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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
TudorandClaude Opus 5	eddf74745f	feat(home): swap in the higher-fidelity hero artwork ... Same 16:9 frame, but not a drop-in replacement — the composition, palette and copy area all moved, and each one drives a change here. COPY AREA The old artwork was a flat #FDF9F3 down its whole left side. This one runs peach #FEE8D2 at the top to cream #FDF3E7 around 43% height, and below ~48% the left edge is foliage rather than cream at all. --hero-ground is resampled to #FEF2E1, the middle of the pale run where the headline and search actually sit; the scrim covers the foliage further down. Measured on rendered pixels with the text hidden, sampling the real glyph runs (via Range, not the element boxes) plus a 120px growth margin: title body byline light 13.61:1 5.74:1 6.66:1 dark 9.49:1 5.45:1 8.35:1 Body drops from 6.52:1 to 5.74:1 as the foliage comes closer, still clear. BAND CROP The schoolhouse moved to ~82% across the frame, leaving only ~140px of artwork to its right, so the band crop is anchored to the right edge and takes 1344px back — putting the school at 73%, which the build script now derives and prints rather than leaving it to drift from the CSS. The crop is also 3.2:1 rather than matching the phone. The band is not one ratio: it runs 2.4:1 on a phone to about 3.8:1 under the one-column breakpoint. Cropping at the narrow end means the wide end throws away height, which cut the flag off the roof and the base off the building. Sitting above the middle costs a little width on phones — where the crop's left is hillside — and keeps the building whole where it matters. BAND HEIGHTS Raised to 13rem (861–860px) and 10rem (≤640px). The band was widest-per-height at exactly 640px, where an 8.5rem band measured 4.2:1 — worse than any wider viewport, because the height steps down at that breakpoint while the width does not. Ratios across the range are now 2.0 / 2.6 / 3.6 / 3.1 / 3.8 rather than spiking. The search still lands at 442px on a 667px viewport. WEIGHT Source is 3.1MB; a browser fetches one file — 29–59kB on desktop, 10–14kB on a phone. Widths re-cut for the larger master: 2000/1400/1000 wide, 1344/900/600 band. Verified: 0 AA failures across both themes at 1440 / 860 / 390, every srcset entry present on disk with no orphans, tsc clean, 159/159, build green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-15 09:22:37 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5	3f0e05cc99	feat(home): use the supplied hero artwork instead of a drawn one ... Replaces the hand-drawn SVG landscape with the illustration supplied by the project owner. Master is assets/hero-source.png; everything under public/brand/hero-* comes from scripts/build-hero-images.js and should never be hand-edited. LAYOUT The artwork is composed as a full-bleed hero: it reserves an empty cream area down its left side for the headline. The old hero was a two-column grid with art in the right 0.88fr, which would have cropped that reserved area off and shrunk the scene into a thumbnail — the one thing the picture is built not to be. So the panel is now a single layered block: artwork behind, copy on top, and below the one-column breakpoint the artwork leaves the background and becomes a band under the search. Overlaying does not survive down to phone widths — the panel gets too narrow for the copy to stay inside the cream, so the scrim would have to cover nearly the whole image and you would be left with a tinted rectangle. Hence the switch at 860px rather than a single treatment stretched across every width. CONTRAST The copy sits on a gradient of --hero-ground, a new token sampled from the artwork's own cream (#FDF9F3) rather than from Sand. Sand is eight to thirteen points darker per channel, which leaves a visible seam straight down the hero. The scrim exists because the artwork is a fixed image on a fluid panel: past some width the headline would otherwise land on hillside green. Measured on rendered pixels, sampling background up to 120px beyond the right edge of each line, so a longer line still has margin: light title 14.36:1 body 6.52:1 dark title 11.01:1 body 6.44:1 The worst light case is hillside green showing through the scrim at 6.52:1. TWO CROPS The slot is two shapes: roughly 2.1:1–2.7:1 behind the desktop panel, and 2.6:1–4.9:1 as the band. A single file under object-fit: cover centre-crops, and at the band's extreme that slices a strip through the scene and loses the schoolhouse — exactly how the drawn hero failed on phones. <picture> switches crop, not just resolution: the band file is pre-cropped around the school and is already near 2.6:1, with the subject at ~65% across so squeezing toward 4.9:1 crops the empty sides instead. WEIGHT 1.6 MB PNG in, AVIF and WebP out; a browser fetches exactly one file — about 23–33 kB on desktop, 9–18 kB on a phone. The JPEG is only the <img> fallback. `sizes` describes the real panel box (max-width 1400 minus padding) rather than 100vw, which over-requested a candidate at every width on the LCP element. DARK THEME A raster cannot be re-graded token by token the way the drawing was, but it would reproduce the same failure — a bright illustration is the brightest object on a near-black page. It is dimmed in CSS to read as dusk, and the scrim fades it into the dark panel rather than into cream. TESTS The two illustration journeys are replaced by three, each covering a failure that still renders a valid-looking page: the artwork actually loading (naturalWidth, not src), the crop switching at the breakpoint, a modern format winning negotiation, and the dark theme dimming it. public/brand/CREDITS.md records provenance for every asset in that folder. The hero's licence line is marked unconfirmed — that one needs the owner. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-14 21:36:40 +01:00
