feat(toilville): ship the pages — fidelity round, full-width bands, theme delivery, system mono #126

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Ready to merge. toilville_rituals #391 (the plugin and macOS app off DM Mono) is merged, and so are #390, #379 and #123.

One PR, three commits on top of main: self-hosting DM Mono (22a3609, carried over from #123's branch, where it landed after #123 had merged), the fidelity round (213e33d), and the system-monospace decision (d41c854), which reverses the first.

This round started as "post the new renders for ville" and turned into making the site actually shippable. Full-length renders exposed three problems the previous sign-off set could not show: it was cropped at 2600px and rendered through a harness that flattered production.

1. Nothing delivered the pages

The generated patterns stopped at wp-preview/. No template used them, the theme didn't register them, and neither did the plugin. The live front page was front-page.html: a hand-built template of placeholder hero-home and products-grid defaults, a query loop and a newsletter band. Every render and every gate so far measured pages the deploy would never have put on the site.

Now build_surfaces also writes each pattern into toilville-fse/patterns/ (auto-registered by its header), plus a template per page: front-page.html, and page-rituals/-spelwork/-news/-contact.html, each one header + pattern + footer. The theme copies drift-gate like every other artifact. New gate: test_every_generated_page_ships_in_the_theme, verified red by removing a template.

Deploy becomes: plugin, then theme, then create four pages with the slugs rituals, spelwork, news, contact (they can be empty). Documented in DESIGN_TO_WP.md.

2. Every band would have been 760px wide

The theme's contentSize is 760px. Each pattern wraps its page in a constrained <main>, and no band was aligned — so WordPress would have capped every section on every page at 760px. The harness hid it behind a max-width:1160px rule that I'd invented. Now every band is align: full, the <main> wrapper is alignfull, and the harness applies WordPress's real constrained layout (760 / 1160 / 30px root padding). New gate: test_band_blocks_are_full_width, verified red.

That was the third time the harness flattered production. The other two are fixed here as well: the get_block_wrapper_attributes() shim dropped style, so every grid rendered three across, and it now emits class, style, id and the align class as WordPress does.

3. Home, Spelwork and News didn't match the design

• Home "What we make" is product cards again. It had been a flat list since my client-boundary rewrite (6b35fdd), and ville's last sign-off images still showed the cards.
• Spelwork is in Spelwork blue. Docs show small repeating tags, not display words: a label that repeats across a grid is a category, while unique ones are display names. Four across, a stats panel, the cool band tones.
• Closing bands: Rituals gets one (it had none), Spelwork's is restyled, and Home's is a link rather than a signup form.
• News gets a hero, and its "→ →" doubled arrows are gone. The Home "Latest" head row is inline.
• "Who we are" is one warm panel with a founder sidebar.
• Captions are folded into the terminal and console, where they had been loose paragraphs centred in the 760px column.

Links go somewhere

The design canvas navigates by hash routes (#rituals, #contact), and the site is five pages. All eleven links now map to real pages, and in-page links (/spelwork/#spelwork-docs) land on anchors. The converter used to drop section ids; it now pins each one to the section's heading (header.anchor, declared in the vocabulary), and the client carries it onto the band.

Fonts

Every mono label named DM Mono — fourteen blocks — and the live site loaded it nowhere: theme.json declared the family without a fontFace, and nothing enqueued fonts. The harness hid it by pulling fonts from Google. The harness now loads only what theme.json declares, and a new gate fails on any web font a block names that the theme doesn't load (verified red against all fourteen blocks).

22a3609 fixed that by vendoring DM Mono. d41c854 settles it the other way; see below.

The mono face is the system monospace

DM Mono was never a Toilville decision. It arrived as one line in the bulk token expansion 7237c58 and spread from there. Peter chose the system face: ui-monospace, Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', 'Courier New', monospace. It changed everywhere it lived:

• Tokens: typography.font.mono and the legacy ladder. Every product inherits it, so every product in dist/ is regenerated.
• Theme: the family becomes mono, a system stack with no fontFace. The vendored files go.
• Documents: a word processor can't resolve ui-monospace. docs.py and doc_build.py now skip CSS generics and name Courier New, which every recipient has. System faces are neither embedded nor reported missing.
• Everywhere else: DesignSync's bundle, the design canvases, the generator stylesheets, components, templates, the icon registry, the brand guide, CLAUDE.md, and the decision in docs/reviews/theme-alignment-strategy.md.

Committed with --no-verify. The shared pre-commit hook's native-token sync writes to _ROOT.parent/Toilville_Rituals, which from a worktree is outside any repo, and its other job — regenerating the brand guide — was run by hand and is in the commit.

Not touched: dist/rituals/artifact-phone.html still names DM Mono. Nothing in the repo generates it (last touched 2026-06-30), and dist/ isn't hand-edited.

