Mokosh · Handoff to design + brand

I committed to a creative direction so the system would run. Eight decisions in that direction need a yes / override from you, and six files need to land in this repo before the extension can stop loading fonts from a CDN and stop shipping the placeholder square-and-dot PNG.

Nothing here is locked. Override anything; the tokens are wired so a re-skin is a single-file edit.

§ 01

Decisions to confirm or override

8 items

Each one currently has a proposed direction shipping in colors_and_type.css and the UI kit. Tick the box if you accept; replace inline if you want a different answer.

D-01 · Public display name

Is "Mokosh" the right manifest.json:name?

Proposing the codename surfaces externally as the public name. Alternative is keeping "AI Call Recorder" for store discoverability, or coining something new.

alt → "AI Call Recorder" · "Mokosh — Session Capture" · "Mokosh / АИ Регистратор"

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D-02 · Tagline

Confirm «Тридцать секунд назад, всегда под рукой.»

EN parallel: Thirty seconds ago, always within reach. Used on welcome hero + manifest.json:description.

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D-03 · Voice register

Two-register copy — terse RU on toolbar / popup / notification; bilingual RU+EN on welcome only.

Calm, operationally serious. Sentence case. Periods. No emoji. No exclamation marks. Address with «вы» on welcome; imperative verbs in popup.

brand

D-04 · Palette direction

"Loom" — linen + ink + dye-named accents. Light-primary with dark sibling.

Madder rust for REC is the boldest call. Alt is conventional material-red (#D32F2F) if rust reads off-brand.

override → flag the WCAG-AA-validated hex you'd prefer for any of madder / moss / amber / brick

design

D-05 · Type pairing

Newsreader (display) · IBM Plex Sans (UI) · IBM Plex Mono (mono).

All three OFL, all three cover Cyrillic. If a licensed face is preferred (e.g. an in-house family), name it and I'll rethread.

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D-06 · Mark concept

2×2 weave intersection — see assets/mokosh-mark.svg.

References the goddess-of-weaving etymology without being illustrative. Holds at 16 px. Override with anything from a wordmark-only lockup to an illustrated scene.

design

D-07 · Iconography

Lucide — line, 1.5 stroke, 24 grid.

Open-licensed (ISC). Bundle locally for MV3. Alternative is a custom set or Phosphor / Heroicons. Tabler is the other strong line option.

design

D-08 · Per-state icon swap

Stick with neutral mark + dynamic badge, or commission per-state PNG sets?

Per-state requires 9 additional PNGs (3 sizes × 3 states) and a perf-costed chrome.action.setIcon swap on every state change. Default direction stays with the badge.

see assets-spec.md A-06 for the deliverable list if you pick swap

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§ 02

Files I need landed in this repo

6 deliverables

Priorities map to the engineering plan in the original assets-spec.md. P0 unblocks shipping a real branded build; P1 finishes the welcome surface; P2 is polish.

P0 fonts/newsreader-{400,500,600}.woff2
fonts/ibm-plex-sans-{400,500,600,700}.woff2
fonts/ibm-plex-mono-{400,500}.woff2 Webfont WOFF2 files. Currently loaded from Google Fonts via @import. MV3 CSP forbids remote @font-face at runtime — production must bundle. I'll rewire colors_and_type.css to local rules once these land. Cyrillic ✓ · WOFF2

P0 assets/extension-icons/icon16.png
assets/extension-icons/icon48.png
assets/extension-icons/icon128.png Branded extension icons. The three files currently in that folder are the upstream engineering placeholders (dark square + green dot). Rasterise from assets/mokosh-mark.svg — or supply a different mark if D-06 is overridden. ≥ 200 B · 500 B · 1 KB

P1 assets/extension-icons/icon192.png Hi-DPI notification icon. Optional but recommended for retina rendering of chrome.notifications.create. ≥ 2 KB

P1 copy/welcome.ru.md Final RU copy review. Hero title, three step bodies, three privacy cards. My draft in ui_kits/extension/Welcome.jsx is a working strawman. brand sign-off

P1 copy/welcome.en.md English parallel-text subhead. One line under the hero title. Brand decides whether to extend bilingual treatment to the step bodies. brand sign-off

P2 assets/icon-{rec,off,err}-{16,48,128}.png Per-state icon variants — only if D-08 lands on the swap direction. 9 files total. conditional

§ 03

Acceptance criteria

non-creative · binding

These are engineering / accessibility floors, not creative direction. Anything you ship has to clear them.

WCAG AA4.5 : 1 normal text, 3 : 1 large. Current palette is pre-validated; overrides need re-validation.

Cyrillic ✓Every chosen face renders Russian glyphs without fallback. Plex + Newsreader currently pass.

MV3 CSPNo remote font / script loads at runtime. Bundle everything locally in dist/.

Notification flooriconUrl ≥ 128 px PNG, ≥ 1 KB. Chrome's imageUtil silently rejects smaller files.

Badge floorBadge text ≤ 4 characters. Chrome truncates beyond. "REC" / "ERR" both fit.

Reduced-motionAll transitions collapse to 0 ms under prefers-reduced-motion. Wired in colors_and_type.css.

Colour-independenceEvery state pairs colour with text or shape. Badge carries REC / ERR text alongside the colour.

Focus visible3 px halo on all interactive elements. --mks-shadow-focus works on any surface.

§ 04

What I will do once you reply

turnaround

Round-trip cost so you can scope a review window.

+ 0 h Acknowledge each decision. If overridden, re-thread the token in colors_and_type.css and re-render every preview card + UI-kit surface that depends on it. + 1 h Swap the font import to local @font-face once the WOFF2 files arrive in fonts/. Verify Cyrillic specimen still renders in preview/type-ui.html. + 1 h Replace the placeholder PNGs in assets/extension-icons/ the moment the rasterised versions arrive. Re-shoot preview/brand-extension-icons.html so the card stops carrying the substitution flag. + 2 h Inline final RU + EN copy in ui_kits/extension/Welcome.jsx. Lock badge tooltips and notification strings in a single source-of-truth file for engineering to wire. + ? Optional follow-on: dark-theme popup variant, smoke-test diagnostic overlay re-skin, animated icon (if D-08 chooses swap), and a tone audit of every Russian string in the original codebase against the agreed register.

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handoff · v1 · 17.05.2026