brand: retire the fox motif from the published artwork

.aegis-baseline.tsv

@@ -20,13 +20,9 @@
 # Only after verifying each newly added key is a false positive.
 # Matches the 9-digit observed value range in the PNG node dictionary
 # (0..141663582), the run of SVG path control coordinates in the brand
-# mark's bezier paths, and the GitHub release and asset identifiers
-# quoted in the release receipts; this repository holds no tax
-# identifiers.
-australian-tfn	./docs/img/app-preview-dark.svg	197e6b1c357f3d959ff48bf52e3e8aae179b55145f13eb64db7eea631a93cc69	1
-australian-tfn	./docs/img/app-preview-dark.svg	9e2095671e41853dd2c27a6a9f6c43b8d1cd2f8548e2293e95aec84f7a07adf5	1
-australian-tfn	./docs/img/app-preview-dark.svg	c271cd9d0bac232bb161ac8dd9b1a40816441598fd5c0c5e41d3e3bdfafa47ee	1
-australian-tfn	./docs/img/app-preview-dark.svg	c8c202ad4293b1893efd892e1f3420d2b79cbd72dc511fd5b980fbf51644d75c	1
+# mark's bezier paths and in the brand study illustration's control
+# points, and the GitHub release and asset identifiers quoted in the
+# release receipts; this repository holds no tax identifiers.
 australian-tfn	./docs/img/firecraft-vector-brand-study.svg	0c0abeaf013ea7ee28c7a1845ec462ed9d0dab7f9626410681d6a15aa9fb1571	1
 australian-tfn	./docs/img/firecraft-vector-brand-study.svg	1c302c0eb6b2ce0b6aef4f72d11808bda6520a11205cf024c4c3daac3a12af82	1
 australian-tfn	./docs/img/firecraft-vector-brand-study.svg	353c47b7c0c49557e6633299b2b3a0fcde5225767f34c7b9adb4aeca93828a12	1
@@ -248,9 +244,11 @@ xml-external-entity	./crates/io/tests/svgimport.rs	f6cfc5faea5abe6ee5bd8667967ed
 xml-external-entity	./packaging/build-macos-dmg.sh	7b16906a7de9206c7488979eb86e8393ba62a45c0e769c79cf070a16c1858d49	1
 # Matches any 5-digit run: CS6 command ids, the JPEG dimension ceiling
 # (65535), menu ids, CS6 palette-instance ids (the 48xxx family), a
-# canvas dimension in a render-scale test, CVE id suffixes, the
-# civil-date epoch constant (36524) in the SBOM timestamp builder, plus
-# the headless-browser virtual-time budget (60000), and decision 0074's
+# canvas dimension in a render-scale test, the scale factor of the brand
+# mark's placement transform in the dark-mode mock-up and in the
+# decision record that adjudicates it, CVE id suffixes, the civil-date
+# epoch constant (36524) in the SBOM timestamp builder, plus the
+# headless-browser virtual-time budget (60000), and decision 0074's
 # table of adjudicated classes and the rule identifiers quoted by the
 # Aegis adjudication tickets. The v1 MVP roadmap's RPC-emulation row
 # names the legacy Fireworks RPC TCP port — a protocol number, not
@@ -638,6 +636,8 @@ zip-code	./docs/decisions/0084-aegis-rebless-slice-hotspot.md	6ae29c8266e042c990
 zip-code	./docs/decisions/0084-aegis-rebless-slice-hotspot.md	7f86696157efee849855811dbdd3b8babcbde71c5c3e17277bf4f2bf6a75106e	1
 zip-code	./docs/decisions/0084-aegis-rebless-slice-hotspot.md	e95e07198fbc2a3fac954c1e20f99ff404edbc4a9bcc08f0ef575f1b58121ac5	1
 zip-code	./docs/decisions/0084-aegis-rebless-slice-hotspot.md	fec32d6024e177ac05e94de175bfccd84ec3d389034f6f57067fb167302534b6	1
+zip-code	./docs/decisions/0101-brand-mark-in-the-mock-up.md	16b024b09ebcb9d66f6a9968858d7e01081e51a14a4922edf3c8e3c2009c0000	1
+zip-code	./docs/img/app-preview-dark.svg	16b024b09ebcb9d66f6a9968858d7e01081e51a14a4922edf3c8e3c2009c0000	1
 zip-code	./docs/planning/firecraft/M8-import-export.md	f2f89ede8e7d4b3d2243dea1ca96b8ece56f793811d9708b4a0181bf81a50011	2
 zip-code	./docs/planning/firecraft/M9-scripting.md	0e5c81ceee464db1c0cb9ed801d134fab0dd2a28c0dc62e35aa21a8e13ff0ebc	1
 zip-code	./docs/planning/firecraft/M9-scripting.md	20d70708103e5223b6f2fb00f00947832fb93d12ebef11eb10bc5599efefe184	1
@@ -704,6 +704,7 @@ zip-code	./docs/research/fw-ui-evidence.md	fec32d6024e177ac05e94de175bfccd84ec3d
 zip-code	./docs/research/fw-ui-evidence.md	ffdfd59d08e67eeff2569e91641bb6adb12fc0bf42ef8f0f2c197ed14369f10d	3
 zip-code	./docs/tasks/T27-12-adjudicate-aegis-findings.md	6f21ec723dd82aa7bd36bc81cc4008e4f6359fe8ce68f793af23b7123bdbf3a6	1
 zip-code	./docs/tasks/T27-12-adjudicate-aegis-findings.md	d55d01d0341ed0ba2cd99b322e8c5b609254f47d10c7cd12b99b4922effeba44	1
+zip-code	./site/assets/app-preview-dark.svg	16b024b09ebcb9d66f6a9968858d7e01081e51a14a4922edf3c8e3c2009c0000	1
 zip-code	./xtask/src/aegis.rs	6f21ec723dd82aa7bd36bc81cc4008e4f6359fe8ce68f793af23b7123bdbf3a6	1
 zip-code	./xtask/src/aegis.rs	d55d01d0341ed0ba2cd99b322e8c5b609254f47d10c7cd12b99b4922effeba44	1
 zip-code	./xtask/src/aegis.rs	f2f89ede8e7d4b3d2243dea1ca96b8ece56f793811d9708b4a0181bf81a50011	1

