change: redesign logo as tunnel + keyhole #219

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Problem

The single-story "a" mark reads as a heavy blob at icon sizes, worst in monochrome tray/panel renderings where the small keyhole counter is its only detail. Flattening to one ink (mono icon themes) made this unmissable.

Fix

New mark: a tunnel mouth — the VPN tunnel, double-hop being the app's signature feature — with the keyhole standing inside it, kept as the continuity element from the old mark. Single flat accent-strong (#9a84d9) instead of two-tone: the mark must read by silhouette alone since icon themes recolor it to one ink, and at ≤44px the accent/accent-strong pair is too close to read as intentional two-tone. Both state variants keep their #104 rationale (green check badge for shape-not-just-hue difference; neutral grey for off).

Verification

Rasterized all three SVGs at 128px and 22px (rsvg-convert) plus a mono recolor at the KDE scheme-ink stage: keyhole silhouette, badge check, and off-state all stay legible at 22px tray size. Geometry was picked in a live preview harness rendering at 64/44/22 against real monochrome-theme neighbor icons.

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## Problem The single-story "a" mark reads as a heavy blob at icon sizes, worst in monochrome tray/panel renderings where the small keyhole counter is its only detail. Flattening to one ink (mono icon themes) made this unmissable. ## Fix New mark: a tunnel mouth — the VPN tunnel, double-hop being the app's signature feature — with the keyhole standing inside it, kept as the continuity element from the old mark. Single flat accent-strong (#9a84d9) instead of two-tone: the mark must read by silhouette alone since icon themes recolor it to one ink, and at ≤44px the accent/accent-strong pair is too close to read as intentional two-tone. Both state variants keep their #104 rationale (green check badge for shape-not-just-hue difference; neutral grey for off). ## Verification Rasterized all three SVGs at 128px and 22px (rsvg-convert) plus a mono recolor at the KDE scheme-ink stage: keyhole silhouette, badge check, and off-state all stay legible at 22px tray size. Geometry was picked in a live preview harness rendering at 64/44/22 against real monochrome-theme neighbor icons. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

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The old single-story "a" read as a heavy blob next to other icons,
worst in monochrome tray/panel renderings where its small keyhole
counter was the only detail. New mark: a tunnel mouth (the VPN tunnel,
double-hop being the signature feature) with the keyhole standing
inside it — keyhole kept as the continuity element from the old mark.

Single flat accent-strong instead of the old two-tone: the mark has to
read by silhouette alone since icon themes recolor it to one ink, and
at 44px and below the accent/accent-strong pair is too close to read
as intentional two-tone. Geometry was chosen against live renders at
64/44/22px; the state variants keep their #104 rationale (badge for
shape-not-just-hue difference, neutral grey for off).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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