# Digital TRVST Globe Mark — Palette

Sampled directly from the real assets. Two sources, kept separate because they are
lit differently — pick the set that matches your surface.

## Primary: photographed card (`official-card.png`)

This is the actual embossed gold foil under studio lighting — the same pixels used
to build `globe-mark.png`. Sampled from real gold-mask pixels by luminance percentile
(not eyeballed), so highlight/shadow are genuine extremes, not noise.

| Stop | Hex | RGB |
|---|---|---|
| Highlight (97th pct value) | `#eab35d` | 234, 179, 93 |
| Upper-mid (75th pct) | `#ac7f3b` | 172, 127, 59 |
| **Midtone (median — use as base gold)** | **`#946129`** | 148, 97, 41 |
| Lower-mid (25th pct) | `#7f5d2d` | 127, 93, 45 |
| Shadow (6th pct value) | `#5f3c10` | 95, 60, 16 |

Robust averages (top/bottom 3–10% of gold pixels by brightness, for a softer gradient endpoint):

| | Hex | RGB |
|---|---|---|
| Avg brightest 3% | `#f2cc85` | 242, 204, 133 |
| Avg dimmest 10% | `#533716` | 83, 55, 22 |

**Card black** (sampled from clean card surface, away from foil/text/chip):

| | Hex | RGB |
|---|---|---|
| Card black | `#0a0805` | 10, 8, 5 |

## Cross-reference: flat wordmark (`official-logo.png`, the "V" in TRVST)

This is a clean vector-rendered gradient (no studio lighting falloff, no foil-texture
shadowing), so it reads brighter and more saturated than the photographed card. Use
this set if you want the "pure brand gold" for flat/vector contexts rather than the
photographed-metal look.

| Stop | Hex | RGB |
|---|---|---|
| Highlight | `#fdf291` | 253, 242, 145 |
| Midtone | `#edd75e` | 237, 215, 94 |
| Shadow | `#aa7c1a` | 170, 124, 26 |

## Suggested CSS variables

```css
:root {
  /* photographed-metal gold (matches globe-mark.png / .svg exactly) */
  --gold-highlight: #eab35d;
  --gold-mid:       #946129;
  --gold-shadow:    #5f3c10;

  /* flat/vector brand gold (matches official-logo.png wordmark) */
  --gold-flat-highlight: #fdf291;
  --gold-flat-mid:       #edd75e;
  --gold-flat-shadow:    #aa7c1a;

  --card-black: #0a0805;
}

.gold-gradient-metal {
  background: linear-gradient(135deg, var(--gold-highlight), var(--gold-mid) 45%, var(--gold-shadow));
}
.gold-gradient-flat {
  background: linear-gradient(135deg, var(--gold-flat-highlight), var(--gold-flat-mid) 45%, var(--gold-flat-shadow));
}
```

`globe-mark.svg` uses the photographed-metal stops (`#eab35d` → `#946129` → `#5f3c10`)
in its embedded `linearGradient`.

## Method

- Built an HSV gold mask on `official-card.png` (H 6–28°/2, S ≥ 50, V ≥ 35 on an
  8-bit OpenCV HSV image), restricted to the globe region only (wordmark/chip
  excluded), then percentile-sampled the **Value** channel of the resulting true
  gold pixels — highlight/midtone/shadow are real pixels from the card, not guesses.
- Card black sampled from a flat patch of card surface with no foil, text, or chip
  in it (x 340–430, y 450–600 in the 967×916 source).