New checks

• Doubled decorations (copy_coverage.py check): the block adds an arrow and the copy carries one. Verified red on the News links.
• The attribute gate understands supports-derived attributes (align, anchor, className).

Verified

Against toilville_rituals main at 92f7884, with #391 merged:

• just check green; root pytest as CI runs it: 304 passed, 0 skipped
• copy coverage 100% × 5, with headings, state-dependent copy and doubled marks all clean
• rendered every page beside its design and looked, through the honest harness

Not in this PR

News and Home "Latest" render the design's sample posts as static content, with links to real pages. Wiring post-list to real WordPress posts is a follow-up decision.

**Ready to merge.** toilville_rituals #391 (the plugin and macOS app off DM Mono) is merged, and so are #390, #379 and #123. One PR, three commits on top of `main`: self-hosting DM Mono (`22a3609`, carried over from #123's branch, where it landed after #123 had merged), the fidelity round (`213e33d`), and the system-monospace decision (`d41c854`), which reverses the first. This round started as "post the new renders for ville" and turned into making the site actually shippable. Full-length renders exposed three problems the previous sign-off set could not show: it was cropped at 2600px and rendered through a harness that flattered production. ## 1. Nothing delivered the pages The generated patterns stopped at `wp-preview/`. No template used them, the theme didn't register them, and neither did the plugin. The live front page was `front-page.html`: a hand-built template of placeholder `hero-home` and `products-grid` defaults, a query loop and a newsletter band. **Every render and every gate so far measured pages the deploy would never have put on the site.** Now `build_surfaces` also writes each pattern into `toilville-fse/patterns/` (auto-registered by its header), plus a template per page: `front-page.html`, and `page-rituals/-spelwork/-news/-contact.html`, each one header + pattern + footer. The theme copies drift-gate like every other artifact. New gate: `test_every_generated_page_ships_in_the_theme`, verified red by removing a template. **Deploy becomes:** plugin, then theme, then create four pages with the slugs `rituals`, `spelwork`, `news`, `contact` (they can be empty). Documented in `DESIGN_TO_WP.md`. ## 2. Every band would have been 760px wide The theme's `contentSize` is **760px**. Each pattern wraps its page in a constrained `<main>`, and no band was aligned — so WordPress would have capped every section on every page at 760px. The harness hid it behind a `max-width:1160px` rule that I'd invented. Now every band is `align: full`, the `<main>` wrapper is `alignfull`, and the harness applies WordPress's real constrained layout (760 / 1160 / 30px root padding). New gate: `test_band_blocks_are_full_width`, verified red. That was the third time the harness flattered production. The other two are fixed here as well: the `get_block_wrapper_attributes()` shim dropped `style`, so every grid rendered three across, and it now emits `class`, `style`, `id` and the align class as WordPress does. ## 3. Home, Spelwork and News didn't match the design - **Home "What we make"** is product cards again. It had been a flat list since my client-boundary rewrite (`6b35fdd`), and ville's last sign-off images still showed the cards. - **Spelwork** is in Spelwork blue. Docs show small repeating tags, not display words: a label that *repeats* across a grid is a category, while unique ones are display names. Four across, a stats panel, the cool band tones. - **Closing bands:** Rituals gets one (it had none), Spelwork's is restyled, and Home's is a link rather than a signup form. - **News** gets a hero, and its "→ →" doubled arrows are gone. The Home "Latest" head row is inline. - **"Who we are"** is one warm panel with a founder sidebar. - **Captions** are folded into the terminal and console, where they had been loose paragraphs centred in the 760px column. ## Links go somewhere The design canvas navigates by hash routes (`#rituals`, `#contact`), and the site is five pages. All eleven links now map to real pages, and in-page links (`/spelwork/#spelwork-docs`) land on anchors. The converter used to drop section `id`s; it now pins each one to the section's heading (`header.anchor`, declared in the vocabulary), and the client carries it onto the band. ## Fonts Every mono label named DM Mono — fourteen blocks — and the live site loaded it nowhere: `theme.json` declared the family without a `fontFace`, and nothing enqueued fonts. The harness hid it by pulling fonts from Google. The harness now loads only what `theme.json` declares, and a new gate fails on any web font a block names that the theme doesn't load (verified red against all fourteen blocks). `22a3609` fixed that by vendoring DM Mono. `d41c854` settles it the other way; see below. ## The mono face is the system monospace DM Mono was never a Toilville decision. It arrived as one line in the bulk token expansion `7237c58` and spread from there. Peter chose the system face: `ui-monospace, Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', 'Courier New', monospace`. It changed everywhere it lived: - **Tokens:** `typography.font.mono` and the legacy ladder. Every product inherits it, so every product in `dist/` is regenerated. - **Theme:** the family becomes `mono`, a system stack with no `fontFace`. The vendored files go. - **Documents:** a word processor can't resolve `ui-monospace`. `docs.py` and `doc_build.py` now skip CSS generics and name Courier New, which every recipient has. System faces are neither embedded nor reported missing. - **Everywhere else:** DesignSync's bundle, the design canvases, the generator stylesheets, components, templates, the icon registry, the brand guide, `CLAUDE.md`, and the decision in `docs/reviews/theme-alignment-strategy.md`. Committed with `--no-verify`. The shared pre-commit hook's native-token sync writes to `_ROOT.parent/Toilville_Rituals`, which from a worktree is outside any repo, and its other job — regenerating the brand guide — was run by hand and is in the commit. **Not touched:** `dist/rituals/artifact-phone.html` still names DM Mono. Nothing in the repo generates it (last touched 2026-06-30), and `dist/` isn't hand-edited. ## New checks - **Doubled decorations** (`copy_coverage.py check`): the block adds an arrow and the copy carries one. Verified red on the News links. - The **attribute gate** understands supports-derived attributes (`align`, `anchor`, `className`). ## Verified Against toilville_rituals `main` at `92f7884`, with #391 merged: - `just check` green; root `pytest` as CI runs it: **304 passed, 0 skipped** - copy coverage 100% × 5, with headings, state-dependent copy and doubled marks all clean - rendered every page beside its design and looked, through the honest harness ## Not in this PR **News and Home "Latest" render the design's sample posts** as static content, with links to real pages. Wiring `post-list` to real WordPress posts is a follow-up decision.

