Podcast thumbnails, October 2026
Podcast thumbnails, October 2026
How the podcast thumbnail was arrived at, 12–13 October 2026. Superseded by the chosen design: swallows and fingerprints from the bottom left, built as the podcast thumbnail Canva kit and the Instagram kit. Overview of the chosen look: Swallows & Fingerprints (Claude artifact; shows the logo before 13 October).
| File | What it was |
|---|---|
| brief.md | The mini-project brief, with the thumbnail research summary and the progress log |
| versions-a-to-d.html | First round: A face-led, B quote-led, C background-led, D colour-coded, in mocked YouTube feeds |
| backgrounds.html | Sixteen background treatments and the "dawn ridge" (2 + 10) combinations, with notes on what makes a good background |
| swallows-versions.html | The swallows on white: versions 1–11 (black, blue, two speakers, blue words, fingerprints). Version 8 was chosen, then moved to the bottom left |
grove/ | The Grove covers (speaker in the seed spiral on sunlight), from before this round. Its PNG exports are not committed; grove/export.sh rebuilds them |
workshop.html | A thumbnail workshop page with a field panel, from before this round |
Also retired on 13 October: the earlier podcast (paper) and guest (.thumb--guest, mountain at dawn) templates in examples/youtube/. The pages here use the old logo file names, so they now show the new mark; the old fingerprint backgrounds in them are approximate.