Footer hive — 12 placements

The F1 footer is locked; only the hive changes — where it sits and how big it is. Same rules as the header rounds: never behind the logo or text (cells live in gutters, seams, corners, or open air), watermark opacities, orange/teal only on the dark ground. The white strip stands in for the page bottom.

H1Outer gutters (baseline) — the current placement in home-v2.html: two cells per side in the gutters outside the 1280 grid, mid sizes, quiet.
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H2Corner bloom — one big statement instead of a whisper: large cells grow out of the bottom-right corner, partially cut by the edges — the hive as architecture.
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H3Top seam — small cells half-sunk into the seam where the white page meets the dark footer, fading left to right — the comb as a stitched edge.
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H4Scattered field — seven tiny cells drifting in the footer's open air between the columns, near-invisible — texture you feel more than see.
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H5Diagonal balance — a grounded cluster sinking off the bottom-left, answered by a small echo at the top-right — the header's corner+echo logic, rotated into the footer.
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H6Monument — one giant comb cell, 380px tall and only 5% visible, standing behind the whole right half — the hive as a landmark you sense rather than read. A single tiny satellite keeps it from feeling static.
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H7Comb column — a vertical slab of interlocked cells climbing the right edge top to bottom, fading as it descends — the header's F4 idea finally used, at watermark quiet.
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H8Divider comb — five small cells riding the divider line above the © bar, centered — the comb as punctuation: a tiny, precise brand moment where every visitor's eye ends.
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H9Cradling the brand — cells gather under and beside the brand column — framing the logo from outside its exclusion zone, like comb built around the queen. The most intimate placement.
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H10Bee trail — six tiny cells fly along the bottom bar, weaving up and down, growing bigger and brighter as they approach “Back to top ↑” — the hive with a sense of humour, guiding the exit.
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H11Header mirror — the canonical header arrangement (F3d·4: corner cluster + echo, same sizes, same offsets from the grid edge) repeated on the footer's top corners — the page opens and closes with the same hive signature. Brown cells become faint cream so they read on the dark ground.
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H12Header mirror, grounded — the same arrangement flipped to the footer's BOTTOM corners — a true reflection: comb hangs from the top of the page, and rises from its floor. Most architectural of the mirror pair.
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