Parchment, not hype
One cover layout. Eight Foundation colours. A card that also keeps your place.
The visual system in the packet matches the app instead of inventing a new brand for the shelf. Warm parchment. One layout. Each Foundation gets its own accent from the hex table already in the software. Titles sit in the art. No character photos that will age badly in two years.
With each book I want one die cut card, tall enough to work as a bookmark. Front: the Foundation name, the symbol, the real meaning phrase. Back: Approaching and Crossed, empty circles, so a reader can mark their own status in the language the app already uses. Collect all eight is a cheap demand test. It is not a 104 card Breakthrough Deck.
The full deck, the boxed set, the cream shirts, the posters: those wait. Merch sells commitment, not curiosity. Card Night needs a table, a book, and the card that came with it. That is enough.
Paul can kill any symbol. He can kill the type. He can kill the whole lane. I drew it so he could see it, not so the internet could buy it tomorrow.