The medallion, the bronze, and the ornaments that switched three times

From drawn lines to a medallion.

The old logo was drawn in code: paths that together formed a brush-style C with an infinity symbol. The new logo is a supplied medallion — a ring with a K inside — plus a variant with the full wordmark next to it. Two very different techniques, and therefore two very different ways of handling them in the game.

The logo follows the theme colour again, with a light/dark gradient — just like the old drawn mark did. That wasn't a given: the first version was flat bronze everywhere, which quickly clashed across six different themes.

A K that came and went three times.

The buttons — 'New project' and similar — got a separately cut-out K monogram (without the ring) as an ornament on both ends. That ornament was made bigger within the same day, moved from next to the text to the button's edges, and eventually removed altogether. In 'Navy & Gold (original)', the old infinity symbol simply stayed in that same spot throughout — that particular knot never needed untying, since that theme is the deliberate nod to v1, so it's allowed to keep looking like it.

At the same time, red — stamps, the scope bar — turned out to look too washed out in dark mode. All six themes got a more saturated base red on the same day, instead of adjusting it separately per theme.

A sixth theme, in the same wave.

Separately from the rebrand, but in the same window: a sixth theme, Mineral & Bronze, went through a few internal rounds of its own — calibrated against the supplied style sheet, its light variant flipped once (bronze as the base instead of the accent), and bronze made more prominent again after an in-between version turned out too muted. A day later it became the game's default colour.

None of these back-and-forth changes were 'wrong' along the way. It's just how visual work goes when you're competing with an original that already looked good — you keep testing until it feels just as good again, only now under a new name.