feat(themes): kiln + kiln-clay — the third exclusive pair, brand new

Completes the three dark/light pairs for v1 (batch: 0ba1762, e51c8a7).
Kiln is a potter's workshop at night, lit only by the kiln: warm
near-black (#1D1815), copper accent (#D68C5C, 6.5:1), brass accentAlt,
CaskaydiaCove, rounding 8. Kiln Clay is the same studio at midday:
cream plaster (#F4EDE3), espresso text (11.1:1 AAA), fired-copper
accent (#A34F1F, 4.89:1), brick-red bad. Both waybars are a NEW
whole-swap identity — 'the workbench': ONE continuous floating plank
(window#waybar carries the surface, modules transparent) — deliberately
distinct from boreal's three pills and slate's edge-to-edge strip;
module set verbatim-parity with the generated config. Matched rofi,
btop themes. The wallpapers share identical ring geometry — banked-coal
heat rings at night, terracotta glaze rings at noon — so the autoTheme
flip visibly rhymes.

Sync sweep in this commit (LOOP §5): README 24->28 presets + the
whole-swap list now names the three pairs; CONVENTIONS waybar parity
list gains the four new slugs; OVERRIDES autoTheme table points at the
pairs; HARDWARE-QUEUE gains the batch V3 entry (real-GL blur, btop
visual, launcher grid, tray menus, pair flip); BACKLOG files #153
(PROPOSED: per-theme desktop widgets — the conky idea, engine spike
needed, not v1).

Verification: V2. Full targeted set green on the final tree:
theme-contrast, theme-wholeswap (previews + backgrounds + CSS
self-containment), waybar-language, waybar-swap-env, rofi-text-width,
state-sync-validate, auto-theme VM; nix flake check --no-build green.
Visual protocol: theme-shot VM desktop + menu viewed for BOTH themes
(plank renders as one island, copper/terracotta semantics, legible
menus; /nix/store/2fizd945...theme-shot-kiln and
/nix/store/0126yd48...theme-shot-kiln-clay). audit-theme-design:
CVD-only findings (≤ executive-slate's own baseline); ANSI slots
in-family after the magenta retune. V3 pending: HARDWARE-QUEUE entry
above. btop visual is VM-blocked (GL terminal never starts under
softGL) — file-level assertions only, listed for hardware.

Design + wallpapers on Fable; assets by a Sonnet subagent to a written
identity spec; reviewed on Fable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

README.md

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Flat on purpose. Two module trees, one options file each, no hidden layers.
 ├── flake.nix                      # inputs + the downstream API (exports below)
 ├── lib.nix                        # nomarchy.lib.mkFlake — one-call downstream wrapper
 ├── state.json               # ★ THE single source of truth (git-tracked!)
-├── themes/                        # 24 presets: <slug>.json + optional <slug>/ assets
+├── themes/                        # 28 presets: <slug>.json + optional <slug>/ assets
 │   ├── nord.json                  #   palette (required, works alone)
 │   └── nord/                      #   assets (optional, fixed filenames)
 │       ├── backgrounds/           #     wallpapers (pinned nomarchy-wallpapers input, not this repo)
@@ -440,8 +440,9 @@ per theme — a single place to look, unlike the old distro's split:
 | `waybar.jsonc` | whole-swap for the bar *layout* (must be plain JSON) |
 | `rofi.rasi` | **whole-swap**: replaces the generated launcher/menu theme entirely |
 
-Four themes ship a `waybar.css` identity (summer-day, summer-night,
+Eight themes ship a `waybar.css` identity: the three Nomarchy-exclusive
-executive-slate, boreal). Custom user themes can live in
+day/night pairs — boreal ↔ boreal-dawn, executive-slate ↔ executive-ivory,
+kiln ↔ kiln-clay — plus summer-night ↔ summer-day. Custom user themes can live in
 `$NOMARCHY_PATH/themes/` (preset lookup) and `nomarchy.themesDir` (eval-time
 asset probe) — including their own `backgrounds/`, which wins over the
 pinned `nomarchy-wallpapers` input (checked first); an explicit `wallpaper`
@@ -450,7 +451,7 @@ path in `state.json` works too.
 ## 5. Day-to-day
 
 ```sh
-nomarchy-state-sync list               # 24 presets (nord, gruvbox, rose-pine, …)
+nomarchy-state-sync list               # 28 presets (nord, gruvbox, rose-pine, …)
 nomarchy-state-sync apply kanagawa     # whole desktop, one generation (~a switch)
 nomarchy-state-sync set ui.gapsOut 16  # tweak one knob (also a switch)
 nomarchy-state-sync bg next            # cycle wallpapers — instant, no rebuild

agent/BACKLOG.md

@@ -129,6 +129,21 @@ high-ROI, etc.) live in the journal + ROADMAP — not here.*
 
 ### Product / day-2
 
+### 153. Desktop widgets (clock / system stats) as an opt-in per-theme surface
+
+Pitch (filed while shipping the three exclusive theme pairs, 2026-07-18):
+themed desktop widgets — a clock, calendar, or system-stats panel living on
+the wallpaper, conky-style — would deepen the identity themes (imagine
+kiln's copper stats panel or executive-ivory's letterhead clock). No such
+surface exists today, so it is a NEW theming surface: per CONVENTIONS it
+must consume the palette from the state JSON (no side pipeline) and ship
+as an opt-in `nomarchy.*` toggle with a commented template example. Engine
+choice is the real decision — conky is X11-era; a Wayland layer-shell
+widget system (eww or a small QML/GTK layer-shell tool) fits the stack
+better. Cost: moderate (engine spike + palette bridge + 2–3 widget
+layouts; start with the exclusive pairs only, not all 28 themes). Value:
+v1+ polish, not a v1 blocker.
