The Dithered Ribbon.
The same climb, drawn as pixels instead of pretending to be a smooth gradient it isn't. Three treatments, all generative.
Same climb, drawn as pixels — not dressed up as a smooth gradient it isn't.
Ordered dithering renders the threads of fate the way a screen actually makes them: a field of dots that thickens where the signal is strong and thins into the void where it fades. The image is unchanged — it just stops hiding what it's made of. That honesty is the aesthetic.
It's also one-color-safe. A smooth gradient dies on a screenprinted sticker, a foil stamp, or a single spot of Signal red; a dithered ribbon reproduces perfectly in one ink. So the same true mark carries the favicon, the OG image, the stickers, and the printed card — nothing lost between screen and paper.