The network
gets a look.

Today it reads as a debug overlay.

On air now (lbl/out/hold_preview.png). The text is Consolas monospace in flat black boxes, the beat line is cut off mid-word ("gonna wal"), and a red chat box sits on top of the shot.

The same information, redesigned. Clock, programme bug with tally, scene title and caption, and a live chat vote. Every line fits by rule, so nothing gets cut off.

Three looks, one frame.

All three follow the notes you've already given: sans display type only, no rectangular cards, no flat dark washes. They differ in where the energy lives. Each one is shown on the brightest daylight frame we've aired, because that's where a graphics system usually breaks.

A · Glasshouse — recommendedbuilt in full below

Frosted pills with an iridescent rim, tinted rose-plum (never black), ultra-light type with an italic rose accent. This is the Aura lineage, so it matches On Air and the app. Buys: readability on any frame, and a premium dating-TV feel. Costs: the real backdrop blur needs a crop→boxblur→overlay pass per plate, so there's a no-blur plate that looks right with a plain overlay (shown on the left).

B · Neon Villa

Type as the villa's own signage: pink neon tubes with teal secondaries and no containers at all. Buys: the most "in the world" option, and it's great at night and in After Hours. Costs: it gets lost in blazing midday sun (see the vote), and neon glow is a nightclub cliché if it's used everywhere. I'd keep this as the After Hours variant, not the network default.

C · Sun Print

Huge ultra-light scene titles sitting in a warm pool of light: editorial, like a magazine cover. Buys: the boldest title moment, and the picture does most of the work. Costs: the light pool tints a corner of every frame, the 58 px titles cover faces in close-ups, and the small text has nothing behind it. Best used only for the first 4 seconds of a new scene.

Six elements, and they hold back.

One rule governs all six: boldness is spent in one place per frame. The clock and bug stay quiet the whole time. The lower third gets the pink kicker. The vote gets teal only for the leader.

Replay honesty. A replayed or recap segment can never show the red LIVE tally. The bug switches to a hollow sky ring reading "Earlier · 7:42 am" and the kicker says Earlier. This is the visual half of Coda's "never copy replays marked live".

Willa on the villa speaker. A gold equaliser marks her voice, which is the only use of gold on air. It appears only while her line plays, top-left, away from the lower third.

Name super. An iridescent dot, the name, and a four-word italic aside. It's placed beside the person, never across a face. The aside comes from the director's beat, not invented lore.

Chat decides. Capsules fill with light, and only the leader turns teal. The vote shows real counts only. With zero votes it says "No votes yet · type !vote in chat" and fills nothing (the empty-state plate ships). The numbers in these samples are illustrative.

The picture stays bright.

Full-frame cards never go to black. The aired frame drifts 6%, soft-light pink and teal glows sit over it, bokeh floats up, and a low plum pool behind the type keeps it readable. Motion rules: rise and un-blur over 520 ms, 110 ms stagger, the flourish wipes left to right, and nothing bounces or spins.

Thirty-four seconds, in on the joke.

Canon says absurdity belongs to the network (lbl/production-contract.mjs) and that Vulture Max is the drink "used in in-world adverts" (lbl/canon-contract.mjs). The break is framed as fiction on screen, and the villa is always one line of text away.

Vulture Max end card. The can is generated art (Nano Banana Pro, referenced from the aired Tea-ki Bar frame, segment 4836, one image). The can design is a proposal: canon names the drink but has never drawn the can. It carries the "A fictional advertisement" tag the whole time the ad is on screen.

The system, in numbers.

Type

Instrument Sans (OFL, variable + italic), shipped in lbl/broadcast/fonts with static 300/400/500/600 instances for ffmpeg drawtext. Display: 200 weight at −4.5% tracking. Labels: 600 weight, 11 px, +22% tracking, uppercase.

Title-safe

64 px left/right, 40 px top/bottom at 1280×720. Chips are 42 px tall and the lower-third pill is 56 px.

Text limits

Scene title ≤ 34 characters. Caption line ≤ 70 characters, cut at a word boundary with an ellipsis, never mid-word. Vote question ≤ 28 characters. At most 3 vote options. Name aside ≤ 4 words.

