Drop the Horizon menu style (options_horizon.rs, front.rs, the live title
backdrop and its post grade, the launcher's menu-style setting, CLI and MCP
tool). Every screen is vanilla's. Horizon's own settings hang off vanilla's
Options the way mods add theirs: Horizon Settings... and Mods... take the
Telemetry/Credits slots, and Horizon Settings opens Graphics, Advanced
Graphics, Shader Packs, Controller Settings, Extras and Mods, each a vanilla
options list with tooltips. Play with friends moves behind vanilla's Friends
buttons: the pause menu's opens Play with Friends (share, copy, stop), the
title screen's opens Join a Friend, and Direct Connection takes a full code.
Old files load as before: horizon.txt's menuStyle line and
horizon-graphics.txt's level line are ignored.
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horizon-theme gains the Blocks palettes (light and dark, WCAG AA on every panel and on the stone),
Pixelify Sans (OFL) and Pixelarticons (MIT); tokens.css now carries the Blocks colours, the pixel
font and the block edges. The site sets headings, navigation and buttons in Pixelify Sans, turns
the index lists into stacks of panels with an outline, a bevel and a lip, puts a stone texture
behind the page and Horizon's pixel landscape (a dawn or a sunset) behind the hero, both drawn in
code by scripts/art.mjs. Light and dark still follow the system, with the toggle.
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The mark is an H whose crossbar is the horizon: a violet line edge to edge, the stems above it
and their reflection below at a third, on whole units of a 16-unit grid so it stays sharp at
16 px. docs/media/brand holds the SVG masters (square icon, macOS tile, avatars, the mark for
light and dark backgrounds), the two alternatives that were shown with it, the GitHub social
preview and the Discord banner, and a README of what goes where and how to upload what only
Ludovic's accounts can.
`cargo run -p xtask -- icons` renders the masters (rsvg-convert) and packs, in plain Rust:
packaging/icons/horizon.ico and horizon.icns, Linux's hicolor icons 16–512 and the scalable
SVG, the game's run-time window icon, the avatars and the website's favicons.
packaging/linux has .desktop entries for the launcher and the game.
On Windows, build.rs embeds the .ico as icon resource 1 in horizon-client (and its tools) and
horizon-launcher (winresource, a Windows-only build dependency); gpui loads that resource as
the launcher's window icon. The game window sets the icon itself (X11, Windows) and names
itself `horizon` on Wayland so the desktop entry matches.
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The veil goes to 0.90 (0.80 on the title's home page, which keeps to ink and ink_soft), and
muted text over the backdrop is lifted to #9fa3ae; a test checks every pair over a backdrop of
luminance 0.77 (the snowiest title panorama measured reaches 0.49), bare and on a row's plate.
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docs/design-system.md describes the new design language (after mkdir.directory: type as the
interface, numbered index lists with hairline rules, one violet accent, space instead of
borders, quiet motion, a faint wordmark) and its tokens, components, surfaces and mark.
crates/horizon-theme now holds the whole system: the two palettes (cool neutrals, light and
dark, each text colour checked against WCAG AA on every background by a test), the type scale
with web sizes, spacing, radii, rules, control heights and motion with CSS easing curves.
Instrument Serif is gone; display type is Geist at medium weight.
`cargo run -p xtask -- tokens` writes website/src/tokens.css from the crate, and a test fails
when the file is out of date. The launcher and the game's menus read the new names through
small adapters; the restyles follow in their own changes.
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One theme for the launcher and the game: crates/horizon-theme holds the
palette, type scale, spacing, radii, control sizes, motion and the bundled
fonts; launcher/src/theme.rs and the game's ui_theme both read it. ui_theme
ports the launcher's components (button with hover layer and press state,
sidebar list with the sliding selection, segmented control, switch, rows)
and draws Geist and Instrument Serif through the HUD atlas.
The title is laid out like the launcher (sidebar, page header, rows) over a
live backdrop: Horizon generates an ice-spikes landscape for a fixed seed,
orbits a camera over it with falling snow, then blurs and cold-grades the
frame (post.rs). The launcher's opening (wordmark, then the interface) plays
once per session and a click or key skips it. Menu style Horizon / Classic
lives in horizon.txt, never options.txt; Classic keeps vanilla's drawing.
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