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+# CVER design conventions
+
+Shared visual conventions for `CVERInc` products. Adopted 2026-06-11.
+
+## Corner shape — the squircle standard
+
+Every CVER surface with a finite corner radius — cards, buttons, panels,
+frames, containers — uses a **continuous-curvature corner (a squircle)**, not
+a plain circular arc. The squircle is the Apple-platform corner; we carry the
+same shape across the portfolio. Pills and circles stay round (see below).
+
+This is a **progressive enhancement, not a redesign**: existing radii are kept
+verbatim, the squircle is layered on top, and anything that can't render it
+falls back to the radius you already have. Zero visual regression is a hard
+requirement — never trade a working rounded corner for a broken squircle.
+
+The reference implementations are `cver.net` (`src/styles/global.css`,
+`--corner`) and `liquidframe` (`liquidframe.css`, `--lf-corner`). Mirror them.
+
+### Web (any CSS)
+
+Add real continuous-curvature corners *on top of* the existing
+`border-radius`. Never remove or change a radius to do this.
+
+```css
+:root { --corner: squircle; }            /* token, so any layer can override */
+.card { corner-shape: var(--corner); }   /* next to its existing border-radius */
+```
+
+- `corner-shape: squircle` is `superellipse(2)`. The `border-radius` still
+  sizes the corner **and** is the graceful fallback.
+- `corner-shape` is **Chromium-only as of mid-2026** — Safari/WebKit and
+  Firefox ignore it and keep the `border-radius` arc. That is the whole point:
+  pure progressive enhancement, zero regression. Always leave an honest comment
+  to that effect next to the rule.
+- `corner-shape` **requires a non-zero `border-radius`** to do anything, and is
+  **not inherited** — but a custom property *is*. So define the token once on
+  `:root` and reference `var(--corner)` everywhere.
+
+**Tailwind projects** — add ONE low-specificity rule to the global/main
+stylesheet, covering whichever `rounded-*` utilities the project actually uses.
+**Exclude `rounded-full`** — a squircled pill reads wrong.
+
+```css
+:root { --corner: squircle; }
+:where(.rounded, .rounded-md, .rounded-lg, .rounded-xl, .rounded-2xl, .rounded-3xl) {
+  corner-shape: var(--corner);
+}
+```
+
+**Plain CSS / Svelte / HTML** — put `:root { --corner: squircle; }` in the main
+stylesheet, then add `corner-shape: var(--corner);` next to each **finite**
+`border-radius` rule on card/button/panel/container surfaces. **Never** on pills
+(`border-radius: 9999px` / `99px`) or circles (`border-radius: 50%`) — those
+stay round.
+
+### SwiftUI (Swift apps)
+
+Use the **continuous** corner style — the real Apple squircle, fully supported
+on Apple platforms (here it actually renders, unlike the web fallback case).
+
+```swift
+RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: x)              // ->  RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: x, style: .continuous)
+.cornerRadius(x)                               // ->  .clipShape(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: x, style: .continuous))
+.clipShape(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: x))  // ->  add `, style: .continuous`
+```
+
+Leave `Capsule()`, `Circle()`, and capsule-style pills unchanged.
+
+### When this does not apply
+
+Skip the standard, don't invent UI to satisfy it: bots with no UI, docs-only
+repos, Apps-Script/Sheets backends with no styled HTML, and repos whose only
+radius is pills/circles. A clean skip is correct, not a gap.
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 Org-wide defaults and conventions for [CVERInc](https://github.com/CVERInc) repositories.
 
 - [**README-STYLE.md**](./README-STYLE.md) — the house style for every public repo's README.
+- [**DESIGN.md**](./DESIGN.md) — shared visual conventions, incl. the squircle corner standard.