+
 ### 146. `[watch]` hypridle hangs instead of exiting when its compositor vanishes
 
 **Rewritten 2026-07-16, hours after filing: the premise was disproven and almost

agent/CONVENTIONS.md

@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ those, it probably shouldn't exist.
   named `writeShellScriptBin`s on PATH (so static configs can exec them
   by bare name), and are added to **both** the generated `waybar.nix`
   config **and** every `waybar.jsonc` whole-swap — summer-day, summer-night,
-  executive-slate and boreal (the parity rule).
+  executive-slate, executive-ivory, boreal, boreal-dawn, kiln and
+  kiln-clay (the parity rule).
 - **Theming:** every new visual surface consumes the palette from the
   state JSON. There is no second renderer to keep in sync — add the key
   to the JSON, consume it in the module.

agent/HARDWARE-QUEUE.md

@@ -28,6 +28,27 @@ Everything else below stays open; order is convenience, not a gate.
 
 ## Any machine (dev box is fine)
 
+- [ ] **Theme pairs V3 — the four new themes on real GL** — after pulling
+      the pair commits: `nomarchy-state-sync apply <slug>` for each of
+      boreal-dawn, executive-ivory, kiln, kiln-clay. Pass = all of:
+      (1) the bar renders true — boreal-dawn's frosted pills actually blur
+      what's behind them (softGL VM can't prove blur), kiln's plank shows
+      its copper edge, no font-fallback boxes (GeistMono / JetBrainsMono /
+      CaskaydiaCove); (2) wallpaper paints at native res, no banding on the
+      kiln ember gradient; (3) Kitty + btop under each theme — btop colors
+      match (the VM never started the GL terminal; btop.theme is
+      file-asserted only); (4) boreal-dawn app launcher (SUPER+Space) lays
+      out its icon grid; (5) an nm-applet/tray menu is readable under all
+      four (the `*`-reset counter-rules). If a VM-rendered preview looks
+      off in the theme-picker grid next to the hardware-captured ones,
+      recapture that preview on hardware into themes/<slug>/preview.png.
+- [ ] **Auto-theme pair flip on hardware** — set
+      `settings.autoTheme.{day,night}` to one of the new pairs (e.g.
+      kiln-clay / kiln), force sunrise/sunset around the current time,
+      let the timer flip once each way. Pass = the whole desktop switches
+      in one generation, and nothing leaks from the previous theme —
+      fonts, rounding, terminal opacity all reset (the per-theme
+      appearance block), wallpaper follows.
 - [ ] **#148 dock-intent enforcement without auto-profiles (dev box, docked)** —
       after pulling the #148 commit: **log out and back in first** — the
       watcher is `exec-once`, so `nomarchy-home` alone leaves the old one

docs/OVERRIDES.md

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ State lives in `settings.autoTheme`:
 | Field | Meaning |
 |---|---|
 | `enable` | on / off |
-| `day` / `night` | theme slugs — e.g. `summer-day` / `summer-night` (see `nomarchy-state-sync list`) |
+| `day` / `night` | theme slugs (see `nomarchy-state-sync list`) — the exclusive pairs are made for this: `boreal-dawn`/`boreal`, `executive-ivory`/`executive-slate`, `kiln-clay`/`kiln`, `summer-day`/`summer-night` |
 | `sunrise` / `sunset` | switch times, `"HH:MM"` (24-hour) |
 
 A timer re-checks every ~15 minutes: the day theme applies around sunrise, the

themes/kiln-clay.json

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+{
+  "version": 1,
+  "name": "Kiln Clay",
+  "slug": "kiln-clay",
+  "mode": "light",
+  "wallpaper": "",
+  "colors": {
+    "base": "#F4EDE3",
+    "mantle": "#DFD4C4",
+    "surface": "#EAE1D3",
+    "overlay": "#B1A28E",
+    "text": "#39302A",
+    "subtext": "#5D5142",
+    "muted": "#877867",
+    "accent": "#A34F1F",
+    "accentAlt": "#75621A",
+    "good": "#586F26",
+    "warn": "#8A5E08",
+    "bad": "#AC3B31"
+  },
+  "border": {
+    "active": "accent",
+    "inactive": "overlay"
+  },
+  "fonts": {
+    "mono": "CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font",
+    "ui": "Inter",
+    "size": 11
+  },
+  "ui": {
+    "gapsIn": 5,
+    "gapsOut": 12,
+    "borderSize": 2,
+    "rounding": 8,
+    "iconSize": 40,
+    "activeOpacity": 1.0,
+    "inactiveOpacity": 0.95,
+    "terminalOpacity": 0.95,
+    "blur": true,
+    "shadow": true
+  },
+  "ansi": [
+    "#39302A",
+    "#AC3B31",
+    "#586F26",
+    "#8A5E08",
+    "#3E5F8A",
+    "#7E4A8A",
+    "#33705F",
+    "#F4EDE3",
+    "#877867",
+    "#C05045",
+    "#6A8332",
+    "#A06E10",
+    "#4E70A0",
+    "#96609F",
+    "#418472",
+    "#FAF6EF"
+  ]
+}

themes/kiln-clay/btop.theme

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+theme[main_bg]="#F4EDE3"
+theme[main_fg]="#39302A"
+theme[title]="#39302A"
+theme[hi_fg]="#A34F1F"
+theme[selected_bg]="#EAE1D3"
+theme[selected_fg]="#39302A"
+theme[inactive_fg]="#877867"
+theme[graph_text]="#5D5142"
+theme[meter_bg]="#DFD4C4"
+theme[proc_misc]="#75621A"
+theme[cpu_box]="#A34F1F"
+theme[mem_box]="#586F26"
+theme[net_box]="#75621A"
+theme[proc_box]="#B1A28E"
+theme[div_line]="#B1A28E"
+theme[temp_start]="#586F26"
+theme[temp_mid]="#8A5E08"
+theme[temp_end]="#AC3B31"
+theme[cpu_start]="#586F26"
+theme[cpu_mid]="#8A5E08"
+theme[cpu_end]="#AC3B31"
+theme[free_start]="#586F26"
+theme[used_start]="#8A5E08"
+theme[download_start]="#A34F1F"
+theme[upload_start]="#75621A"

themes/kiln-clay/rofi.rasi

@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+/**
+ * Kiln Clay — rofi whole-swap (themes/<slug>/rofi.rasi).
