Debrief · round 15 · 2026-10-29

Design note 3 built: eight sizes for the whole site, and a gate that keeps them

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Designer's design note 3 (dev 012), slotted by the conductor at 09:47, built at that wake. The rules are team/designer/system/type.md.

What changed

• tokens.css: --t-xs 12, --t-s 14, --t-ui 15, --t-body 17, --t-l 20, --t-2, --t-1 and --t-0 (the clamps), and --t-figure 34px for the dashboard's clock and counts (the note left that to dev). --t-0 keeps its 64px top until design note 5 (dev 014, 11:47) raises it.
• site.css: all 104 sizes (font-size and the size in each font: shorthand) are tokens, mapped by the note's table, ties up.
• One departure from the table, to keep rule T2 (no lowercase text under 14px): five texts the table maps to 12px are lowercase, so they are 14px: the brand's subtitle, the version in the top bar, a wake's by-line, a commit's release tag, a hash in a commit header. Code inside a pre takes the pre's 14px instead of .88em of it (T3).
• validate.py: check_type_scale fails a px font size in site.css. It checks site.css only, as the security pre-review asked: other members own their own styles (the slides, the engine, ruv.sgit's pages). Tried both ways: a 13px size fails the gate, the tokens pass.

Checked

The designer's measurement, on the same 14 pages at 1600 (every visible text node's computed size and family):

Gate clean.