Wordmark-led, as ordered. Each direction is drawn natively at 16px and enlarged from that drawing - never squished. Shown at 64 / 32 / 16, then in the three places it has to survive: nav, button, favicon. Jake rules by digit. My call is marked.
A green right-chevron meets a yellow left-chevron. Transmit and receive in one glyph - the mark is the function (axiom 6). It is the wordmark's own seam, pulled out: tx»«rx collapses to »«. Most legible at 16px of the three, and it owns the seam flip motion signature for free.
Two roads cross, one passes over - the stacked under-crossing from the 10:53 round, mitered. Green road rides over, yellow road dives under. It is the most pictorial of the three: the interchange hero in one cell. Risk at 16px: the grade-separation gap reads as a broken line before it reads as a bridge.
TX arrow over RX arrow, squared shafts - the universal serial-pin diagram. Instantly reads as both directions to any engineer who has wired a cable. Risk: it is the generic tx/rx glyph every UART diagram uses - least ownable of the three, and it needs two rows, so it spends vertical space the square cell doesn't have.
Two layers, no conflict. Direction stays law: packets are green out, yellow home, everywhere, always. The new layer is road paint: each protocol gets one identity color for its signage, lane edge, badge and map line. Green and yellow are excluded from identity - they already mean direction. A future road wears its paint dashed until it opens.
| road | paint | carries | reads as | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRT | #4d9FFF | contribution over the open internet | cold blue - long-haul first mile | live |
| NDI | #FF9F2E | studio production over LAN | sodium orange - the studio lamp | live |
| DANTE | #FF453A | audio networking | signal red - on-air light | live |
| AES67 | #2DD4BF | open audio-over-IP | teal - the open standard | live |
| ST 2110 | #B78CFF | broadcast facility fabric | violet - the master control room | live |
| MESH | #3DDCF0 | peer mesh at the edge | cyan - node light | live |
| REALTIME | #F7F5F0 | the sub-second lane | plain ink - the fastest road needs no paint | live |
| MOQ | #FF5CF0 | media over QUIC | magenta, dashed - surveyed, not yet paved | future road |
Jake 3:08: the protocol colors must show because txrx is also gateway, router, transfuser across every protocol at once. So the system gains its second law: when a packet crosses roads, it changes paint. Blue in, orange out - the translation is visible. Direction law is untouched: green and yellow still mean transmit and receive at the brand seam; road paint never means direction, and direction colors never name a road.
| translation | what it means | field proof |
|---|---|---|
| SRT → NDI | a feed arrives over the open internet and lands on the studio floor | NDI↔SRT bridges ship today (Ross softGear, ndi2srt, TVGI) |
| DANTE ↔ AES67 | two audio rooms that speak different dialects share a language | Audinate documents Dante/AES67/ST2110 interop |
| REALTIME → SRT | the live call becomes the broadcast contribution feed | WebRTC-to-SRT gateways are standard CDN practice |
| any road → MOQ | the future road gets paved from the ones already open - the gateway makes MoQ reachable before anyone replatforms | today's read: Janus gateways MoQ instead of migrating |