Seconds CoBrand Book hero options

Three hero directions.
Pick one.

Each link below is the full brand book, v8.5, with that hero applied. Same mark, same copy, same buttons. Only the hero canvas changes. Contrast is measured on the real render at 1440px, not estimated, and the number shown is the worst pixel found anywhere under each text run.

The options
The v8.5 hero card rendered with direction A, Deep field, at 1440px: the two-plate mark, the headline The Seconds Co Brand Book, the subhead, and the Read the book and Get the kit buttons.
Direction AShipped in v8.5

Deep field

Denim to indigo at full saturation, with the tilted orbit ellipses of the dotted-plate canvas mirrored into a symmetric lens and a fine dot matrix held at the edges.

Grounded in assets/art/dotted-plate-1920x1080.svg.

Open direction A
Measured contrast, worst pixel under each run
Headline, #ffffff12.99:1pass
Body copy, #cdd8ea8.49:1pass
Primary button label9.01:1pass
Ghost button label8.64:1pass
The v8.5 hero card rendered with direction B, Aura burst, at 1440px: the two-plate mark, the headline The Seconds Co Brand Book, the subhead, and the Read the book and Get the kit buttons.
Direction B

Aura burst

Near black, with the concentric ring aura radiating out from directly behind the mark so the mark reads as the light source, and two mint tide lines at the base.

Grounded in assets/art/aura-field-1920x1080.svg.

Open direction B
Measured contrast, worst pixel under each run
Headline, #ffffff13.00:1pass
Body copy, #cdd8ea11.16:1pass
Primary button label11.65:1pass
Ghost button label12.15:1pass
The v8.5 hero card rendered with direction C, Indigo pulse, at 1440px: the two-plate mark, the headline The Seconds Co Brand Book, the subhead, and the Read the book and Get the kit buttons.
Direction C

Indigo pulse

The brightest of the three: the indigo ramp of the ring-field canvas with thick mirrored plate outlines and a denser dot matrix. Most saturated, most energy.

Grounded in assets/art/ring-field-1920x1080.svg.

Open direction C
Measured contrast, worst pixel under each run
Headline, #ffffff12.09:1pass
Body copy, #cdd8ea8.32:1pass
Primary button label9.06:1pass
Ghost button label8.35:1pass
How to read the contrast column. WCAG AA wants 4.5:1 for body text. Every direction clears that by a wide margin, so contrast is not the deciding factor here, taste is. The numbers are the worst case, so the typical case is higher still.