Cathryn Lavery
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Why: the default skin was too warm/neutral and the pyramid + venn never quite read the way they should. Also prepping for public sharing, so the example diagrams needed to drop the littlemight-specific copy. Changes: - New five-color palette: jet-black ink, atomic-tangerine accent, white-smoke paper, blue-slate muted, silver hairlines. Replaces warm-stone + rust across every variant + dark-mode tokens. - Default background is clean paper; dot grid + framed container are now opt-in variants (uncomment in template to enable). - New consultant-special quadrant variant (example-quadrant-consultant.html) — 2×2 scenario matrix with named cells, double-ended axes, one focal quadrant; house skin, not a separate visual language. - Pyramid redrawn as a true triangular silhouette with shared edges on one slope (stacked polygons on a single triangle outline, no kinks). - Venn redesigned: dark-fill triple-intersection with white text, circle labels moved inside non-overlap lobes, pair-overlap labels removed, legend dropped. - Example content genericized (content site / product timeline / content platform instead of littlemight-branded copy). - Screenshots regenerated at 2× DPI; added quadrant-consultant.png (14th diagram in the gallery). - README: hero-first opener, preserved Why-I-built-it section, UTM tags on littlemight + bestself links, palette description updated.
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Annotation Callout (italic-serif aside)
Use for editorial asides — the "italic pointer" that marks a detail without competing with the primary diagram grammar. Think marginalia: "structure IS the index", "no imports, no configuration".
Grammar
<!-- 1. Italic Instrument Serif text -->
<text x="904" y="36" fill="#2d3142" font-size="14" font-style="italic"
font-family="'Instrument Serif', serif" text-anchor="end">no imports, no configuration</text>
<!-- 2. Dashed Bézier leader -->
<path d="M 820 44 Q 700 84 520 216" fill="none"
stroke="rgba(45,49,66,0.40)" stroke-width="1" stroke-dasharray="4,3"/>
<!-- 3. Landing dot -->
<circle cx="520" cy="216" r="2" fill="#2d3142"/>
Rules
- Italic + serif together signal "editorial voice" against the diagram's sans/mono body. Don't substitute italic sans or italic mono — the combination is load-bearing.
- Dashed path (
stroke-dasharray="4,3") distinguishes the callout leader from primary arrows (which are solid). - Place callouts in margins (top-right, bottom-left). Never inside the active diagram area.
- Max 2 callouts per diagram. More becomes commentary, not signal.
Colors
| Intent | Text | Leader |
|---|---|---|
| Neutral aside | ink #2d3142 |
rgba(45,49,66,0.40) |
| Focal / accent | coral #eb6c36 |
rgba(235,108,54,0.50) |
| Tertiary (muted) | muted #4f5d75 |
rgba(45,49,66,0.30) |
Anti-patterns
- Solid arrow leader (reads as a flow arrow).
- Italic sans or italic mono — the serif is load-bearing.
- Callouts crossing primary arrows / lifelines — offset to a clear margin.
- Using a callout to label something the diagram should label directly — put the label on the element.