--- name: museum-no-bezel-own-identity description: "Owner ruling 2026-07-21: the museum must NOT be terminal-themed — no bezel/chassis/terminal frame; it gets its own visual identity distinct from the Fallout CRT app" metadata: node_type: memory type: feedback originSessionId: f5f4466d-749c-41e5-bee0-888ea2941635 modified: 2026-07-21T16:29:16.875Z --- Owner, verbatim (2026-07-21, rejecting the first design pass's container): "mockups look good except that it's in the terminal bezel, I told you the museum should have it's own feel to it, doesn't have to stay fully in theme ya know ? Shouldn't have a bezel at all tbh." **Why:** the exhibits (screenshots, captures, prototypes) already carry the phosphor-CRT identity. If the container is also terminal-themed the artifacts stop reading as artifacts — contrast is what makes an exhibit legible as an exhibit. The first pass's brief wrongly listed "CRT terminal aesthetic" as a hard constraint; the structural work was praised, only the skin was rejected. **How to apply:** any museum design or implementation work: no device chassis, no machine housing, no terminal frame, no scanlines-as-page-chrome. Phosphor green may survive only as a restrained trace (data readouts, accents), never as the page's costume. Clarity veto and mobile-first (360/412) still bind. See [[museum-identity-pass]] for the candidate identities produced under this ruling. Related: [[museum-visual-design-pass]].