nextjs-app/app/globals.css

@@ -193,13 +193,17 @@
        drawn SVG, so its colours are in the file, not here. What is left is the
        ground the artwork sits on and fades into.
 
-       --hero-ground is sampled from the artwork's own copy area (#FDF9F3),
-       not from Sand. The artwork reserves an empty cream region on the left
-       for the headline, and the scrim that guarantees text contrast fades from
-       this colour into it — a scrim in Sand (#F5EFE6, eight to thirteen points
-       darker per channel) leaves a visible seam straight down the hero. */
-    --hero-ground: #FDF9F3;
-    --hero-ground-rgb: 253, 249, 243;
+       --hero-ground is sampled from the artwork's own copy area, not from
+       Sand — a scrim in Sand (#F5EFE6) is far enough off to leave a visible
+       seam straight down the hero.
+
+       The artwork's copy area is not one flat colour: it runs from a peach
+       #FEE8D2 at the top to a cream #FDF3E7 around 43% height, and below ~48%
+       the left edge is foliage rather than cream. This value is sampled from
+       the middle of that pale run, where the headline and search actually sit;
+       the scrim is what covers the foliage further down. */
+    --hero-ground: #FEF2E1;
+    --hero-ground-rgb: 254, 242, 225;
 
     /* ── Geometry & motion ──────────────────────────────────────────────
        "Soft shapes, rounded corners" — the guideline's geometry is markedly

nextjs-app/components/HomeView.module.css

@@ -323,15 +323,21 @@
     padding: 1.75rem 1.5rem 1.75rem;
     max-width: none;
   }
+  /* 13rem, not 11: at 860px an 11rem band is 4.5:1, and squeezing the 3.2:1
+     crop into that throws away enough height to cut the flag off the roof and
+     the base off the building. 13rem holds it at about 3.8:1, where the
+     building stays whole. */
   .heroArt {
     position: static;
     order: -1;
-    height: 11rem;
+    height: 13rem;
   }
-  /* The band crop centres the schoolhouse at about 65% across, so squeezing
-     toward 4.9:1 crops the empty sides rather than the subject. */
+  /* The band crop puts the schoolhouse at 73% across — reported by
+     scripts/build-hero-images.js, which derives it from the crop box rather
+     than leaving the two to drift. Squeezing narrower then crops the emptier
+     left side rather than the subject. */
   .heroArt img {
-    object-position: 65% center;
+    object-position: 73% center;
   }
   /* The scrim exists to protect text sitting on the artwork. Nothing sits on
      it here, and leaving it would wash the band out. */
@@ -372,8 +378,12 @@
     font-size: 1.75rem;
     margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
   }
+  /* 10rem, not 8.5: the band is widest-per-height right at this breakpoint —
+     at 640px an 8.5rem band is 4.2:1, worse than anything above it, because
+     the height steps down here while the width does not. 10rem keeps it near
+     3.6:1, in line with the rest of the range. */
   .heroArt {
-    height: 8.5rem;
+    height: 10rem;
   }
 }
 

nextjs-app/components/Illustration.tsx

@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
 const SIZES = '(min-width: 1400px) 1352px, (min-width: 769px) calc(100vw - 3rem), calc(100vw - 2rem)';
 
 /** Intrinsic size of the wide crop — the aspect hint that prevents reflow. */
-const WIDE_W = 1672;
-const WIDE_H = 941;
+const WIDE_W = 2000;
+const WIDE_H = 1125;
 
 export function HeroIllustration() {
   return (
@@ -51,13 +51,13 @@ export function HeroIllustration() {
       <source
         media="(max-width: 860px)"
         type="image/avif"
-        srcSet="/brand/hero-band-500.avif 500w, /brand/hero-band-700.avif 700w, /brand/hero-band-972.avif 972w"
+        srcSet="/brand/hero-band-600.avif 600w, /brand/hero-band-900.avif 900w, /brand/hero-band-1344.avif 1344w"
         sizes={SIZES}
       />
       <source
         media="(max-width: 860px)"
         type="image/webp"
-        srcSet="/brand/hero-band-500.webp 500w, /brand/hero-band-700.webp 700w, /brand/hero-band-972.webp 972w"
+        srcSet="/brand/hero-band-600.webp 600w, /brand/hero-band-900.webp 900w, /brand/hero-band-1344.webp 1344w"
         sizes={SIZES}
       />
       {/*
@@ -71,15 +71,15 @@ export function HeroIllustration() {
         media query does, and it sits after the modern formats so they still
         win where supported.
       */}
-      <source media="(max-width: 860px)" srcSet="/brand/hero-band-700.jpg" />
+      <source media="(max-width: 860px)" srcSet="/brand/hero-band-900.jpg" />
       <source
         type="image/avif"
-        srcSet="/brand/hero-wide-900.avif 900w, /brand/hero-wide-1200.avif 1200w, /brand/hero-wide-1672.avif 1672w"
+        srcSet="/brand/hero-wide-1000.avif 1000w, /brand/hero-wide-1400.avif 1400w, /brand/hero-wide-2000.avif 2000w"
         sizes={SIZES}
       />
       <source
         type="image/webp"
-        srcSet="/brand/hero-wide-900.webp 900w, /brand/hero-wide-1200.webp 1200w, /brand/hero-wide-1672.webp 1672w"
+        srcSet="/brand/hero-wide-1000.webp 1000w, /brand/hero-wide-1400.webp 1400w, /brand/hero-wide-2000.webp 2000w"
         sizes={SIZES}
       />
       {/*
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ export function HeroIllustration() {
       */}
       {/* eslint-disable-next-line @next/next/no-img-element */}
       <img
-        src="/brand/hero-wide-1200.jpg"
+        src="/brand/hero-wide-1400.jpg"
         alt=""
         aria-hidden="true"
         width={WIDE_W}

