boastful, a bit raunchy, like a host hyping the crowd.", "answer": [ { "label": "Tone", "names": [ "serenity (new)", "Dreamy (new)", "Artistic (new)", "Sustainability (new)", "Celebratory (new)", "Nostalgic (new)" ] } ], "requests": 0 } ], "reviews": [ { "round": 1, "summary": "The sleeve palette, the lowercase serif title, the asides and the guest check all read in the captures. The mobile tracklist wraps one time, the record is cropped too small on mobile, and the newsletter card and the hero button row are the generic parts.", "met": 4, "partly": 1, "missed": 0, "criteria": [ { "id": "r1", "device": "dna2", "look": "The name 'second drink' sits lowercase in Prata, wide-tracked and floating beside the drawn record, with no condensed marquee capitals.", "capture": "r1-desktop-full", "verdict": "met", "observed": "'second drink' is set lowercase in Prata on two wide-tracked lines beside the drawn record, with no condensed capitals anywhere in the hero." }, { "id": "r2", "device": "dna1", "look": "The ground is cocoa brown with copper and rose accents, not black, red or gold.", "capture": "r1-desktop-full", "verdict": "met", "observed": "The ground is cocoa brown with a copper glow at the top left and an olive glow at the bottom right; there is no black, red or gold on the page." }, { "id": "r3", "device": "dna3", "look": "Side A and Side B read as a tracklist: times in one column, lines beside them, stacked cleanly at 390 pixels wide.", "capture": "r1-mobile-full", "verdict": "partly", "observed": "Side A and Side B stack as two tracklists with times in a column, but '~90 min' breaks onto two lines and the big side letters crowd the headings at 390 pixels.", "repair": "Keep each time on one line, widen the time column on mobile, and shrink the side letters there." }, { "id": "r4", "device": "dna4", "look": "At least one handwritten Caveat aside visibly interrupts the smooth copy, slightly rotated, and stays readable on mobile.", "capture": "r1-mobile-full", "verdict": "met", "observed": "The copper and rose Caveat asides sit rotated beside the smooth copy in the hero and in both sides, and they stay readable at 390 pixels." }, { "id": "r5", "device": "dna7", "look": "The tickets appear on a ruled guest check with $15 door, $12 online and the one-drink minimum as lines.", "capture": "r1-mobile-full", "verdict": "met", "observed": "The tickets sit on a ruled paper guest check with an olive header, a perforated top edge and handwritten $12, $15 and 'one' against the lines, with a double rule above the total." } ], "critique": { "generic": [ { "choice": "The newsletter is a plain olive box holding a form, like any sign-up card.", "capture": "r1-desktop-full", "action": "replaced" }, { "choice": "The hero ends in a row of three equal buttons (Tickets, Open mic, Newsletter), which is a stock call-to-action row.", "capture": "r1-desktop-full", "action": "replaced" }, { "choice": "Side A and Side B are two bordered cards side by side.", "capture": "r1-desktop-full", "action": "kept", "anchor": "Romance" } ], "fan": { "works": [ "Maxwell", "Mary J. 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Repairs are in timing, contrast and the strip layout.", "met": 1, "partly": 3, "missed": 0, "criteria": [ { "id": "r1", "device": "dna3", "look": "On the first screen the follow-spot cone and its floor pool with the mic stand sit to the right of the gold SECOND DRINK title, with drapes at the edges, on a near-black ground.", "capture": "r1-desktop", "verdict": "partly", "observed": "The follow-spot cone, floor pool, mic stand, stool and red drapes sit in the right half on near-black, but the title shows only SECOND: the punch word DRINK is still at opacity 0 from its delayed animation when the picture is taken, leaving a hole between the title and the lower-third. The brick behind the mic is almost invisible under the dark overlay.", "repair": "Let the page set window.captureReady after the punch lands and shorten the setup and punch timings so DRINK is on screen within a second; lighten the overlay on the brick wall so the courses read." }, { "id": "r2", "device": "dna2", "look": "At 390 pixels