PostEx v0.2.0a1 — Palette Fusion alpha

PostEx v0.2.0a1 — Palette Fusion alpha

PostEx v0.2 turns visual inspiration into an explainable academic-poster design system while retaining evidence traceability, approval gates, editable PPTX output, and print preflight.

Highlights

• Poster Brief interview for audience, takeaway, emphasis, must-keep evidence, figure-edit permission, logo treatment, and visual tone.
• Palette DNA with semantic roles, use ratios, moods, component behavior, provenance, simulations, and scientific-color locks.
• Palette Studio candidates: Academic Safe, Balanced Fusion, and Visual Signature.
• Three structurally different fusion directions: Hero Result, Visual Journey, and Editorial Story.
• Digest-bound hero-result, figure-edit, deletion, palette, and structure approvals.
• Locks for approved copy, figures, regions, palette colors, layout, and logos.
• Self-contained Palette Studio and design-rationale HTML reports.
• OpenAI and Anthropic provider boundaries through the shared Python core.
• Chinese/English input and output; A0, A1, and 36×48-inch landscape support.

Included examples

• A rights-safe named-theme Palette Fusion example containing no proprietary character artwork.
• The separately licensed SCI02JITC real-paper golden example with editable PPTX, PDF, PNG, evidence, preflight, and approval records.
• Six licensed real-paper evaluation previews and one fictional evaluation case.

Validation

• 16 unit and contract tests passed.
• Repository and all 10 public schema checks passed.
• Seven evaluation cases passed, including six real papers.
• Codex and Claude Code Skills passed validation.
• Ruff, editable package installation, CLI execution, and ZIP integrity checks passed.

Alpha limitations

Palette Studio and fusion planning are runnable. The Bioinformatics Pipeline family remains the only production-renderable family in all three sizes. Rendering all three fusion directions, live color-vision and print simulations, and the production Observational Cohort family are planned for later v0.2 milestones.

Licensing

Code and documentation are Apache-2.0. Templates and examples have independent license records. The SCI02JITC example is subject to its recorded CC BY-NC terms. Named-theme examples include no third-party character, game, brand, logo, font, or screenshot assets.