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No.278 · Type & Names

Seal Signature

A name as a heraldic seal — italic serif at the centre, the full name and a number circling a slowly rotating ring.

The prompt

Written for the variant you picked above: Indigo

Build an SVG seal on a 280×280 viewBox for a person's name. At the centre, set the given name in Instrument Serif italic (44px, -0.03em) filled with a per-person accent colour; if the name has more than one word, stack it on two tspans. Around it, run a legend — the full name, a middle dot, a two-digit number, another dot, repeated three times — in Geist Mono 10px, 0.18em tracking, uppercase, at 70% opacity. Lay the legend on a circular textPath of radius 108 and set textLength to the circumference (2πr) with lengthAdjust="spacing", so the text always closes the ring exactly whatever the name length. Clip the legend to a band between radius 99 and 117 with an even-odd clipPath. Wrap it in a group that rotates 360° every 40s linear, transform-box: view-box, and give each seal a different negative animation delay so a row of seals never turns in step. Decorate with two hairline rings (r128 at 40%, r94 at 22%), eight short ticks between r90 and r97 at 22.5° + 45°·i, and sixteen palmettes (each a leaflet plus five leaves, with ridge strokes) at 22.5° steps, alternating full-size at 45% fill and scaled to 82% at 27%; scale the whole seal 1.2. Finish with a drop-shadow glow in the accent colour. Selected variant — Indigo: One seal: "Hamza Al-Bulushi", number 01, accent #5C7CFA (indigo), 260px wide on #0c0b0a.

Notes

Interaction
None — ambient. The ring turns continuously.
Motion
One linear 40s rotation on the legend group, staggered per seal by a negative delay.
Accessibility
The svg is role=img with a label naming the person and number. Reduced motion freezes the ring.
Responsive
Scales fluidly with its container (max 320px). Colour, speed and offset are props.

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