The alpha.
Aesthetary is becoming a place where you can keep what you find, build with it, and contribute to it. Most of that is not built yet. Here is exactly what is, so you can decide whether it is worth your time now or later.
An early build
If you were invited to look at this early: thank you. It is unfinished, and what you notice, what confuses you and what you would change is what this stage is for.
Working now
- 73 visual languages →Each one decomposed into the same twelve areas, with the evidence behind every claim and the gaps marked rather than filled.
- Style guides for coding agents →Every record downloads as a Markdown prompt stating what is established, what is our reading, and what is not established — so an agent does not invent the rest.
- Mix →Two or more Aesthetics side by side; the corpus reports where their rules agree and where they collide. Resolving a collision is not built.
- 181 resources →Tools and libraries with honest notes on cost, licensing and maintenance.
Being built
- Accounts — so you can keep what you find.
- Saving and collections — visual languages and resources, organised your way.
- Find your aesthetic — a discovery route that does not require you to know the vocabulary first.
- Contributions — corrections, sources and missing languages, reviewed before they touch the record.
- Recipes — a combination with an author, a lineage and a reason.
- Community — the people doing the above, with attribution.
There is no waiting list to join yet — it would need somewhere to send your address, and we have not published one. This page will carry it when it exists.
The longer arc is written down too: what we're building toward.