nest egg · $NEST · brand kit v3 · locked 4 sep 2026

The Nest Egg robin: a plump pixel-art robin with wide-set googly eyes, a dark green hood and a chartreuse feather, sitting in a twig nest

a pet fed
by $GME

A virtual pet on Robinhood Chain. Every trade pays a fee in tokenized GameStop, half of it goes in the nest forever, and the bird grows up as the nest fills. This page is the lock: what the bird looks like, why, and the files that prove it.

FEEDBONDPLAY

One bird, one screen, one palette. Everything Nest Egg ships, from the game screen to a Telegram sticker to a link preview, is the same scruffy robin rendered as chunky retro pixel art on the same pale mint. Chosen by Aydan and Caelan on 4 September 2026 from eight competing directions.

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the bird

A scruffy pixel-art robin with wide-set googly eyes and a deadpan, slightly unhinged stare, wearing a dark green Robin Hood hood with one chartreuse feather, sitting in a twig nest. The eyes do all the work. Everything else is costume.

Hooded Robin hero, the v3 reference
the reference. hero-v3-chartreuse.png. Every new sheet is generated with this image attached and told to match it exactly. Not a description of it. This file.

non-negotiables

  • Eyes: wide-set, big whites, tiny pupils, one slightly bigger than the other. Same in every state, including asleep.
  • Expression: deadpan, unimpressed, faintly unhinged. Never cute-sad, never kawaii-happy.
  • Body: plump and scruffy. Not a ball, not sleek. Tufts poke out of the hood.
  • Hood: dark forest green with one big feather, feather always the chartreuse. This is the silhouette.
  • Nest: part of the character. Only the Hungry state leaves it.
  • Rendering: chunky clean pixels, thick dark outline, no anti-aliasing, no gradients.

where it came from

The approved degen ladder sheet
the approved sheet. The 'degen' direction that beat kawaii, 8-bit, doodle, vector, 1-bit and a ball-body test. The current reference is this bird, re-rendered bolder for game size, with the feather swapped to chartreuse.

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seven stages

The pet needs to be old enough and fed enough to evolve. Each stage adds costume, never a different bird.

Evolution ladder: egg, hatchling, fledgling, robin, hooded robin, sheriff robin, elder robin
ladder-v3.png. The feather appears at Hooded Robin and stays.
Egg
EGG
Hatchling
HATCHLING
Fledgling
FLEDGLING
Robin
ROBIN
Hooded Robin
HOODED
Sheriff Robin
SHERIFF
Elder Robin
ELDER
stagecostumeearliest (days)shares in nestunlocks
Eggspeckled, one eye through the cracklaunch0—
Hatchlingeggshell as a hat125feed, poop, nest counter, bot
Fledglingscruffy, faint orange chest31,400leaderboard, cosmetics
Robinfull red chest, no hood72,100overfed / sick / sleep states
Hooded Robingreen hood + chartreuse feather213,000PLAY GAME (play-money)
Sheriff Robin+ gold star, toothpick453,700BOND opens
Elder Robin+ sunglasses, beard, staff904,300BOND pays, voting

share gates scale with the fee rate and get re-set once it is decided. a front-loaded clock (6h / 24h / 3d / 14d / 45d) is the open alternative.

Egg crack progression 0% to hatch
egg progression. The launch-day progress bar: 0%, 25%, 50% (the eye appears), 75%, hatch.

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colour

Two greens with two meanings. The dark hood is the outlaw. The chartreuse feather is the chain.

mint#C8EBD3
the screen. background of every sprite sheet and the game
cream#FFF6E4
panels, cards, egg shell, chest lowlight
ink#1B1A17
outlines, text, pupils
chest#E8432A
the robin's chest. sells / losses in UI. the wordmark
brown#8B5A2B
back, head, wings, nest twigs, poop
hood#2E6B3A
the Robin HOOD green. the cloak. headings. never a CTA
feather#A8E000
the CHAIN green. feather, shares counter, progress fill, FEED. money going up
gold#F2C230
sheriff star, prestige stars, nest upgrades
night#22284A
sleeping state only. market closed
loss#E02D1B
alerts, down-charts. never decorative

the feather green, and why it is this one

#A8E000 is the same chartreuse as the Fox Wif Hood feather, on purpose: the two projects are siblings. It sits right next to Robinhood's current brand green (#CCFF00) without being it. Never #00C805. That is Robinhood's legacy pre-2024 green and it reads wrong on the bird. We use the colour, never their name or logo.

Chartreuse goes on exactly two things: the feather, and the money (shares counter, progress fill, FEED / buy confirmations). Never the hood. Never a background. If everything is green, nothing is.

4

type + wordmark

Display is a real pixel font, set live in CSS, so the wordmark is always crisp and always the same. The AI-drawn wordmark on the logo sheet is direction, not the file.

NEST EGGA PET FED BY $GME
displayHOODED ROBIN
headingNEXT: SHERIFF ROBIN
labelAGE 21D · 3,000 SHARES · 1,204 WATCHING
number3,000 / 3,700
bodySpace Mono for everything that is a sentence. The pixel font is for things you shout.
captionstage labels, timestamps, wallet stubs

Press Start 2P (display) · Space Mono (body). Both on Google Fonts.

