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Tides · Craft · 5 min

Porcelain when the room is bright

Ice is the default. Porcelain is for daylight desks. Both keep the same face.

Kohei Marsh

Kohei Marsh

Harbor engineer · Jul 14, 2026

Dark stages photograph like products. Light rooms are where some people actually work. Aoi ships both: Ice and Porcelain.

Same HUD, different air

Porcelain is not a cream paper and not a marble temple. It is cool white, still cyan, still sharp. The character illustrations stay. The harbor does not become a lifestyle magazine.

If you invert a dark UI and call it light, you get a bruise. We retuned the ice, not the metaphor.

Motion stays small

The ticker drifts. The rest of the house does not bounce. If the room asks for reduced motion, the drift stops. The face does not need to perform.

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