A system with reasons.

Research is useful when it changes a decision. These are the sources, interpretations and limits behind this contributor proposal.

55HIG pages refreshed in this revision

3Astra specialist workstreams

0.2Open contribution candidate

What changed because we studied.

Glass has a job.

Default glass defines navigation and controls. A stable reading surface protects dense facts; shallow shell impressions and neutral reflections connect the glass to Claw.

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A component does something.

Working examples expose edits, selections, detail, feedback and recovery. Domain cards compose the controls around real information.

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Time needs context.

A flight uses origin and destination local times. A stay uses calendar dates. A reference clock compares one moment in several places.

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A preview is not a pass.

Use issuer-supported pass and Wallet flows. Public examples keep credentials hidden and clearly identify non-scannable artwork.

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The voice belongs to the brand.

The claw’s opening informs a distinct visual presence. Readable labels, transcript and familiar audio controls carry the function.

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A companion for reading.

Claw Sans carries reading, interface labels and editorial headings; Display remains an archived experiment. Custom type keeps fallbacks and native text scaling where needed.

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Coverage, honestly recorded.

The second review refreshed 55 Apple pages: 13 narrative reviews, 2 selected-section reviews, 31 recommendation scans and 9 navigation inventories. It also checked 11 additional primary sources and inventoried 64 component topics. These counts describe different depths of review, not 55 complete specifications.

The initial Apple HIG review inventoried 172 reachable topics: 50 narrative reviews, 8 selected-section reviews, 99 recommendation-level reviews and 15 navigation reviews. Every topic was examined at its recorded level. This does not mean every supporting paragraph, image, video and linked specification was read.

The typography study used the accessible primary articles, Apple’s first TrueType chapter and legally available publisher or author material. How to Create Typefaces: From Sketch to Screen by Henestrosa, Meseguer and Scaglione and Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style remain important further reading. We did not obtain or claim to read both complete books.

Three GPT-6 Astra workstreams covered OpenClaw’s purpose and distribution, interface guidance, and original type design. Image generation assisted the character poses, eye edits and shell study. The Character page presents the approved still portraits. The site uses real components, exact vector logo masters and actual font files.