226 lines
11 KiB
Markdown
226 lines
11 KiB
Markdown
# Takemi
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A Persona 5 flavoured Quickshell desktop for Hyprland. Crimson, black and white,
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with no gradients anywhere. Everything leans by the same 14°, corners are
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chopped rather than rounded, and every surface is one continuous slab divided by
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hairlines rather than a cluster of floating cards.
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Replaces Waybar, dunst and hyprlock.
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## Running
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```sh
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qs # starts the shell (Hyprland does this via autostart.conf)
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qs -p lockpreview.qml # the lock screen in an ordinary window, for styling
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```
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Hyprland starts it from `~/.config/hypr/modules/autostart.conf`.
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## Layout
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Two surfaces. Status moves off the bar and onto a vertical rail, because on a
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1080p panel horizontal space is cheap and vertical space is not: a 48px rail
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costs 2.5% of the width, where another 48px strip along the bottom would have
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cost 4.4% of the height on top of what the bar already takes.
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```
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┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
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│ ◆ │ 1 2 3 │ window title ♪ TRACK │ 42% │ 00:09 │ bar — 48px exclusive
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├────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ ▐█▌│ rail — 48px exclusive
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│ windows ▐ ▌│
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│ ▐ ▌│
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│ ▐ ▌│
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└────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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```
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- **bar** — one slab: identity and workspaces on the left; the focused window,
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the player, the CPU/MEM/GPU readout and the clock on the right.
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- **rail** — one slab: network, bluetooth, audio, mic, backlight, battery, tray,
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notifications, power. Popouts open leftward, into the screen.
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Each surface is a single continuous `P5Panel` with modules divided by sheared
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hairlines. `BarPill` is chromeless by default — a module is *content inside* a
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surface, not a surface of its own — and marks hover with a crimson underline.
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Pass `standalone: true` for the rare thing that really is its own panel.
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```
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shell.qml entrypoint — bar, rail, power menu, toasts, OSD per screen
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config/ palette, type scale, geometry, motion curves
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components/ the P5 primitives: panels, gauges, sliders, split-ink text
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services/ data sources, all singletons
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bar/ the two surfaces and their modules
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popouts/ hover panels hanging off rail and bar modules
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overlays/ power menu, notification toasts, volume/brightness OSD
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lock/ session lock
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assets/ halftone and stripe tiles, generated with ImageMagick
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```
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`P5Panel` is the base surface everything sits on. It does not auto-size —
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callers set implicit sizes from their own layout (`row.implicitWidth +
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contentPad * 2`), which keeps the shape maths out of binding loops.
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## Modules
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| Module | Where | Left click | Right click | Middle | Scroll | Hover |
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| Sigil | bar | app menu | reload shell | | | |
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| Workspaces | bar | switch | | | | |
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| Clock | bar | pin calendar | | | | calendar |
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| Network | rail | pin panel | toggle Wi-Fi | nm-connection-editor | | networks |
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| Bluetooth | rail | pin panel | toggle adapter | | | devices |
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| Volume | rail | mute | pin panel | pavucontrol | volume | audio mixer |
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| Mic | rail | mute | pin panel | | mic volume | audio mixer |
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| Brightness | rail | | | | brightness | |
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| Battery | rail | pin panel | | | | power detail |
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| Tray | rail | activate | app menu | secondary | | |
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| Bell | rail | history + mark read | do not disturb | | | history |
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| Power | rail | power menu | | | | |
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| Media | bar | play/pause | next | raise player | next/prev | full player |
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| CPU/MEM/GPU | bar | btop | | | | resource dashboard |
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Popouts open on a short dwell and stay while the pointer is over the trigger or
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the panel. Clicking pins one open.
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## Keybinds
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Set in `~/.config/hypr/modules/keybinds.conf`:
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- `Super+Ctrl+L` — lock
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- `Super+P` — power menu
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- `Super+Shift+N` — toggle do not disturb
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- `Super+Ctrl+Shift+N` — clear notifications
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- `Super+Shift+R` — reload the shell
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All of these go through Quickshell's IPC, so they work from any script:
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```sh
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qs ipc call shell lock
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qs ipc call shell power
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qs ipc call shell toggleDnd
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qs ipc call shell clearNotifications
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qs ipc call shell reloadConfig
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```
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## Data sources
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Hardware telemetry comes from `fluxo`, whose hardware modules are configured to
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emit raw pipe-delimited values rather than display strings — `services/Sys.qml`
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parses them and does its own formatting. The previous human-readable Waybar
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formats are preserved in `~/.config/fluxo/config.toml.waybar-bak`.
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Everything else is native: PipeWire for audio, BlueZ for bluetooth,
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NetworkManager for Wi-Fi, UPower for battery, MPRIS for media, and Quickshell's
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own notification server. These are event-driven, so the bar and OSD react the
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instant a volume key is pressed instead of on the next poll.
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## Lock screen
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Authenticates through `/etc/pam.d/hyprlock`, which on this box is just
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`auth include login`. The visuals live in `lock/LockFace.qml` so they can be
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styled in an ordinary window (`qs -p lockpreview.qml`) without locking the
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session.
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If the shell ever dies while the session is locked, the compositor keeps the
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session secured by protocol and there is no unlocker left to talk to — recovery
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means restarting Hyprland from a TTY.
