Checker keys
Black-and-off-white corner keys flip to cobalt-and-lemon when an item becomes live or system-critical. Nothing else earns one.
A postmodern operating surface for civic review. Memphis geometry and quoted facades become structure — checker keys mark what is live, register offsets show where a control lands.
Every proposal is a registered color plane. The play is disciplined: a checkerboard key only appears on what is live, and a flat offset peeks down-right so you can see where a control will move before you press it.
Black-and-off-white corner keys flip to cobalt-and-lemon when an item becomes live or system-critical. Nothing else earns one.
Clipped controls and slabs carry one flat color offset in a single direction. Hover slides the control into register — printed blocks snapping into place.
Each workflow actor — planning, merchants, heritage — carries a structural key across cards, rows, and dialogs, so ownership is read as form, not colour alone.
The facade quotation is the structure behind the work, never on top of it. Foreground panels stay plain and high-contrast while arches and disks zone the background.
A live slab opens with its actor keys, objections, and a site sketch under a quoted arch.
Planning, merchants, and heritage sign or dispute; the ledger shows state by key and chip.
A council-ready packet is registered to the edition — checker key cleared, offset settled.
Cobalt, cherry, and lemon are the bright trio used like highlighters. Mint and lilac stay as structural underlay. The ground is a warm off-white — never plain white.
Stand up a civic review desk where the play has a job: marking what is live, showing where it lands, and naming who owns it.