README.md

@@ -64,20 +64,22 @@ Some of these items are partially implemented or still planned. The authoritativ
 
 ## Screenshots
 
-The images below are repository screenshots of the application. They are point-in-time views; consult the roadmap for current implementation status.
+The images below are views of the application: the first is a repository screenshot, the second a vector mock-up of the dark theme. They are point-in-time views; consult the roadmap for current implementation status.
 
 <p align="center">
   <img src="docs/img/app-main.png" alt="FireCraft application workspace" width="960" />
 </p>
 
 The first capture is a 1280×800 frame of the current shell with a vector object selected, taken from the optimized web bundle built on 2026-11-04. It is evidence for that build and state, not a general parity claim — see the [screenshot audit](docs/tasks/T22-screenshot-ui.md) for the captures, measurements, and their limits.
 
-The same workspace in the dark theme — Tools panel down the left edge, a vector object selected on a transparent canvas, and the Optimize panel previewing a PNG-24 export:
+The dark theme, with the FireCraft flame mark under edit and its path nodes live:
 
 <p align="center">
-  <img src="docs/img/app-dark.png" alt="FireCraft in dark mode: the Tools panel down the left edge, a vector fox logo selected on a transparent 800×600 canvas, and the Optimize panel showing a PNG-24 preview at 100% quality." width="960" />
+  <img src="docs/img/app-preview-dark.svg" alt="FireCraft in dark mode: the Tools panel down the left edge, the flame mark selected on a transparent 800×600 canvas with live path nodes on its outline, and the Optimize panel showing a PNG-24 preview at 100% quality." width="960" />
 </p>
 
