Idler · Generative system

One grammar,
every mark.

The logo is a solved cube: three solid forms, one per axis. Every other mark is the same cube, turned, and the beads only surface when it moves.

Iso-mark
Seed
solved

Seeds

8

Same state, three reads

Net: six faces unrolled
Strip: one face, 3×3

Alphabet: form is the axis, phase is the sign, colour is the state

The design system

State colour

Neutrals

01 · the paper wall09 · the archive ground

Typography

Spacing scale

Grounds

Operators

The six face turns, U D L R F B, each a quarter, half, or three-quarter turn. Prime reverses: R then R' is a no-op.

That's the entire vocabulary. Any word of any length lands on a reachable, solvable state. You cannot spell an impossible cube.

Invariants

Every cell stays full. Occupancy is total, no gaps.

Shape and colour are welded to the sticker. A turn moves them together; nothing is ever recoloured or reshaped in place.

Every state is the logo plus a word, and minus that word returns to it. Reversibility is the license: if it can't solve, it isn't a mark.

Outputs

One frozen state, read four ways. Iso-mark for the logo, net for a surface, strip for a favicon, motion for the word itself.

Because colour is never assigned, a generated mark is also a status display: map the five states to live tasks and the logo renders your dashboard.

Idler, the Rubik’s device 3 forms × 2 phases · 5 states · 1 group