personal system · v0.1

nimbus

nim·bus (n.) — a cloud, and a halo of light. Night-sky surfaces. One warm light. Buttons you can press.

travel: 1px · edge: 2px
Provenance

Extracted, not invented

Every decision below already existed somewhere in the personal work. nimbus just puts them in one house.

DecisionWhere it came from
Layered night surfaces, hairline edgescodekanban · #14161A/#1B1E24 + #2A2E37
The night-sky blue castdouble-ttt + ig-follow-checker · #0b1220
Moon accent familycodekanban #6ea8fe · ig-follow-checker #60a5fa
Honey, and the pressable key edgepogo-kids · #ffcf33 · box-shadow: 0 2px 0
The ⬡ sigilcodekanban wordmark ::before
Mono for data, pills, tracked micro-labelscodekanban · trello-tagged-dashboard
Warm paper day themepogo-kids · #fff7e6
Pill toastdouble-ttt · .toast
Color

Two lights on a night sky

bg · the sky
panel
panel-2
moon · interact
honey · identity
ink

Moon is every interactive thing. Honey marks what is yours: the sigil, selected text, the pinned item. Honey never becomes a button.

Type

The display face is a guest; the body is the house

display · grotesk 500Deal pipeline, reclaimed
body · system-uiBody text never waits for a webfont. It renders in the platform face, instantly, every time.
data · monoscanned 2026-07-03 10:41 · 17,634 files · 0 leaks
microUppercase, tracked .08em
Components

The working parts

Anonymise Q2 corpus

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Vendor portal P2

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Doctrine

House rules

  1. Honey never becomes a button. Interaction is moon; identity is honey.
  2. Nothing glows except the nimbus. Shadows stay neutral and low.
  3. Mono is for data. Metrics, timestamps, hex. Prose never.
  4. The display face is a guest. Body text is system-ui and renders instantly.
  5. Edges are drawn, not shaded. 1px hairlines; dashed for empty states.
  6. Never pure black, never pure white. Surfaces layer one step at a time.
  7. Buttons travel. 2px edge, 1px press. Every one feels like a key.
  8. No colored left-border stripes. State is worn as a pill with a dot.
  9. Micro-labels are uppercase, tracked .08em, and dim.
  10. Motion is functional, 120–320ms. Only the sigil breathes, and it stops for prefers-reduced-motion.
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