diff --git a/docs/design-guidelines.md b/docs/design-guidelines.md
index 0995b468..9a034ef5 100644
--- a/docs/design-guidelines.md
+++ b/docs/design-guidelines.md
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ When there's **exactly one slice** (one language at 100%), the renderer emits tw
| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
-| Grid | 7 rows × 53 columns (Sunday → Saturday, oldest week → newest) |
-| Cell size | 4 × 4 px square, 1 px gap. 4 is the largest square that fits with breathing room on both sides (`leftPad 30 + 53 × 5 = 295 px`, 45 px right gutter). 5 × 5 with a gap overflows; 5 × 5 touching cells loses visible separation; rectangular cells look stretched. Card has vertical headroom to spare — we accept that in exchange for a clean square grid |
-| Grid y-range | `topPad(70) .. 70 + 7 × 5 = 105 px` |
+| Layout | **Two stacked halves** of ~27 weeks each. One-row 53-week layout forces cells down to 4 × 4 to fit in 340 px; splitting in half lets each half be 27 weeks wide at **8 × 8 square cells** — 4× the cell area. Year still reads top-to-bottom, left-to-right. |
+| Cell size | 8 × 8 px square, 1 px gap |
+| Grid geometry | `leftPad 30`, `topPadA 45` (top half), `halfGap 13`, `topPadB 120`. Each half is 7 × 9 − 1 = 62 px tall. Grid bottom at y=182 leaves 18 px for the frame border. |
| Cell colour | 5-bucket ramp `mixHex(Background, Accent, k/4)` for `k ∈ 0..4` — no dedicated ramp field on the theme schema |
| Weekday labels | Mon / Wed / Fri only, right-anchored in the `leftPad` gutter |
| Month labels | Printed above the first week where a 1st-of-month day falls; skipped when `x > width − 20` so `Dec` / `Apr` can't spill past the frame |
diff --git a/internal/card/contributions_heatmap.go b/internal/card/contributions_heatmap.go
index 01e37ba6..ed8614ab 100644
--- a/internal/card/contributions_heatmap.go
+++ b/internal/card/contributions_heatmap.go
@@ -17,26 +17,25 @@ func (contributionsHeatmapCard) SVG(p *github.Profile, t theme.Theme) ([]byte, e
return renderHeatmap("Contributions (last year)", p.DailyContributions, t), nil
}
-// renderHeatmap draws the classic 7×N week grid. Sunday at top, Saturday at
-// bottom, oldest week on the left. Cell color mixes theme.Background with
-// theme.Accent in four intensity buckets so every palette inherits a usable
-// heatmap without a separate color ramp in the theme schema.
-//
-// Cells are square. 53 weeks at (cellSize + gap) = 5 px per column fills
-// 265 px, which leaves comfortable left (30) and right (45) gutters inside
-// the 340 px card. 6 × 6 cells would overflow; 5 × 5 cells with a gap push
-// back to the right edge. 4 × 4 is the largest square that keeps breathing
-// room on both sides. The resulting grid is short (35 px tall) — the card
-// has lots of vertical headroom — but short beats awkwardly stretched.
+// renderHeatmap draws the 53-week contribution calendar as two stacked
+// halves of ~27 weeks each. A single-row version has to shrink cells to
+// 4×4 to fit 53 weeks inside the 340 px width; splitting the year into two
+// halves lets each half be 27 weeks wide at 8×8 cells — 4× the cell area
+// and distinctly more readable, while the year still reads top-to-bottom
+// left-to-right. Cell color mixes theme.Background with theme.Accent in
+// four intensity buckets so every palette inherits a usable heatmap.
func renderHeatmap(title string, days []github.DailyContribution, t theme.Theme) []byte {
const (
width = 340
height = 200
- cellSize = 4 // square
+ cellSize = 8
cellGap = 1
leftPad = 30
- topPad = 70
+ topPadA = 45 // top half origin (month labels land at topPadA - 4)
+ halfGap = 13 // vertical space between the two halves
)
+ halfH := 7*(cellSize+cellGap) - cellGap // 7 rows of cells occupy this many px
+ topPadB := topPadA + halfH + halfGap
var b strings.Builder
b.WriteString(header(width, height, t.Background, t.Stroke, t.StrokeOpacity, t.Title, title))
@@ -51,8 +50,6 @@ func renderHeatmap(title string, days []github.DailyContribution, t theme.Theme)
cells := padToWeekGrid(days)
weeks := len(cells) / 7
- // Determine intensity buckets from non-zero percentiles so sparse users
- // still get visible cells and prolific users don't saturate the top bucket.
buckets := intensityThresholds(cells)
ramp := [5]string{
mixHex(t.Background, t.Accent, 0.00),
@@ -62,78 +59,76 @@ func renderHeatmap(title string, days []github.DailyContribution, t theme.Theme)
mixHex(t.Background, t.Accent, 1.00),
}
- // Weekday labels (Mon, Wed, Fri) printed only on alternating rows to
- // avoid visual clutter; matches GitHub's own layout.
+ // Split the year at the week boundary nearest the middle — the top half
+ // gets the ceiling so the first half holds ≥ the second when weeks is odd.
