# Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.

## Unreleased

### Changed

- Replaced the fixed warm-ivory default with adaptive Neutral White, Cool Gray, or Pale Beige substrates selected from image and ink contrast; contemporary editorial is now the default and vintage aging is opt-in.
- Controlled two-ink is now the default: one dominant plate carries 70%-85% and one assigned accent plate carries 15%-30%; explicit one-ink requests remain pure one-ink.
- Replaced rigid relaxed-mode budgets with an uneven-energy system: one audacious focal event plus one broad release zone.
- Removed fixed relaxed headline-size, empty-paper, high-energy-device, and unresolved-edge requirements.
- Theme-only people now resolve into 2-4 identifying fragments and reject the safe headline-left/complete-photo-right split.
- Updated summer movement regressions to require a thumbnail-readable focal event instead of uniformly restrained styling.
- Added deterministic relaxed, balanced, and assertive visual-tension profiles with explicit focal-event, release-zone, and subject-behavior rules.
- Theme-only people now default to ordinary in-between gestures and partial editorial crops instead of polished advertising hero poses.
- Added one deterministic unresolved-edge behavior per recipe so relaxed compositions can remain intentionally open without becoming random or illegible.
- Added `design-system/rhythm.json`, validation coverage, and relaxed movement regression assertions.
- Replaced the previous twelve-image visual reference set and its derived boards with twelve original generated examples.
- Restored the five-board design-system presentation with the approved typography, color, layout, and style reference-analysis boards.
- Renamed the four focused board assets to fresh paths so GitHub renders the corrected images instead of stale cached versions.
- Replaced all four focused boards with the approved high-resolution System 01-04 exports and fresh `v2` asset paths.
- Added an abstract-looseness path for supplied photos: requests for less realism now extract 2-4 identity anchors into deterministic masses, contours, rhythms, paper cutouts, and bounded print imperfections instead of applying a photographic duotone filter.
- Added deterministic controlled chance: each recipe selects 2-3 bounded print imperfections with a stable seed while preserving composition and readability.
- Added a machine-readable imperfection catalog for bounded print effects.
- Added a generated 1800×3000 PNG reference board that presents all design-system catalogs as one visual index.
- Added a machine-readable visual design system for colors, typography roles, composition geometry, and physical carriers, with cross-reference validation in CI.
- Invented headlines, labels, and microcopy now default to English while exact user-supplied wording stays in its original language.
- Summer, movement, travel, leisure, music, and night subjects now default to a romantic, free-spirited tone grounded in physical relationships and open space.
- Added a summer-cycling regression case for English copy and freer romantic direction.
- Romantic prompts now use a specific observable relationship instead of generic atmospheric props.
- Added a rooftop-party regression case for romantic one-ink event posters.

## 1.2.0 - 2026-08-22

### Added

- A recipe manifest that resolves inputs before prompt compilation.
- Deterministic defaults for ratio, paper, empty space, palette aliases, image treatment, typography, and layout selection.
- Ten structured evaluation cases with positive and negative assertions.
- An evaluation schema, local validator, and GitHub Actions workflow.

### Changed

- Layout selection now uses first-match priority instead of ambiguous branches.
- Consecutive outputs no longer change layout solely for novelty.
- Unrequested display copy is no longer invented by default.

## 1.1.0

- Added controlled two-ink modes, palette recipes, layout families, and expanded usage examples.