Field & Almanac
& specimen pages
— v0.1 —
Color tokens
A warm, earth-toned palette built on three families — Ink for foreground, Paper for surface, Sage for growth — with Ochre as the harvest accent. Steps follow a 50–900 scale; semantic tokens map intent on top.
Ink — foreground & type
Paper — warm cream
Sage — primary
Ochre — accent
Semantic intent
Typography
A serif for headlines and Latin binomials, a humanist sans for body and UI, a mono for plot codes, dates, measurements, and any data that wants to be exact.
Of pole beans & the long shadow they cast in late August.
The Newsreader serif carries headlines and the Latin binomials — Phaseolus vulgaris, Solanum lycopersicum. Body copy, captions, and most UI elements run in Geist, a warm humanist sans that holds up at small sizes without going clinical.
Numerical data, plot codes, file extensions, and timestamps use JetBrains Mono with slight letter-spacing — a quiet nod to the field-notebook lineage, and useful for tabular alignment in the ledger.
Specimens
Spacing & radii
A 4-pixel rhythm with a generous outer scale for editorial breathing room. Radii stay small — paper, not plastic.
Spacing scale
Corner radii
Shadow / elevation
Iconography
Single-stroke line icons with squared caps and lightly humanist curves. Subjects favour the farm: leaves, drops, soil, sun, ledger glyphs.
Buttons
Ink-on-paper primary for top-level commits. Sage for destructive-but-natural actions like archive. Ochre for harvest moments — completing, exporting.
Form controls
Quiet inputs in cream paper, with sage focus rings and mono labels in small caps. Built for journal-style entry, not enterprise forms.
Cards
Each card is a specimen page in miniature: ringed botanical glyph or paper-grain preview, common name in serif, Latin in italic, plot & metadata in mono.
Plant cards
Document cards
USDA Soil Survey — Adams County, 2024
Reference document — soil texture, pH ranges, drainage classes for the lower five acres.
2025 Expense Ledger — Q1–Q4
Seed, soil amendments, equipment, fuel, labour. Categorised by plot & tax line.
Pepper leaf — suspected magnesium deficiency
Photographed 18 Apr · attached to plant C-03. Awaiting agent annotation.
Almanac — Spring 2026 (your draft)
Generated report. Section 2 (yields) needs the latest pick data.
Upload cards — things you brought in
Family cue: solid paper-300edge ("this is mine, I uploaded it"). Subtype cue: a 3px colored strip on the inner-left edge + matching .type-tag fill. Five subtypes — each with a distinct strip color so the user pattern-matches by edge color, not by chip text.
USDA Soil Survey — Adams County, 2024
Monthly Date Harvest — 2025
Date Harvest Report
Quarterly Farm Review
Agriculture Brief Deck
Artifact cards — things the agent generated
Family cue: sage-200edge ("this came out of a session"). Subtype cue: distinct 3px edge strip + chip color. Report leans on the canonical sage; Presentation = ochre; Filled form = sage-light; Spreadsheet = info; Chart = dusk. So a sage-on-sage card is a report, ochre-on-sage is a presentation, etc.
Quarterly Farm Review — Q1 2026
Agriculture Brief — March outlook
Date Harvest Report — Plot B-04, March
Yield comparison — 4 varieties
Monthly harvest by variety — bar
Task cards
Side-dress tomatoes with composted manure
Wed 15 May
Inspect for flea beetle on eggplant
Tomorrow
Repair drip line, row 3
2 d
Sow spring peas, succession 2
12 Apr
File tiles
Soil Survey 2024.pdf
Expense Ledger.xlsx
Pepper-leaf-04.jpg
Spring planting plan.md
Ledgers
Ledger tables read like account books — solid top rule, dashed inner rules, mono numerals, italic tags. Designed to print cleanly into the seasonal report.
| № | Date | Category | Description | Plot | Qty | Unit cost | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 04 Mar | Seed | Cherokee Purple, 50ct packet · Baker Creek | B-04 | 1 | $4.50 | $4.50 |
| 002 | 04 Mar | Seed | Provider bush bean, 100g · Johnny's | A-02 | 1 | $8.95 | $8.95 |
| 003 | 11 Mar | Soil | Composted cow manure, 25 kg bag | B / C | 12 | $11.00 | $132.00 |
| 004 | 22 Mar | Equipment | Drip-line emitters, 2 GPH (bag of 100) | — | 2 | $24.00 | $48.00 |
| 005 | 02 Apr | Soil | Kelp foliar concentrate, 1 gal | — | 1 | $38.50 | $38.50 |
| 006 | 14 Apr | Labour | Bed prep — neighbour's son · 4 h | D-01 | 4 | $18.00 | $72.00 |
| Q1 — running total | $303.95 | ||||||
Charts
Charts use sage and ochre on cream, with hand-feeling tick marks and italic axis labels. No 3D, no glow, no gradients louder than the data.
