The way-up ribbon, final form: horizontal over the border, dissolving through a Bayer pixel fade

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@@ -499,12 +499,15 @@ Oliver's retest ("schon viel besser") with five polish items, all built:
   screen (his "an vielen Stellen"). All `.chev` buttons and the plaque's arrow use Silkscreen's
   straight ASCII `<`/`>` instead — the announcement face keeps its job, arrows stop leaning.
 - **The plaque wears rounded corners (8px) and real padding** (12/14 against 8/10).
-- **THE WAY-UP RIBBON**: the tag became a banderole — red field, thick white Silkscreen with a
-  light shadow, rotated -45° over the poster's top-left corner, and (Oliver's follow-up) hanging
-  PAST the border on both sides rather than being clipped inside it — sized so the overhang stays
-  out of the neighbouring poster (120px band; the first cut at 148px lay across the poster above).
-  It shows on BOTH picker levels: the top-level ZOMBIE TENNIS poster carries it too (`tag` on the
-  MENU row), so the click path to the promotion is marked from the first screen.
+- **THE WAY-UP RIBBON**: settled after four cuts as a HORIZONTAL band (Oliver's call) — red
+  field, thick white Silkscreen with a light shadow, running in from OVER the left border and
+  dissolving rightward through a real PIXEL FADE: an inline-SVG mask of 6px cells thresholded
+  against a Bayer matrix, four density steps — the dither the game's own art would use, never a
+  smooth gradient (and never a rotated pixel font, which was the diagonal version's sin: the one
+  anti-aliased thing in the menu; the diagonal also hid a text-WRAP bug that made the band a red
+  block). The mask eats band, bevel and shadow together. It shows on BOTH picker levels: the
+  top-level ZOMBIE TENNIS poster carries it too (`tag` on the MENU row), so the click path to the
+  promotion is marked from the first screen.
 - **Poster captions grew**: titles 12 → 15 bold, sub lines 9 → 10 and a brighter grey — "viel
   Text in sehr kleiner Schrift" was true of every banner.
 - **The card performs its entrance**: earned badges and the current crest BREATHE a subtle gold