Showcase density
Earned header: display face, uppercase, one colour token, and the single permitted flourish — a gilt rule that starts at the text and fades to the rail.
Panel
The bounded surface. Its edge is a masked overlay — full strength at the top, gone by the bottom. No hairline runs corner to corner.
Plain panel
The cheap panel. One tone down, softer edge, no sheen, no fade. This is what a panel looks like when it has nothing to say.
A name plate, not a band — inline-block is the whole idea. As a
straddling legend it sits on its own panel edge.
The divider inventory
Four. There is no fifth. Anything else is a habit, not a divider.
1. Ruling — row separation inside a ledger, and nowhere else.
2. Fading rule — between sections. It ends by fading, not by stopping.
3. Lintel — a threshold. One per band, at the top of the page shell.
4. Spine — a vertical fade marking a sequence: a thread of posts.
First reply in the thread.
Second reply, same spine.
Icons, stamps, and the two metals
Every icon is a mask over a token, never a coloured file — one asset serves every state and forced-colors mode.
App density — same rail, same shell
Identical width, identical components. Sheen off, rows tighter, headers reduced, icons one step smaller. Nothing here is a different component; it is the same set turned down.
A reduced header (has not earned ornament)
Body face, no case switch, no rule, no background. The reduced header is the default; ornament is the exception that has to be argued for.
The standing test
This page contains no images of any kind — every frame, rule, plaque, glow, and icon above is CSS or a mask over a token. If this page looks unfinished, the component set is not done.