Visual identity and assets

Phulkari lattice

Nindova’s mark is a nine-diamond lattice: four mirrored color pairs around one saffron center. It makes the matching rule visible without turning a sacred or festival symbol into decoration. At favicon size it reduces to five diamonds; the full mark begins at 24 CSS pixels.

The drawn wordmark has no font dependency. Do not retype, stretch, rotate, outline, or rearrange it. The cream pair swaps to night ink on light backgrounds so all nine shapes remain legible.

The landing-page and README lockups use one authored seven-second stitch loop: mirrored diamonds arrive in four pairs, saffron closes the center, and a soft glow breathes behind a long completed-mark rest before the sequence repeats. Static lockups remain the default for footers, favicons, product controls, and any context where motion would distract.

Shahi Raat palette

• Raat #150D20 — night ground
• Surface #211A33 — raised ground
• Malai #EFE1C4 — primary text
• Kesari #E0A64B — primary accent
• Gulabi #C4638A — highlight
• Neelam #3A4A9E and Majith #9A3A42 — decorative sapphire and madder

Neelam and Majith do not carry small meaningful text on the night ground. Form and wording always back up color.

Masala Mound silhouettes

The nine 48×48 silhouettes cover belan, chakla, tawa, chimta, katori, tiffin, masala dabba, chai glass, and pressure cooker. They use currentColor, strong fills, and no stroke thinner than 3px. Every Tile also shows and announces its English name, so sound, color, illustration, or vision is never required.

Motion and provenance

The logo entrance and match bloom are fixed and deterministic. The optional chime is deterministic. Reduced motion shows the completed logo immediately and removes match translation and scale; none of these responses awards, measures, or compares anything.

All identity, ornament, and utensil artwork is original Nindova project work dedicated under CC0 1.0 Universal. The application code remains Apache-2.0. The repository preserves the editable sources, brand guide, asset manifest, and reproducible social-card capture script.

The direction is Punjabi-inspired. Human Punjabi cultural-authenticity review remains unverified, and no Gurmukhi lettering is used pending that review.