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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Layer Stack
Best for: OSI model, CSS cascade, context hierarchy, tech stack, abstraction layers, memory hierarchy.
Layout conventions
- Horizontal bands stacked vertically. Each layer is a full-width rectangle (same x, same width). 4–6 layers total.
- Layer height 56–72px, width typically 800–880px inside a 1000px viewBox.
- Each row contains (left→right):
- Index tag on the far left (
L3,07,APPLICATION) — Geist Mono 8–9px eyebrow. - Layer name slightly right of center-left — Geist 14–16px 600.
- Sublabel / note on the far right — Geist Mono 9–10px muted.
- Index tag on the far left (
- Border between layers: 1px hairline
rgba(45,49,66,0.12). Outer silhouette 1px ink or muted. - Fills: either alternating subtle shades (paper / paper-2) OR all paper with hairline dividers. Pick one and hold it.
- Direction indicator on the LEFT margin (outside the stack): small up/down arrow + Geist Mono label (
abstraction ↑,packets ↓). - Coral on one focal layer (stroke + subtle tint fill) — the bottleneck, the pay-rent layer, the one under discussion.
Anti-patterns
- Layers that aren't actually hierarchical (use swimlane or architecture).
- Skipped numbering (missing L4 between L3 and L5 without explanation).
- Every layer a different color — hierarchy invisible.
- Inconsistent layer heights without reason.
Examples
assets/example-layers.html— minimal lightassets/example-layers-dark.html— minimal darkassets/example-layers-full.html— full editorial