The images show our pixel-art Pepe with a green price tag, on black, square (1024 x 1024, 400 x 400, 32 x 32) and wide (2400 x 600).
THE PRODUCT, for context only: moneycanbuy.fun, a board of paid dares on Ethereum. Anyone posts a task with a reward (ETH, USDC or IMD); a doer does it and posts a public proof link with a small IMD bond; identity.md NFT holders vote; in a dispute the IMD swarm is the final judge; the contract pays. Slogan: "Everyone has a price. Name yours." Tone: dry, deadpan, meme-literate; no promises of profit, no prices, no token figures, no "to the moon".
OUR PEPE, drawn by us, 16 x 14, the base of the mascot (K outline #0F2A0C, G skin #5BB03E, W eye white #F2F2F2, P pupil #000000, M mouth #A3402C, S shirt #2F5BD3, . transparent):
...KKKK..KKKK...
..KGGGGKKGGGGK..
.KGGGGGGGGGGGGK.
.KGWWWWGGWWWWGK.
KGGWWPPGGWWPPGGK
KGGWWPPGGWWPPGGK
KGGGGGGGGGGGGGGK
KGGGGGGGGGGGGGGK
KGMMMMMMMMMMMGGK
KGGMMMMMMMMMGGGK
.KGGGGGGGGGGGGK.
..KKKKKKKKKKKK..
.KSSSSSSSSSSSSK.
KSSSSSSSSSSSSSSK
THE BAR: this mark is the face of the project: the X profile picture, the browser tab, every share. It must be recognisable from its silhouette alone at 16 pixels, funny at first glance (a deadpan Pepe who knows everything has a price), and distinct from every other Pepe in the IMD ecosystem. Prefer one bold idea over detail; every pixel must earn its place. Test it inside a circle crop (X avatar) and next to small text, and reject any concept that turns into a green blob at 16 pixels.
THE MARK: our Pepe redrawn on a 24 x 24 grid, keeping its face, outline and colours, with one idea added that says "everything has a price": a price tag (a five-sided tag with a round hole, green #3ECF7A, the shape of our current favicon) hanging from it, held in its mouth or stuck to its head. It must read at 16 pixels. First draw four concepts that place the tag differently (or one free idea that keeps the rules), put them side by side in concepts.png, pick the strongest by your own judgement for reading at 16 and 32 pixels, and build the whole kit on that one. Say in the README which you picked and why.
STYLE, the same in every file of this job: pixel art on a 24 x 24 sprite grid, enlarged only by whole-number factors with nearest-neighbour sampling, never smoothed, blurred or anti-aliased. Screens: a vertical background from deep violet #240C3E to near-black #06040A in six visible bands, a few dim violet star pixels (#46346A, #786E96), the subject with a blocky neon-green glow (#3ECF7A mixed in at 42%, 20% and 8% for the first three grid cells around it) and scanlines (every fourth output row at 60% brightness). Interface pieces (logo, wordmark, avatar) sit on pure black #000000 with no gradient and no scanlines. One accent colour: green #3ECF7A. Text white #FFFFFF, secondary grey #9A9A9A, red #F43F5E only for rejected or burned. Type: IBM Plex Mono SemiBold and Regular (SIL Open Font License 1.1) if it is installed on the worker or can be bundled with its licence; otherwise an original pixel font you draw on the same grid. Say in the README which one you used.
FILES, exactly these, each checked by eye with your image tool and redrawn if a pixel is off the grid or blurred:
- concepts.png: the four concepts, each at 8x scale and at true 24 and 16 pixels beneath it, on #000000.
- mark-1024.png: the chosen mark alone, centred, 1024 x 1024, on #000000 (whole-number scale, a margin of at least two grid cells).
- mark.svg: the same mark as one per pixel on a 24 x 24 viewBox with shape-rendering="crispEdges", no other elements, no transparency tricks.
- avatar-400.png: 400 x 400 for the X profile picture, the mark centred on #000000, nothing important outside the central circle.
- favicon-32.png: 32 x 32, hand-fitted for that size, not a downscale.
- wordmark-2400x600.png: the mark on the left and "moneycanbuy.fun" on the right in white, ".fun" in green #3ECF7A, on #000000.
- sheet.png: everything above at small size on one page, plus the palette swatches with their hex codes.
- brand.md: the palette (hex and role), the type and where it comes from, the grid and scaling rules, clear space, minimum sizes, what not to do (smoothing, gradients on the mark, other greens, outlines), and the list of files.
RIGHTS AND SOURCES: everything you deliver is original work made in this job, from the pixel map above and your own drawing, synthesis and code. Do not use, trace, fetch or imitate closely any existing image, logo, NFT, sprite, photo, font or sound by anyone else: no Swarm Pepes or other collection tokens, no Matt Furie drawings, no platform logos (X, YouTube, GitHub, Twitch, Kick and the like: show a platform by a plain glyph or its name in our type), no stock art, no generated faces of real people. Do not use a generative image, video or music model; draw, compose and render everything with code, so every file can be rebuilt from the delivered source. The finished files are made for moneycanbuy.fun and may be used, changed and published by it without attribution; say so in the README.
The README lists every file with its pixel size and says plainly where anything falls short of the rules.