+ mid := (weeks + 1) / 2
+ halves := [2]struct {
+ startWeek int
+ endWeek int
+ topPad int
+ }{
+ {0, mid, topPadA},
+ {mid, weeks, topPadB},
+ }
+
+ for _, h := range halves {
+ renderHeatmapHalf(&b, cells, h.startWeek, h.endWeek, h.topPad, leftPad, cellSize, cellGap, ramp, buckets, t)
+ }
+
+ b.WriteString(footer)
+ return []byte(b.String())
+}
+
+// renderHeatmapHalf draws one half of the heatmap: weekday labels on the
+// left, month labels above, and the 7×(endWeek-startWeek) grid itself.
+func renderHeatmapHalf(b *strings.Builder, cells []github.DailyContribution, startWeek, endWeek, topPad, leftPad, cellSize, cellGap int, ramp [5]string, buckets [4]int, t theme.Theme) {
+ // Weekday labels (Mon/Wed/Fri) anchored to the right of the gutter.
for i, label := range [7]string{"", "Mon", "", "Wed", "", "Fri", ""} {
if label == "" {
continue
}
y := topPad + i*(cellSize+cellGap) + cellSize - 1
- fmt.Fprintf(&b, `
- %s`,
- leftPad-4, y, t.Muted, label)
+ fmt.Fprintf(b, `
+ %s`,
+ leftPad-4, y, fontAxis, t.Muted, label)
}
- // Month labels across the top. We print each month the first time its
- // first day appears in a week column, skipping consecutive duplicates.
- // Labels within ~20 px of the right edge are dropped so a trailing "Dec"
- // or "Apr" can't extend past the card frame.
- const monthLabelMaxX = width - 20
+ // Month labels printed the first time each month's 1st-of-the-month day
+ // appears in a week column within this half. Labels that would land
+ // within ~20 px of the right edge are skipped.
+ monthLabelMaxX := 340 - 20
lastMonth := time.Month(0)
- for w := 0; w < weeks; w++ {
+ for w := startWeek; w < endWeek; w++ {
first := cells[w*7].Date
- if first.Day() > 7 {
- continue // the 1st of the month falls in an earlier week
- }
- if first.Month() == lastMonth {
+ if first.Day() > 7 || first.Month() == lastMonth {
continue
}
lastMonth = first.Month()
- x := leftPad + w*(cellSize+cellGap)
+ x := leftPad + (w-startWeek)*(cellSize+cellGap)
if x > monthLabelMaxX {
continue
}
- fmt.Fprintf(&b, `
- %s`,
- x, topPad-4, t.Muted, first.Month().String()[:3])
+ fmt.Fprintf(b, `
+ %s`,
+ x, topPad-4, fontAxis, t.Muted, first.Month().String()[:3])
}
- // Cells.
- for w := 0; w < weeks; w++ {
+ // Cells for this half.
+ for w := startWeek; w < endWeek; w++ {
for d := 0; d < 7; d++ {
cell := cells[w*7+d]
if cell.Date.IsZero() {
- continue // padding slot before the first real day
+ continue
}
fill := ramp[bucketFor(cell.Count, buckets)]
- x := leftPad + w*(cellSize+cellGap)
+ x := leftPad + (w-startWeek)*(cellSize+cellGap)
y := topPad + d*(cellSize+cellGap)
- fmt.Fprintf(&b, `
+ fmt.Fprintf(b, `
%s — %d`,
x, y, cellSize, cellSize, fill,
cell.Date.Format("2006-01-02"), cell.Count)
}
}
-
- // Legend at the bottom right uses square swatches so "Less ▢▢▢▢▢ More"
- // reads as a classic intensity legend rather than a stretched echo of the
- // rectangular data cells.
- const legendCell = 8
- legendX := width - 110
- legendY := height - 15
- fmt.Fprintf(&b, `
- Less`, legendX, legendY, t.Muted)
- for i, c := range ramp {
- fmt.Fprintf(&b, `
- `,
- legendX+28+i*(legendCell+2), legendY-legendCell+2, legendCell, legendCell, c)
- }
- fmt.Fprintf(&b, `
- More`,
- legendX+28+5*(legendCell+2)+2, legendY, t.Muted)
-
- b.WriteString(footer)
- return []byte(b.String())
}
// padToWeekGrid prepends zero-date slots so the returned slice is a clean
diff --git a/internal/card/svg.go b/internal/card/svg.go
index 4ac5985d..e832e47b 100644
--- a/internal/card/svg.go
+++ b/internal/card/svg.go
@@ -116,11 +116,22 @@ func fitTitleFontSize(title string, width int) int {
// Title-sizing constants are exported to package-private so the unit test
// can reference them without duplicating magic numbers.
const (
- titleLeftInset = 20
- titleRightSafety = 4
- titleMinFont = 11
- titleMaxFont = 15
- titleCharRatio = 0.6
+ titleLeftInset = 20
+ titleRightSafety = 4
+ titleMinFont = 11
+ titleMaxFont = 15
+ titleCharRatio = 0.6
+)
+
+// Shared body / label / axis font sizes. Any card adding a new text element
+// should pick one of these rather than invent a new size — the dracula demo
+// gallery looks noticeably more unified when every card uses the same
+// vocabulary of sizes.
+const (
+ fontBody = 12 // primary row text: stats labels, names, stat labels
+ fontLabel = 11 // legends, chart captions
+ fontAxis = 10 // tick labels, small secondary text
+ fontBigNum = 28 // streak column hero numbers
)
const footer = `