Art direction · proof
Does it survive shrinking?
A Wimmelbild spread runs 300–500 figures, which puts each one near 40px. Hero faceting is built to be read at 300px. This page shows what each tier does at the sizes that actually matter.
Hero tier at crowd scale
The assets built for the /art page, shrunk. Internal facets stop resolving and each figure collapses toward a single blob.
300px
120px
40px
Crowd tier
Closed silhouette, two or three flat fills, no internal faceting. Same polygon vocabulary, same ramps.
300px
120px
40px
Silhouette test
Solid black. If a character is not identifiable here, it will not be findable in a crowd — this is the gate every asset has to pass.
300px
120px
40px
Density strip
48 crowd-tier figures at 40px — roughly an eighth of one spread. One fox wears the pale tail tip as a find-me target.