+ * The base theme: the same solid clay panel as Kiln, lit by midday
+ * terracotta edge glow instead of ember-copper — cream plaster, not
+ * frost or glass. Element structure mirrors the generated theme so the
+ * theme-grid picker's per-invocation -theme-str still lays out. The
+ * `configuration {}` block is omitted on purpose — it comes from
+ * modules/home/rofi.nix.
+ */
+
+* {
+    base:       #F4EDE3;
+    panelBg:    #F4EDE3F5;
+    surface:    #EAE1D3;
+    overlay:    #B1A28E;
+    text:       #39302A;
+    subtext:    #5D5142;
+    muted:      #877867;
+    accent:     #A34F1F;
+    accentAlt:  #75621A;
+    accentEdge: #A34F1F59;
+    accentWash: #A34F1F33;
+
+    font: "CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font 11";
+    background-color: transparent;
+    text-color: @text;
+}
+
+window {
+    background-color: @panelBg;
+    border: 1px;
+    border-color: @accentEdge;
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    width: calc( 84ch min 65% );
+    location: center;
+    anchor: center;
+    padding: 16px;
+}
+
+mainbox {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    children: [ inputbar, message, listview ];
+    spacing: 12px;
+}
+
+inputbar {
+    children: [ prompt, entry ];
+    background-color: @surface;
+    text-color: @text;
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    padding: 12px 16px;
+    spacing: 10px;
+}
+
+prompt { text-color: @accent; }
+
+entry {
+    text-color: @text;
+    cursor: text;
+    placeholder: "Search…";
+    placeholder-color: @muted;
+}
+
+listview {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    columns: 1;
+    lines: 8;
+    dynamic: true;
+    scrollbar: true;
+    spacing: 6px;
+    padding: 4px 0px 0px 0px;
+}
+
+element {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    text-color: @text;
+    orientation: horizontal;
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    padding: 10px 14px;
+    spacing: 12px;
+}
+
+element normal.normal,
+element alternate.normal {
+    background-color: transparent;
+}
+
+/* Selected row lifts on a soft terracotta wash. */
+element selected.normal {
+    background-color: @accentWash;
+    text-color: @text;
+}
+
+element-icon {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    size: 30px;
+    cursor: inherit;
+}
+
+element-text {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    text-color: inherit;
+    highlight: bold;
+    vertical-align: 0.5;
+}
+
+message { padding: 0px; }
+
+textbox {
+    background-color: @surface;
+    text-color: @text;
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    padding: 10px 14px;
+}
+
+scrollbar {
+    width: 4px;
+    handle-width: 4px;
+    handle-color: @accent;
+    background-color: @surface;
+    border: 0px;
+}

themes/kiln-clay/waybar.css

@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+/*
+ * Kiln Clay — Waybar whole-swap (themes/<slug>/waybar.css).
+ *
+ * A theme waybar.css replaces the ENTIRE generated stylesheet and is read
+ * raw (no palette is prepended), so this file MUST define its own colors.
+ * Identity: "the workbench" at midday — the same ONE continuous floating
+ * island as Kiln's night plank, translated to daylight: cream plaster
+ * worktop, terracotta edge-glow. No pills, no edge-to-edge strip: every
+ * module — including the tray — sits directly on the one plank, seamless.
+ * Companion: waybar.jsonc.
+ */
+
+@define-color base      #F4EDE3;
+@define-color mantle    #DFD4C4;
+@define-color surface   #EAE1D3;
+@define-color overlay   #B1A28E;
+@define-color text      #39302A;
+@define-color subtext   #5D5142;
+@define-color muted     #877867;
+@define-color accent    #A34F1F;
+@define-color accentAlt #75621A;
+@define-color good      #586F26;
+@define-color warn      #8A5E08;
+@define-color bad       #AC3B31;
+
+/* NB: this `*` reset reaches the SNI tray menus Waybar hosts too (its
+   stylesheet applies process-wide, at a priority user gtk.css cannot
+   out-rank). The menu block right below undoes the damage — keep the two
+   in sync. Do NOT scope `*` to window#waybar instead: the id's
+   specificity would beat the class rules below (the plank) and wreck the
+   bar. */
+* {
+  /* Mono Nerd face for status glyphs (tight right bearings on the
+     proportional Symbols face make icon+percentage collide). */
+  font-family: "CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font", "Symbols Nerd Font Mono";
+  font-size: 13px;
+  font-weight: 500;
+  border: none;
+  border-radius: 0;
+  min-height: 0;
+}
+
+/* ── Tray menus (nm-applet & co live in Waybar's process) ─────────────
+   Undo the `*` reset for them: same stylesheet, higher specificity.