nextjs-app/public/brand/CREDITS.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The landing hero illustration: a path climbing through hills to a schoolhouse,
 with an empty cream area on the left reserved for the headline.
 
 - **Source:** supplied by the project owner
-- **Master:** `nextjs-app/assets/hero-source.png` (1672×941 PNG), committed so
+- **Master:** `nextjs-app/assets/hero-source.png` (2000×1125 PNG), committed so
   the derivatives can be regenerated
 - **Derivatives:** `node scripts/build-hero-images.js` — never hand-edit these
 - **Licence:** **to be confirmed by the project owner**

nextjs-app/scripts/build-hero-images.js

@@ -45,14 +45,24 @@ const SRC = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'assets', 'hero-source.png');
 const OUT = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'public', 'brand');
 
 /*
- * Band crop, in source pixels. The schoolhouse occupies roughly x 1180–1540,
- * y 300–520, so this keeps it whole with headroom above the flag and enough
- * hillside below to read as landscape rather than as a cutout.
+ * Band crop, in source pixels, measured against the artwork rather than
+ * guessed: the schoolhouse spans roughly x 1420–1860, y 420–660, with its flag
+ * up at y 330.
+ *
+ * The crop is flush to the right edge because it has to be. The school sits at
+ * about 82% across the frame, so there is only ~140px of artwork to its right
+ * — not enough to centre it. Anchoring right and taking 1050px back puts the
+ * school at ~66% across the crop, which is what BAND_FOCUS_X below reports to
+ * the CSS so the narrowest band crops the empty left side rather than the
+ * subject.
  */
-const BAND = { left: 700, top: 260, width: 972, height: 380 };
+const BAND = { left: 656, top: 300, width: 1344, height: 420 };
 
-const WIDE_WIDTHS = [1672, 1200, 900];
-const BAND_WIDTHS = [972, 700, 500];
+/** Where the schoolhouse lands in the band crop, for CSS object-position. */
+const BAND_FOCUS_X = Math.round(((1420 + 1860) / 2 - BAND.left) / BAND.width * 100);
+
+const WIDE_WIDTHS = [2000, 1400, 1000];
+const BAND_WIDTHS = [1344, 900, 600];
 
 async function emit(pipeline, name, width) {
   const base = pipeline.clone().resize({ width, withoutEnlargement: true });
@@ -67,25 +77,26 @@ async function main() {
 
   const meta = await sharp(SRC).metadata();
   console.log(`source ${meta.width}×${meta.height}`);
+  console.log(`band focus x: ${BAND_FOCUS_X}% (keep .heroArt object-position in step)`);
 
   const wide = sharp(SRC);
   for (const w of WIDE_WIDTHS) await emit(wide, 'hero-wide', w);
   // Fallback for the <img> itself. Flattened onto the artwork's own cream so a
   // JPEG (no alpha) can never composite against black.
   await sharp(SRC)
-    .resize({ width: 1200 })
-    .flatten({ background: '#FDF9F3' })
+    .resize({ width: 1400 })
+    .flatten({ background: '#FEF2E1' })
     .jpeg({ quality: 82, mozjpeg: true })
-    .toFile(path.join(OUT, 'hero-wide-1200.jpg'));
+    .toFile(path.join(OUT, 'hero-wide-1400.jpg'));
 
   const band = sharp(SRC).extract(BAND);
   for (const w of BAND_WIDTHS) await emit(band, 'hero-band', w);
   await sharp(SRC)
     .extract(BAND)
-    .resize({ width: 700 })
-    .flatten({ background: '#FDF9F3' })
+    .resize({ width: 900 })
+    .flatten({ background: '#FEF2E1' })
     .jpeg({ quality: 82, mozjpeg: true })
-    .toFile(path.join(OUT, 'hero-band-700.jpg'));
+    .toFile(path.join(OUT, 'hero-band-900.jpg'));
 
   const files = fs.readdirSync(OUT).filter(f => f.startsWith('hero-')).sort();
   let total = 0;