Interactive prototype · round 7
Two identities, two modes, one workspace. Phosphor is the CRT-terminal and VCR-display world your product name already lives in; Amber is the current scheme. Coverage has been demoted from a colour to a substrate — that change applies to both.
Camera audio may be heard by staff or customers nearby. Check your surroundings before enabling it.
The expanded ribbon rendered in every combination — the surface where the colour decision actually bites.
Presentation churns freely. The moment moves only when you move time.
It used to be bright green — but coverage is true nearly everywhere, so colouring it meant most of the timeline shouted. It is now a quiet neutral in both skins. Motion and transactions got louder without changing their colours. This is the change I would make regardless of which skin wins.
Green-on-black CRT with a real emission glow on live values, and a monospaced wordmark that reads as a VCR front panel. Amber is kept for motion because amber breaking a green field is the original alarm convention — it is exactly what those machines did.
Phosphor light is receipt stock with green ink; Amber light is tape-label cream. Neither is the dark theme flipped — each is a physical artefact this product already touches, which is why they hold together instead of looking washed out.
Phosphor dark as the default, phosphor light for daylight and printing. It carries the $50 Manager green, it is unmistakably not Digital Watchdog, and it earns the product name. Amber stays a supported theme — the token layer already supports seven.
Camera views are procedurally drawn placeholders. Skins map to CSS custom properties only —
no component knows which skin is active, which is how the real implementation should work
against theme-retail-rewind.css and its siblings.