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icons + emoji

16 pixel icons: feed, bond, play, clean, medicine, train, nest, age, hunger, happiness, egg, star, sick, poop, feather, shares
A9-icon-set.png. The six action buttons, the four status meters, and six event icons. Same palette as the bird.
20 chat emoji: 12 robin faces and 8 objects
A7-emoji-set.png. Twelve faces and eight objects for Telegram and Discord reactions. Cut into 128px squares.

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stickers + PFPs

12 sticker expressions with white borders
stickers-v3.png. Deadpan, smug, rage, laughing, crying, shocked, suspicious, asleep, heart eyes, thinking, thumbs up, facepalm. Ready to cut into a Telegram pack.
9 profile pictures on 9 background colours
A3-pfp-set.png. Nine expressions on nine backgrounds. Team picks one each.

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states

The pet reacts to money in real time. Every state is a post.

Six states: eating, pooping, sick, sleeping, hungry at the door, overfed
states-v3.png. Eating = buy. Pooping = sell. Sick = neglect. Sleeping = market closed. Hungry at the door = old enough, not fed enough, the retention lever, never a frozen sprite. Overfed = way ahead of the clock.

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game UI

The approved screen, then four directions for the page it lives on. Direction not yet picked.

The approved main game screen with chartreuse money accents
the main screen. Status bar, pet centre, progress bar, six buttons. Chartreuse on the shares number, the progress fill and FEED. Nothing else.

live UI kit

FEEDBONDPLAYCLEANMEDICINETRAINLOCKED
NEXT: SHERIFF ROBIN 3,000 / 3,700
FEED 2.1 GMEPOOP 0.8 GMESTAR 3

four directions for the page

Direction A: the toy
A · the toy. Egg device centre, feed log left, nest right. Most nostalgic. Also the mobile layout.
Direction B: the terminal
B · the terminal. Dark, bird huge, trade tape down the right. Looks like the chain.
Direction C: the stream
C · the stream. Player with LIVE pill and watch count, chat on the right. Built for watching.
Direction D: the desk
D · the desk. Fox Wif Hood's paper world. The two projects as siblings.

the toy screen

The ladder in 1-bit LCD style
1-bit LCD set. Whatever the page looks like, the sprite on the toy's own screen is drawn like this: black pixels on LCD green, no shading.

10

social

Twitter header banner
A4-banner.png. 21:9 header. Bird left, wordmark centre, the seven stages right.
Link preview image
A5-og-image.png. The link preview. Bird, wordmark, one line, progress bar.

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asset inventory

Full-size PNGs. Source of truth is the nest-egg repo under art/.

filesizeweightdownload
hero-v3-chartreuse.png2048×20483.8 MBpng
ladder-v3.png2752×15365.2 MBpng
states-v3.png2752×15365.1 MBpng
stickers-v3.png2400×17925.2 MBpng
A1-logo-system.png2752×15364.5 MBpng
A3-pfp-set.png2048×20485.2 MBpng
A4-banner.png3168×13444.7 MBpng
A5-og-image.png2752×15364.6 MBpng
A9-icon-set.png2400×17925.0 MBpng
A7-emoji-set.png2400×17925.8 MBpng
game-screen-chartreuse.png2400×17925.0 MBpng
dir-A-the-toy.png2752×15364.6 MBpng
dir-B-the-terminal.png2752×15365.6 MBpng
dir-C-the-stream.png2752×15364.2 MBpng
dir-D-the-desk.png2752×15368.3 MBpng
ladder-1bit-lcd.png2752×15365.2 MBpng
C1-egg-progression.png2752×15365.3 MBpng
ladder-degen-v1.png2752×15365.7 MBpng

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prompt recipe

How every sheet on this page was made, so the next one matches. Attach the reference image. Say match exactly. Use the frozen block. Never paraphrase the bird.

REFERENCE: attach hero-v3-chartreuse.png as an image reference.

Use the reference image as the exact character and rendering style.
Match it exactly: same round body, same big wide-set eyes with large
whites and tiny pupils, same grey beak, same dark forest green hood,
same chartreuse yellow-green feather (hex A8E000), same thick dark
outline, same pixel density, same colours. Do not restyle, do not add
detail, do not change proportions.

[then the sheet: layout, panels, labels]

Flat pale mint background, identical scale across all sprites, small
plain pixel-font labels, no other text, no watermark, no logo,
no frame border.
  • Sheets, not single sprites. One image, one character, many poses. Consistency inside a sheet is near perfect; between sheets it depends entirely on the reference being attached.
  • 16:9 for rows, 4:3 for grids, 1:1 for a single sprite, 21:9 for banners.
  • The model pads grids. Ask for six, expect seven. Crop.
  • Web app with Unlimited on is free and hits Nano Banana Pro. The API costs 2 credits and quietly runs Nano Banana 2. Use the web for finals.

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do / don't

DO keep the eyesWide-set, big whites, tiny pupils, one bigger. In every state. The eyes are the brand.
DO let it be uglyScruff, tufts, a slightly stupid stare. The cute version lost for a reason.
DO anchor to the fileGenerate from the reference image, never from a description of it. That is how the first batch drifted.
DO give Hungry real artOld enough, not fed enough is the state that keeps people buying. It gets its own animation.
DON'T go kawaiiNo sparkly eyes, no blush cheeks, no pastel. Rejected direction.
DON'T ball-body itNo legless round-bird silhouette. Tested, rejected.
DON'T use #00C805Legacy Robinhood green. Reads wrong. The feather is #A8E000.
DON'T touch Bandai or Robinhood marksNo Tamagotchi shell, icons or colourway. No Robinhood name or logo. The colour, only.