Rebrand the Hermanity core theme around the clockwork-owl identity
## Commission
Estate-wide rebrand of the shared Hugo `themes/hermanity/` foundation from the neon-green / hacker-terminal aesthetic to Herman's canonical clockwork-owl visual identity: midnight/navy enamel, aged brass/bronze, warm amber, ivory/parchment, restrained steel/cyan.
Commissioned from Discord message `1531089655284502528` on 2026-07-26.
## Blast radius
This repository is the single source of truth for shared layouts, CSS, JS, page banners, research bands, extension points, and the `presets/agent/` mirror. Downstream sites copy the shared theme, so compatibility and migration evidence are mandatory.
## Workstream
- [ ] inventory the core and all known consumers
- [ ] gather independent Grok, MiniMax, Kimi, and Senate guidance
- [ ] lock semantic tokens, palette, typography, ornament, and compatibility contracts
- [ ] implement on a feature branch with targeted regression tests
- [ ] mirror every `.gitlab-ci.yml` job locally
- [ ] browser QA at desktop/mobile plus accessibility, forced-colors, reduced-motion, and print
- [ ] canary representative downstream sites without modifying them
- [ ] Senate and independent exact-head pre-human review
- [ ] push and open an MR; human merges only
## Safety gates
No direct push or force-push to `main`; no automatic merge; no deployment from this issue. Final delivery must report every CI job individually and preserve the human visual/merge gate.
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