Rebelle Rally Field Glass — Design Vision
Jul 2026 · Working draft
Modern glass.
Desert made.
NOTE — two-tone statement: the overlay's title register, promoted to the brand's headline voice

One instrument layer read over rough terrain — a single visual system for the broadcast overlay, rebellerally.com, live scoring, and the app to come. The desert is the protagonist; glass is the windshield we read it through. Built from what we already own: last year's overlay package, its topo linework, its type.

The desert is the protagonist. The land is the course, the scale, and the story. Terrain carries more brand weight than vehicles.
Glass is an instrument. Glass appears where it helps read terrain, status, or story — a lens with a job, never there to say "modern."
Data is drama. In a rally of endurance and accuracy, the numbers are the story. Tabular, calm, honest — freshness always visible.
Premium isn't fragile. Elevated expedition, not luxury fragility. Strong contrast, large targets, restrained motion — built for dust and sunlight.
01 · Where it comes from
Built on
good bones.

Last year's broadcast package and the newer concept work gave this system its grammar: navy ground, one cyan, condensed caps, tabular numbers, contour linework. We've stretched it in places, but the foundation is that work — carried across live, scoring, and the app.

Topo contour lines — the trailer wrap, the Day-N graphics
Condensed display caps — the "Day 5" register
One earned cyan — live · active · you
Tabular numerals — data is first-class
Two-tone titles — white year, cyan class
scoring.rebellerally.com
NOTE — this panel is built from the real overlay components, values and all
02 · The idea
The windshield,
not the view.

Glass is the windshield — you read the rally through it. It borrows the feel of today's most modern interfaces — translucency, blur, light borders — then grounds it in navy desert-at-dusk, gradients that run deeper instead of fading out, real terrain showing through the pane. Glass appears where it has a job — nav, live, status, scoring — and the content beneath it stays opaque.

— Gradients run deeper, never to transparent — One earned cyan: live · active · you — Real contours, traced from aerial dune photos
LIVE Day 3 · 06:12 · Johnson Valley
Stage 3 / 8 Johnson Valley → Rice
Checkpoints 14 / 17 3 remaining before close
Your team P4 ▲2 #175 Hale / Ortiz
Follow the field Day rundown
NOTE — cyan bloom bottom-right, groove ring cut into the glass (not a painted border), separators never touch the edges
The four glasses — one windshield, four tints
Light — on the terrain Chips and controls riding directly on the land: the LIVE chip, map controls, toggles. The terrain stays legible straight through it. rgba(13,33,61,.22) → rgba(12,20,32,.5) · blur 14
Medium — the nav sheet The windshield proper: header stack, tab bars, day rails. Content scrolls beneath it — the glass never owns the content. rgba(13,33,61,.64) → rgba(13,33,61,.86) · blur 14
Dark — utility & mega panels The deepest tint, finished with the 2px cyan rule: the top utility bar and mega panels. The only place sand mono labels live. Oct 8 · Base camp 06:12
Frost — on light grounds The home-page register: frosted cards over paper and golden-hour photography. Ink turns navy; cyan keeps the same jobs. rgba(255,255,255,.68) · blur 14
03 · The raw material
Type, color,
terrain.

The type, the palette, the contour lines and the star start from the overlay package, the trailer wrap, and the field itself — extended in places where we needed more.

First draft — exact tokens and faces are close reads, not gospel. Oswald stands in for Tungsten, Cormorant for Minion Pro, until licenses are confirmed.
Rebelle Minion Pro — the engraved wordmark serif · the arch, the wrap · Cormorant stands in until licensed
Day 3. No GPS. Tungsten (Oswald stand-in) — condensed caps · the overlay's "Day 5" register
129 · KAR / DUN · 1,842 PTS · 94.2% Inter — humanist body · tabular numerals, always
Oct 8 · Base camp 06:12 · 41°F IBM Plex Mono — sand lives only here, on the darkest glass
#189FDAThe one earned cyan — live, active, you
#0D213DNavy — desert at dusk, never cold black
#0C1420Deep navy — the app's opaque content ground
#2E8FB8Topo linework — structure, never a signal
#E8C49ASand — mono micro-labels only, utility glass only
The desert does the warm work
The north star caps every lockup. Use the asset — never redraw it. Sponsor reds and yellows stay inside their lockups, never brand core.
04 · Reuse
One kit.
Four surfaces.

The same parts scale from the 1080p overlay down to a phone. The standings rows inside this phone are literally the overlay component — same code, same tokens, untouched. The app inherits the glass idea whole: navigation floats, content stays opaque navy.

TeamRowCurtain Broadcast lower-third → app standings list
InstrumentCard Web hero status → the app's Today header
LiveChip One live signal — cyan on glass, red stays on-air only
TopoLines Trailer wrap → any navy ground, always faded in
Button Hard-shadow print register on web · 8px glass register in the app
NOTE — the phone is a sketch, not a spec: it exists to show the components surviving the trip
Today
LIVE
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Checkpoints 14 / 17
Your team P4 ▲2
Standings — 4x4
Today Standings Route Teams
05 · The product
Two voices.
One rally.

Two registers over one shared core. Most pages are aspirational — they tell the story. The Live page is functional — it runs the day. Same colors, same materials, same north; only density and emphasis change.

Register 1 — Editorial Pages that tell the story

Home, the route, teams and people — cinematic, terrain-led, written in declarative fragments. The desert does the talking; data appears as punctuation.

Home Route Teams People
Register 2 — Functional Live is a dashboard

One page you configure, not eight you hunt through. Lead with the story feed, the map, or the scoring — and watch the whole pack, or just your team.

The field My team Story Map Scoring Updated 06:12
Follow your team: pick #175 once, and the live page, standings and app all lean toward her.
NOTE — same parts on both registers: day rail, standings rows, chips. Density and emphasis are the only things that change
Teams becomes Teams + People.

One massive teams page carries everything today. Split it in two: Teams keeps the season roster — number, class, vehicle. People gives every competitor a page of her own — every rally she's run, and every team she's run it with. Ten years of history becomes navigable instead of buried.

Teams · 2026 #175 — Hale / Ortiz 4x4 · Jeep Wrangler · 3rd year
N. Hale ↗ J. Ortiz ↗
Every name is a door
People Nikki Hale Navigator · 3 rallies
'24 · #129 '25 · #175 '26 · #175
06 · The direction
Where it's
headed.

Concept comps, not specs — the same system carried to its three destinations: the live day dashboard, the story-led homepage, and the app. Squint past the details; the grammar is what ships.

Rebelle Live — the day dashboard Rebelle Live day dashboard concept This comp is where I started. Since then I've leaned harder into the dashboard take (05) — one configurable page made more sense than asking people to toggle between three.
rebellerally.com — the story-led homepage Story-led homepage concept
The app — Today · Standings · Route App concept — Today, Standings, Route