+   Arrows/checks are CSS-sized nodes — min-height 0 makes them invisible;
+   separators die the same way; the bar's mono face reads wrong in text
+   menus. */
+menu, menu * { font-family: "Inter", sans-serif; }
+menu menuitem arrow { min-width: 16px; min-height: 16px; }
+menu check, menu radio { min-width: 14px; min-height: 14px; }
+menu separator {
+  min-height: 1px;
+  margin: 5px 0;
+  background: alpha(@text, 0.15);
+}
+
+/* The plank itself — one solid worktop spanning the island, a faint
+   terracotta edge-glow lifting it off the wallpaper. */
+window#waybar {
+  background: alpha(@base, 0.94);
+  border: 1px solid alpha(@accent, 0.35);
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  color: @text;
+}
+
+.modules-left,
+.modules-center,
+.modules-right {
+  background: transparent;
+  padding: 0 6px;
+  margin: 0;
+}
+
+/* Every module sits ON the plank: transparent, so nothing boxes the tray
+   off from the status icons — the seamless-cluster requirement. */
+#custom-nomarchy,
+#clock,
+#custom-recording,
+#custom-updates,
+#custom-doctor,
+#idle_inhibitor,
+#custom-nightlight,
+#custom-airplane,
+#language,
+#custom-vpn,
+#pulseaudio,
+#battery,
+#custom-powerprofile,
+#tray,
+#custom-notification,
+#custom-powermenu {
+  background: transparent;
+  color: alpha(@text, 0.9);
+  padding: 0 8px;
+  margin: 0;
+}
+
+/* ── Launcher — the terracotta Nomarchy mark opens the plank ──────────
+   The mark lives at U+F000 in the dedicated "Nomarchy" font; pin the
+   family or the Nerd Font's glass glyph at the same codepoint wins. */
+#custom-nomarchy {
+  color: @accent;
+  font-family: Nomarchy;
+  font-size: 18px;
+  padding: 0 12px 0 14px;
+}
+#custom-nomarchy:hover { color: @accentAlt; }
+
+/* ── Clock — unified time · date ─────────────────────────────────────*/
+#clock {
+  color: @text;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  padding-left: 4px;
+}
+
+/* ── Workspaces — dots that fire to a fired-clay pill when active ─────*/
+#workspaces { padding: 0 2px; }
+
+#workspaces button {
+  color: @muted;
+  padding: 0 9px;
+  margin: 3px 1px;
+  border-radius: 6px;
+  transition: color 0.2s ease, background 0.2s ease;
+}
+#workspaces button:hover {
+  color: @text;
+  background: alpha(@overlay, 0.6);
+}
+#workspaces button.active {
+  color: @base;
+  background: @accent;
+  border-radius: 6px;
+}
+#workspaces button.urgent {
+  color: @base;
+  background: @bad;
+  border-radius: 6px;
+}
+
+/* ── Status semantics (neutral until a state fires) ──────────────────*/
+#custom-recording.recording { color: @bad; }
+#custom-updates.available    { color: @accent; }
+#custom-doctor               { color: @bad; }
+#idle_inhibitor.activated    { color: @warn; }
+#custom-nightlight.on        { color: @warn; }
+#custom-airplane.on        { color: @warn; }
+#custom-vpn.on               { color: @good; }
+#pulseaudio.muted            { color: @muted; }
+
+#battery.charging { color: @good; }
+#battery.warning:not(.charging)  { color: @warn; }
+#battery.critical:not(.charging) { color: @bad; }
+
+/* Icon-only status modules carry no text, so they don't get the 13pt
+   Pango icon span the icon+text modules (volume/battery/language) use —
+   bump their font-size to match, or these glyphs read noticeably smaller
+   than their neighbours. */
+#custom-recording,
+#custom-updates,
+#custom-doctor,
+#custom-nightlight,
+#custom-airplane,
+#custom-vpn,
+#custom-notification { font-size: 17px; }
+/* Speedometer + caffeine cup render small in their em box — a touch more. */
+#custom-powerprofile,
+#idle_inhibitor { font-size: 18px; }
+
+#custom-notification.notification { color: @accent; }
+#custom-notification.dnd-none,
+#custom-notification.dnd-notification,
+#custom-notification.inhibited-none,
+#custom-notification.inhibited-notification { color: @muted; }
+
+/* Tray shares the plank — same transparent background, its own modest
+   padding so nm-applet & friends breathe with the status icons. */
+#tray { padding: 0 6px; }
+#tray > .passive { -gtk-icon-effect: dim; }
+#tray > .needs-attention { -gtk-icon-effect: highlight; }
+
+/* Power button closes the plank on the right; warms to alert on hover. */
+#custom-powermenu { color: @subtext; padding: 0 12px 0 8px; }
+#custom-powermenu:hover { color: @bad; }
+
+/* ── Tooltips — solid plaster, terracotta edge ───────────────────────*/
+tooltip {
+  background: alpha(@base, 0.97);
+  border: 1px solid alpha(@accent, 0.4);
+  border-radius: 8px;
+}
+tooltip label { color: @text; }

themes/kiln-clay/waybar.jsonc

@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+{
+  "margin-top": 6,
+  "margin-left": 12,
+  "margin-right": 12,
+  "margin-bottom": 0,
+  "height": 38,
+  "layer": "bottom",
+  "position": "top",
+  "spacing": 4,
+  "reload_style_on_change": true,
+  "modules-left": [
+    "custom/nomarchy",
+    "clock"
+  ],
+  "modules-center": [
+    "hyprland/workspaces"
+  ],
+  "modules-right": [
+    "custom/recording",
+    "custom/updates",
+    "custom/doctor",
+    "idle_inhibitor",
+    "custom/nightlight",
+    "hyprland/language",
+    "custom/vpn",
+    "custom/airplane",
+    "pulseaudio",
+    "battery",