Growing-degree days, accumulated
Yield by crop, kg
Rainfall & irrigation, weekly
Phenology — current state
Chat & document Q&A
The agent answers in plainspoken agronomy and always shows its receipts — every reply links the document chunks it leaned on.
Two corrections, in order of effort:
— Foliar Epsom salts, 1 tbsp / gal, weekly until the new growth comes in green.
— Mid-season top-dress with dolomitic lime if pH also drifts below 6.2.
Badges, tags & status pills
Pill-shaped badges for living state (a plant is flowering); rectangular mono tags for taxonomy and codes (a plot is named B-04).
Status — semantic
Stage — phenology
Tags — codes & taxonomy
Empty & loading states
Empty states do real work — they explain the surface and offer the next sensible step. Loading states keep the page's rhythm with paper-toned skeletons.
No plants yet
This is where every plant on your farm will live — common name, Latin binomial, plot, photos, and timeline. Start with one.
The library is empty
Drop in soil reports, university extension PDFs, equipment manuals — the agent will index them and answer from these sources.
Brand & logo directions
Seventeen logo studies, each rooted in something specific to Tozeur — the medina's brick, the date palm in many ages, oasis stratigraphy, the seguia and foggara channels, the sundial, the desert horizon, the meridian. Pick the one that feels like home and we'll refine it.
Tozeur Brick
The signature stepped-brick pattern of the medina, abstracted into a frame. Two sage bricks mark “the seed” inside the architecture — heritage + agriculture in one mark. Reads at any size.
Palmier en sceau
A single date palm with cluster, set inside a horizon ring — sun, dunes, oasis. Wax-seal feel; pairs naturally with the italic Newsreader wordmark on report covers.
Trois Étages
The traditional three-tier farming of Tozeur's oases: palms, fruit trees, ground crops. Agronomically meaningful in a way few logos are. Best as a wide horizontal lock-up.
Seguia
The branching irrigation channels that fan out from the oasis spring. Reads simultaneously as a plant's root system and a water network — a quiet nod to the ancient hydraulics that still feed Tozeur.
Le Noyau
Italic initials inside the almond-oval shape of a date pit. The most personal of the set — feels like a stamp pressed into the cover of a leather field-binder. Replace “FA” with your own mark.
Soleil & Dune
The desert at the edge of the oasis: ochre sun, ink dune, a single palm. Most pictorial of the set; works beautifully as a splash screen or app icon, less so as a tiny favicon.
Carte d'Étoile
A surveyor's compass with a palm to the north, grain east, grape south, olive west — the four staples of the region radiating from a single ochre seed. Reads as both navigation and inventory.
L'Aiguille
A field sundial: gnomon, hour arcs, ochre shadow falling toward six in the morning. The most instrument-like of the set — for a brand that measures growth in light.
Foggara
A cross-section of the ancient underground qanat: five vertical access shafts down to a horizontal water channel beneath a single palm. Engineering as heritage — what nobody sees but everyone drinks from.
Le Calendrier
Twelve months as a grid, each cell tinted by season — dormant ink, sage growth, ochre harvest. The small marker on May tells the reader where in the year we stand. Built to host a moving cursor.
Régime de Dattes
A literal cluster of dates hanging from the stem — six branches, two dozen fruits, three pressed darker at the centre to mark the ripe ones. The Deglet Noor of Tozeur, drawn small enough to be a logo.
La Méridienne
Pure typographic mark: the Newsreader italic wordmark, a horizon line tick-marked like a ruler, and the ochre sun resting on Tozeur's actual meridian. Frontispiece-ready; the most editorial of the set.
Palmier en sceau · trois âges
The same wax-seal, three palms instead of one: a freshly planted sprout, a mid-life palm, a full mature with its first régime. The trunk tops climb diagonally — a growth curve disguised as an orchard. For a brand that is itself maturing.
Palmier · Racines
The seal opened to show what's beneath: above the horizon, the date palm in full canopy with its régime; below, the radial root system that makes the oasis possible. For a brand that takes its underground engineering as seriously as its harvest.
Palmier au soleil
Same palm, same seal — but the sun has come up behind it. A warm ochre disc rises through the horizon line with the trunk silhouetted in front. The most romantic of the family; for a brand that operates by daylight.
Palmier · ascension
The trois âges composition again, but the mature palm has kept growing — its canopy bursts up through the top of the seal. A brand that no longer fits the frame it started in. The chart is the same; the third data point has run off the page.
Palmier · trois âges au soleil
Same three palms, but a setting sun has risen behind them — an ochre disc warm against the seal. The mature palm climbs past the sun and past the frame both. The most narrative of the family: time, light, and growth in one mark.