branding: one mark, and PSOGM draws it
Guru and SchCotie are gone. Shift is the only mark, and the crash screen draws it where the face used to be. Guru was an icon -- a pictogram with a face, denoting one state -- that lived on the crash screen and nowhere else. Its argument was identity: `:(` is recognisably Microsoft's, and a crash screen is the single screenshot most likely to leave the machine, so it is the worst place to be wearing somebody else's face. That part holds, and it is kept in the branding README because it is the argument against any second mark. What does not follow is that the answer is a *new* mark. Shift already signs the system, it is already what the machine drew on the splash it started with, and a reader who has seen it twice before the crash recognises it faster than a face they have never seen. SchCotie was a mascot, and never existed: the file said so itself under "what this does not cover". A brief for a character nobody is about to draw is not worth carrying. So `draw_guru()` and its SVG-space geometry leave panic.c, the two `guru.svg` files are deleted, and PSOGM calls gfx_draw_logo() -- the same include/logo.h mask the loader splash and the boot console composite. At its native 128 px: there is no resampler in the crash path, and the face was scalable in a place that only ever drew it at one size. The name stays. "Purple Screen of Guru Meditation" is the Amiga nod, which panic.c's own header already called out as a separate thing from the mark. **And taking the screenshot to check it caught a regression from the TTF console work.** `gfx_draw_char()` -- the pixel-positioned path, which only PSOGM uses -- still walked `font_data[c][row]` for `row < CHAR_HEIGHT`. font_data has exactly 16 rows per glyph; CHAR_HEIGHT is the *TrueType* cell height now, about 21. So every line of the crash report drew five rows of the next character's bitmap underneath itself, and it looked like each line had been printed twice. The grid path had been updated when the cell size stopped being a constant; this one had not, because nothing routine draws text in pixel coordinates. Both go through one draw_glyph_px() now, and the bitmap's own geometry is spelled BITMAP_W/BITMAP_H so it cannot be mistaken for a cell size again. Two stale claims corrected while in there, in panic.c's header and in graphics.md: PSOGM has not dimmed-and-floated over the old screen for a while -- it clears to full purple, and the file's own code comment says why -- and there is no longer "a face that is obviously a cartoon". The website's crash section shows the mark in flat white rather than its own violets, which is what the kernel actually draws: PSOGM composites a coverage mask in one colour, and those violets sit close enough to #4B1D9A to half-disappear against it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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`kernel/core/panic.c`. The Purple Screen of Guru Meditation. Built around three
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**It does not clear the screen.** Whatever was displayed stays, dimmed and
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pushed back, with the report floating over it. A crash screen that wipes the
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display tells you the machine is gone; one that leaves your work visible tells
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you it stopped — which is both truer and much less alarming.
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**It takes the whole screen.** It used to dim what was there and float a panel
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over it, on the argument that a crash screen which wipes the display tells you
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the machine is gone while one that leaves your work visible tells you it
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stopped. That looked good and was wrong: the thing is called a Purple Screen,
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and half a screen of abandoned work behind the report is a distraction at the
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worst possible moment.
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**It is not frightening.** No red, no capitals, no "FATAL". A calm sentence, a
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face that is obviously a cartoon, then the facts. Whoever is reading this is
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already having a bad time.
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**It is not frightening.** No red, no capitals, no "FATAL". A calm sentence,
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the Shift mark — the same one the machine drew on the splash it started with —
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then the facts. Whoever is reading this is already having a bad time.
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The mark replaced **Guru**, a chamfered face drawn from primitives that lived
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only here. Guru's argument was identity: `:(` is recognisably Microsoft's, and
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a crash screen is the screenshot most likely to leave the machine. That holds.
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What does not follow is that the answer is a *second* mark — see
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[../branding/README.md](../branding/README.md).
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**It says considerably more than it needs to.** Everything cheap to collect is
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collected: stop code, fault address, which CPU, which process, how far into the
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