The A of ITA had lost its diagonal: at 260px the hairlines of a Didone
fall below a pixel, downscaling averages them into grey, and the
panel's mid-grey cut then discarded them. What reached the shop window
was a detached serif and something closer to a lambda.
Letting more grey count as ink keeps them whole. 165 was not enough —
the diagonal came back dotted — and 195 holds it solid without
thickening the stems into mud. The number belongs to this particular
drawing, so `npm run brand:variants` renders the grid of widths and
thresholds it was chosen from, magnified, for the day the logo changes.
Width stays at 260: the header shares its line with the date, and the
main block is narrower now the week runs down the right-hand side.
The panel will redraw once when it next wakes, since the image and
therefore its content hash have changed.
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With the move to BYOS there is no TRMNL cloud to interpret a Liquid
template, so the application draws the screen itself.
The pipeline is satori (flexbox to SVG) then resvg (SVG to pixels) then
a hand-written 1-bit encoder. Chromium was the alternative and was
rejected: half a gigabyte and a real memory appetite in the runtime
image, for a screen of eight blocks. Playwright still handles the E2E
tests, in its own pinned image, never in the application one.
The payoff is testability. The layout is asserted on the element tree
and the geometry on the SVG text, so a rendering regression shows up as
a readable diff instead of a pixel comparison. The BMP and PNG encoders
are verified field by field against their specifications, including an
independent CRC-32 for the PNG: a device rejecting a malformed image is
expensive to debug from a shop window.
Two properties are pinned because the battery depends on them: the same
payload must produce byte-identical output, and changed hours must
produce different output. The filename handed to the device is a hash of
these bytes, and the firmware skips the redraw when it is unchanged.
The fonts are vendored into public/fonts and the logo into public/brand,
both committed. Rendering must not depend on an install tree, a CDN or
the network, or the bytes drift and the panel wakes for nothing.
`npm run screen:preview` writes a real 1-bit image plus a magnified view,
which is where clipping and thin strokes give themselves up. That is how
the week strip was caught clipping and condensed.
`npm run brand` rebuilds the assets: it locates the wordmark band in the
shop logo rather than hard-coding offsets a future revision would break,
and thresholds it with the panel's own encoder. sharp is a devDependency
used only there; nothing at runtime needs it.
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