A value is a count. A colour is a state.
One idea carries the whole interface: every quantity is a run of cells, and the lit ones tell you how much and what kind of moment it is.
Amber is working
Active ingest, running jobs, throughput in flight. Amber cells fill left to right as the load climbs.
Cyan is waiting
Idle replicas, informational counts, anything holding steady. Present and healthy, not asking for you.
Magenta is a peak
A buffer near cap, a fault, a record high. One magenta cell pulls the eye; it is a spark, never a fill.
One glance tells you where the budget sits.
A readout of this page itself, in cells: what it spends against what the language allows.
Built to be read across a dim room.
The page renders complete with no script. When it does run, the plate above charges its cells left to right once you arrive.
Cells land lit
Every reading is correct the instant the page paints, with or without script.
Meters fill in sequence
Cells light left to right like a meter charging. Reduced motion skips straight to settled.
Colour carries state
Three inks, used like highlighters, let you read working, waiting and peak at a glance.
Put your numbers on dark glass.
Drop the Phosphene tokens into your dashboard and your readings turn into lit cells you can read from across the room.
Take the tokens