+    "custom/powerprofile",
+    "tray",
+    "custom/notification",
+    "custom/powermenu"
+  ],
+  "custom/nomarchy": {
+    "interval": "once",
+    "format": "",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-menu",
+    "tooltip-format": "Nomarchy menu"
+  },
+  "clock": {
+    "format": "{:%H:%M  ·  %a %d %b}",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-calendar",
+    "tooltip": true,
+    "tooltip-format": "{:%A, %d %B %Y\n%Z (UTC%z)}"
+  },
+  "hyprland/workspaces": {
+    "disable-scroll": true,
+    "all-outputs": true,
+    "on-click": "activate",
+    "on-scroll-up": "hyprctl dispatch workspace r+1",
+    "on-scroll-down": "hyprctl dispatch workspace r-1"
+  },
+  "custom/recording": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "interval": 10,
+    "signal": 8,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-record status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-record stop"
+  },
+  "custom/updates": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "interval": 1800,
+    "signal": 9,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-updates status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-updates upgrade-window"
+  },
+  "custom/doctor": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "format": "{}",
+    "interval": 300,
+    "signal": 10,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-doctor-status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-menu doctor"
+  },
+  "idle_inhibitor": {
+    "format": "{icon}",
+    "format-icons": {
+      "activated": " 󰅶 ",
+      "deactivated": " 󰾪 "
+    }
+  },
+  "custom/nightlight": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "interval": 3,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-nightlight status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-nightlight toggle"
+  },
+  "hyprland/language": {
+    "format": "<span size='13pt'>󰌌  </span>{short}",
+    "tooltip": false
+  },
+  "custom/vpn": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "interval": 5,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-vpn-status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-vpn"
+  },
+  "pulseaudio": {
+    "scroll-step": 5,
+    "format": "<span size='13pt'>{icon}</span>{volume}%",
+    "format-bluetooth": "<span size='13pt'>{icon}  </span>{volume}%",
+    "format-bluetooth-muted": " {icon}",
+    "format-muted": "<span size='13pt'>  </span>muted",
+    "format-icons": {
+      "headphone": "  ",
+      "hands-free": "  ",
+      "headset": "  ",
+      "phone": "  ",
+      "portable": "  ",
+      "car": "  ",
+      "default": [
+        "  ",
+        "  ",
+        "  "
+      ]
+    },
+    "on-click": "wpctl set-mute @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SINK@ toggle",
+    "on-click-right": "pwvucontrol",
+    "tooltip-format": "{desc} | {volume}%"
+  },
+  "battery": {
+    "interval": 30,
+    "states": {
+      "warning": 25,
+      "critical": 10
+    },
+    "format": "<span size='13pt'>{icon}</span>{capacity}%",
+    "format-charging": "<span size='13pt'>  </span>{capacity}%",
+    "format-plugged": "<span size='13pt'>  </span>{capacity}%",
+    "tooltip-format-plugged": "Plugged in, not charging — held at {capacity}% by the battery charge cap\nCharging resumes ~10% below the cap · click to adjust",
+    "format-icons": [
+      "  ",
+      "  ",
+      "  ",
+      "  ",
+      "  "
+    ],
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-menu powermgmt",
+    "tooltip-format": "Battery status"
+  },
+  "custom/powerprofile": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "interval": 5,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-powerprofile-status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-menu powermgmt"
+  },
+  "tray": {
+    "icon-size": 15,
+    "spacing": 10
+  },
+  "custom/notification": {
+    "format": "{icon}",
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "exec": "swaync-client -swb",
+    "exec-if": "which swaync-client",
+    "escape": true,
+    "tooltip": true,
+    "on-click": "swaync-client -t -sw",
+    "on-click-right": "swaync-client -d -sw",
+    "format-icons": {
+      "none": "󰂜",
+      "notification": "󰂚",
+      "dnd-none": "󰂛",
+      "dnd-notification": "󰂛",
+      "inhibited-none": "󰂛",
+      "inhibited-notification": "󰂛",
+      "dnd-inhibited-none": "󰂛",
+      "dnd-inhibited-notification": "󰂛"
+    }
+  },
+  "custom/powermenu": {
+    "format": "",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-menu power",
+    "tooltip": false
+  },
+  "custom/airplane": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "interval": 5,
+    "signal": 11,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-airplane status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-airplane toggle"
+  }
+}

themes/kiln.json

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+{
+  "version": 1,
+  "name": "Kiln",
+  "slug": "kiln",
+  "mode": "dark",
+  "wallpaper": "",
+  "colors": {
+    "base": "#1D1815",
+    "mantle": "#151110",
+    "surface": "#2C241E",
+    "overlay": "#41362D",
+    "text": "#EADFD3",
+    "subtext": "#B5A695",
