My aesthetic operating system. Color as data. Published as an open kit at github.com/MUSESHIFT/heartcode-site-kit.
Named colors, each with a job. Each has a body zone, a temperature, a weather analog.
Flat pastel card backgrounds, tagged with moods such as bleed, glamour, glitch and ritual, set the tone before any type appears.
Color combinations the design world tells you to avoid. Heart Code says: that friction IS the signal.
Pixelify Sans · VT323 · Silkscreen · Press Start 2P · Upheaval TT · Alagard · KiwiSoda · Pixellari · rainyhearts · VCR OSD Mono · Space Mono. Mix per letter.
Frames set temperature even when empty.
Controlled degradation states — for when the system should LOOK like it’s breaking.
Heart Code is where my design sensibility and my engineering actually merge. I design the engine that builds the thing, so that updates to the system mean a Python or Node script runs once and 40 spreads update consistently. The vocabulary is mine. The fonts are picked by hand. The build pipeline lives on this droplet. The output has shipped 25 times in 2025-2026 and counting.
Iterated through 7 versions of the build pipeline — from raw signal JSON through layout composition to printable PDF via LibreOffice headless on the droplet. Decks built programmatically, no hand-pushing-pixels for the 40th spread.
Latest: v25. Available on request.
The per-letter ransom on every title. The color palette. The font mixing. The never-minimalism.
Hobonichi weekly planner cards, 6-state stickers, weather-coded spreads.
CINDER’s color generator names new colors in Heart Code voice and writes them to her lexicon.
25+ build iterations. Each a PDF. Each a snapshot of the system at that moment.
Every Heart Code color name points to a real state. VOLTAGE at intensity 4 IS a specific somatic state. SLICKVEIL IS what being stuck feels like. The system lets me log, display, and eventually RETURN TO states through the pattern of colors alone.