The light lavender theme carried its color in decoration -- four colored
background blobs, a conic-gradient brand mark, gradient-clipped wordmark,
a four-color animated button, a spinning conic empty mark, and a five-color
spectrum rail. All of that competed with the only color on screen that
carries meaning: which source a story came from.
- One indigo-slate ink ramp (bg / surface / line / ink) carries every neutral
surface; the only saturated hues are the three sources, used strictly as
signals -- filter pill, card spine, source chip, timestamp, feed health.
- Rule for every filled state: bright fill, deep ink type. Source tokens kept
in sync between :root and View::sourceColor().
- Signature "signal bars": a CSS brand mark of three ascending bars in the
source hues, and the header rail re-cut into three wire segments that double
as the palette legend. The empty state reuses the mark, unlit and static.
- Bootstrap switched to data-bs-theme="dark" with matching form controls,
alerts, and focus rings; --ink-faint recalibrated so small text clears
WCAG 4.5:1 on every surface. Reduced-motion behavior unchanged.
- README documents the two rules next to View::sourceColor().
Harwinder Sekhon
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