the words for the way it is drawn

The register

Every term here is defined against the one it would otherwise be confused with. That is where the meaning actually sits — a definition on its own never settles it.

three palettes

Two of them share one file. They do not collide, because they are scoped: the arena is the ground everywhere, and the tome is a skin laid over it inside the war section. A book inside a stadium.

SUPREME

16.9:1

Obsidian and bone with blood as the only accent. The instrument, not the exhibit.

obsidian
#0a0a0a

obsidian-soft
#111111

obsidian-raised
#1a1a1a

bone
#ededed

smoke
#555555

iron
#2a2a2a

ash
#888888

blood
#8b0000

bright
#a52a2a

dim
#5a0000

dylanvir-site — the whole private repo, behind Access

not to be confused with THE PIT, which shares the dark ground but answers to gold rather than blood

THE PIT

15.9:1

Torchlit gladiator sand. Near-black ground, chalk figure, one gold accent.

arena
#120d08

arena-soft
#1a1209

arena-raised
#2a1d10

chalk
#f2e8d5

stone
#b3a186

dust
#6e5c45

rail
#3a2c1a

gold
#c08a26

bright
#e2ab3f

dim
#7d5c18

deep
#9c7015

dylanvir-public @theme {} — the site-wide default on dylanvir.com

not to be confused with TOME, which is scoped inside it under .tome and inverts ground and figure

TOME

12.7:1

Ink on paper. Dark brown line on aged stock with an oxblood accent.

paper
#e9dfc8

paper-deep
#ddd0b2

ink
#241c12

ink-soft
#46392a

ink-faint
#b3a385

oxblood
#6e2a1c

dylanvir-public .tome {} — the /war section only, not site-wide

not to be confused with THE PIT, which is the surrounding site; the tome is a skin applied within it

measured, not declared

SUPREME · THE PIT · kin
grounds 9 apart and figures 25 apart — the same assignment, only a shade off
SUPREME · TOME · inversion
SUPREME's figure sits 40 from TOME's ground, and its ground 33 from that figure — the same two values with the jobs swapped
THE PIT · TOME · inversion
THE PIT's figure sits 18 from TOME's ground, and its ground 25 from that figure — the same two values with the jobs swapped

An inversion is not two palettes that look alike. It is one pair of values with the jobs swapped — what carries the mark in one is the ground in the other. The numbers are distances in colour, computed from the stylesheets themselves.

on the objects

brass-rubbing: Flat incised black line on a warm metal ground, as taken from a monumental brass. Figure under a canopy.; not chalk-line, which is the site register and inverts the values; seen at · the Alesia battle card
the margin: Where content the structure cannot hold is drawn anyway, in lighter line, outside the frame.; not decoration; the margin only ever holds real unheld data; seen at · the Alesia relief army figure

in motion

beat sheet: An ordered list of animation steps, each [selector, start, duration, effect, stagger], applied per frame.; not a timeline, which is scrubbed rather than declared; seen at · the reel tail beats
held motion: Twelve frames a second with poses held rather than eased. The stutter is the point: it reads as made rather than computed.; not lag, which is an offset within a cycle rather than the cycle rate; seen at · characters/frames/idle
lag: Deliberate offset of a secondary part behind the part driving it, so motion reads as alive rather than mechanical.; not stagger, which offsets whole figures against each other; seen at · characters/render_idle.py
stagger: Per-instance delay derived from an index or slug so no two figures on a page run in phase.; not lag, which is within a single figure; seen at · four section figures on one page
the tail: Outward effects placed late in a beat sheet so a loop closes without a hard cut.; not the entry, which the tail must never disturb; seen at · the reel loop seam

on the page

SUPREME: Obsidian and bone with blood as the only accent. The instrument, not the exhibit.; not THE PIT, which shares the dark ground but answers to gold rather than blood; seen at · dylanvirsupreme.org/atlas
THE PIT: Torchlit gladiator sand. Near-black ground, chalk figure, one gold accent.; not TOME, which is scoped inside it under .tome and inverts ground and figure; seen at · dylanvir-public/app/globals.css @theme block
TOME: Ink on paper. Dark brown line on aged stock with an oxblood accent.; not THE PIT, which is the surrounding site; the tome is a skin applied within it; seen at · dylanvir.com/war
carry-over ledger: An inventory of what the user already holds, shown as the argument for finishing a flow.; not a marketing benefits list; seen at · saves / trophies / oldest, under the claim panel
chalk-line: Thin light strokes on a dark ground, no fills, no shading. Silhouette carries the read at small sizes.; not brass-rubbing, which is dark line on a light metal ground; seen at · the four section figures
line to gain: A single luminous hairline that advances one step at a time and never retreats, marking progress through a sequence.; not a progress bar, which can move backwards; seen at · the account claim panel top edge

what the stats mean → · a different register: numbers rather than looks