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SPILLWAY — template brief

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The concept

A spillway is the structure built so the dam does not fail — completely useless until the one night it isn't. That is the entire pitch for a retained on-call firm, and the clip is the thing itself: a spillway crest at night, water going over the lip past a steel handrail, no people, no colour. The site is written as one night, in four states — nominal, rising, spilling, receding — and the layout is built to show them: a fixed status board on the left that changes as the narrative column on the right scrolls past it. Values update, rows go live, a meter fills, the clock advances from 01:04 to 05:52.

Palette
night
#070809
rack
#0E1113
case
#171B1E
silver
#DCE3E6
grey
#697478
signal
#7CFF6B
Typeface
Big Shoulders Display 700 — the only condensed display face in the library, and that alone makes the hero read differently from all seven others before a single colour is considered. At 300px it looks like signage stencilled on plant machinery. **Public Sans 300/400/600** for body: a neutral civic face with no personality to fight the condensed caps, and it holds up in the small tabular readouts on the board. Deliberately not a monospace — Overburden already runs mono, and two mono-led builds would read as the same idea twice.
Cursor — The reactive board
- The reactive board (above) — the only place in the library where one region of the page is *driven* by the reading position of another. - Pulse cursor. A dot with a ring that expands and fades on a 1.9s loop — it beats whether or not you move the mouse, because the monitoring never stops. Filled solid on hover. - Spray canvas. ~170 fine vertical streaks, each a three-stop gradient along its own length so it fades at both ends, falling in three depth bands with a slight lateral drift. Not petals, embers, dust, caustics or light shafts. - Per-character heading — staggered outward-in entrance, idle sine, scroll offset from centre.
Layout
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