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  • Adopted shared narrow metadata/table fixes and a compact title-first source explanation.

  • Clarified the product’s conversation, revision and review story; scoped rule-checking and export claims; and made Cosmik a secondary endorsement. Voice & imagery now combines current product guidance with pinned general writing rules.

The Tectra family's version is version in tokens/family.json; this repository's package.json and asset-manifest.json carry the same version. Newest first.

0.6.1 · 26 October 2026#

  • Licence. LICENSE.md names COSMIK LABS, LLC as the holder of the copyright in this repository's own material and of the Cosmik marks, including the Tectra marks, in place of "not a company or other legal entity", the contributors and the organisation's owner. The MIT notice reads "Copyright (c) 2026 COSMIK LABS, LLC". Sections, grants and permissions are otherwise unchanged. The change applies from this release.

  • Foundation cosmiklabs/brand v0.16.1 (commit 4da5ba28b1c32cf6b717ca1cb579b6c6d237ec3d): the same licence change for the foundation, and its identity and voice guides name the legal entity. No token, mark or control changes; extends stays "Cosmik baseline 0.11.0". Generated tokens differ only in the version and the provenance header.

0.6.0 · 26 October 2026#

  • Foundation cosmiklabs/brand v0.16.0 (commit 160f73268fb2307156e580d6fa30c99ef93a2e39): glass keeps the theme's tone and is legible over any backdrop through a per-tone backdrop filter (dark contrast(0.75) brightness(0.5), light contrast(0.5) brightness(1.35)). The tone threshold and hysteresis are gone. The baseline token version is now 0.11.0, so extends is "Cosmik baseline 0.11.0".

  • Tectra glass tint. The dark tone's tectra-dark-glass drops from 60 % to 38 % (#17212560), the most translucent value that passes the new any-backdrop contract with a small margin (at 36 % quiet text on the pressed tint is 4.54:1). The light tone keeps the baseline's tint, now 56 %. Over any backdrop: dark text 7.09:1, muted 5.33:1, pressed text 4.63:1, focus and selection 4.56:1; light text 7.46:1, muted 5.21:1, pressed text 5.78:1, focus and selection 3.11:1. Scene kept behind the glass (composite luminance, brightest / darkest content): dark 0.083 / 0.008 (2.30:1), light 1.0 / 0.462 (2.05:1).

  • Guide. Glass follows the theme; do not switch tones with the work.

0.5.2 · 25 October 2026#

  • Selection is teal again. Since the shared controls took over Tectra's selected controls, they used Tectra's selected role, which was its ink (#142925 light, #EDF4F3 dark), so selected toolbar tools and segment options turned into near-black or pale pills and lost the teal the guide gives selected emphasis. selected is now Tectra's accent in both modes (#126B5E light, #71D6C3 dark), with on-selected Tectra's near-white #F2F6F5 (light) and dark ink #0F1719 (dark). On-selected on selected: 5.86:1 light, 10.47:1 dark; selected against the bg, surface and raised roles 5.20–6.38:1 light and 7.84–10.47:1 dark, and against each glass tone over its band 3.12:1 light and 4.79:1 dark. The selection bar is drawn in the on-selected colour, so it holds the same contrast. Focus is the same teal; its ring stays offset from the control, so a focused selection still shows a gap between fill and ring. The unused tectra-*-selected primitives are removed.

0.5.1 · 25 October 2026#

  • Foundation cosmiklabs/brand v0.15.1 (commit 31cd0202eb0691c32e0c08b81a94c209c9a1c2b4): pressed is a deeper step of hover, glass hover and pressed tint the glass, and the check enforces both. The baseline token version is now 0.10.1, so extends is "Cosmik baseline 0.10.1".

  • Tectra pressed roles. Three of Tectra's pressed roles ran back towards rest and fail the new check; they now continue past hover. Dark secondary: #172125 → #233034 → #2F3E42 (was #0F1719, darker than rest). Dark primary: #71D6C3 → #92E5D4 → #B3EFE3 (was #50B5A3). Light secondary: white → #E0EAE7 → #CCDAD5 (was #F2F6F5, almost rest). The light primary was already a one-way ramp. Pressed against rest / hover: 1.47 / 1.22, 1.35 / 1.14, 1.44 / 1.17 and 1.57 / 1.26.

