Stable navigation reduces visual and behavioral surprise. The useful question is not whether the idea sounds persuasive. It is whether it helps someone understand the work, make a decision, or complete a task with less friction.
What is happening
A logo that changes scale unpredictably or loses contrast makes the shell feel separate from the content beneath it.
This tends to become visible at the boundary between the organization and the person encountering it for the first time. Internal familiarity hides effort that remains obvious to a customer, reader, applicant, or collaborator.
A practical response
Keep dimensions stable, detect the surface behind fixed elements, and change only the color treatment required for legibility.
The aim is a smaller, clearer system: one source for the record, one visible hierarchy, and one next action that behaves as expected. That approach improves the immediate page and makes later application or database work easier to add without rebuilding the public surface.