feat(branding): Win98-era nav icons + thinner buttons + copy refresh - #11
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Replaces the Unicode glyph nav icons with actual 32x32 PNGs derived from the davdet/win-98-icons archive (originally Alex Meub's Win98 icon set, period-authentic). Mapping per nav item: Home -> computer.ico (My Computer) Discord -> msn.ico (closest era equivalent — MSN messenger) Wiki -> help_book_big.ico GitHub -> write_wordpad.ico StatBus -> bar_graph.ico Logs -> notepad_file.ico WebMap -> globe_map.ico Source ICOs are pixel-art at 32 or 48 px; scaled to 32x32 with PIL nearest-neighbor so they stay crisp. CSS applies image-rendering: pixelated for the same reason. PNGs are small (250-650 bytes each). Same change set also: - Renames nav labels to PascalCase (StatBus, GitHub, WebMap, while Home/Wiki/Logs/Discord stay as already-correct casing). - Trims .pda-button padding from 6/14 px to 3/12 px so buttons read as chunky-but-not-fat. Active-state padding-top/bottom also trimmed to match. - Tagline -> "HippieStation refreshed and on tap." - Drops the "Host a Server" button from the README section. - Adds a second paragraph after the SS13 description explaining what ReduxStation specifically is.
README.txt and SERVERS.DAT (and any future .section-title) no longer emit a 1px bottom border — the title text alone is sufficient and the divider lines were reading as visual clutter inside the PDA window chrome.
Source is img/logo_rdx.png (10692x9639 RGBA master). Scaled with PIL:
LANCZOS down to 512/256/64; via a 128px LANCZOS waystation down to
32 and 16 to keep crisp edges; multi-resolution favicon.ico packed
with 16+32+48 by PIL's ICO writer.
index.njk <head> now references the full set via sized
<link rel="icon">, plus apple-touch-icon. The title-bar 'top-left
button' (was a Windows-laptop emoji) now uses icon-16.png with
image-rendering: pixelated so the logo art stays crisp at small
sizes.
All asset URLs are cache-busted with ?v={buildId} so a new build
flushes stale browser cache.
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What
Branding pass on the landing page:
davdet/win-98-icons
archive (originally Alex Meub's Win98 set, period-authentic).
Mapping:
.pda-buttonpadding 6/14 -> 3/12; active-state padding also trimmed.border-bottomdivider under README.txt and SERVERS.DAT.Icons rendering
PIL nearest-neighbor resize to 32x32 + CSS
image-rendering: pixelatedso they read as crisp pixel art instead of bilinear mush. Per-icon PNG
weight is 250-650 bytes.
After merge