0.5.0 · 25 October 2026#

  • Foundation cosmiklabs/brand v0.15.0 (commit 240edbe4bf69f1af36be30c60dc80aa35f29b56d). Glass has no solid border: its edge is a 1px sheen of light caught by the rim (glass-sheen at the top left fading to glass-sheen-low at the bottom right), and the panel edge is decorative. glass-border is now the plain border of the solid fallbacks. The baseline token version is now 0.10.0, so extends is "Cosmik baseline 0.10.0". See the foundation's changelog.

  • Tectra sheen. Dark tone: Tectra's mineral white #EDF4F3 at 65 % fading to 20 %. Light tone: the baseline white highlight with a lower edge in Tectra's dark #0F1719 at 25 %. Solid fallbacks use Tectra's dividers (#344744 dark, #C2D1CC light) as the plain border. Text, muted text, focus and selection over each tone's band are unchanged from 0.4.0.

0.4.0 · 25 October 2026#

  • Foundation cosmiklabs/brand v0.14.0 (commit e5259977583505abb4f593012571a71eaa39ef0a). Glass is clearer (60 % tint, 24px blur, 1.4 saturation) and comes in two tones: data-glass-tone="dark" or "light" gives a surface that mode's roles, and each tone is checked over the content its tone is for, either side of a published threshold. The baseline token version is now 0.9.0, so extends is "Cosmik baseline 0.9.0". See the foundation's changelog.

  • Tectra glass tones. Dark: the Tectra dark surface #172125 at 60 %, a #F2F6F5 hairline and #C9D7D3 muted text. Light: the baseline white tint, a #0F1719 hairline and #2E423E muted text (Tectra's light text #142925 is lighter than the baseline's black, so its muted text must be darker). Over each tone's band: dark text 7.46:1, muted 5.60:1, focus 4.79:1, boundary 3.20:1; light text 7.48:1, muted 5.23:1, focus 3.12:1, boundary 3.46:1.

0.3.0 · 25 October 2026#

  • Foundation cosmiklabs/brand v0.13.0 (commit 9985a274113c74bdf8b80d5011f9045634cfd31e), synced with its vendor.mjs. It adds glass roles (glass, glass-border, glass-muted), baseline-only glass blur and saturation tokens, glass contrast checks over any backdrop and opt-in glass controls (c-glass, c-toolbar--glass, c-button--glass, c-segmented--glass, c-select--glass). The baseline token version is now 0.8.0, so extends is "Cosmik baseline 0.8.0". See the foundation's changelog.

  • Tectra glass roles. The baseline's neutral glass would sit grey among Tectra's mineral surfaces, so the family sets its own: dark glass is the Tectra dark surface #172125 at 84 % with a #CDDAD6 hairline and the Tectra dark muted text; light glass keeps the baseline's white tint with a #22342F hairline and a #455D57 muted text (the Tectra light muted #4D6761 is too light over glass on black, 4.21:1). Over any backdrop: dark text 8.81:1, muted 5.22:1, boundary 3.08:1; light text 10.52:1, muted 4.89:1, boundary 3.18:1.

  • No other token value or mark changes.

0.2.6 · 25 October 2026#

  • Foundation cosmiklabs/brand v0.12.2 (commit 91ecddeab47f9380a6e6727b3c0611a3073ad520), synced with its vendor.mjs. Its controls apply hover treatments only under (hover: hover), so a tap on a touch screen no longer leaves a control looking hovered. See the foundation's changelog.

  • No Tectra token value or mark changes. Generated tokens differ only in the version and the provenance header.

0.2.5 · 25 October 2026#

  • Foundation cosmiklabs/brand v0.12.1 (commit 71fcd97f6342090f7b189e333a04a94af0d32d02), synced with its vendor.mjs. It fixes 0.12.0's c-segmented, whose options collapsed below their labels in a shrink-to-fit container, and lets c-toolbar wrap rather than overflow. See the foundation's changelog.

  • No Tectra token value or mark changes. Generated tokens differ only in the version and the provenance header.

0.2.4 · 25 October 2026#

  • Foundation cosmiklabs/brand v0.12.0 (commit 5c62fc7e1bd012a89061142d87ad64947ae6edd9), synced with its vendor.mjs. Its shared controls add c-toolbar, c-button--quiet, c-button--icon, pressed toggles (c-button[aria-pressed]) and c-segmented: a bordered toolbar surface, square icon-only buttons at the dense or touch target, and one-of-a-few choices whose options share one width. Selection uses the selected roles plus a drawn bar. See the foundation's changelog.

  • No Tectra token value or mark changes. Generated tokens differ only in the version and the provenance header; the baseline token version is still 0.7.0, so extends is unchanged.

