At some point Aoede stopped looking like a prototype. For a reading app that matters more than it would for most software, because here the type and the highlight are not chrome wrapped around the product. They are the product. Typography is not decoration; it is the interface.
So Aoede now ships its own reading faces instead of borrowing whatever the system has lying around: Literata for the body, drawn for long stretches of reading, and Fraunces, a high-contrast display serif, for titles and headings. It has real reading themes, paper, sepia, night, and high-contrast, with a warm paper texture under the words instead of a flat fill. The word highlight is a soft pill that glides to the active word, easing into a gentler sentence band when the timing is only an estimate. The transport controls float above the page as a Liquid Glass bar, which is exactly the kind of surface that material was made for, while the page itself stays matte and out of the way.
Even the icon follows the same idea: a lyre turned on its side so its strings read as lines of text, with one line lit by the amber highlight. A nod to Aoede, the Muse of voice, and to the single interaction the whole app is built around.