# Holmes logo exploration v23-v30

This is a second divergent brand-world pass after v15-v22. The main correction is that each direction now has an explicit isolated logo proposal, not only a mood board or applied identity scene.

## Explicit logo proposals

- v23 Signal Station: HOLMES wordmark with a signal-tower H mark. Proposed meaning: recall cuts through agent-session noise.
- v24 Legal Exhibit: HOLMES wordmark with a stamped rectangular H and filing notch. Proposed meaning: memory that can be audited and cited.
- v25 Observatory Index: HOLMES wordmark with a star/bracket coordinate mark. Proposed meaning: context found by reliable coordinates.
- v26 Inspection Label: HOLMES wordmark with a caliper-like H and pass notch. Proposed meaning: production-grade, inspectable memory.
- v27 Audit Ticker: HOLMES wordmark with horizontal audit bars through an H. Proposed meaning: accountable state changes and replayable work.
- v28 Newswire Desk: HOLMES wordmark with a folded-wire H mark. Proposed meaning: source-backed dispatch, correction, and fast retrieval.
- v29 Flight Recorder: HOLMES wordmark with a recorder capsule H and timeline stripe. Proposed meaning: recover exactly what happened across agents and sessions.
- v30 Scriptorium Index: HOLMES wordmark with an illuminated but simplified H frame. Proposed meaning: careful preservation of annotations and durable project knowledge.

## Recommendation

Advance v29 Flight Recorder and v23 Signal Station.

v29 is the strongest new logo candidate because it makes Holmes feel like continuity infrastructure: recoverable history, incident reconstruction, replay, and operational truth. It has an immediate product metaphor and can scale into app icon, CLI mark, docs headers, and incident-history surfaces.

v23 is the best broad-system candidate because signal-through-noise is simple, developer-native, and less severe than the legal/audit directions. It should be considered if Holmes wants a wider brand story than incident replay.

## Secondary candidates

v26 Inspection Label is strong if the brand should lean into production engineering, verification, and release discipline.

v28 Newswire Desk is strong if the brand should lean into source-backed summaries, correction, and editorial product language.

v30 Scriptorium Index is memorable and beautiful, but better as a docs/editorial layer than the main logo.

## Production note

The generated image boards are concept art. The isolated logo cards in `index.html` are the explicit logo proposals for iteration. A selected candidate should be redrawn as deterministic vector artwork with app icon, CLI mark, horizontal lockup, favicon, dark-mode, monochrome, and small-size variants.