+    "muted": "#77685A",
+    "accent": "#D68C5C",
+    "accentAlt": "#C8A94E",
+    "good": "#A0B36A",
+    "warn": "#E0A458",
+    "bad": "#E26D5A"
+  },
+  "border": {
+    "active": "accent",
+    "inactive": "overlay"
+  },
+  "fonts": {
+    "mono": "CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font",
+    "ui": "Inter",
+    "size": 11
+  },
+  "ui": {
+    "gapsIn": 5,
+    "gapsOut": 12,
+    "borderSize": 2,
+    "rounding": 8,
+    "iconSize": 40,
+    "activeOpacity": 1.0,
+    "inactiveOpacity": 0.94,
+    "terminalOpacity": 0.93,
+    "blur": true,
+    "shadow": true
+  },
+  "ansi": [
+    "#2C241E",
+    "#E26D5A",
+    "#A0B36A",
+    "#E0A458",
+    "#90A9C8",
+    "#BC8FC6",
+    "#9FBFAE",
+    "#EADFD3",
+    "#77685A",
+    "#EB8272",
+    "#AFC17C",
+    "#E8B46E",
+    "#A3B8D4",
+    "#CBA3D4",
+    "#B0CCBD",
+    "#F4EDE5"
+  ]
+}

themes/kiln/btop.theme

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+theme[main_bg]="#1D1815"
+theme[main_fg]="#EADFD3"
+theme[title]="#EADFD3"
+theme[hi_fg]="#D68C5C"
+theme[selected_bg]="#2C241E"
+theme[selected_fg]="#EADFD3"
+theme[inactive_fg]="#77685A"
+theme[graph_text]="#B5A695"
+theme[meter_bg]="#151110"
+theme[proc_misc]="#C8A94E"
+theme[cpu_box]="#D68C5C"
+theme[mem_box]="#A0B36A"
+theme[net_box]="#C8A94E"
+theme[proc_box]="#41362D"
+theme[div_line]="#41362D"
+theme[temp_start]="#A0B36A"
+theme[temp_mid]="#E0A458"
+theme[temp_end]="#E26D5A"
+theme[cpu_start]="#A0B36A"
+theme[cpu_mid]="#E0A458"
+theme[cpu_end]="#E26D5A"
+theme[free_start]="#A0B36A"
+theme[used_start]="#E0A458"
+theme[download_start]="#D68C5C"
+theme[upload_start]="#C8A94E"

themes/kiln/rofi.rasi

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+/**
+ * Kiln — rofi whole-swap (themes/<slug>/rofi.rasi).
+ * The base theme: a solid warm clay panel lit by ember-copper edge glow —
+ * no frost, no glass, a potter's workbench at night. Element structure
+ * mirrors the generated theme so the theme-grid picker's per-invocation
+ * -theme-str still lays out. The `configuration {}` block is omitted on
+ * purpose — it comes from modules/home/rofi.nix.
+ */
+
+* {
+    base:       #1D1815;
+    panelBg:    #1D1815F2;
+    surface:    #2C241E;
+    overlay:    #41362D;
+    text:       #EADFD3;
+    subtext:    #B5A695;
+    muted:      #77685A;
+    accent:     #D68C5C;
+    accentAlt:  #C8A94E;
+    accentEdge: #D68C5C66;
+    accentWash: #D68C5C33;
+
+    font: "CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font 11";
+    background-color: transparent;
+    text-color: @text;
+}
+
+window {
+    background-color: @panelBg;
+    border: 1px;
+    border-color: @accentEdge;
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    width: calc( 84ch min 65% );
+    location: center;
+    anchor: center;
+    padding: 16px;
+}
+
+mainbox {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    children: [ inputbar, message, listview ];
+    spacing: 12px;
+}
+
+inputbar {
+    children: [ prompt, entry ];
+    background-color: @surface;
+    text-color: @text;
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    padding: 12px 16px;
+    spacing: 10px;
+}
+
+prompt { text-color: @accent; }
+
+entry {
+    text-color: @text;
+    cursor: text;
+    placeholder: "Search…";
+    placeholder-color: @muted;
+}
+
+listview {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    columns: 1;
+    lines: 8;
+    dynamic: true;
+    scrollbar: true;
+    spacing: 6px;
+    padding: 4px 0px 0px 0px;
+}
+
+element {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    text-color: @text;
+    orientation: horizontal;
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    padding: 10px 14px;
+    spacing: 12px;
+}
+
+element normal.normal,
+element alternate.normal {
+    background-color: transparent;
+}
+
+/* Selected row lifts on a soft ember-copper wash. */
+element selected.normal {
+    background-color: @accentWash;
+    text-color: @text;
+}
+
+element-icon {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    size: 30px;
+    cursor: inherit;
+}
+
+element-text {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    text-color: inherit;
+    highlight: bold;
+    vertical-align: 0.5;
+}
+
+message { padding: 0px; }
+
+textbox {
+    background-color: @surface;
+    text-color: @text;
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    padding: 10px 14px;
+}
+
+scrollbar {
+    width: 4px;
+    handle-width: 4px;
+    handle-color: @accent;
+    background-color: @surface;
+    border: 0px;
+}

themes/kiln/waybar.css

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+/*
+ * Kiln — Waybar whole-swap (themes/<slug>/waybar.css).
+ *
+ * A theme waybar.css replaces the ENTIRE generated stylesheet and is read
+ * raw (no palette is prepended), so this file MUST define its own colors.
+ * Identity: "the workbench" — ONE continuous floating island, a solid
+ * worktop plank spanning the screen width minus margins, with a faint
+ * copper edge-glow border. No pills, no edge-to-edge strip: every module
+ * — including the tray — sits directly on the one plank, seamless.
+ * Companion: waybar.jsonc.
