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Native Android client for a Pinakes library instance. A member browses the catalog, checks availability, borrows/reserves books, reads ebooks and listens to audiobooks, and manages their loans, wishlist and profile. The app SERVES the task: find a book, see if it's free, borrow it. The UI must disappear into that task.
Library members on their own phone, mostly in daylight or normal indoor light, in a calm "browsing / reading" mood. Not power users; not a dark-room tool.
Pinakes. Default accent: magenta #D70161 (the palm logo); other library themes supply their own accent. Tone:
quiet, precise, trustworthy, a little warm. Think a good reading app, not a
flashy consumer social app.
- Minimal, not decorated. Content (book covers, titles, availability) is the hero. Chrome recedes.
- One accent per library theme. It marks primary actions, current selection, key status. Everything else is a clean neutral. No second brand hue, no indigo/violet, no rainbow chips.
- Readable first. Real contrast on every label and field. Never colour-on- near-colour.
- Light by default. A member checking a book in daylight wants a calm white surface. Dark is available, not assumed.
- Decorative gradients on buttons, text or cards. The subtle 2026 hero wash and the book spine/gloss are the deliberate exceptions.
- Purple/indigo selection states. The "random colours" look. Banned.
- Heavy brown surfaces. The 2026 warm off-white neutrals stay light and quiet.
- Decorated circular logo badges, ringed avatars, heavy cards everywhere.
- "AI slop": a washed-out gradient panel with light text on a light field.