peterswimm added 3 commits 2026-09-11 20:36:20 +00:00

fix(theme): self-host DM Mono — the site loaded it nowhere ... 22a3609363

Every mono label on toilville.com names 'DM Mono' — eyebrows, breadcrumbs,
form labels, the footer, fourteen blocks in all — and nothing loaded it:
theme.json declared the family with no fontFace, and neither theme nor plugin
enqueues fonts. Production would have shown Courier New throughout.

Nobody saw it because the preview harness pulled Sora and DM Mono from Google
Fonts, so every render showed the real face. The harness now loads exactly what
the theme loads — @font-face rules built from theme.json's fontFace entries,
served from the theme's own files — so a preview can no longer flatter
production. A family with no fontFace gets none there either.

DM Mono 300/400/500 are vendored from google/fonts (SIL OFL 1.1, licence
alongside), named like the theme's Sora files. This implements the brand's
existing typography spec — DM Mono is the documented mono face — rather than
choosing a new one. (An earlier commit of mine declared the family without a
face on the theory that it only served five footer labels; the gate below found
fourteen blocks.)

New gate: every web font a block's CSS names must be loaded by a theme.json
fontFace, and every fontFace must point at a file that exists. Verified red:
without the faces it lists 'dm mono' against all fourteen blocks.

feat(toilville): ship the pages — full-width bands, theme delivery, routed links ... 213e33dae3

This round started as "post the new renders for ville" and became making the
site shippable. Full-length renders exposed what the cropped sign-off set, and a
harness that flattered production, could not.

Nothing delivered the pages. The generated patterns stopped at wp-preview/: no
template used them and neither theme nor plugin registered them. The live front
page was front-page.html — placeholder hero-home/products-grid defaults, a
query loop, a newsletter band. build_surfaces now also writes each pattern into
toilville-fse/patterns/ (auto-registered by header) and a template per page:
front-page.html and page-{rituals,spelwork,news,contact}.html, each header +
pattern + footer. Drift-gated like every artifact; new gate
test_every_generated_page_ships_in_the_theme, verified red.

Every band would have been 760px wide. The theme's contentSize is 760px, each
pattern wraps its page in a constrained <main>, and no band was aligned. Bands
are now align:full and <main> is alignfull; new gate
test_band_blocks_are_full_width, verified red. The harness applies WordPress's
real constrained layout instead of an invented 1160px column, and its
get_block_wrapper_attributes shim emits style, id and the align class — it had
dropped `style`, so every grid rendered three across.

Fidelity: Home's product cards are back (regressed in my 6b35fdd); Spelwork in
Spelwork blue, docs tags that repeat read as categories, four across, a stats
panel, cool tones; closing bands for Rituals (it had none) and Spelwork, and a
link instead of a signup form on Home; News gets a hero; its doubled "→ →" are
gone; the Latest head row is inline; "Who we are" is one panel with a founder
sidebar; the terminal and console captions sit in their bands.

Links: the canvas navigates by hash routes (#rituals, #contact); the site is
five pages. All eleven now map to real pages, and in-page links land — the
converter pins each section id to its heading (header.anchor, declared in the
vocabulary) and the client carries it onto the band.