+The dark-mode image is original vector artwork — a mock-up of the shell, not a screen capture — so the mark on the canvas is the project's own. The capture above it is the real one, and it is evidence for the build it came from, not a general parity claim.
+
 ## Get started
 
 ### Download a release

docs/ATTRIBUTION.md

@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ Adobe bytes, paths, colors, or names. License: this repository's
 | `docs/img/logo.svg`, `site/assets/firecraft-mark.svg`, `site/assets/favicon.svg`, `web/favicon.svg` | FireCraft brand mark and SVG favicons: a clean flame silhouette with an ember-red-to-orange gradient | FireCraft contributors | Original vector artwork traced and refined from the project's supplied flame reference; no Adobe artwork or third-party assets used | Apache-2.0 ([LICENSE](../LICENSE)) |
 | `docs/img/firecraft-vector-brand-study.svg`, `site/assets/firecraft-vector-brand-study.svg` | FireCraft vector-editing brand illustration with Bézier nodes, handles, and gradient controls | FireCraft contributors | Original SVG illustration developed from the approved FireCraft flame artwork; no Adobe artwork or third-party assets used | Apache-2.0 ([LICENSE](../LICENSE)) |
 | `docs/img/logo.png`, `assets/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/firecraft.png` | FireCraft application icon: the flame mark on a charcoal rounded-square field | FireCraft contributors | Raster exports of the original FireCraft SVG mark | Apache-2.0 ([LICENSE](../LICENSE)) |
-| `docs/img/app-preview-dark.svg` / `.png` | Dark-mode application preview graphic: the workspace with a geometric fox illustration under edit | FireCraft contributors | Original vector artwork created for this project — a mock-up of the shell, not a screen capture; no Adobe artwork or third-party assets used | Apache-2.0 ([LICENSE](../LICENSE)) |
+| `docs/img/app-preview-dark.svg` | Dark-mode application preview graphic: the workspace with the FireCraft flame mark under edit | FireCraft contributors | Original vector artwork created for this project — a mock-up of the shell, not a screen capture; no Adobe artwork or third-party assets used | Apache-2.0 ([LICENSE](../LICENSE)) |
+| `docs/img/app-main.png` | Application screenshot: the workspace with a vector object selected | FireCraft contributors | A capture of this project's own application, taken from the optimized web bundle built on 2026-11-04; no Adobe artwork or third-party assets used | Apache-2.0 ([LICENSE](../LICENSE)) |
 | `assets/library/Animations.fw.png` | FireCraft Common Library: Animations (3 animation-source symbols) | FireCraft contributors | generated by `xtask library-gen` | Apache-2.0 ([LICENSE](../LICENSE)) |
 | `assets/library/Bullets.fw.png` | FireCraft Common Library: Bullets (5 list marks) | FireCraft contributors | generated by `xtask library-gen` | Apache-2.0 ([LICENSE](../LICENSE)) |
 | `assets/library/Buttons.fw.png` | FireCraft Common Library: Buttons (2 plain + 1 rich symbol) | FireCraft contributors | generated by `xtask library-gen` | Apache-2.0 ([LICENSE](../LICENSE)) |

