Thickens the outer bracket into an unmistakable capital L — heavier stem, squared-off foot — and nests a small evergreen w right inside the elbow where the stem meets the foot, the way a wax-seal monogram rides a big letter with a small one. Still a bracket, still closes a caption; now nobody has to be told it's an L.
Trade-off: the tucked w is the most delicate shape of the three at 16px. The heavy cut widens both letterforms hard to survive the favicon squeeze — worth checking it doesn't read as noise in a browser tab.
The L's foot doesn't stop at the corner — it hands off into a small w rising from the same baseline, in evergreen, like a hand-drawn monogram where both letters share a stroke. This mirrors the wordmark's own color logic (ink "law", evergreen "wa") at the level of the mark itself — a coherence win the current two-bracket mark doesn't have.
Trade-off: the biggest visual reset of the three. If anyone's already pattern-matching on the current silhouette (unlikely this early, but worth naming), this spends that recognition to buy clarity.
The most conservative move: the outer L stays essentially what it is today (just a hair bolder for legibility), and only the inner accent gets redrawn — from a plain corner-bracket into a recognizable lowercase w silhouette, in the same evergreen, occupying the same real estate the accent already lives in.
Trade-off: closest to the current mark, so the safest and cheapest to adopt — but also the smallest legibility win. The outer L reads about as clearly as it does today; only the inner shape gets sharper.
#15181C ink, #1E4D3F evergreen, #F6F4EF paper, #5FA98E moss — no new colors, wordmark untouched. If the goal is least disruption, pick C — it's the smallest edit and the lowest-risk ship. If the goal is the L finally reading at a glance, pick A — it does the most work on the letterform Geoff actually named. If the goal is the mark literally saying "Lw" the way a monogram would, pick B — it's the most distinctive but the biggest reset. Please react per size, not just per direction — the 16px row is doing the real work here, since that's the scale Geoff will see in a browser tab every day, and it's also where the current mark quietly fails today.