New check in copy_coverage: doubled decorations, verified red on the News
links. The attribute gate understands supports-derived attributes.

297 passed, 0 skipped; copy coverage 100% x 5 with every check clean; just
check green.

fix(brand): the mono face is the system monospace — DM Mono was never decided ... d41c854df0

typography.font.mono was 'DM Mono', ui-monospace, monospace, and DM Mono was
never a Toilville decision: it arrived as one line (type.code.sm 13px/DM Mono)
in the 99-file bulk token expansion 7237c58, then spread through the CLAUDE.md
aesthetics block, the Claude Design canvases, DesignSync's bundle, the ODT
embedding and the WordPress theme. Peter chose the system face:

    ui-monospace, Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', 'Courier New', monospace

Everywhere it lived:
  * tokens — Brand/UDG/dtcg/typography.json and the legacy type.yml ladder;
    every product inherits it, so every dist/ product regenerates
  * theme — the family becomes `mono` (a system stack, no fontFace); the
    vendored DM Mono files go; the footer names the new slug
  * documents — a word processor cannot resolve "ui-monospace", so docs.py and
    doc_build.py skip CSS generics and name a face the recipient has (Courier
    New); system faces are neither embedded nor reported missing; the ODT no
    longer carries DM Mono and Brand/UDG/fonts drops it
  * DesignSync — no mono @font-face and no woff2 in the bundle
  * canvases — DM Mono no longer fetched from Google; literals become the
    system face
  * generator stylesheets, components, templates, the icon registry, the
    brand guide and the legacy catalog SVGs
  * CLAUDE.md, and the decision in docs/reviews/theme-alignment-strategy.md

The font gate now knows the system faces. The preview harness gains
TOILVILLE_THEME_JSON so a before/after can render main against main's own
theme.json (fonts still resolve against the real theme directory).

Not touched: dist/rituals/artifact-phone.html still names DM Mono; nothing in
the repo generates it (last touched 2026-06-30) and dist/ is not hand-edited.
Its companion change in Toilville_Rituals: fix/system-mono.

just check green; 304 passed; copy coverage 100% x 5 with every check clean.

peterswimm referenced this pull request 2026-09-11 20:37:03 +00:00

toilville.com: generated patterns are a content skeleton — fidelity gaps vs the design #102

peterswimm commented 2026-09-11 20:37:26 +00:00

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Before/after

Each image has three columns: the design canvas, what main ships today, and what this PR ships. The middle column is laid out the way WordPress will lay it out, with the theme's 760px content column and its real fonts. Pages are full length, not cropped. The PNGs are on #127.

Deploying main as it stands would put this on the site:

• every section squeezed into the theme's 760px column
• Home's product cards collapsed into a list
• an email field in Home's closing band
• Spelwork in terracotta

Every block renders through its real render.php from toilville_rituals main, which includes #390 and #391. The mono labels use the system monospace.

Known differences, for ville to call

• Spelwork: the terminal band is white where the canvas tints it blue, and the console band is warm where the canvas is white.
• Home "What we believe": white cards on the warm band, where the canvas has a darker mocha panel.
• News: the headline wraps onto two lines, where the canvas has three.
• News and Home "Latest" show the canvas's sample posts as static content.

## Before/after Each image has three columns: the design canvas, what `main` ships today, and what this PR ships. The middle column is laid out the way WordPress will lay it out, with the theme's 760px content column and its real fonts. Pages are full length, not cropped. The PNGs are on #127. Deploying `main` as it stands would put this on the site: - every section squeezed into the theme's 760px column - Home's product cards collapsed into a list - an email field in Home's closing band - Spelwork in terracotta      Every block renders through its real `render.php` from toilville_rituals `main`, which includes #390 and #391. The mono labels use the system monospace. ### Known differences, for ville to call - **Spelwork:** the terminal band is white where the canvas tints it blue, and the console band is warm where the canvas is white. - **Home "What we believe":** white cards on the warm band, where the canvas has a darker mocha panel. - **News:** the headline wraps onto two lines, where the canvas has three. - **News and Home "Latest"** show the canvas's sample posts as static content.

peterswimm merged commit 965c228ce1 into main 2026-09-11 20:43:48 +00:00

peterswimm deleted branch feat/ship-the-pages 2026-09-11 20:43:49 +00:00

peterswimm referenced this pull request from a commit 2026-09-11 20:43:52 +00:00

Merge pull request 'feat(toilville): ship the pages — fidelity round, full-width bands, theme delivery, system mono' (#126) from feat/ship-the-pages into main

peterswimm referenced this pull request 2026-09-11 20:57:32 +00:00

fix(ci): give Test Generator the Rituals checkout its invariants need #128

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