recipe-manager/frontend/public/assets/README.md

Frontend Visual Assets

This folder contains visual assets for Recipe Manager.

Directory map

• photos/ — new photo-first asset surface (manifest + future vendored photos)
• hero/ — legacy illustration hero assets (deprecated for primary storytelling)
• food/ — placeholders and legacy illustrated food assets
• food/curated/ — legacy illustrated recipe art (deprecated for cards)
• category/ — category icons (retain)
• category/illustrations/ — legacy illustrated category art (deprecated)
• empty-state/ — empty-state illustrations (retain temporarily)
• ui/ — shared decorative UI assets

Direction update

As of the photo-first correction wave, real food photography is the primary visual direction. Illustrations are now fallback/support-only unless explicitly approved.

Source and licensing

• Legacy SVG pack: original repository-owned artwork, no attribution required.
• Photo-first pipeline: see photos/README.md and photos/manifest.json.

Docs:

• docs/visual-audit/assets.md
• docs/visual-audit/photo-first-assets.md