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Honest Scholar’s identity is built to read as rigorous, not decorative: a bold electric blue grounds the system with confidence, a single punchy red accent carries every call to action and moment of confirmation — the QED square that ends a proof, the sign-off, the “demonstrated.” Quietly confident, understated: built for researchers evaluating a new tool, not for a landing page. <p align=“center”> <img src=”../../assets/wordmark-lockup-dark.svg” alt=“Lockup on dark” width=“380”>    <img src=”../../assets/wordmark-lockup-light.svg” alt=“Lockup on light” width=“380”> </p> The icon mark (assets/icon-mark.svg) is a red circle with a white QED square (∎, the mark that ends a proof — “demonstrated”), used standalone as the favicon and app icon at 32/24/16px, and paired with the wordmark in the lockups above. Clearspace & minimum size. Keep clearspace equal to the icon’s radius on every side. Never render the lockup narrower than 120px, or the icon alone below 16px. Don’t:
  • Recolor the mark
  • Stretch or skew the lockup
  • Add drop shadows or outlines
  • Place it on busy imagery

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Color

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Typography

  • Display — Space Grotesk (weights 500–700): headlines, wordmark, section labels.
  • Body — Source Sans 3 (weights 400–700): docs, README prose, UI copy.
  • Mono — JetBrains Mono: code, CLI commands, badges, technical labels.

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Applications

README header: <p align=“center”><img src=”../../assets/wordmark-banner.svg” alt=“README header” width=“640”></p> Badges use labelColor=2a1cc8 (electric blue) and color=f9463c (red), flat-square style — see the shields.io URLs in the root README.md. Social preview (GitHub repo social image, 1280×640): <p align=“center”><img src=”../../assets/social-preview.svg” alt=“Social preview” width=“640”></p>

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Voice

Rigorous, plain, anti-hype. Say what the tool does, not how exciting it is. Quietly confident: no exclamation points, no “revolutionize,” no unearned superlatives. Precise verbs over adjectives — “traces,” “retires,” “verifies,” not “seamlessly” or “powerful.”

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Assets

All source files live in assets/:
  • icon-mark.svg — app icon / favicon source (512×512)
  • wordmark-banner.svg — README header (1200×300)
  • docs-hero.svg — docs page hero banner (1600×420)
  • nav-logo-light.svg — compact nav lockup (icon + wordmark) for light nav bars
  • nav-logo-dark.svg — compact nav lockup (icon + wordmark) for dark nav bars
  • wordmark-lockup-light.svg — horizontal lockup, transparent, for light surfaces
  • wordmark-lockup-dark.svg — horizontal lockup, transparent, for dark surfaces
  • social-preview.svg — GitHub social preview (1280×640)