On-screen budget

At most 3 on-air elements at once. The vote and Willa never appear together. The vote shows for ≤ 12 s at a time and prefers hold shots, because it covers the right third of the frame.

Motion

In: 520 ms cubic-bezier(.2,.7,.1,1), translateY 22→0, blur 10→0, 110 ms stagger. Out: 360 ms fade. Flourish: 760 ms scaleX. Full-frame: 300 ms fade in, 320 ms fade out.

How it gets to air.

This is a design-and-assets delivery. It does not change the runtime and does not touch lbl/playout.mjs. The publisher's lineage belongs to Coda, and the network runner is Roadie's HQ task c73c2942. Everything below is what they consume.

• Source of truth: lbl/broadcast/src/package.html on branch maestro/lbl-broadcast-package (fermata-agents). One page renders one graphic from ?g=&t=&d=.
• Dynamic plates, the recommended path: render a transparent PNG whenever state changes, e.g. node lbl/broadcast/render.mjs still l3 glass none out/l3.png '{"kicker":"Confessional","title":"…","line":"…"}', then overlay=0:0. That keeps the typography exact, which drawtext can't match (no pill rims, no iridescence).
• No-blur plates: add noblur=1 for the plain-overlay path. The true backdrop blur is an optional per-plate crop,boxblur=24,overlay pass.
• Full-frame pieces: H.264 1280×720 at 24 fps, yuv420p, silent. Each must go through the publisher's own segment pre-encode (same params, -output_ts_offset) before admission. It is never fed raw.
• Overlay motion: overlay-lower-third / -vote / -willa .mov are qtrle ARGB with alpha, for when an animated entrance is wanted instead of a cut-in.
• Data rules that are design rules: the vote renders counts from state.votes only. The tally is LIVE only when the segment is fresh, and anything from library/ replays gets replay. Coming-up times come from network.slots[].startsAt. The ad tag appears only for a slot whose show has a valid clearance (the panel's ClearanceBadge logic).

lbl/broadcast/
  src/package.html     every graphic, 3 treatments, motion timeline (window.__seek)
  render.mjs           still | motion | batch  (Playwright → PNG / qtrle .mov / H.264 .mp4)
  fonts/               Instrument Sans variable + italic + static 300–600, OFL licences
  frames/              aired stills used as backgrounds + vmax.jpg (generated)
  png/                 transparent plates: bug-live, replay-set, clock, lower-third, vote, vote-empty,
                       willa, name-super, adtag (+ -noblur variants), _demo composites
renders (not in git, 18 MB): C:\Users\H7\outputs\maestro-broadcast-20260917\motion\
  ident-{love-bird-live,after-hours,public-has-notes,dreams}.mp4  5 s
  bumper-out.mp4 · bumper-in.mp4 · adbreak-in.mp4                 3 s
  coming-up.mp4 8 s · waking.mp4 6 s · ad-vulture-max-endcard.mp4 6 s
  overlay-{lower-third,vote,willa}.{mov,mp4}                      6 s alpha

When things go wrong on air.

• No votes: the capsules stay empty, with no percentages and no invented leader. The footer invites !vote. If chat stays silent for 10 minutes, the vote comes off air instead of sitting there dead.
• Long beat text: it's cut at a word boundary with an ellipsis, and the title never wraps. If the director's title is over 34 characters, the plate shows the kicker plus the caption only.
• Starved supply / hold shot: the hold keeps the clock and bug, and the lower third fades after 6 s. No "we'll be right back" card, per your note that nothing should sit between clips.
• Encoder recycle / reset: the "waking up" card plays (the real villa clock is in the kicker). The director's brain slate never airs again.
• Ad not cleared: the break doesn't happen, and no bumper plays without an ad behind it. A bumper-out with nothing after it is the worst dead air we could make.
• Network name unresolved: the package never prints a network name. The heart-wings mark stands in until canon settles Plume vs Birdsong.

Four decisions, with my pick.

The honest section.

The name super is the weakest element. The director doesn't reliably say who is on screen, and a wrong name on air is worse than none, so I'd hold it back until the cast-now receipts are trustworthy. The Dreams ident uses a villa sunset, not a dream, which is wrong for its programme until a rendered dream frame exists. Treatment C should stay a one-scene experiment, not a system.