ss-restyle

Re-style to a preset

A mood word — "make it more editorial", "give it a Swiss feel" — is not one axis. It's a defined position across several (this radius and that density and that color temperature and that weight and that motion), tied together with a font and one signature move. Left to plain language, the model resolves it differently every time and half the axes drift. /ss-restyle pins the whole coordinate at once, coherently, and re-gates.

Each preset below is a full identity, not a filter you stack on top of another. Applying two presets = the mixed-personality tell we ban. Pick one; it replaces the look.

When NOT to use

• Moving a single axis ("denser", "sharper", "more muted") → /ss-dial.
• No STYLESEED.md yet → /ss-build / /ss-setup first (a restyle rewrites a lock; it needs one).
• A brand with a fixed hex → keep the accent, use /ss-dial for feel; don't let a preset overwrite a real brand color (presets suggest an accent family — honor an existing lock's hue).

The mechanic

1. Read STYLESEED.md. Keep anything the user has explicitly locked (a real brand hex, a required font) — a preset fills the unopinionated axes, it doesn't overrule a deliberate choice.
2. Set the preset's coordinate — apply each field below via the same coordinated token sets /ss-dial uses (radius mapping table, density ramp, color HSL + tint re-derive, weight ramp, motion seed), plus the font and elevation language. System-wide, every file — grep the tokens.
3. Hold the modern floor (§CC-9d). Distinctive must not read dated: white/fresh base, serif as seasoning (one display moment, never body), keep the air. A preset that turns into a beige serif brochure has failed, not succeeded.
4. Rewrite the lock — Skin/Mood/Accent/Font/Radius/Elevation/Motion/Type + a one-line Signature move. This is now the source of truth for every later prompt.
5. Re-run the Quality Gate (/ss-score, loop to ≥ 80). Report: preset applied, the coordinate, the score. A restyle that scores < 80 is fixed before presenting — a named look is no excuse for incoherence.

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The presets (coordinate = radius · density · color · weight · motion)

swiss — grid honesty, typographic confidence

sharp · compact · muted-cool · bold · calm

• Font: a neutral grotesk (Inter / Helvetica Now feel), tight tracking on display.
• Accent: restrained — near-neutral, or a single strong signal (classic Swiss red #D6291E) used sparingly. One accent, lots of black/white/grey.
• Elevation: flat — hairline borders and whitespace do the separating, not shadows.
• Signature: a strong asymmetric grid, oversized left-aligned headline, generous but structured space. Numbers and labels align to the grid. No ornament.

editorial — magazine, serif as seasoning

soft · airy · warm-muted · regular · calm

• Font: a serif display (Fraunces / Newsreader) for headlines only, Inter/neutral sans for body.
• Accent: a warm muted ink — oxblood #7B2D26, forest #2F4A3C, or deep amber. Muted, not loud.
• Elevation: subtle; content leads, chrome recedes.
• Signature: one oversized serif headline moment, a wide reading measure (max-w-2xl/3xl), strong first-paragraph emphasis. Modern floor: white base, serif is the seasoning — body stays sans, don't tip into a paper-and-serif pamphlet (§CC-9d).

technical — dark, dense, instrument-panel

sharp · dense · cool · regular · still (dark-first)

• Font: Geist / IBM Plex Sans; mono (Plex Mono / Geist Mono) for IDs, SHAs, timestamps, metrics.
• Accent: one signal hue on dark — teal #2DD4BF, lime, or amber — used for state, not decoration.
• Elevation: the dark tonal ramp — page < card < raised by surface lightness + hairline borders. No drop shadows.
• Signature: high data density (dense dial), mono numerics with tabular-nums, tonal surfaces, minimal motion (still). Chrome scale: h1 22–24px, KPI 48–64px.

warm-dtc — consumer, friendly, product-forward

pill · airy · warm-vivid · bold · lively

• Font: a rounded/friendly grotesk; large, confident.
• Accent: warm and vivid — terracotta #C14E24, coral, or amber-brown. (Cool blues read corporate here — avoid.)
• Elevation: subtle → layered; soft, inviting depth.
• Signature: big product imagery, pill controls, generous space, lively/Spring micro-motion on CTAs. One warm accent; if it collides with the success green, resolve per the lock's Semantic resolve.

minimal-mono — whitespace and restraint

soft · airy · muted · light · calm

• Font: one neutral sans; weight and size do all the work (no second family).
• Accent: near-monochrome — a single restrained accent used rarely (one CTA, one active state).
• Elevation: flat → subtle; mostly hairlines and air.
• Signature: dominant whitespace, light weights, a single small accent moment, one clear focal element. The discipline is the design — resist adding anything.

brutalist-lite — raw, high-contrast, but still coherent

sharp · comfortable · vivid · bold · snap

• Font: a bold grotesk, oversized headlines; can go heavier than usual.
• Accent: one loud hue against black/white. Still one accent — loud ≠ rainbow.
• Elevation: flat with hard 1–2px borders as the personality (borders do separation here, which is allowed as the deliberate style — no soft shadows mixed in).
• Signature: heavy borders, blocky high-contrast sections, snappy instant motion, exposed structure. "lite" = still coherent: one accent, one border weight, states and a11y intact, gate ≥ 80. Raw is the look; broken is not.

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Rules

• One preset replaces the look — never stack two (that's the mixed-personality tell). To nudge from a preset, use /ss-dial on a single axis afterward.
• Honor deliberate locks. A real brand hex or a user-chosen font survives a restyle; the preset fills the rest. Say what you kept.
• System-wide. Apply the coordinate across every file, not the screen in view.
• Modern floor always (§CC-9d). Distinctive must not cost freshness — white/fresh base, serif as seasoning, keep the air. Dated ≠ distinctive.
• Persist + re-gate. Rewrite STYLESEED.md to the new coordinate, then /ss-score to ≥ 80. Report the preset, the coordinate, and the score.