Modal · expressions · v2 silhouette locked

Modal — expressions.

Thirty-two character beats on a single face. The silhouette is the v2 Modal byte-for-byte — head, eyes, body band. No mouth. Every variant below preserves the canonical 2×2 eye footprint or its closest pixel cousin and adds only one of six levers: eye position, eye shape, brow pixels, body band state, ambient mark, or snap-on accessory. Nothing else changes. Read top-to-bottom by family.

Canonical Modal

Source of truth: design/assets/cosmo-pixel-v2/05-module.svg. Head 10×6 white at (3,3) with 1px Carbon outline. Eyes are two 2×2 Carbon blocks at (5,5) and (9,5). Body band Signal #FFB800, 10×3 at (3,10). No mouth. No exceptions.

Every expression on this page is this body plus one delta. The silhouette never moves; the line weight never changes; the band stays Signal unless a sleep or refusal beat explicitly dims it.

16×16 grid Carbon · Signal · Graphite 1px stroke No mouth

Gaze

lever — 2×2 eye block, repositioned in the head 01 — 08

01at rest

02look left

03look right

04look up

05look down

06curious

07reading source

08skeptical glance

Shape

lever — eye geometry on the same footprint 09 — 12

09wide / alert

10narrowed

11squint / focused

12closed / blink

Sleep

lever — closed eyes, dim band, ambient drift 13 — 16

13sleepy

14asleep / off-duty

15wink

16dreaming

Brow

lever — Carbon pixels at row y=4, above the eye block 17 — 20

17stern

18concerned

19lifted / surprised

20quizzical

Mood marks

lever — pixels in the canvas margins, never on the head 21 — 24

21thinking

22listening

23question

24alert

Operational

lever — moments tied to the work (fired, refused, pulse, recall) 25 — 28

25fired

26refused / below 0.70

27pulse / active

28heard you

Accessory

lever — overlay pixels above the head; silhouette never moves 29 — 32

29AirPods Max

30glasses

31antennae

32cap / on duty