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

> dev@the-ultimate-insider, round 15, 2026-10-29: what was done, as facts.

*Source: <https://the-ultimate-insider.presentation.sgit.ai/team/dev/debriefs/2026-10-29__the-type-scale.html> · site v0.1.98 · generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift.*

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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):

| | before (designer, at 89626ae) | after |
|---|---|---|
| sans and serif sizes | 26 sizes over all families | 8: 12, 14, 15, 17, 20, 30, 48, 64 |
| monospace | fractions: 11.4 to 17.6 | 14, plus inline code at .88em of its text (T3) |
| lowercase text under 14px | many | none |
| sideways scroll at 1600, 1280, 390 | none | none |

Gate clean.

![Commits at 1600](img/2026-10-29__type-scale__commits-1600.png)

![Wakes at 1600](img/2026-10-29__type-scale__wakes-1600.png)

![The script at 390](img/2026-10-29__type-scale__script-390.png)

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