# Sovereign Foundry — CircleT-inspired support pack

This is a new reusable support pack inspired by the supplied 2018 reference's
colour discipline and editorial guideline feel. It is not the same identity as
the reference. The approved Sovereign Foundry rendered artwork remains the
source of truth and is preserved byte-identically.

## Start here

- brand-overview.png — updated 1600 × 1000 white-led contact sheet.
- guidelines/sovereign-foundry-circlet-inspired-guidelines.html and .pdf —
  self-contained landscape A4 guide with companion construction, colour,
  platform, and handoff rules.
- vector/ — TRUE VECTOR blue, white, charcoal, and optional gold-accent
  companion files.
- icons/ — blue-field/white-mark iOS, Android, PWA maskable, favicon SVG/ICO
  and PNG exports, plus a relative-path usage snippet.

## Colour system

- Core blue #009CDC — RGB 0 / 156 / 220; primary small companion colour.
- Charcoal #383A35 — RGB 56 / 58 / 53; neutral support colour.
- Grey #C3C5C8 — RGB 195 / 197 / 200; rules, quiet text, and neutral fields.
- White #FFFFFF — RGB 255 / 255 / 255; primary light field and reversed mark.
- Optional digital gold #FFB900 — RGB 255 / 185 / 0; use sparingly for a
  digital accent only, never as the default companion colour.

The secondary HEX accents in the guide are #7F56C5, #95D600, #FB3449,
#E4E833, and #F9CED7. The supplied reference has conflicting HEX/RGB and
print formulas. This pack uses the printed HEX values as digital source and
does not invent approved CMYK or spot equivalents. Confirm print conversions
with the printer for each output.

## Companion and protected artwork

The small companion keeps the latest heavy shield / tipped crucible / flow /
receiving-mould geometry. Monochrome paths retain negative space around the rim,
pour, and mould so the forms do not collapse. Use blue-on-white first and
white-on-blue for reversed fields. Use the optional gold accent only when a
digital context benefits from it.

The copied originals/, logos/, symbols/, and social/ folders are
protected exceptions and remain byte-identical to approved-pack/. Do not
recolour or regenerate the textured rendered logo, horizontal or stacked
lockups, or social artwork. The protected full source remains 1024 × 1024 px;
the transparent shield remains 530 × 660 px. Larger texture exports are
upscaled and contain no additional detail.

vector/ SVGs are TRUE VECTOR geometry only. Existing rendered lockups in
logos/ are labelled HYBRID raster/SVG because they embed the approved source
PNG and editable type. Do not describe them as pure vector.

## Platform exports

icons/ios/ contains opaque blue-square iOS PNGs; Apple supplies corner
rounding. icons/android/ contains 192 and 512 px blue-field assets.
icons/maskable/ keeps the white companion inside the central safe zone.
icons/favicon/ contains the simplified true-vector SVG, 16 / 32 / 48 px
PNGs, and multi-resolution ICO. webmanifest.json and
icons/usage-snippet.html use relative pack paths.

## Handoff and integrity

ASSET-CHECKS-SHA256.txt lists hashes for every file in this pack (excluding
the manifest itself). Run python3 build-circlet-inspired-pack.py to rebuild
only circlet-inspired-pack/ and the downloadable
sovereign-foundry-circlet-inspired-design-pack.zip; it never deletes or
rewrites approved-pack/.

The included PDF and HTML contain no CircleT logo, legal/contact/personal
details, or unapproved slogans. The supplied reference informed palette and
editorial approach only.
