Google Stitch produced an Atelier Dining & Hospitality system for this app: warm
ivory linen and espresso for the guest surfaces, burnished gold for the single
active thing, Playfair Display for the restaurant's voice and Plus Jakarta Sans
for everything transactional, editorial rows with dot leaders, pill controls,
hairline containment instead of drop shadows. The four screens and the system
document are kept in docs/design/stitch/ as the source.
Both fonts are now self-hosted with their licences, the guest stylesheet is
rebuilt on the system, and the admin is the same system in its dark mode
(espresso workspace, obsidian pods, gold actions) by overriding the same tokens
at a higher specificity, since the per-Site theme is injected inline after the
stylesheets. The Site theme in config/ moves to the system's palette, which is
where per-Site branding belongs; the old Archivo font is dropped.
Variant B of the prototype (/prototype/menu-design branch): each category is a
card whose face is the first page of that menu, so the landing is built from the
restaurant's own paper instead of labels on a dark page. The row scrolls and
snaps on a phone and wraps into a grid on a desktop; the cards are drawn from
the existing tokens, not the prototype's hexes. The bar's links become filled
segments, the current one the only teal thing on screen.
Fixes the scroller's first card being clipped: a negative-margin full bleed was
fighting scroll-snap, so the row now insets its first card and snaps to the same
inset.
The bar hid them behind a switcher and a sheet. It now names every menu that
exists, which is what was asked for; it scrolls sideways when the categories
outgrow the width, and the current one is the only filled item. Without the
script it is simply a row of links, so nothing is lost when JavaScript is off.
Categories were baked into config/<site>.site.json, so adding one meant a
rebuild and a redeploy. They are now data: data/sections.json, seeded from the
config the first time, and managed in the admin (add, rename, reorder, remove).
A category's web address is fixed when it is created because that is what a QR
code points at, and a category cannot be removed while it still holds menus.
The landing and the top bar were the ugliest parts. The landing was a column of
hairlines with tiny meta — a broadsheet, and the paper that makes this app worth
looking at was nowhere on it. It is now a shelf: each category is a row whose
right edge is a sliver of that menu's first page, bleeding off the screen, with
the shelf edge in brass and the name in heavy tight Archivo. The bar was a row
of teal pills that would not survive more categories: it now names the menu you
are reading and opens a sheet listing the rest, each with its own paper sliver,
and the current one is the only teal thing on screen. The sheet is a link to the
landing page, so navigating still works without the script.
Also fixes the category manager's own layout, which I shipped unstyled, and the
markup contract the route tests described.
The admin signs in with the shared password, creates a Menu Set, drops photos
into it (shrunk in the browser first), reorders Pages by dragging or with
up/down buttons, previews the Draft exactly as customers would see it, and
publishes it over the previous set. Restore and delete close the loop. Mutations
need a session, a same-origin request and a CSRF token derived from the session;
a Draft's media is served only to a session holder.
Landing page, Section pages and archived sets rendered per request from the
store, with the approved design: hand-written CSS, self-hosted Archivo, a
copper pour line in the Section rail, an admin-only Thumbnail and a text page
index. Media is keyed by Page id so URLs survive publishing, and a Draft's
media needs a session. Includes the scrypt admin auth and the login throttle
the media rule needs.
tanshu