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## What was retired
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- `waybar.service` — disabled. Its config is still in `~/.config/waybar`.
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- `dunst.service` — masked, so it cannot be D-Bus activated and steal
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`org.freedesktop.Notifications`. Undo with
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`systemctl --user unmask dunst.service`.
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- `hyprlock` — no longer bound. `hyprlock.conf` is untouched.
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## Optional
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`power-profiles-daemon` is not installed (TLP is), so the power-profile
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switching in `services/Battery.qml` stays dormant. Nothing else depends on it.
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The display face is Archivo Black, set italic almost everywhere. Change
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`Theme.fontDisplay` and everything follows.
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## Palette discipline
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Crimson, black, white. That is the whole palette.
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**Changing the accent.** The colour is written in exactly three places, one per
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program:
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| File | Line | Covers |
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| `quickshell/config/Theme.qml` | `readonly property color accent: "#ff2d40"` | the shell |
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| `hypr/modules/takemi.conf` | `$accent = rgb(ff2d40)` | window borders, groups |
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| `alacritty/takemi.toml` | `red`, cursor, selection | the terminal |
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Everything else derives. `accentDim` and `accentSoft` come off `accent` via
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`Qt.darker`/`Qt.lighter`, `glow` (the hover highlight) *is* `accent`, and every
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Hyprland border, group indicator and focus state references `$accent`. Change
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those lines and the whole setup recolours — swap in Persona 4's yellow or
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Persona 3's blue and nothing else needs touching.
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## The rest of the desktop
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- **Alacritty** — `alacritty/takemi.toml`, selected by the `import` in
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`alacritty.toml`. The Catppuccin files are left in place, just unreferenced.
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Near-black ground, white text, crimson cursor and selection. The sixteen ANSI
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slots keep their hues because syntax highlighters need to tell them apart, but
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every one is desaturated so nothing competes with the accent.
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- **Neovim** — `nvim/lua/takemi.lua`, loaded through `nvim/colors/takemi.lua`
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so `:colorscheme takemi` and `require("takemi").lualine()` both work. Same
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palette, same rule: crimson is spent only on keywords, types and errors,
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functions are plain white-bold, and `terminal_color_0..15` mirror
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`takemi.toml` slot for slot so `:terminal` matches the shell around it.
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- **Fish** — `fish/conf.d/takemi_theme.fish`, with a preview copy in
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`fish/themes/Takemi.theme` for `fish_config`. Replaced the Catppuccin
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`fish_frozen_theme.fish` that fish 4.3 generated on upgrade. The prompt arrow
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is white and turns crimson on a non-zero exit — the shell's one "wrong"
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signal, and so the one place that earns the accent.
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- **Fuzzel** — `fuzzel/takemi.ini`, selected by the `include` in `fuzzel.ini`.
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Square corners rather than the stock radius, and a fully opaque ground.
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- **No glass anywhere.** Alacritty is `opacity = 1.0, blur = false`, and
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Hyprland's `decoration:blur` is disabled with both opacities at `1.0`. Blur is
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the signature of the frosted-glass look, which is the opposite of flat ink on
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flat ground — and with nothing translucent left it was costing three render
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passes for no visible result.
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White is the resting voice — text, icons, idle indicators. Crimson is the only
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accent and always means one thing: active, or wrong. Black is structure, used as
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a hard keyline rather than as a soft shadow. **There are no gradients in this
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shell**; every fill is flat. `Theme.sheen` still exists as a no-op property
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because a teal-to-transparent wash on every panel was the single biggest source
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of the murky blue cast the design used to have.
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`primary`, `glow`, `blue`, `ok` and `warn` survive in `Theme.qml` only as
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aliases onto white, crimson and grey, so the existing call sites keep working —
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don't introduce new uses. `warn` used to alias `accentSoft`, which put a
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washed-out pink-red wherever something was merely notable; there is no
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half-crimson in this palette, so it aliases the real `accent` now and anything
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merely informational (brightness, most readouts) is white instead. `Theme.heat()` is a continuous white→crimson ramp, so
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a CPU figure that has gone red means the same thing as a battery that has gone
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red. Tray icons are force-flattened to a single colour for the same reason: app
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brand colours wreck the palette faster than anything else in the shell.
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The wallpaper is teal. The UI used to be teal too, and the two fought each other
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into a blue-grey mush. Going monochrome-plus-red is what lets the wallpaper be
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the colour in the composition.
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## Geometry discipline
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**One angle, one chamfer, everywhere.** `Theme.skew` is `tan(14°)` and every
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edge in the shell leans by exactly that, in the same direction; every corner is
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chopped by exactly `Theme.cut`. A vertical panel (the rail) leans its horizontal
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edges by a fraction of its *width*, which works out to the same 14°.
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This is deliberate and was learned the hard way. An earlier pass gave every
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module a different lean, chamfer and height from per-index variance tables, on
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the theory that Persona geometry is "chaotic". It isn't — Persona UI is
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meticulously clean, and the chaos lives in composition and motion, not in each
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element being a different shape. Randomised geometry just reads as noise. If you
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find yourself adding a variance table, don't.
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Each surface is **one continuous slab**, with modules divided by sheared
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hairline rules rather than by gaps. A row of separate floating cards reads as
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clutter; that is what the dividers exist to avoid.
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