docs/decisions/0101-brand-mark-in-the-mock-up.md

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+# 0101 — The dark-mode mock-up shows the brand mark itself, and its placement transform is adjudicated
+
+Date: 2026-11-12 · Issue [#131](https://github.com/aliasfoxkde/FireCraft/issues/131) · Status: accepted
+
+## Context
+
+The project's identity is the vector flame (`docs/img/logo.svg`, one path with
+the ember-red-to-orange gradient). The fox was retired with it, but three
+published places still carried the old motif: the README's dark-mode image,
+the landing mock-up's artwork, and the attribution row that named "a
+geometric fox illustration under edit". The mock-up is the graphic a
+first-time visitor sees, so the retired motif was the project's face.
+
+The README's dark-mode image was a *screen capture* whose canvas held the
+old logo object, so its alt text described what the pixels actually
+contained. That text could not simply be reworded: the capture had to be
+replaced, and no renderer on this host draws the SVG correctly — the
+internal SVG renderer ignores `objectBoundingBox` gradients and
+multi-transform chains, so an exported PNG of the new artwork would be
+wrong. A wrong PNG is worse than no PNG.
+
+Drawing the mark into the mock-up raised two questions that had to be
+settled before the artwork was right.
+
+## Decision
+
+- **The mock-up shows the mark the logo draws it.** The flame is placed with
+  the canonical path from `docs/img/logo.svg` and the logo's own gradient,
+  so the two cannot drift. It is one path and one gradient, as the logo is.
+  A first attempt added a second, scaled copy of the path as a gold "inner
+  core"; a geometric check of that construction — the path flattened to a
+  polygon, the scaled copy's vertices tested against the original — showed
+  the copy leaves the flame along **37% of its outline**, with excursions of
+  up to 64 path units, because the flame's tail and tendrils are not
+  star-shaped about the mark's centre. The core was removed rather than
+  shipped as a defect.
+- **The selection chrome is fitted to the mark, not to the old artwork.**
+  The path's outline is flattened, its bounds mapped through the artwork's
+  transform, and the selection rectangle, its eight handles, the six path
+  nodes, the layer names, the status bar and the properties panel all
+  describe the object that is actually on the artboard.
+- **The SVG is the single source.** `docs/img/app-preview-dark.png`,
+  `site/assets/app-preview-dark.png` and the retired capture
+  `docs/img/app-dark.png` are removed rather than regenerated; the site's
+  copy is the same file. Browsers render the SVG directly. The README shows
+  the mock-up with a caption that says what it is — original artwork, not a
+  screen capture — because a capture's alt text has to describe its pixels,
+  and the capture that used to be there held the retired mark.
+- **The placement transform is adjudicated, not dodged.** The mock-up places
+  the mark with `transform="translate(403.79 193.46) scale(0.31214)"`. The
+  scale factor's digits read as a five-digit run, and Aegis's `zip-code`
+  rule matches any five-digit run, so the gate reports it as new. Three
+  occurrences — one per copy of the graphic, and this record, which
+  quotes the transform it adjudicates — are false positives of a class
+  the baseline already carries, and the rule class's reason in
+  `xtask/src/aegis.rs` now names this source so a reviewer can read what
+  the rows cover. No rule class was switched off and no rule was excluded.
+
+The Aegis re-bless was reproduced outside `cargo`, as decisions 0083 and
+0084 did, because the local build admission was closed while the GitForge
+runners held the host's compilers. The renderer reproduces
+`xtask/src/aegis.rs`'s `render_baseline` byte-for-byte: rendering `main`'s
+committed baseline from a scan of `main`'s tree reproduces `main`'s
+committed file exactly, with no diff. The scanner is the CI-pinned
+`aegis` 0.6.3, so the content digests are the digests CI computes. The
+rewrite was iterated to a fixed point: the second pass found no change.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- The published artwork carries the flame, and only the flame. The SVG is
+  the artifact; there is no raster copy to drift from it.
+- The flame's placement is derived from the mark's own outline rather than
+  drawn by eye, so the selection chrome, the layer list and the properties
+  panel describe the object on the artboard.
+- The Aegis baseline carries three new `zip-code` rows (the placement
+  transform's scale factor, in each copy of the graphic and in this record)
+  and drops the four `australian-tfn` rows the retired fox's bezier paths
+  had contributed. The
+  `australian-tfn` reason also returns to the wording the gate's source
+  holds: the committed baseline had drifted from it when the brand study
+  illustration was added, and regenerating from the source restores it.
+- The mock-up is still a mock-up. It is original artwork of the shell, not a
+  screenshot of a build, and the README now says so.