Drop the .com wordmark from the logo #52

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opened 2026-08-25 22:32:35 +00:00 by jcoffey-dev · 0 comments

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2026-08-25 22:32:35 +00:00

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The logo baked ihasmail.com into the artwork. That is the wrong identity for the project — the .com is the hosted instance, not the software — and at the 34px the topbar renders it at, the wordmark was an illegible smudge under a squashed cat.

Assets

Regenerated as the mark alone:

web/public/img/logo.png
web/public/img/icon-512.png
web/public/img/icon-192.png
web/public/img/apple-touch-icon.png (white ground kept — Apple composites non-opaque touch icons onto black)

Already wordmark-free and untouched: favicon-64.png, icon-maskable.png, favicon.ico.

The crop needed a threshold

Both source files carry a band of near-invisible pixels — alpha 1–10, about 40px wide — down the left side. A plain getbbox() counts them, so the first pass came out with 40px of phantom padding on the left and the mark visibly off-centre on the login card. The bounding box is taken at alpha > 8 instead. Amplifying the alpha channel confirms the band is halo, not artwork.

All four assets now measure symmetric to within a pixel.

Login page

It had no name of its own — the wordmark was doing that work — so it gets one as text, styled like the topbar's .brand-name. The height attribute moves 113 → 143 to match the new aspect ratio (the CSS already forced height: auto, so nothing was distorted, but the attribute was wrong).

Screenshots

docs/screenshots/login.jpg is retaken against the mock server, same 1420×759 framing as before.

The other seven still show the old mark in the topbar. It is small there, but it is stale — worth a follow-up pass. The same files are also published on ihasmail.org, so that site wants the same refresh.

Verification

npm run typecheck clean · 224 web tests + 88 server tests passing.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Merged 2026-08-25 as coffey-labs/ihasmail@ba819369f4

_{Rebuilt from: git history, session transcript.}

The logo baked `ihasmail.com` into the artwork. That is the wrong identity for the project — the `.com` is the hosted instance, not the software — and at the 34px the topbar renders it at, the wordmark was an illegible smudge under a squashed cat. ### Assets Regenerated as the mark alone: - `web/public/img/logo.png` - `web/public/img/icon-512.png` - `web/public/img/icon-192.png` - `web/public/img/apple-touch-icon.png` (white ground kept — Apple composites non-opaque touch icons onto black) Already wordmark-free and untouched: `favicon-64.png`, `icon-maskable.png`, `favicon.ico`. ### The crop needed a threshold Both source files carry a band of near-invisible pixels — alpha 1–10, about 40px wide — down the left side. A plain `getbbox()` counts them, so the first pass came out with 40px of phantom padding on the left and the mark visibly off-centre on the login card. The bounding box is taken at `alpha > 8` instead. Amplifying the alpha channel confirms the band is halo, not artwork. All four assets now measure symmetric to within a pixel. ### Login page It had no name of its own — the wordmark was doing that work — so it gets one as text, styled like the topbar's `.brand-name`. The `height` attribute moves 113 → 143 to match the new aspect ratio (the CSS already forced `height: auto`, so nothing was distorted, but the attribute was wrong). ### Screenshots `docs/screenshots/login.jpg` is retaken against the mock server, same 1420×759 framing as before. The other seven still show the old mark in the topbar. It is small there, but it is stale — worth a follow-up pass. The same files are also published on ihasmail.org, so that site wants the same refresh. ### Verification `npm run typecheck` clean · 224 web tests + 88 server tests passing. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) **Merged** 2026-08-25 as coffey-labs/ihasmail@ba819369f4bb <sub>Rebuilt from: git history, session transcript.</sub>

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Reference: coffey-labs/ihasmail-github-archive#52