v2 brand system — Levantine Modernism
The v2 brand system replaces the Olive/Leaf v1 that shipped with the legacy WordPress site. Cedar, sumac, parchment, ink. Fraunces, Inter, JetBrains Mono. Four P0 accessibility fixes cleared against measured contrast ratios. Review score 7.80/10 against v1 at 5.27/10.
Added
- Cedar primary
#1F3B2D, sumac accent#C85A3A, parchment canvas#FAF6EF, warm-black ink#1B1913 - Saffron reserved as signal colour — focus rings and warning badges only
- Composite type tokens (
type.h1bundles family, weight, size, line-height, tracking) so templates reference one token per heading level - Dual spacing scales: static
space.100..900plus fluidspace-fluid.100..800, 1:1 name-aligned - Warm-tinted elevation using cedar-900 alpha rather than neutral grey, 5 shadow tiers plus focus ring
prefers-reduced-motioncollapses every duration token to 0ms at:rootVOICE.mdcovering forbidden vocabulary, three writing tests, tone dial, sample headlines in FR and EN- Six-file SVG logo set at
assets/logo-v2/(light, dark, icon, favicon, wordmark-dark, wordmark-light) - Two dark-mode variants shipped side by side: cedar-deepening default and warm-charcoal alternate
Changed
- Primary colour
#4b5759→#1F3B2D— the old value read as hesitant B2B - Accent
#a2c32a → #5d9934gradient removed entirely, replaced by solid sumac for print compatibility - Canvas
#f7f7f5→#FAF6EF— warm parchment harmonises with the food and wine subject - Typography Montserrat → Fraunces + Inter + JetBrains Mono — Montserrat is universal, Fraunces has a voice
- Button radius
999pxpill →8pxrectangle, pill reserved for badges and tags only - Status colours reuse brand primitives — no foreign traffic-light red or green
- Focus ring remapped from saffron on parchment (1.95:1, fails WCAG 1.4.11) to a surface-aware pair: sumac-500 on light (5.63:1), saffron-400 on dark (11.3:1)
--color-text-subtleremapped from ink-300 (2.79:1, fails AA-Large) to ink-400 (5.13:1 AA)
Fixed
- Warning badge tokenised as
--color-warning-bg: saffron-50+--color-warning-ink: saffron-700— the prior ad-hoc pairing was 2.95:1 (AA fail) - Contrast claim corrected at
index.html:824— white on sumac-400 is 4.22:1 (AA-Large only), not the self-reported 4.6:1