the name reads as heavy stacked capitals that fit the width without overflowing, with the boxed condensed lower-third of day, doors and show directly under it.", "capture": "r1-mobile", "verdict": "partly", "observed": "At 390 pixels SECOND fits the width in heavy gold capitals and the boxed lower-third (Every Tuesday, Doors 19:30, Show 20:00, Runs about 90 min) fits on one row, but DRINK is missing for the same timing reason, so the name does not read.", "repair": "Same timing repair as r1, so both words of the name stack above the lower-third." }, { "id": "r3", "device": "dna4", "look": "Scrolled to the-night, flat red, teal and blue panels meet on diagonal edges with a dashed seam, each carrying one loud word.", "capture": "r1-desktop-the-night", "verdict": "met", "observed": "Three flat panels, red TUESDAY, teal BACK ROOM and blue GROWN, each cut on a diagonal at the bottom and separated by dashed light seams, one loud word per block with a line of facts under it; the gold lineup line runs below. The panel tops sit tight under the sticky bar." }, { "id": "r4", "device": "dna7", "look": "Scrolled to tuesday-strip, six dated Tuesday cards are visible in a row or scroll strip, with one marked open mic.", "capture": "r1-mobile-tuesday-strip", "verdict": "partly", "observed": "The strip renders dated cards (Next up 27 Oct; Tuesday 3 Nov in gold, tagged Open mic, sign-up 19:00), but only two of the six are visible and nothing says the row scrolls sideways.", "repair": "On narrow screens lay the six Tuesdays out as a two-column grid so all six dates and the open-mic flag are visible without a hidden horizontal scroll." } ], "critique": { "generic": [ { "choice": "The red velvet curtain, spotlight and mic stand drawing: the stock comedy-club picture.", "capture": "r1-desktop", "action": "kept", "anchor": "single spotlight on black" }, { "choice": "A standard split hero: kicker, headline, small fact box, paragraph and two buttons on the left, picture on the right, like any landing page.", "capture": "r1-desktop", "action": "replaced" }, { "choice": "The tickets section's faint gold vertical stripes on black, a decorative background with no source in the reading, leaving a large empty field around the heading.", "capture": "r1-desktop-the-night", "action": "replaced" } ], "fan": { "works": [ "Friday", "Martin", "In Living Color", "Coming to America", "Frankie Beverly and Maze" ], "verdict": "partly", "why": "They would recognise the big-stage follow-spot, the 90s colour-blocked bands and the grown, family-table voice, but the hero still reads like a template with a curtain clip-art on the side rather than the opening title card of a concert special." } }, "houseStyle": 0 }, { "round": 2, "summary": "Every criterion is met in round 2: the name lands in full, the stage reads as a brick-backed follow-spot with a full-width broadcast lower-third, and the Tuesday strip shows all six dates. The tickets section now carries a diagonal blue colour block behind a three-part ticket stub instead of decorative stripes.", "met": 4, "partly": 0, "missed": 0, "criteria": [ { "id": "r1", "device": "dna3", "look": "On the first screen the follow-spot cone and its floor pool with the mic stand sit to the right of the gold SECOND DRINK title, with drapes at the edges, on a near-black ground.", "capture": "r2-desktop", "verdict": "met", "observed": "Gold SECOND and cream DRINK stack at left and run into the drawing in the right half: a gold follow-spot on a mic stand and stool, a lit floor pool, visible brick, red drapes at both sides, on near-black. A broadcast lower-third bar (Every Tuesday, Doors 19:30, Show 20:00, About 90 min) spans the foot." }, { "id": "r2", "device": "dna2", "look": "At 390 pixels the name reads as heavy stacked capitals that fit the width without overflowing, with the boxed condensed lower-third of day, doors and show directly under it.", "capture": "r2-mobile", "verdict": "met", "observed": "At 390 pixels SECOND and DRINK stack in heavy capitals that fit the width, and the boxed gold lower-third (Every Tuesday, Doors 19:30, Show 20:00, Runs about 90 min) sits directly under them on