PROJECT.md records the text reduction

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

PROJECT.md

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 Open for the phone: whether the fixture button should ever go to the setup screen (it does not
 now), and whether the promotion's WALK ON should enter the cup instead of the clubhouse.
 
+## Session log: THE MENU TEXT REDUCTION — the design handoff, built (2026-08-31, STAGING ONLY)
+
+A handoff from a design session (its folder is on Oliver's disk, git-ignored: the prototype ships a
+copy of thirty repo assets). Its rule, and now the game's:
+
+- **JERSEY 15 NAMES** — screen titles (33px), rooms (17px), cards and courts. Bundled subset, 9 KB.
+  It replaced BUNGEE the same day Bungee arrived: Jersey sits on the same pixel grid as Silkscreen,
+  so it reads as one family with the sprite art, and it runs proportionally lighter. Sizes run
+  ~+40% against the Bungee values because Jersey sits lower in its box.
+- **BANGERS CALLS, once per screen** — the fixture button, the hero poster, a modal headline,
+  LEAVE THE MATCH?, PROMOTED.
+- **SILKSCREEN INFORMS** — numbers, labels, chips. Unchanged.
+- **A sentence survives only where it carries a decision.** Everything else became a bar, a pip,
+  or moved into the modal that opens with the mode.
+
+What that cost each screen:
+- **SPLASH**: the plaque is ONE row (crest · name · level, bar under it wearing the level it fills
+  toward). `#plGoal` is gone — the fixture button below said the same thing. The two secondary
+  doors carry a number each (`STATS / 4812`, `BOARD / BEST 612`, `stats.bestScore`, read locally —
+  the splash does not fetch the world board). `cupFixture.line` lost its round count to `.sub`.
+- **PICK A GAME**: rooms are ONE WORD (SEASON / TRAINING / CASUAL) with no straps, posters are
+  their names, and `MENU.layout` deals each room its own way — the fixture is a 142px HERO with the
+  only second line on the wall, the training pair stands side by side at 106, the casual three
+  stack at 96. The whole wall fits one screen (654px); it was two.
+- **MATCH SETUP**: blocks, not numbered steps. The meters' legend stands ONCE in the rubric row and
+  the per-row labels went with it; an open court says nothing, a locked one says `LEAGUE 4`. The
+  `#sSum` footer retired entirely — with it, `main.summary()`.
+- **DIFFICULTY**: name plus three pips, as many lit as the chip is steep. No explanation.
+- **TRAINING**: the revanche is a full-width row (`PUT YOU OUT`), rungs are two-digit numbers, and
+  the list ends on a dashed tile naming the league that opens the rest of the ladder.
+- **VS**: three paragraphs became `YOU` / `HOST` / `JOIN`; the join button says `GO`.
+- **MODALS**: ONE rule per row — the `sub` was nearly always the `lead` again in other words, so
+  the line that names the RESULT survives (`m.rules` takes plain strings now, objects only for
+  `hot`/`pips`). The blood pool sits as pips on that same line, hard right. The masthead carries one
+  strap: the walk-on's slogan, or `m.strap` (`LEAGUE 3 · 4 ROUNDS` — where the round count went).
+  **The walk-on's two levels are ONE face at ONE size** (Oliver): a comparison drawn at two sizes is
+  a headline with a footnote. Only the colour differs, and only where it means something.
+
+Deliberately NOT taken from the handoff: nothing. Two small deviations — the meters' legend reads
+`PACE · BOUNCE` (the order the bars are actually drawn in), and the `18 RUNGS` chip sits under LAST
+rather than beside it on the one poster that can wear both.
+
 ## THE SEASON — the tournament is the story (2026-08-31, AGREED in discussion; PHASES 1-4 BUILT ON STAGING — see the log above)
 
 Oliver's diagnosis, and it is right: "alles ist irgendwie beliebig... die Menüführung und die Start-