Halo Brand System

Guidance set

Governance

must

A downstream artifact cannot become the source of truth for a brand pattern.

Imported from the Locked decisions section of the Halo guidance.

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Allow P3 exceptions only with an owner, rationale, affected surfaces, and expiry.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Block P0 drift when a second visual language appears.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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Canonical patterns are imported and reused; they are not recreated from screenshots, copied values, or local approximations.

Imported from the Locked decisions section of the Halo guidance.

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must-not

Do not approve work by screenshot alone.

Imported from the Red lines section of the Halo guidance.

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must-not

Do not create presentation-only, website-only, documentation-only, or marketing-only forks of canonical components.

Imported from the Red lines section of the Halo guidance.

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must-not

Do not expose candidate, restricted, partner, customer, or third-party assets as approved downloads.

Imported from the Red lines section of the Halo guidance.

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must-not

Do not silently change tokens, assets, rules, or icon meanings inside a released version.

Imported from the Red lines section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Every visual change identifies the governing section, affected tokens or components, and whether it introduces drift.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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External contributors receive a stable intake, review, release, deprecation, and exception process before v1 publication.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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Fix P1 drift before release when a canonical component differs in geometry, colour, typography, or behaviour.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

New downloadable assets require an owner, rights status, checksum, intended use, prohibited use, modification policy, and replacement relationship when deprecated.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

New guidance must be represented as human-readable prose and machine-readable rules in the same release.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

New icons require registry meaning, usage, prohibited usage, accessibility guidance, source version, and matching SVG and code exports.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Production presentations are compiled from structured specifications and canonical layouts rather than slide-local styling.

Imported from the Locked decisions section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Record P2 spacing, caption, or metadata mismatches with an owner and due release.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Review work in this order: system rule, token or component contract, Source Library asset, artifact implementation, then screenshot or export.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

The rendered guide, versioned tokens, structured rules, approved assets, and agent resources describe the same release.

Imported from the Locked decisions section of the Halo guidance.

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must

There is one canonical version of every Halo component, with governed variants defined before a surface consumes them.

Imported from the Locked decisions section of the Halo guidance.

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Update the Visual Language first when a project needs a new component, layout, asset treatment, icon meaning, or motion behaviour.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Visual review includes an export or screenshot, source reference, component names, relevant token names, and the recognition-test result.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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Guidance set

Recognition

must

Attach proof to every claim that asks for belief.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Count the Magenta moments and keep one dominant active proof, capture, source, or decision event.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must-not

Do not approve an artifact that becomes generic SaaS, generic automotive, or generic AI when the logo is removed.

Imported from the Red lines section of the Halo guidance.

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must-not

Do not approve an artifact with competing focal points, unsupported evidence, unreadable density, decorative Magenta, or untracked assets.

Imported from the Red lines section of the Halo guidance.

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must-not

Do not treat visual similarity alone as proof of compliance.

Imported from the Red lines section of the Halo guidance.

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Establish one unmistakable first read: headline, proof visual, then source caption.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Keep captions, metadata, source labels, footers, and navigation readable without zooming.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Preserve hierarchy, spacing, and proof when translating the artifact into a slide, webpage, mobile screen, PDF, poster, or booth wall.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Remove the logo and confirm the artifact still feels like Halo through exact alignment, a neutral field, restrained Magenta, evidence geometry, source labels, and calm mechanical behaviour.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Test density at the intended viewing distance; shorten, split, or reflow content instead of shrinking it.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Trace every reusable visual back to the Source Library and its rights record.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Use cards only when the content behaves like a governed object, choice, evidence record, asset, metric, or workflow step.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Use motion only when it clarifies target, alignment, capture, progress, or a state change.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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must

Use the canonical neutral sequence: Canvas, Paper or Raised object, Structure rule, and one Magenta state.

Imported from the Rules section of the Halo guidance.

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