Three stacked badges, each a coloured dot beside a word — presence, trust,
profile — turned a host card into a legend for itself, and made it ~220dp tall
for four facts. Two of the three didn't need to be badges at all.
**Presence moves onto the avatar**, the idiom every contact list already uses:
a dot on the corner, and one fewer labelled row. It is GREEN when the host is
up — a fixed green, not the scheme's primary, because Material You's primary
is whatever the wallpaper says and might itself be a green that then means
nothing. Offline is a hollow ring rather than a differently-coloured dot, so
the state survives a colour-blind reader and a greyscale screenshot; TalkBack
gets the word either way.
**Trust moves to the free top-left corner** as a glyph mirroring the overflow
on the right — locked (paired), a key (this host will ask for a PIN), an open
lock (trust-on-first-use). It costs no height at all, and it is a state you
glance at rather than read; the label rides along as the content description,
and the dialogs that actually make the trust decision spell it out in
sentences. That also retires the pill whose long label ("Trust on first use")
was what made cards tower over their neighbours in the first place.
**The profile chip stays a chip** — it is the one badge that earns the accent,
because it is the only one that says what a tap will DO.
Net: ~220dp down to ~150dp, one badge instead of three, and the only reserved
slot left is the chip's (the row-height rule still applies to it).
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