Logo · proposal

# obsidian vault pipeline.

A geometric mark that diagrams the OVP architecture: three stacked bars in the brand's text color, each shorter and softer than the last, funneling into a terracotta circle. The bars are Source · Candidate · Canonical State compacting through Governance; the dot is the Projection the reader sees. The full-stop after the wordmark wears the same terracotta — a tiny callback the source repo already uses (`brand.dot`).

### Wordmark — primary lockup

Same lockup on light and dark surfaces. Bars + wordmark inherit `currentColor`; the terracotta dot stays fixed across schemes.

### Monogram — favicon, app icon, profile mark

Bars use `currentColor`, so they invert with the surface; the dot keeps its terracotta identity (slightly brighter on dark for legibility).

### Construction (40 × 40 grid)

Bar widths
  22 / 16 / 10 units — a 3:2 funnel ratio. Opacity drops 100 → 65 → 40 to read as compaction.
Dot
  r=4 at (30, 26.6). 50% wider than a bar, anchored on the rightmost pipeline column.
Wordmark color
  Bars use `currentColor`; dot is hard-coded `#9f4f24` (terracotta accent). Inverts cleanly on dark.
Type
  IBM Plex Sans 600, lowercase, letter-spacing -0.005em, 24px in the wordmark SVG. Period rendered at weight 700 in terracotta.

### Why this mark

- It's a literal diagram of the brand's central claim — auditable knowledge state runtime: Capture → Compile → Reuse. The compaction is the system.
- It only uses primitives the rest of the system already uses: rounded bars, a circle, the terracotta dot from `nav .brand .dot`.
- It works at 16px favicon size (the bars stay readable as a stack) and at full-bleed (the construction grid scales).
- It avoids the AI-slop traps OVP's docs explicitly resist: no gradient, no isometric cube, no "neuron" mesh, no obsidian-stone stock illustration.

Caveat: still a proposal. The source repo has no logo. Confirm with the OVP author before treating as final.