MyBazaar Visual System

Vector, in poses-svg/ — 128 KB for the whole set against 1.7 MB of PNG. A rounded teal body, pale belly patch, two dot eyes, two stubby arms, no legs, floating above a translucent shadow. In the storyline the companion is MyBazaar: it assists the merchant, it is never the merchant.

The vocabulary, not the output. Figures are composed from these atoms, never picked from Open Peeps' pre-assembled templates — assembling from parts means the things that get templates rejected (printed text, graphic tees, sunglasses, Rage faces) cannot occur. The selection rule: an atom may contribute only what its category names. A pose gives posture and garment; a body gives a garment. Anything carrying an extra attribute or prop is cut, because you cannot use the pose without also inheriting the attribute. Every head is 473×567 and every face 289×293, so one set of offsets works for any combination.

Faces

6

Six of the library’s thirty. The rest are unusable for a trust brand — Angry with Fang, Rage, Monster, Cyclops, Contempt, Suspicious — or too much for B2B: the heart-eyed grins and the teeth-baring smiles.

Heads

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Hair, and the two head coverings. Bear and both hats are out; so are the mohawks, which fight everything near them.

Standing poses

15

Fifteen of twenty-three. Out: robot_dance-1/2/3 and polka_dots as noise, and blazer-1, blazer-2, shirt-1, shirt-2 because each has a prosthetic leg baked into the pose — you cannot use “standing in a blazer” without also deciding that person has a prosthetic.

Sitting poses

7

Seven of eleven. Out: hands_back-1/2 and mid-1/2, which kneel or crouch on the floor — postures no commerce illustration needs. wheelchair is kept as a deliberate exception: it bakes a device into the pose, but it is the only disability representation the library offers and that is worth the trade.

Bodies — bust only

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Sixteen of thirty. Sweater and Polo and Sweater are speckled. Coffee is kept as a deliberate exception — it holds a mug rather than just a garment, but a cup humanises a testimonial bust and reads as someone mid-conversation. Tee Selena prints a word on the shirt — invented text on a brand asset is a hard fail. Thunder T-Shirt carries a lightning-bolt graphic that reads as someone else’s mark. Polka Dot Jacket, Sweater Dots, Killer, Gaming and Fur Jacket are noise.

What the atoms make. Each is one head + one face + one pose or garment, assembled with the offsets above — nothing is drawn, and nothing comes from a pre-assembled template. Captions name the head and face so any of these can be reproduced or varied.

standing

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sitting

7

bust

9

Four rules, each arrived at by testing the alternative and watching it fail.

1. The companion holds a monopoly on saturated teal. People are ink and pale mint only; no human ever wears pine.70. This is what makes the mascot read as the bright thing in frame rather than one more figure.
2. The companion is 50% of standing adult height (tolerance 45–55%) and never rescales for posture. A seated adult is 74% of standing, so it lands at ~67% of a seated person — a consequence to check, not a second rule. At 60% it goes eye-to-eye with a seated figure and steals the scene; at 40% it reads as an object on the floor.
3. Every figure gets a ground shadow. Open Peeps ships without one and the companion has one, so without this the two look like pasted layers. A soft ellipse: rx = 0.34 × width, #113833 at 0.13 opacity.
4. Compose; never open the whole library. A figure with a beanie and sunglasses and a beard and polka dots fights everything near it.

Objects are icons, not illustrations — resolution-independent, token-driven, never drifting off palette. All 32 objects from the cancelled generation sheets resolve against these two libraries, which is why that approach is retired. Prefer Phosphor fill/duotone: the companion is solid shapes, so a stroke icon beside it reads as a different system.

Marks that sit around content rather than being it. The four-point sparkle is ours — the only accent we own — traced from our own generated art. It began life baked into the jump pose and was lifted out so it can mark any moment: a first sale, a completed step, a success toast. Do not draw a second one.

Both were tried; both failed on what an existing library gives away free.

1. Generating the human cast. Two attempts. The first produced four geometric heads wearing one bad face — narrow-set eyes, a hooked nose, a hairline reading as receding. The second fixed the face and then clustered all twelve heads into a single silhouette, with hair doing every bit of the differentiation.
2. Generating prop sheets. Four sheets queued, cancelled unrun. Every object on them exists in Tabler or Phosphor, vector and token-driven, with no quota window to wait for.