The boards wear their organ's logo

[Jammy2211]

Every one-tap board carried its own copy of the same GitHub-grey stylesheet, so the family read as six unrelated pages that happened to share a layout — and none of them looked like the organ whose logo sits at the top of its README.

The shared theme

board/_theme.py is now the single answer to what does a board look like: the stylesheet, the hero, the facet pills, the family footer. Presentation only — no state, no collection, no policy — and shared rather than copied, so the look moves for the whole family at once instead of drifting page by page.

The Brain board and the Mind dashboard (rendered by the intake conductor, which is why both renderers live here) both draw from it. Heart, Hands, Memory and the umbrella adopt it when their renderers next change — their palette entries are already in the table.

The design

The page wears its organ's logo. Each board opens with a dark hero reproducing that logo's wordmark — white PyAuto, the organ name in its accent, the logo's tagline underneath, inside the logo's ring. Below the hero the page goes back to being a plain readable document, because these are lists people scan on a phone before breakfast.

Five of the six palettes are sampled from the actual logo.png in each organ's repo — the glyph colour and the wordmark's own tagline. PyAutoScientist has no logo, so the umbrella's accent and tagline are designed to sit in the family, and are marked as such in the table.

Colour is information, never decoration:

• the accent is organ identity — links, section rules, stats, hero;
• pills are the task facets, toned so only the exception is coloured. supervised is 136 of the Mind's 154 prompts; tinting it would paint the whole backlog and say nothing. Green go, amber caution, red handle-with-care;
• ok/warn/bad stay reserved for the verdict semantics they already carried, and the Brain board's verdict is now a banner rather than a coloured word in a paragraph;
• the family footer is one chip per sibling board in that organ's own colour, so the six pages read as one system.

Every accent is checked for ≥ 4.5:1 contrast against its own background in both colour schemes — these pages are read outdoors on phones.

Two fixes the restyle surfaced

Titles are cut where a reader can stop. _title took the first ten words and stopped dead, so 72 of the Mind's 154 prompts rendered as a sentence walking off a cliff — "kernel-CDF numba fast path (the". The budget is 12 now, and a cut drops trailing function words, drops an orphaned opening bracket along with the fragment it opened, drops an unpaired backtick (which would otherwise let a code span bleed into the rest of the page), and ends in an ellipsis. A silent cut is indistinguishable from a title that simply ends badly; a marked one is not. 72 hard cuts become 10 honest ones — the rest were never too long, only cut too early.

The work type is on the row. It is what draft/ is organised around and the one facet the boards never showed. It leads each pill row as a glyph plus a quiet uppercase tag — no colour, because colour is reserved for judgement and a category is not one. triage is the exception: it means nobody has classified this yet, which is a real call to action, so it alone goes amber.

Testing

442 tests pass. tests/test_board_theme.py is new and pins the contract: the palette's completeness against config/policy.yaml board: boards:, the contrast floor in both schemes, that each board wears its own accent, that an unknown organ still renders rather than raising mid-render, the exception-not-default toning rule, and that every work type in _sizing.WORK_TYPES has a glyph. tests/test_intake_dashboard.py gains the truncation cases and the work-type row.

Note on PyAutoMind

dashboard.html and dashboard.md are generated by this renderer, so they are deliberately not touched here — dashboard_refresh.yml checks out PyAutoBrain main, so a regenerated page committed on a Mind branch would fail its own drift check until this merges. The nightly self-heal exists for exactly this case (its own comment names it: "generator changes merged in PyAutoBrain — the renderer lives there, so no Mind path fires"). Both pages repaint after this lands.

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