halo-app-design

name	halo-app-design
description	Visual identity for halo — a wall-mounted home dashboard for Hue + solar/energy data, and the origin app of eetu's homebrew family. Layers halo's glyph, wordmark, layout, and voice on top of the shared halo-design tokens. Use when building or styling halo's UI.
user-invocable	true

halo-app-design

Shared tokens + conventions come from halo-design (the family skill — halo is its origin, so halo's ring glyph and wordmark are the reference examples there). halo is a React app, so tokens are mirrored into frontend/src/themes.ts and consumed via the Emotion css prop (the canonical CSS is not shipped; see halo-design's "React production" note). Below is halo's delta.

For production code, the source of truth lives in the host repo:

• Theme tokens: frontend/src/themes.ts
• Components: frontend/src/components/ (energy view: frontend/src/components/Energy/)
• Wordmark + glyph: frontend/src/components/Wordmark.tsx, assets/halo-logo.svg

Refer to existing components first; don't recreate them as JSX prototypes. For throwaway artifacts (mocks, slides), build static HTML with the --halo-* vars. If invoked with no task, ask what to build, then act as an expert designer.

The four deltas

Glyph — thin ring + warm centre (assets/halo-logo.svg). 64×64, currentColor ring stroke ~3, the one hardcoded color a warm #f78f08 centre dot. This is the family's reference glyph; other apps riff on its stroke language.

Wordmark — halo + accent period. Full riff: "i shot marvin in the halo." (Pulp Fiction — Vincent's "I shot Marvin in the face." with "face" → "halo"). Inter 600, lowercase, -0.04em, warm accent dot, same family as the dashboard numerals so brand and data read as one. Below the mobile breakpoint the text collapses entirely, leaving the glyph alone. See frontend/src/components/Wordmark.tsx.

Layout / density — data-dense, wall-mounted touch device. Fixed column with a nav rail; big numbers, big tap targets, no hover states. Clock, charts, and cards on screen at once. Hue lights + solar/energy flow are the hero data.

Voice — Finnish, lowercase, terse. No marketing voice, numbers do the talking. Optional warm/cool weather hues alongside the accent when data demands.

Differences from the family baseline

	halo
Role	family origin — its glyph/wordmark are halo-design's reference examples
Locale	Finnish, lowercase
Device	wall-mounted touch panel — no hover, big targets/numbers
Density	data-dense (clock, energy charts, Hue cards)
Motion	drawer unfold (150ms), colon pulse each second, breathing lit bulbs, energy-flow stroke scroll, eased counters
Icons	lucide-react, inline per-icon import, currentColor — migration in progress: 5 files done, ~12 still render Material Icons through components/Icon.tsx (and index.html still loads the two Material Icons stylesheets). New code uses lucide; convert the Material call sites you touch.