+ */
+
+@define-color base      #1D1815;
+@define-color mantle    #151110;
+@define-color surface   #2C241E;
+@define-color overlay   #41362D;
+@define-color text      #EADFD3;
+@define-color subtext   #B5A695;
+@define-color muted     #77685A;
+@define-color accent    #D68C5C;
+@define-color accentAlt #C8A94E;
+@define-color good      #A0B36A;
+@define-color warn      #E0A458;
+@define-color bad       #E26D5A;
+
+/* NB: this `*` reset reaches the SNI tray menus Waybar hosts too (its
+   stylesheet applies process-wide, at a priority user gtk.css cannot
+   out-rank). The menu block right below undoes the damage — keep the two
+   in sync. Do NOT scope `*` to window#waybar instead: the id's
+   specificity would beat the class rules below (the plank) and wreck the
+   bar. */
+* {
+  /* Mono Nerd face for status glyphs (tight right bearings on the
+     proportional Symbols face make icon+percentage collide). */
+  font-family: "CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font", "Symbols Nerd Font Mono";
+  font-size: 13px;
+  font-weight: 500;
+  border: none;
+  border-radius: 0;
+  min-height: 0;
+}
+
+/* ── Tray menus (nm-applet & co live in Waybar's process) ─────────────
+   Undo the `*` reset for them: same stylesheet, higher specificity.
+   Arrows/checks are CSS-sized nodes — min-height 0 makes them invisible;
+   separators die the same way; the bar's mono face reads wrong in text
+   menus. */
+menu, menu * { font-family: "Inter", sans-serif; }
+menu menuitem arrow { min-width: 16px; min-height: 16px; }
+menu check, menu radio { min-width: 14px; min-height: 14px; }
+menu separator {
+  min-height: 1px;
+  margin: 5px 0;
+  background: alpha(@text, 0.15);
+}
+
+/* The plank itself — one solid worktop spanning the island, a faint
+   ember-copper edge-glow lifting it off the wallpaper. */
+window#waybar {
+  background: alpha(@base, 0.92);
+  border: 1px solid alpha(@accent, 0.25);
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  color: @text;
+}
+
+.modules-left,
+.modules-center,
+.modules-right {
+  background: transparent;
+  padding: 0 6px;
+  margin: 0;
+}
+
+/* Every module sits ON the plank: transparent, so nothing boxes the tray
+   off from the status icons — the seamless-cluster requirement. */
+#custom-nomarchy,
+#clock,
+#custom-recording,
+#custom-updates,
+#custom-doctor,
+#idle_inhibitor,
+#custom-nightlight,
+#custom-airplane,
+#language,
+#custom-vpn,
+#pulseaudio,
+#battery,
+#custom-powerprofile,
+#tray,
+#custom-notification,
+#custom-powermenu {
+  background: transparent;
+  color: alpha(@text, 0.9);
+  padding: 0 8px;
+  margin: 0;
+}
+
+/* ── Launcher — the ember-copper Nomarchy mark opens the plank ────────
+   The mark lives at U+F000 in the dedicated "Nomarchy" font; pin the
+   family or the Nerd Font's glass glyph at the same codepoint wins. */
+#custom-nomarchy {
+  color: @accent;
+  font-family: Nomarchy;
+  font-size: 18px;
+  padding: 0 12px 0 14px;
+}
+#custom-nomarchy:hover { color: @accentAlt; }
+
+/* ── Clock — unified time · date ─────────────────────────────────────*/
+#clock {
+  color: @text;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  padding-left: 4px;
+}
+
+/* ── Workspaces — dots that fire to an ember pill when active ─────────*/
+#workspaces { padding: 0 2px; }
+
+#workspaces button {
+  color: @muted;
+  padding: 0 9px;
+  margin: 3px 1px;
+  border-radius: 6px;
+  transition: color 0.2s ease, background 0.2s ease;
+}
+#workspaces button:hover {
+  color: @text;
+  background: alpha(@overlay, 0.6);
+}
+#workspaces button.active {
+  color: @base;
+  background: @accent;
+  border-radius: 6px;
+}
+#workspaces button.urgent {
+  color: @base;
+  background: @bad;
+  border-radius: 6px;
+}
+
+/* ── Status semantics (neutral until a state fires) ──────────────────*/
+#custom-recording.recording { color: @bad; }
+#custom-updates.available    { color: @accent; }
+#custom-doctor               { color: @bad; }
+#idle_inhibitor.activated    { color: @warn; }
+#custom-nightlight.on        { color: @warn; }
+#custom-airplane.on        { color: @warn; }
+#custom-vpn.on               { color: @good; }
+#pulseaudio.muted            { color: @muted; }
+
+#battery.charging { color: @good; }
+#battery.warning:not(.charging)  { color: @warn; }
+#battery.critical:not(.charging) { color: @bad; }
+
+/* Icon-only status modules carry no text, so they don't get the 13pt
+   Pango icon span the icon+text modules (volume/battery/language) use —
+   bump their font-size to match, or these glyphs read noticeably smaller
+   than their neighbours. */
+#custom-recording,
+#custom-updates,
+#custom-doctor,
+#custom-nightlight,
+#custom-airplane,
+#custom-vpn,
+#custom-notification { font-size: 17px; }
+/* Speedometer + caffeine cup render small in their em box — a touch more. */
+#custom-powerprofile,
+#idle_inhibitor { font-size: 18px; }
+
+#custom-notification.notification { color: @accent; }
+#custom-notification.dnd-none,
+#custom-notification.dnd-notification,
+#custom-notification.inhibited-none,
+#custom-notification.inhibited-notification { color: @muted; }
+
+/* Tray shares the plank — same transparent background, its own modest
+   padding so nm-applet & friends breathe with the status icons. */
+#tray { padding: 0 6px; }
+#tray > .passive { -gtk-icon-effect: dim; }
+#tray > .needs-attention { -gtk-icon-effect: highlight; }
+
+/* Power button closes the plank on the right; warms to alert on hover. */
+#custom-powermenu { color: @subtext; padding: 0 12px 0 8px; }
+#custom-powermenu:hover { color: @bad; }
+
