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Cosmo · v3 · expressions + accessories

v3 builds on the silhouette you locked from v2 — the Modal (head + Signal yellow body band, Susan Kare Happy-Mac descendant). v2 is untouched at design/cosmo-pixel-v2/ for comparison. v3 adds a small smile to the canonical face, then varies face for six expression states (mapped to the bible's six gestures + product moments) and adds four accessories tied to the work Cosmo does (listening to source, reading source, scanning, on-duty).

2026-04-2610 SVGs · 16×16 native

Six expressions

Same Modal body across all six. Face varies. Each maps to one of the bible's gesture states + the product moment that triggers it. Body band stays Signal yellow throughout — Cosmo is on duty even while sleeping.

At rest

Default · friendlier base

01-at-rest.svg

Listening

Eyes track incoming source

02-listening.svg

Working

Focused dot eyes · no mouth

03-working.svg

Delivering

Wide smile · eval passed

04-delivering.svg

Active recall

Happy squint · skill fired

05-active-recall.svg

Sleeping

Closed eyes · long absence

06-sleeping.svg

Four accessories

Same Modal body + at-rest face across all four. Carbon-only additions (no extra Signal — body band is already the single accent). Each accessory ties to a specific product moment Cosmo embodies.

Headphones

Listening to source · video / podcast

07-acc-headphones.svg

Glasses

Reading source · PDF / article

08-acc-glasses.svg

Antennae

Scanning · curious / receptive

09-acc-antennae.svg

Cap

Operator on duty

10-acc-cap.svg

Scale · expression states

Each expression at native 16×16 plus 24 / 32 / 48 / 96 / 240 px renders. Designed at 16, holds at every larger size. Below 16, switch to the Signal block alone.

16 native

240

At rest01

Listening02

Working03

Delivering04

Active recall05

Sleeping06

Grounds · expressions

Each expression on Paper, Mist, Carbon, Signal. The Modal's Carbon outline disappears against Carbon — what remains visible is the Paper interior with eyes/mouth, and the Signal body band. Reads cleanly across all four grounds.

Paper

Mist

Carbon

Signal

At rest01

Working03

Delivering04

Sleeping06

Grounds · accessories

All four accessories on Paper, Mist, Carbon, Signal. Headphones earcups protrude outside the head outline — they retain their Carbon shape on Carbon ground because they're outside the head silhouette.

Paper

Mist

Carbon

Signal

Headphones07

Glasses08

Antennae09

Cap10

In context

How Cosmo's expression states read inside actual product chrome — activation feed (right state per row) and sidebar avatar (state changes with what Cosmo's doing).

Activation feed · state per row

Activation feed Live

Jeff Su · email triage

YouTube · 12m

Fired 14:02

Stripe webhook patterns

Article · 8m

Passed 0.91

Karpathy · agents

YouTube · 41m

Eval running

Postgres index strategy

PDF · 22 pages

Last week

Sidebar · state-aware corner

What this gives you · what's open

v3 builds the gesture-state vocabulary the bible specified, plus four product-themed accessories. v2 is preserved at cosmo-pixel-v2/ for direct comparison — same Modal silhouette, different expression / accessory surface area.

Decisions you can make from here

Lock the canonical Cosmo state set: at rest is the default, the other five expressions cover the bible's gesture vocabulary. Pick whether the accessory variants are part of the canonical set (used in product chrome) or only marketing flair (used in social / brand-guidelines surfaces).

Asymmetry pass: none of the v3 SVGs are asymmetric yet (the bible specifies "asymmetry encouraged — slightly tilted poses, off-center features"). Once a state set is locked, refinement adds: one eye drops one row, the smile shifts one pixel off-center, etc. Easy to add; held for now to keep the set internally consistent for comparison.

What's deliberately not here yet

v3 module shape with rounded corners. Could soften the "block" feel further if you want to push friendlier. Currently the corners are sharp, matching v2-05 exactly.

Cosmo-on-Signal-ground variants. When the body lives on a Signal-yellow ground, the band's Signal disappears and the Paper-bodied face floats. Reads OK but not perfectly. Solvable with a Carbon-band variant of each expression for use on Signal grounds — only build if you ship a Signal-ground surface that hosts Cosmo.

Animated states. Pixel art animates well — at-rest can have a subtle breathing motion, listening can have eye-track frames, working can have a pulsing focus dot. Wave 4+ if a use case demands it.