Shades mark — pick the cut

Shades is the mark. Below are the open decisions: three lens shapes, three mustache blocks, every combination, and four accent palette candidates. Everything is currentColor SVG, so switch themes to check light, dark, and high-contrast.

Lens shape

Hybrid

Current default. Wayfarer top bar with an aviator taper at the bottom.

Wayfarer

Squared lenses, straight sides, flat bottom. The boxiest read.

Aviator

True teardrop — rounder corners, lenses drop deeper toward the cheek.

Mustache

Box

Current default. Rounded horizontal block with a philtrum notch, square tips.

Chevron

Thick inverted V — wings angle down and out, tips landing below the lip.

Walrus

Extra wide with a heavy, wavy sag past the mouth corners. The bushiest.

Painter

Trapezoid cut — wide at the top, tapering to a flat brush bottom.

All combinations

Hybrid + Box

Hybrid + Chevron

Hybrid + Walrus

Hybrid + Painter

Wayfarer + Box

Wayfarer + Chevron

Wayfarer + Walrus

Wayfarer + Painter

Aviator + Box

Aviator + Chevron

Aviator + Walrus

Aviator + Painter

Hybrid + Box is what ships today (header, favicon, app icon). Name a combination and it becomes the mark everywhere.

Accent palette

#c22d11

#ec4b26

#ff6a40

Ember Red

Current — live in the app. The original ember pushed a couple shades toward red.

#c2410c

#ea580c

#ff7a1a

Original Ember

Where we started — burnt orange, kept here for side-by-side comparison.

#c0181c

#ef4444

#ff5a5a

Fire Engine

All the way to true red. Loud, classic fire-service signal color.

#9e3420

#d0654a

#ff8a70

Brick

Muted rust red — calmer, more municipal, easier on long reading sessions.

Tiles show each candidate on the light, dark, and high-contrast page backgrounds. Picking one swaps the accent tokens in globals.css; the soft backgrounds and text tints follow.