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feat: rebrand as Recurse Type with recurse theme - #8469

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  • add recurse theme (terminal green on near-black) and make it default
  • Recurse logo, favicons, titles, manifest, footer, about and contact
  • remove merch banner, point to Recurse links
  • frontend-only by default: no hosted Monkeytype API
  • README section for the Recurse fork

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01253wKEr8UAwAVPhXb6qNHB

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  • Adding a language?
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    • Add language to packages/schemas/src/languages.ts
    • Add language to exactly one group in frontend/src/ts/constants/languages.ts
    • Add language json file to frontend/static/languages
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    • Add theme to packages/schemas/src/themes.ts
    • Add theme to frontend/src/ts/constants/themes.ts
    • (optional) Add theme css file to frontend/static/themes
    • Add some screenshots of the theme, especially with different test settings (colorful, flip colors) to your pull request
  • Adding a layout?
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    • Add layout to packages/schemas/src/layouts.ts
    • Add layout json file to frontend/static/layouts
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    • Add font file to frontend/static/webfonts
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- add recurse theme (terminal green on near-black) and make it default
- Recurse logo, favicons, titles, manifest, footer, about and contact
- remove merch banner, point to Recurse links
- frontend-only by default: no hosted Monkeytype API
- README section for the Recurse fork

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01253wKEr8UAwAVPhXb6qNHB
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Hey there and thank you for opening this pull request! 👋🏼

We require pull request titles to follow the Conventional Commits specification and also include the author name at the end inside parenthesis. It looks like your proposed title needs to be adjusted.

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Title "feat: rebrand as Recurse Type with recurse theme"
didn't match the configured pattern. Please ensure that the title
contains your name so that you can be credited in our changelog.

A correct version would look something like:

feat: add new feature (@github_username)
impr(quotes): add english quotes (@username)
fix(leaderboard): show user rank correctly (@user1, @user2, @user3)

@monkeytypegeorge monkeytypegeorge added frontend User interface or web stuff docs Related to Markdown files and documentation assets Languages, themes, layouts, etc. packages Changes in local packages labels Oct 15, 2026
- recurse theme now uses the site palette (lime #a8ff35 on ink)
- Space Mono + DM Sans fonts, Space Mono is the default typing font
- square corners everywhere, grid + ring backdrop
- header: real Recurse logo (theme coloured), labelled nav, lime CTA
- test page: terminal kicker + outlined TYPE FASTER. headline
- bordered config bar with lime active state
- results: big solid wpm, outlined accuracy, mono stat labels
- footer: lime ticker band; ad slots removed

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01253wKEr8UAwAVPhXb6qNHB
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Continuous integration check(s) failed. Please review the failing check's logs and make the necessary changes.

@github-actions github-actions Bot added the waiting for update Pull requests or issues that require changes/comments before continuing label Oct 15, 2026
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