Color System
The brand’s visual color canon is pearl-white (Base), cyan/teal (Core), and pink (Accent) — no gold in this costume/brand palette. This chapter is about the mascot’s own costume/brand tone specifically; it is not the site’s own separate UI/implementation color system (buttons, backgrounds, layout), which is a distinct question — see Site UI color/typography system below. (One live, currently-CANONICAL site asset — the main-site favicon — does carry a gold outline; that is a separate, already-classified exception, not a color this palette includes — see Known cross-file gap below.)
(Source: established directly from the approved reference images.)
Meaning
Section titled “Meaning”The mascot’s suit color is not an independently chosen costume color — it draws from the same core cyan/teal named above. Any document citing “the brand color” and any document citing “the mascot’s suit color” are describing the same underlying tone family, not two separate palettes.
The exact digital token values (hex/RGB, for production/UI use) were the one open question here; they are now resolved — see Use below.
Use — tiered palette
Section titled “Use — tiered palette”| Tier | Color | Hex (measured) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | Cyan/Teal | #12CFE4 |
Face-membrane glow ring. A neon/glow effect (bright core, dark halo, some bloom) rather than a flat matte material — this is the averaged saturated-cyan reading, not a single peak pixel. (389 px sample, filtered for saturated cyan; the single brightest pixel in this region, #FFFEFE, is blown-out white bloom and was correctly excluded as non-representative.) |
| Base | Pearl-white | #E7E4E7 |
Averaged across two independent garment regions. (15,613 px total: chest #ECE8E9, helmet dome #E2E0E5.) |
| Accent | Pink | #E1599C |
Clan color and a genuine multi-element accent — bow, collar/lapel trim, gloves, belt/pouch, boot panels, not confined to one element. (13,400 px sample, bow + collar/lapel trim region, filtered for saturated magenta-pink.) |
| Neutral | N/A | — | No neutral/grey tier is defined in the approved costume palette — not invented here. |
Values are extracted by direct pixel measurement against the canonical reference image, not invented or asserted on faith: each costume region was filtered for saturated, non-edge, non-specular pixels (excluding gloss highlights, glow bloom, and anti-aliased boundaries), then averaged; sample sizes are given above so the measurement is checkable.
Known limitation, disclosed not hidden: the Core cyan value above is a first-pass reading of a light-emitting element, not a flat surface. If a flatter, non-glowing cyan surface is later identified as more representative (e.g. a solid trim panel rather than the light-emitting ring), it should be re-measured and this table treated as a first pass, not final production-grade output.
Example
Section titled “Example”
Rendered swatches of the three measured values above — PROPOSED, not asserted as final canonical beyond what the extraction supports (see Not yet determined below). Generated directly from the measured hex values (Python/PIL), not independently redrawn or estimated.
Site UI color/typography system (distinct from this chapter’s scope)
Section titled “Site UI color/typography system (distinct from this chapter’s scope)”The only current target site for this documentation is community.solme.me, with its documentation surface at community.solme.me/docs/ — solmamy.com is not an established current site for this brand.
tokens.json is carried forward as HISTORICAL/REFERENCE material for the site’s own UI system — buttons, layout, backgrounds, vault-tier tags, site typography — not this chapter’s mascot palette. It is a predecessor snapshot of community.solme.me’s own design lineage (archived after the site’s AstroWind rebuild), genuinely relevant reference material to hand to whoever owns the live community.solme.me/docs/ theme, but not confirmed as that site’s current, live implementation — the rebuild it predates may have changed values, and this Brand Book does not inspect or edit that live repository to re-verify it.
Sol Mamy’s own costume palette (this chapter’s actual scope, Use above) is resolved independently from the approved reference images, and is untouched by any of the above. tokens.json’s values must never be presented as, or confused with, mascot colors in any downstream document.
Not yet determined
Section titled “Not yet determined”- Whether the extracted values above should become this project’s CANONICAL digital tokens, or stay PROPOSED pending an owner glance at the swatches — a real, small confirmation step, not a creative decision (the sourcing method is already settled (see Rule above); whether to formally adopt the specific measured numbers is a quick owner check, not reopening the question).
- Whether
tokens.json’s two source-flagged values (contextual_ui.charity_status_green, unconfirmed pending sign-off in the source itself;colors.accent_lavender, recommended for renaming to avoid confusion with the mascot’s separately-retired “lavender” costume color) are carried forward as-is or adjusted — a real open item, not decided here. - A formal light/dark or accessibility-contrast palette for the site UI.
- Color usage rules for backgrounds, states (hover/active/disabled), or data visualization beyond what
tokens.jsonalready specifies.
Do not invent new hex codes beyond the measured values above; do not use tokens.json’s site-UI values as a substitute for the mascot’s own costume palette.
One live gold exception, explained
Section titled “One live gold exception, explained”This chapter states no gold in the costume/brand palette (Rule above). This holds consistently across Mascot Book — Costume, Mascot Book — Visual Identity, and this chapter: no gold anywhere on the suit itself.
Separately, one real, live exception exists and is not a contradiction of the above: the main-site favicon (see Digital Surfaces) carries a gold outline and is currently CANONICAL. Its classification rests on two grounds unrelated to the costume palette (species match, communicator-role match) — the favicon’s gold is a legacy asset detail under its own separate classification, not a color this chapter’s costume palette includes or endorses for new work.
Part of the SOLMEME Brand Documentation System. Content status (Canonical/Proposed/Open/etc.) is this book’s own axis; ownership/rights are separate — see OWNERSHIP_AUTHORITY.md at the documentation system’s root.