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Design Direction · v1
Sproutopia
Cozy Game-Craft. A warm game you tend daily — soft cream light, plump tactile tiles, friendly rounded type. Delight without childishness; the costumes read cozy, inviting, safe for a burned skeptic.

Warm paper base

page#FBF4E4
surface#FFFDF7
panel#FDEFD6
bed tan#EADFC2
hairline#EBD9B8

Warm daylight, not dark — reads friendly and unintimidating from the first second.

Cozy accents

sprout#54B36E
honey#F4B23C
sky#7FBFE6
dusk#E28A66
clay/alert#E86A57

Rotation-Trail family colors (legume = gold)

legume
leafy
brassica
nightshade
cucurbit
allium
root

Typography · Fredoka + Nunito Sans

Display 700Your yard, alive.
Heading 600Bed 3 · Little Gem lettuce
Body / NunitoRain's coming tonight — skip watering and cover the peppers.
Captionplanted 12 days ago · 2 photos · thriving

Key surfaces

Digital Twin
Megan's side yard
Bed 1 · peas
Bed 3 · lettuce
ghost · tomatoes '25

Bed 3 · Little Gem lettuce

planted 12 days ago · leafy family
📷 photo time-lapse · 2 frames
🌿 thriving 😕 struggling ✕ dead

Today · Task Calendar

Thin the radishes in Bed 2
due today · Micro-Win
🌧️ rain coming — watering skipped for you

The first-harvest moment & one-tap capture

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Guided Harvest Success
It actually worked. 🥬

Your first real harvest — logged. This is the moment we celebrate, never a paywall in a dead season.

One muddy-thumbed tap

Every Signal — harvest, photo, check-in, voice — in ≤3 taps, one-handed, outdoors. A big friendly capture button always within thumb's reach.

Sproutopia · Design Direction "Cozy Game-Craft" v1 · 2026-07-05 · exploratory (not the final DESIGN.md). Warm cream daylight · plump tactile rounded tiles · Fredoka / Nunito Sans · soft glowing family ribbons. Colors & type are a starting point to react to — nothing here is locked.