+/* ── Tooltips — solid clay, ember-copper edge ────────────────────────*/
+tooltip {
+  background: alpha(@mantle, 0.96);
+  border: 1px solid alpha(@accent, 0.35);
+  border-radius: 8px;
+}
+tooltip label { color: @text; }

themes/kiln/waybar.jsonc

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+{
+  "margin-top": 6,
+  "margin-left": 12,
+  "margin-right": 12,
+  "margin-bottom": 0,
+  "height": 38,
+  "layer": "bottom",
+  "position": "top",
+  "spacing": 4,
+  "reload_style_on_change": true,
+  "modules-left": [
+    "custom/nomarchy",
+    "clock"
+  ],
+  "modules-center": [
+    "hyprland/workspaces"
+  ],
+  "modules-right": [
+    "custom/recording",
+    "custom/updates",
+    "custom/doctor",
+    "idle_inhibitor",
+    "custom/nightlight",
+    "hyprland/language",
+    "custom/vpn",
+    "custom/airplane",
+    "pulseaudio",
+    "battery",
+    "custom/powerprofile",
+    "tray",
+    "custom/notification",
+    "custom/powermenu"
+  ],
+  "custom/nomarchy": {
+    "interval": "once",
+    "format": "",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-menu",
+    "tooltip-format": "Nomarchy menu"
+  },
+  "clock": {
+    "format": "{:%H:%M  ·  %a %d %b}",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-calendar",
+    "tooltip": true,
+    "tooltip-format": "{:%A, %d %B %Y\n%Z (UTC%z)}"
+  },
+  "hyprland/workspaces": {
+    "disable-scroll": true,
+    "all-outputs": true,
+    "on-click": "activate",
+    "on-scroll-up": "hyprctl dispatch workspace r+1",
+    "on-scroll-down": "hyprctl dispatch workspace r-1"
+  },
+  "custom/recording": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "interval": 10,
+    "signal": 8,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-record status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-record stop"
+  },
+  "custom/updates": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "interval": 1800,
+    "signal": 9,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-updates status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-updates upgrade-window"
+  },
+  "custom/doctor": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "format": "{}",
+    "interval": 300,
+    "signal": 10,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-doctor-status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-menu doctor"
+  },
+  "idle_inhibitor": {
+    "format": "{icon}",
+    "format-icons": {
+      "activated": " 󰅶 ",
+      "deactivated": " 󰾪 "
+    }
+  },
+  "custom/nightlight": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "interval": 3,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-nightlight status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-nightlight toggle"
+  },
+  "hyprland/language": {
+    "format": "<span size='13pt'>󰌌  </span>{short}",
+    "tooltip": false
+  },
+  "custom/vpn": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "interval": 5,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-vpn-status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-vpn"
+  },
+  "pulseaudio": {
+    "scroll-step": 5,
+    "format": "<span size='13pt'>{icon}</span>{volume}%",
+    "format-bluetooth": "<span size='13pt'>{icon}  </span>{volume}%",
+    "format-bluetooth-muted": " {icon}",
+    "format-muted": "<span size='13pt'>  </span>muted",
+    "format-icons": {
+      "headphone": "  ",
+      "hands-free": "  ",
+      "headset": "  ",
+      "phone": "  ",
+      "portable": "  ",
+      "car": "  ",
+      "default": [
+        "  ",
+        "  ",
+        "  "
+      ]
+    },
+    "on-click": "wpctl set-mute @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SINK@ toggle",
+    "on-click-right": "pwvucontrol",
+    "tooltip-format": "{desc} | {volume}%"
+  },
+  "battery": {
+    "interval": 30,
+    "states": {
+      "warning": 25,
+      "critical": 10
+    },
+    "format": "<span size='13pt'>{icon}</span>{capacity}%",
+    "format-charging": "<span size='13pt'>  </span>{capacity}%",
+    "format-plugged": "<span size='13pt'>  </span>{capacity}%",
+    "tooltip-format-plugged": "Plugged in, not charging — held at {capacity}% by the battery charge cap\nCharging resumes ~10% below the cap · click to adjust",
+    "format-icons": [
+      "  ",
+      "  ",
+      "  ",
+      "  ",
+      "  "
+    ],
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-menu powermgmt",
+    "tooltip-format": "Battery status"
+  },
+  "custom/powerprofile": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "interval": 5,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-powerprofile-status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-menu powermgmt"
+  },
+  "tray": {
+    "icon-size": 15,
+    "spacing": 10
+  },
+  "custom/notification": {
+    "format": "{icon}",
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "exec": "swaync-client -swb",
+    "exec-if": "which swaync-client",
+    "escape": true,
+    "tooltip": true,
+    "on-click": "swaync-client -t -sw",
+    "on-click-right": "swaync-client -d -sw",
+    "format-icons": {
+      "none": "󰂜",
+      "notification": "󰂚",
+      "dnd-none": "󰂛",
+      "dnd-notification": "󰂛",
+      "inhibited-none": "󰂛",
+      "inhibited-notification": "󰂛",
+      "dnd-inhibited-none": "󰂛",
+      "dnd-inhibited-notification": "󰂛"
+    }
+  },
+  "custom/powermenu": {
+    "format": "",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-menu power",
+    "tooltip": false
+  },
+  "custom/airplane": {
+    "return-type": "json",
+    "interval": 5,
+    "signal": 11,
+    "exec": "nomarchy-airplane status",
+    "on-click": "nomarchy-airplane toggle"
+  }
+}