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Behind the Build

How this was made

The project's own curated artifacts, rendered in product: the overview, the design system, the review philosophy, and the brand.

Foundry, the design system for the suite, rendered from its own tokens. The brand layer is monochrome steel and white, the Horizon Foundry palette. Color is reserved: severity and verdict hues live in the reports (and in elements explicitly framed as report excerpts, nowhere else), and amber is the forge glow, used only on the invoke and run layer (the commands you fire), never for decoration.

Neutral ramp: ink to bone

ink
#14191F
ink-raised
#1E2530
ink-raised-2
#283340
line
#334455
line-strong
#45566A
bone-faint
#8B94A4
bone-dim
#A2ABB8
bone
#E8ECF0

Severity ramp: the only saturated ink

criticalhighmediumlowinformational

Critical red, high orange, medium amber, low steel, informational gray. The three verdict colors reuse the same hues so a reader learns one language.

Verdict stamps

Release recommendation

Safe to ship

Release recommendation

Ready to ship, risks noted

Release recommendation

Do not ship

Typography: the foundry and the instrument

Inter

The brand voice · wordmark · display headings

IBM Plex Sans

Body and UI voice

IBM Plex Mono

The instrument voice · IDs · severities · verdicts · metadata

IBM Plex Serif

Long-form rendered documentation only

The command accent: amber

command #D99A2E

The forge glow. Reserved for the invoke and run layer, the commands you fire, like /production-audit or make install, and nothing else.