Flavor A — banner (real background)
Flavor B — studio cutout on beige block
Lane/Project: Cesar & Associates website. Why this exists: Sean asked 2026-09-04 for a full fresh build: color closer to white (not the light blue), keep nav/content/contact canon/bilingual/lead form/Codex interaction JS, new visual presentation, and two team-photo treatments: A = real photo with its background as a banner; B = the cutout done properly.
Shared by both: eggshell-white page with faint paper grain, warm beige as the second field, brand red and navy only as rules/links/one CTA, Playfair display + Inter body, hairline ledger sections instead of card grids, every phone string = 442-324-6249, TPMO disclaimer, lead form + cookie banner + JS byte-identical to the live site, 0 console errors, no horizontal overflow, all contrast pairs ≥ 4.5, asset diff: nothing missing.
| A — "paper + banner" | B — "studio on linen" | |
|---|---|---|
| Team photo | Full-bleed banner of the real photo (grey office background) under the headline; an eggshell stat plate (4,000+ / 100% / 5.0★ + "The Indio office, 2026") hangs over its bottom-left edge | Background-removed cutout standing on a beige studio block that bleeds off the right edge, soft ground shadow, vertical serif caption rail |
| The one aesthetic risk | The stat plate overlapping the banner | The headline running onto the beige block (one CSS line to undo) |
| Open decisions (both) | 1. Direction: A, B, or a mix (B's hero + A's banner lower on the page is possible). 2. Footer license line "CA Lic # 0G61584" is an ADDITION vs live (live has none; a conflicting 0K54321 exists in one record) — confirm the number. 3. Email stays info@candateam.com as live (the brand memory says cesar@candateam.com) — which is right? 4. Guides + agent-hub sub-pages still wear the old blue; they need a matching pass before any deploy. 5. Dark mode and an /es route are not built (content locked; would need new markup). 6. Deploy = separate GO after an asset-list diff. | |
Full trees: comms/outputs/2026-09-04-candateam-rebuild/flavor-A/ and flavor-B/ (open index.html; BUILD-NOTES.md and ASSET-DIFF.md in each; screenshots/ has EN+ES at 390 and 1440).