C1 — three ribbons, developed

C1 had the most robust silhouette of the seven and the least ownership: three bookmark ribbons is a shape any read-later app could reach for. Ownability is the thing to attack, so each variant below adds one specific idea — a rhythm, a structure, a colour rule — and the caption says whether it actually buys anything.

01

Ten developments

Shown in the app's own palette (navy / vermilion / yellow from Paper.swatchPairs) rather than the reference cyan-violet, since that was the conclusion of the last sheet. The ownable? line is the honest verdict, not a summary.

02

Palette

The three-swatch column is the interesting one. The app already hashes bookmarks into a twelve-swatch palette — a mark built from three of those swatches is describing the app's actual data model, which is ownership no competitor can copy without copying the system underneath it.

03

Size ladder

128 / 64 / 40 / 24 / 16 px. C1's whole argument is that it survives this; the developments have to survive it too or they've bought ownership with legibility.

04

App icon

Squircle at 118 and 58 px, mark at ~62% of the tile.

05

Lockups

06

Pattern

The test C1 is most likely to win: a repeating field is where a simple silhouette beats a clever one.