design: copy polish, heart redesign, license chips, no em-dashes

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Summary

A round of design polish and copy edits across the landing page. No behavior changes beyond what's in the cards.

Hero + page copy

• Drop the dynamic repo-count pill; new tagline reads for teams building on slack · open source
• Rewrite the "The Stack." subhead around what we actually ship for Slack devs
• Reorder featured cards so slack-hono is in slot 2 (block-kitchen → slack-hono → slack-block-kit-validator)

Footer

• Replace the blog link with community, pointing to community.tightknit.ai
• "all repos" arrow now points up (since repos are above the footer)

Manifesto principle 03

• Reframed from Built in public. to From the Tightknit team. with copy that frames these as the libraries and patterns the team reaches for when shipping Slack apps — without overclaiming that every one runs in prod

Logo + favicon

• Redrew the Heart polygon: humps are now 3 cells wide at the top (was 2) and the valley is 2 rows deep (was 3). Reads as a proper heart instead of a spiky cup
• Favicon no longer paints a beige rect behind itself, so it sits transparent in browser tabs

Type effect

• .stacked-3d now layers pink → yellow → cyan → black instead of pink + two black shadows — gives the SLACK headline a primary-color brutalist stack

Repo cards

• Added an SPDX license chip between the language and stars; live data pulls license.spdx_id from the GitHub API, fallback/manual entries are backfilled to MIT
• Hide the stars row when a repo has fewer than 10 stars (reads as confidence rather than embarrassment)

Em-dash sweep

• Removed em dashes from every user-visible string (Layout title, 404, Footer, RepoGrid, Hero, the slack-hono fallback description)
• Normalized API-supplied descriptions in github.ts via `replace(/\s*—\s*/g, ', ')` so anything fetched from GitHub also drops em dashes before rendering

Test plan

• `npm run dev` and check the hero, repo cards, manifesto, and footer copy
• Confirm the favicon renders transparent in a browser tab against both light and dark chrome
• Confirm cards in // the rest show TYPESCRIPT · MIT · TODAY and no stars row while every repo is under 10 stars
• Confirm no em dashes (`—`) appear on the rendered page (`document.body.textContent.includes('—')` should be false)

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