one row." }, { "id": "r3", "device": "dna4", "look": "Scrolled to the-night, flat red, teal and blue panels meet on diagonal edges with a dashed seam, each carrying one loud word.", "capture": "r2-desktop-the-night", "verdict": "met", "observed": "Red TUESDAY, teal BACK ROOM and blue GROWN panels, each cut on a diagonal at the foot and joined by dashed light seams, one loud word per block with its line of facts; the panels now sit clear of the sticky bar." }, { "id": "r4", "device": "dna7", "look": "Scrolled to tuesday-strip, six dated Tuesday cards are visible in a row or scroll strip, with one marked open mic.", "capture": "r2-mobile-tuesday-strip", "verdict": "met", "observed": "Six dated Tuesday cards in a two-column grid (27 Oct marked Next up with a red offset; 3 Nov and 1 Dec in gold tagged Open mic, sign-up 19:00), all visible without sideways scrolling." } ], "critique": { "generic": [ { "choice": "The red velvet curtain, spotlight and mic stand drawing, still the familiar comedy-club picture.", "capture": "r2-desktop", "action": "kept", "anchor": "single spotlight on black" }, { "choice": "Square buttons with hard offset colour shadows in the hero, a common neo-brutalist button.", "capture": "r2-desktop", "action": "kept", "anchor": "90s bold color blocking" }, { "choice": "A sticky top bar with the wordmark at the left and plain text links at the right, the default site header.", "capture": "r2-desktop-tickets", "action": "replaced" } ], "fan": { "works": [ "Friday", "Martin", "In Living Color", "Coming to America", "Frankie Beverly and Maze" ], "verdict": "partly", "why": "They would recognise the big-stage follow-spot, the 90s colour-blocked panels, the ticket-stub prices and a voice that talks like family at the cookout, but the stage drawing is small-club clip art rather than the arena scale of a concert special, and nothing on the page carries the soul-music warmth of the cookout record they love." } }, "houseStyle": 0 } ], "captures": [ { "id": "r2-desktop", "round": 2, "view": "desktop", "width": 1440, "height": 900, "label": "desktop", "cited": true, "source": ".mousa/captures/r2-desktop.png", "file": "assets/captures/b-r2-desktop.png" }, { "id": "r2-mobile", "round": 2, "view": "mobile", "width": 390, "height": 844, "label": "mobile", "cited": true, "source": ".mousa/captures/r2-mobile.png", "file": "assets/captures/b-r2-mobile.png" }, { "id": "r2-desktop-the-night", "round": 2, "view": "desktop", "target": "the-night", "width": 1440, "height": 900, "label": "desktop · the-night", "cited": true, "source": ".mousa/captures/r2-desktop-the-night.png", "file": "assets/captures/b-r2-desktop-the-night.png" }, { "id": "r2-mobile-tuesday-strip", "round": 2, "view": "mobile", "target": "tuesday-strip", "width": 390, "height": 844, "label": "mobile · tuesday-strip", "cited": true, "source": ".mousa/captures/r2-mobile-tuesday-strip.png", "file": "assets/captures/b-r2-mobile-tuesday-strip.png" }, { "id": "r2-desktop-tickets", "round": 2, "view": "desktop", "target": "tickets", "width": 1440, "height": 900, "label": "desktop · tickets", "cited": false, "source": ".mousa/captures/r2-desktop-tickets.png", "file": "assets/captures/b-r2-desktop-tickets.png" } ], "check": { "score": 1, "system": "css-vars", "present": 7, "devices": [ { "id": "dna1", "status": "present" }, { "id": "dna2", "status": "present" }, { "id": "dna3", "status": "present" }, { "id": "dna4", "status": "present" }, { "id": "dna5", "status": "present" }, { "id": "dna6", "status": "present" }, { "id": "dna7", "status": "present" } ], "style": { "atStart": { "stylesheets": [], "handWritten": 0, "classes": 0 }, "now": { "stylesheets": [ "styles.css" ], "handWritten": 464, "classes": 102 } }, "houseStyle": { "signatures": [], "limit": 2 } }, "houseStyle": { "signatures": [ "a near-black ground lit by one warm amber accent" ], "count": 1, "of": 12, "limit": 2 }, "limits": [ "No Qloo data was used: the taste input is the agent's own prediction, frozen before the design began.", "The check shows that the declared tokens are in the files, not that the design is good. 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