0.2.3 · 24 October 2026#

  • Foundation cosmiklabs/brand v0.11.0 (commit 1a7d5c392dd6926eaa8625c496a707de1a4b4d1b), synced with its vendor.mjs. Its shared controls add c-status--dense: the status pill, roles and label family, tracking and case at the ui-small size with tighter padding, for dense rows, headers and cards. c-status is unchanged. See the foundation's changelog.

  • No Tectra token value or mark changes. Generated tokens differ only in the version and the provenance header; the baseline token version is still 0.7.0, so extends is unchanged.

0.2.2 · 24 October 2026#

  • Foundation cosmiklabs/brand v0.10.0 (commit c3bf1a7b2e34ff764a069e96c5c86ff29316f7b4), synced with its vendor.mjs. Its shared controls change: c-status now reads as a label (the label type role, a pill shape, no interaction affordance); c-select--dense and c-input--dense add dense fields that return to the standard target and body size on touch; and c-button--large adds a taller call-to-action button. See the foundation's changelog at vendor/brand/CHANGELOG.md.

  • No Tectra token value or mark changes. Generated tokens differ only in the version and the provenance header; the baseline token version is still 0.7.0, so extends is unchanged.

0.2.1 · 24 October 2026#

  • Consumers sync this repository with one tool. Products run node <brand-tectra>/vendor/brand/scripts/vendor.mjs sync --from <brand-tectra> --into vendor/brand-tectra from a release tag, then verify vendor/brand-tectra, which checks this release and the vendored foundation inside it. This replaces copying files and checking hashes by hand. See the README's "Consume this kit".

  • Manifest shape shared with brand-hplx. brand names the foundation (repository, tag, commit, directory, lock). The former vendor section is replaced by distribution: { path, sha256 } for every file a consumer syncs, namely this family's tokens, marks, guide, review board, validation record, changelog and LICENSE.md, and every file under vendor/brand/ including brand.lock.json. The build derives both sections; the check fails when the manifest, the lock and the files disagree. Vendored files no longer carry per-file roles in this manifest; their roles are in the foundation's own release.

  • Foundation cosmiklabs/brand v0.9.1, vendored with its new vendor.mjs (lock lockfileVersion 2, commit 48afb82b1edd5f9a7ce01eedbd52b5e3484c3c69). The baseline token version is still 0.7.0, so extends is unchanged.

  • Corrected family description. tokens/family.json said the marks were in kits/tectra/assets/; they are in assets/. This changes the proposals text in tectra.json and tectra.tokens.json, so the family version moves to 0.2.1. No token value changes; the other generated changes are the version and the provenance header, which now names @cosmiklabs/brand 0.9.1. The marks are byte-identical. The family-proposals-path known gap is closed.

  • package.json gains repository. CI reads the foundation's repository and tag from the lock.

0.2.0 · 24 October 2026 (split; not tagged)#

  • Split from cosmiklabs/brand. The Tectra kit moves out of cosmiklabs/brand, which removed kits/tectra/ at v0.8.0, into this repository, with its history (git subtree split of kits/tectra/). Files that were under kits/tectra/ are now at the repository root: README.md, assets/, tokens/, specimen.html, specimen.css and validation.md.

  • Builds on cosmiklabs/brand v0.8.0. The foundation is vendored unchanged at vendor/brand/ and pinned by brand.lock.json (commit e416514a291fb71844280f7cf1e2759d195b7a4d). Tokens are generated and checked by the vendored family.mjs; CI also proves the lock against the tag.

  • Tokens. Regenerated outputs change only their provenance header, which now names @cosmiklabs/brand 0.8.0 scripts/family.mjs and tokens/family.json. tectra.json and every token value are byte-identical to Tectra 0.2.0 in brand v0.7.0.

  • Marks. scripts/build-assets.mjs (formerly brand's build-tectra-assets.mjs) uses the vendored outline tools and Inter SemiBold; the ten SVGs are byte-identical.

  • Consumers. asset-manifest.json lists every deliverable with its SHA-256, role and status, including the vendored foundation, and carries the former tectra_identity and family identity records. Paths change from kits/tectra/... to the repository root, and kits/cosmik/... and fonts/... to vendor/brand/.... The specimen loads the baseline CSS and fonts from vendor/brand/.

  • Add LICENSE.md (the brand terms applied to this repository), AGENTS.md, the Tectra tests, and CI.

No mark, palette, token value or approved guidance changes. Tectra remains family 0.2.0 and extends Cosmik baseline 0.7.0. This state was not tagged; 0.2.1 is the first release of this repository.