CH-01 / LIVE
Signal Lost
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// The Machine
Five Signal Faults
Scanlines
A crawling line overlay, always on — the CRT's fingerprint.
SPLIT
Channel Split
Red and cyan pull apart from white — the signal misaligned.
JUMP
Frame Jump
Mostly still, then a stepped jitter — bad tracking.
TEAR
VHS Tear
A horizontal band clips and shifts — tape damage.
Flicker
Phosphor instability pulsing the brightness.
Test Card
Under reduced-motion everything rests here — a clean SMPTE card.
// Signal Colors
Three Primaries
#0B0B0E
CRT Black
#101014
Panel
#FF2E4C
Glitch Red
#00E5D8
CRT Cyan
#F5E000
Test Yellow
// Voice
Monospace Signal
Aa 01
Display / split
Signal Lost
Mono / body 0123456789
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// Controls
Signal Buttons
// Assemblies
CRT Panels
CH-02 / LIVE
Now Tuning
Locking onto the carrier. Hold the vertical.
CH-03 / LIVE
Test Pattern
Bars and tone. Adjust your set until it hurts.
// Input
Transmit
// Switchboard
Fault Vocabulary
Scanlines. A repeating-linear-gradient overlay translateY with steps(3) — the ever-present CRT texture.
// Levels
Signal Strength
LiveTunedTestOff Air
Carrier78%
Sync62%
Tracking41%
// Notices
Broadcast Alerts
Info
Carrier locked. Vertical hold nominal.
Success
Color bars aligned to SMPTE spec.
Warning
Tracking drift detected on CH-03.
Error
Sunset gradient found. This is not synthwave.
// Standby
The Test Card
SMPTE / 1080
The defect is the design. A clean signal has nothing to say.
// Discipline
Do & Don't
Do
- +CRT black + always-on scanlines
- +Only glitch red / CRT cyan / test yellow
- +Split titles, keep body single-color
- +Glitch as occasional stepped jumps
- +SMPTE bars as signature decor
Don't
- ×No synthwave sunset gradient
- ×No rounded corners or soft glow
- ×No fourth hue or pastels
- ×No screen-wide seizure jitter
- ×No splitting the body text