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+# Where the artwork came from
+
+A binary is the one thing a diff cannot show you, so its provenance is written down instead.
+
+## `icon.png` — 512×512, RGB, no alpha
+
+Derived from the site's own wordmark:
+
+```
+https://newweb.fofosfluffybastards.com/fofos-logo-black.webp
+```
+
+300×300, and **transparent** — black artwork on nothing. That is the whole reason this file exists
+rather than the webp being committed as-is: a black mark on transparency disappears against Officer's
+dark theme, which is where the dock is.
+
+So it is flattened onto **opaque white** and shipped that way. The white is part of the icon, not a
+background the theme supplies, and it is white everywhere the icon is drawn — the dock tile, the
+marketplace grid, the plugin's own header.
+
+The steps, if it ever needs regenerating from a new wordmark:
+
+1. `trim` the transparent margin — the source has the artwork sitting inside a square, so padding the
+   FILE rather than the artwork centres the wrong thing.
+2. `resize` to 86% of 512, `fit: inside`. A wordmark with strokes this fine wants less air than a glyph
+   would; more padding and the lower line stops being readable at dock size.
+3. Composite centred on white, `flatten`, `removeAlpha`.
+
+`sharp` does all four. It is already in `plugins/node_modules` because av-club declares it.
+
+## No `tile` in the manifest
+
+Shipping `assets/icon.png` defaults the dock tile to `bare` — no coloured frame, the artwork fills the
+tile. That is correct here and is why the manifest says nothing about it. `color` still matters: it is
+the active glow and the tint in the plugins list, neither of which this file covers.
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  */
 export const manifest: PluginManifest = {
   publisher: 'officerdev',
-  version: '2026.08.28.01',
+  version: '2026.08.29.01',
   platform: '>=1.0.0',
 
   label: 'Fofos',