The showroom fence

Morna ships two public design surfaces — /aura, this showroom, and /design, the live primitive gallery. Both are full of realistic figures, named specialists and working controls, and neither is a workspace. Founder ruling D-UX04 requires each to carry a permanent band saying so. You are looking at one right now, at the top of this page.

Why a fence

The showroom’s whole value is that its specimens are real: the components are imported from @morna/ui, the identity specimens run the real resolver, and the preference labs on Color & light write the actual preference cookie. That realism is exactly the risk. A visitor landing mid-scroll on a hero figure of $4,180 recovered beside a specialist byline has every reason to read it as somebody’s live business — and $4,180 is nobody’s.

A fence is the cheapest honest answer. It is not a disclaimer in a footer and not a one-time dismissible banner: it is a permanent band directly under the chrome, above the first specimen, on every page of the surface. It cannot be scrolled past before the first figure, and it cannot be dismissed, because the claim it corrects is true on every page and does not stop being true once you have read it.

The wording rule

The third clause carries the weight and is worth reading closely. It denies two different things at once — a connection (no company’s data is behind any of this) and a capability (a control that looks operable is not operating on anything). Weaker phrasings fail one or the other: “sample data” denies the connection but implies the buttons work; “non-interactive demo” denies the capability but leaves an owner wondering whose numbers those are.

The band also stays in the system’s own voice. It is not a legal notice bolted onto a design surface: sentence case, no capitals, no warning icon, no amber. It is set in the same 11.5–12.5px caption on --canvas-raised with an ordinary hairline, and it opens with the mark. A fence that shouted would be its own small dishonesty — the page is not dangerous, it is simply not a workspace.

Anatomy

• Directly under the chrome, above everything else. Below the top bar so the brand still comes first, above the first specimen so nothing is read before it.
• role="note". Not alert and not status — nothing is wrong and nothing is changing. It is standing context, and that is precisely what a note is.
• Permanent. No dismiss control, no localStorage flag, no fade after first visit.
• One bolded lead phrase. The surface names itself in the first two words so the band is parseable at a glance, then explains in ordinary weight.
• Sits inside the theme. It re-skins with the owner’s canvas and contrast like everything else — a band that ignored the contract would be advertising that it is bolted on.

Where it appears

Both public design surfaces carry it, worded for what each one does. /aura — this showroom — carries the base sentence. /design, the live gallery, extends it with one more clause, because its switchers are not specimens: they write the real preference cookie.