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Design Direction · v1
Sproutopia
Living-Map Glow. The Digital Twin is the hero — a warm, soil-dark map where your Rotation Trails glow like living light. Warmed against "cold/techy": deep earth browns, organic glow, friendly copy.

Soil canvas · the warm dark base

soil-0#171009
canvas#211810
surface#2C2117
raised#392B1E
hairline#4A3928

Not black — warm espresso-soil, so the map feels like real dirt at dusk, not a dashboard.

Living glow accents

sprout#6FE7A0
honey#FFC24B
sky#79BEF0
frost#8FD3FF
clay/alert#FF6F5A

sprout = life & primary action · honey = harvest/reward · sky = weather · frost = the cold-night quest · clay = alerts.

Rotation-Trail family colors (from plants.json rotation_groups — legume = gold)

legume
leafy
brassica
nightshade
cucurbit
allium
root

Typography · Space Grotesk + Inter

Display 700Your yard, alive.
Heading 600Bed 3 · Little Gem lettuce
Body / InterRain'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. The glowing capture button is always within thumb's reach.

Sproutopia · Design Direction "Living-Map Glow" v1 · 2026-07-05 · exploratory (not the final DESIGN.md). Deep-soil warm-dark canvas · bioluminescent family Rotation Trails · Space Grotesk / Inter · glow = life, honey = harvest. Colors & type are a starting point to react to — nothing here is locked.