18 hex retunes, hue-preserving OKLCH minimal raises except where the
upstream palette defines a canonical value: muted lifted to >= 2.0 on
lumon/white/retro-82/everforest (solved), gruvbox (bg4 #7c6f64), nord
(#616e88, the community comment-brightening), catppuccin-latte
(overlay1 #8c8fa1); text-on-surface >= 4.5 via surface nudges
(ristretto darker, latte lighter); accentAlt >= 3.0 (latte, summer-day
darkened); warn >= 2.5 — the bar's battery tint — darkened on the
light bases (latte, rose-pine dawn, summer-day) and flexoki-light's
four status colors moved to their canonical light-mode 600 series.
check-theme-contrast.py now gates all four adopted floors (7 pairings
x 21 themes, green). good/bad stay audit-only — identity themes sit at
2.0-2.3 there by design, so no exemption mechanism was needed. The
design audit's contrast findings drop 20 -> 1 (miasma's earthy `bad`,
kept as identity). Item 28 slice (b) complete.
Verified: V0, checks.theme-contrast green, flake check green,
re-audit. Rendering is V3 -> HARDWARE-QUEUE eyeball entries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The audit's P1s, fixed at the palette level (items 25/27 previously
patched the consumers around these):
- summer-day: surface was the TEXT color (slate #5c6a72 on cream) and
subtext was the BASE (ratio 1.0, invisible) — now a raised cream
surface #efe7d0 and a slate-teal subtext #6e828a in the theme's
family.
- flexoki-light: surface/overlay/muted were all the text black and
subtext the paper — retuned to canonical upstream Flexoki tones
(ui #E6E4D9, #B7B5AC, tx-2 #6F6E69, base-500 #878580).
- miasma: pure-black surface under a #222 base → raised #2e2e2e.
- kanagawa: surface was sumiInk0 (darker than the bg) → upstream's
raised sumiInk4 #2a2a37.
check-theme-contrast.py gains the adopted rule: subtext on base >= 3.0
(all 21 themes pass), so the invisible-secondary-text class cannot
ship again. Model note in the backlog: `overlay` is a mid-tone role
(catppuccin semantics), not a third bg tier.
Verified: V0 + checks.theme-contrast green (21x3); re-audit shows all
four P1 findings gone; a scratch downstream with summer-day active
builds and the new surface hex lands in the rendered ghostty config.
Remains: V3 four-theme eyeball (HARDWARE-QUEUE) and 28b's P2 floors +
exemption list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-on to the swaync fix (a643391): the generated Waybar CSS colored
the module row and #window @subtext and dim states @muted, and the
generated rofi theme put @fg text on @surface chips — invisible where
palettes use those roles as "on-surface" (flexoki-light: subtext==base,
surface==text; gruvbox: muted/base = 1.27). flexoki-light has no
whole-swap, so it ran this CSS. Generated surfaces only — the summer
whole-swaps are hand-authored and untouched.
- waybar: secondary text → alpha(@text, 0.85); dim states (inactive
workspaces, DND bell, muted volume) → alpha(@text, 0.5).
- rofi: @dim → text+"80", @surface → text+"1a" (#RRGGBBAA fg tints).
- check-theme-contrast.py pairings/docs now cover all three generated
surfaces; status glyphs (good/warn/bad on base, worst 2.05) are
deliberately not held to a text ratio — raising them is palette
design, a human decision.
Verified: V0; V1 (checks.theme-contrast green over 21 themes;
downstream-template-home builds; rendered waybar style has zero
@subtext/@muted/@surface; rendered custom.rasi shows fg-derived
tints). Honesty: NOT visually verified — V3 queued (flexoki-light
eyeball + dark-theme regression spot-check).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Palette roles aren't uniform: summer-day and flexoki-light use subtext
as text-ON-surface (== base) and surface as a dark chip (== text), so
swaync's @subtext-on-@base body text and @surface/@text buttons were
self-colored (caught on the Latitude).
- body/summary: @text on @base — the one text pairing that passes in
every palette (survey: worst WCAG ratio 5.18 across all 21 themes;
subtext/base bottomed at 1.00 twice, muted/base at 1.27).
- hover rows + widget-title buttons: alpha(@text, 0.1) tints —
contrast by construction; subtext/surface defines dropped.
- NEW checks.theme-contrast (tools/check-theme-contrast.py): asserts
the hex-on-hex text pairings across themes/*.json, cheap (no VM).
The audit also found the generated waybar/rofi CSS shares the bug
class, live on flexoki-light (no whole-swap) → BACKLOG item 27.
Verified: V0; V1 (checks.theme-contrast builds green, 21 themes;
rendered services.swaync.style has zero @subtext/@surface). Honesty:
NOT visually verified — V3 queued (notify-send on summer-day).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