Tudor	accc562b90	feat(brand): adopt the schoolcompare identity across the site ... Implements the supplied brand guideline: the pin-and-leaf mark, the lowercase schoolcompare wordmark, Manrope for headings and Inter for everything a person reads a number from, the deep-teal/coral/mustard/sage palette, and the rounder geometry the guideline asks for. The landing hero is rebuilt to the concept: a Sand panel carrying the proposition, the search and a trust line, with the brand landscape bleeding to the panel's right edge, followed by the four value props. Concept vs reality — where the guideline describes something this product does not have, the real feature takes its place and the decision is recorded in a code comment next to it: - The Thriving Score is not implemented. Four of its five sub-scores (pastoral, enrichment, community, facilities) have no source in DfE or Ofsted data, and its band names are Ofsted's own, which would sit beside the real Ofsted grade and be indistinguishable from it. - Guides, About, Favourites and Sign in are not added to the nav — there are no such pages and no accounts system. Rankings and Admissions, which the guideline omits, keep their places because they exist. - The fourth value prop is "Never miss a deadline" rather than "Save & revisit", which would need shortlisting. Two deviations from the supplied swatches, both forced by contrast and both confined to text and fills. Coral #F97360 under a white label measures 2.75:1 against a 4.5 floor, so --action is a darkened #BE3C27 and the original coral survives as --coral for tints, borders and illustration. Mustard #F2C94C is 1.5:1 as text, so --mustard-ink carries labels while --mustard stays exact for fills and rings. Every token clears AA on all three light grounds; Sand is the binding one, so several values sit a step darker than white alone would need. The guideline is light-only, but the site already ships a dark theme, so it is rebuilt from the same tokens rather than dropped. Verified: tsc clean, 159/159 unit tests, production build green, and the generated share card and app icon render from the new mark. The hero and the site chrome were rendered from the compiled CSS and the prerendered markup to confirm Manrope and Inter actually resolve — a font token that silently falls back has shipped here before.	2026-08-07 18:05:49 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5	8ab0ac0a04	feat(design): adopt the Cohort identity — new palette, type, mark and dark theme ... Implements the direction agreed from the identity board: Route C ("Cohort") with the paper ground from C1, the Schibsted Grotesk / Literata pairing from C2, and the iris accent from C3. Dark theme is in scope from the start rather than retrofitted. The audit found three things wrong beyond taste: * No brand asset set. og:image was absent entirely, so every link shared into a class WhatsApp group rendered as a bare grey card. apple-touch-icon pointed at an SVG, which iOS ignores, and the manifest shipped no PNGs, so Android installs had no icon. The header mark and the favicon had also drifted into two different logos. * No colour discipline. --primary and --trend-down were the same coral, so the main CTA and "below average" shared a hue. 58 distinct hex values were spread across component CSS, and the chart palette was still Chart.js's stock demo colours. * A dark theme that was declared but never built — themeColor announced a dark variant with no dark styling behind it. What changed: Colour now has exactly three jobs that never borrow each other's hues: brand (iris) for interactive and identity, status (teal/amber) for above/below a comparison point, and phase for categories. Teal/amber rather than green/red keeps the above/below signal readable for every form of colour blindness. Every chromatic literal in component CSS is now a token, and the JS-painted surfaces (Chart.js, Leaflet) read the tokens through lib/theme so they follow the theme instead of ignoring it. The mark is the five-bar cohort spread — the same object as the distribution strip inside a school row, built from opacity steps so it inverts cleanly. components/Logo.tsx is the single source; the favicon, apple-icon and share card all derive from its geometry. globals.css drops 123 dead global classes left over from the vanilla-JS app (only the btn family, .skip-link and .main were still referenced), along with the noise overlay. It also gains prefers-reduced-motion support, which was missing entirely, and a type scale so the 54 ad-hoc font sizes have somewhere to converge. Verified: tsc clean, 159 unit tests pass, production build succeeds and prerenders /icon.svg, /apple-icon and /opengraph-image. Three e2e journeys added for the asset set, the themeColor/background match, and the dark theme actually repainting — all silent failures that nothing on the page reveals. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-06 12:13:04 +01:00