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PMM — PointCast Mobile Messaging

READY.

1. The idea

Two machines that liked you. The Atari 2600 said press start and gave you a rainbow. The Commodore 64 said READY. and waited. PMM is a messenger with that manner: it waits for you, it says very little, and when it does the words are in uppercase and the stripes are on.

The brand is not a costume on a modern app. The dark blue screen is the chat. The stripes are the only accent. The prompts are the UI copy. If a screen needs more than that, it is probably wrong.

2. Color tokens

--border#7869C4 · C64 light blue · page, border, status bar

--field#40318D · C64 dark blue · the screen, every pane

--field-2#352577 · inputs, their bubbles, sigil tiles

--ink#F2F0FF · text, key borders, drop shadows

--ink-2#BDB4F0 · labels, hints, timestamps

--r1#E8453C · Fuji red · errors, record, danger

--r2#F28C28 · Fuji orange

--r3#F5D142 · Fuji yellow · links, codes, the ticker

--r4#58B947 · Fuji green · online, signed, good

--r5#2F86D8 · Fuji blue · the calm mood

--r6#7E57B5 · Fuji purple · the soft mood

The six stripes always run red to purple, top to bottom or left to right. One stripe set per screen. Never as a background.

3. Type

No webfont. The system monospace is the bitmap font now: ui-monospace, "SF Mono", Menlo, Consolas. Chrome, prompts, labels and buttons are UPPERCASE with letter-spacing: .08em. What people write to each other stays in their own case. Body copy is 16px so phones never zoom the input.

4. Keys

Buttons are keys: a two-pixel border, a three-pixel hard shadow, and they press down two pixels when tapped.

LOAD "FRIEND",8,1RUNJOIN WITH CODECLEAR ALL

5. Sigils

Every person is a keypair minted on their phone. The first four bytes of the public key hash pick four PETSCII-style glyphs from a set of sixteen. The sigil is the avatar, the ID, and the trust check: read it aloud to each other, then tap VERIFY.

▌▓●◆▀▄█░▖▗▘▝▚▞▒▐

Glyph set: ▌ ▐ ▀ ▄ █ ▖ ▗ ▘ ▝ ▚ ▞ ░ ▒ ▓ ● ◆

6. Bubbles

Mine: a dark panel with the stripes down the left edge.

Theirs: the field-2 panel with a light blue border.

Under each bubble, a meta line in 10px uppercase: time, mood, and one of ✓ sent, ✓✓ read, SIGNED, UNVERIFIED.

7. Voice

Moment	Say	Never say
Idle	`READY.`	Welcome back!
Start a connection	`LOAD "FRIEND",8,1` · `PRESS PLAY ON TAPE`	Invite a contact
Waiting	`SEARCHING FOR FRIEND`	Connecting…
Connected	`FOUND` · `LOADING` · `RUN`	You're all set
Something failed	`?DEVICE NOT PRESENT ERROR` · `?FILE NOT FOUND ERROR` · `?SYNTAX ERROR`	Oops, something went wrong
Leaving	`ESC` · `LINE DROPPED`	Are you sure you want to leave?
Signature	`MADE IN EL SEGUNDO. — MIKE`	© 2026 all rights reserved

Short. Dry. A machine that likes you. Errors start with a question mark, as the C64 did, and the next line says what to do.

8. Sound and motion

Two square-wave notes: up for send (440 then 660 Hz), down for receive. Off until the first tap, toggle in SET. Motion is stepped, not eased: three frames for a bubble, four for a sheet. Cursors blink at 1 Hz. Reduced-motion turns all of it off.

9. Do and don't

Do keep the screen dark blue and the border light blue. That pair is the brand.
Do use the rainbow once per screen, as a stripe, never as a wash.
Do write errors as the machine would, then say the fix.
Don't add a bitmap webfont. The system monospace is the point.
Don't round corners. Nothing here is rounded.
Don't put a logo on it. The wordmark is the letters and the stripes.
Don't say Atari or Commodore in the product. People should name them unprompted.

10. Files

wordmark.svg · icon.svg · card.svg
Tokens live at the top of /pmm/style.css.
Product brief: docs/prd/pointcast-mobile-messaging.md in the PointCast repo.

OPEN PMM

MADE IN EL SEGUNDO, OCTOBER 2026. — MIKE