Theme release readiness

Promotion evidence for Monospace and remaining gates for Material.

This is the versioned readiness record for the themes tracked in flowershow/flowershow#1367, a focused child of the themes successor epic. Passing repository checks does not promote a theme. A maintainer must review the remaining visual and product decisions, and a human explicitly authorizes promotion and any release tag.

Current result

Material: remain Preview. Monospace: Official. Both have a solid technical and documentation foundation plus a responsive/light-dark review record for every currently rendered surface. Rufus approved the final Monospace name and promotion on 2026-08-21. Search is still unavailable on the demo sites and is tracked transparently in flowershow/flowershow#1370 as a non-blocking visual-review follow-up.

Status meanings:

  • Verified — backed by a linked artifact or a repeatable repository check.
  • Pending — needs a recorded visual, product, integration, or release decision; absence is not treated as a pass.
  • Not applicable — reviewed and deliberately excluded with a reason.

Material

Verified evidence

  • Human fidelity: Rufus reviewed the live preview on 2026-08-21 and said it looked okay; the decision is recorded in docs/features.yaml as reviewed-close.
  • Repository contract: material-draft/theme.css and preview.png exist; required tokens, brace balance, dark-mode declarations, and the preview asset pass scripts/verify.sh.
  • Live surfaces: the demo and landing page pass HTTP/content smoke checks.
  • Theme source method: theme.css values were measured from the rendered Material for MkDocs site and independently authored here. The inspiration is MIT-licensed.
  • Fonts: the theme imports Roboto and Roboto Mono; the upstream Roboto license is Apache-2.0.
  • Hero illustration: the landing fixture uses an original gradient placeholder rather than redistributing the reference site's parallax art.
  • Known gaps: tabbed content, previous/next pagination, and a version selector remain documented core/out-of-scope differences.
  • Owned landing fixture: the published page uses Flowershow-authored copy, CSS geometry, specimen cards and claims. It names Material for MkDocs only as open-source inspiration, links upstream, and retains the required notice. The landing-fixture provenance audit records the removed badge, SVGs, testimonials and third-party name tiles.

Completed review gates

  • Desktop and mobile visual review is explicitly recorded.
  • Light and dark visual review is explicitly recorded.
  • Home, kitchen sink, blog listing/post, navbar, sidebar, and landing surfaces are explicitly recorded as visually reviewed in the visual review matrix.
  • Landing-fixture copy, trademark presentation, SVG/icon provenance, and representations use the recorded Flowershow-owned specimen disposition.

Pending gates

  • Search is explicitly visually reviewed once the preview site has the Flowershow Search feature entitlement and renders the search control.
  • Final public name and directory name are approved.
  • Canonical Flowershow gallery and dashboard changes are prepared.
  • Release metadata, purge coverage, version, and changelog are prepared.
  • A human explicitly authorizes promotion and the release tag.

Recommendation: remain Preview. The landing provenance action and current responsive/mode matrix are complete. Search enablement, naming, integration, release preparation and explicit human authorization remain outstanding.

Monospace

Verified evidence

  • Human decision: Rufus reviewed the finished Monospace homepage on 2026-08-21, said it was good to advance beyond Preview, and approved the public name Monospace with the bare config value monospace.
  • Repository contract: monospace/theme.css and preview.png exist; required tokens, brace balance, dark-mode declarations, and the preview asset pass scripts/verify.sh.
  • Live surfaces: the demo and canonical showcase, kitchen sink, blog list, post, and /landing compatibility path pass HTTP/content smoke checks.
  • Theme source method: the reference is a proprietary service, so values were measured from the public rendered site and theme.css was independently authored; no proprietary source code is included in the stylesheet.
  • Fonts: commercial Berkeley Mono is not redistributed. The theme substitutes IBM Plex Mono, whose upstream project uses the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
  • Hero illustration: the 3D reference art is replaced by an original CSS-authored node/orbit composition and soft geometric field.
  • Owned landing fixture: the theme-local Flowershow showcase template plus demo-showcase.json supplies a restrained, real-content homepage with theme-owned, scoped presentation CSS. It contains no copied service identity, commercial claims, pricing, contacts, upstream navigation or unresolved SVG.
  • Known gaps: the reference's bracketed page-copy navigation and bespoke 3D/diagram content remain explicitly outside the CSS theme.
  • Fixture provenance audit: no public content-reuse license was found for the earlier copied landing material, so it was replaced rather than merely attributed. The landing-fixture provenance audit records the executed disposition.

Completed review gates

  • Desktop and mobile visual review is explicitly recorded.
  • Light and dark visual review is explicitly recorded.
  • Home, kitchen sink, blog listing/post, navbar, sidebar, and landing surfaces are explicitly recorded as visually reviewed in the visual review matrix.
  • Landing-fixture identity, copy, claims, contacts, upstream links, and unresolved SVG use the recorded Flowershow-owned specimen disposition.

Completed promotion gates

  • Final public name and directory name are approved as Monospace / monospace.
  • Themes gallery, canonical Flowershow gallery, and dashboard integration are prepared.
  • Rufus explicitly authorized promotion on 2026-08-21.

Non-blocking follow-ups

  • Search is visually reviewed after entitlement is enabled in flowershow/flowershow#1370.
  • A versioned release tag and changelog are separately approved.

Recommendation: Official. The font, hero-art and landing-content substitutions are approved, the stable identity is Monospace, and the bare configuration value is monospace. This promotion does not create a version tag; Search review continues separately because entitlement is unavailable.

Promotion boundary

Material still requires a separate promotion decision. Monospace was explicitly approved and promoted without creating a version tag. Future tags remain a separate release action under the maintainer checklist.

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