Round-4 feedback (2026-05-15) pulled the system away from the
color.adobe.com primaries toward muted-Material values, separated
brand accent from semantic caution, and reframed high-contrast as a
behavioural rendering contract rather than a palette override.
Two phases land together because the palette revision and the HC
contract are inherently linked — HC mode needs both palette overrides
AND behavioural-token overrides to deliver "different rendering
contract" semantics.
Phase 4d palette revision.
Dark mode (was wine-aubergine #2A1620, now brown-charcoal #12100E):
--color-bg #12100E
--color-bg-elevated #1A1713
--color-bg-card #211D18
--color-bg-input #181510
--color-sidebar #0F0E0C
--color-border #4A4035
--color-border-subtle #2C261F
Brand accent (new — was unset, fell through to v0.2 amber that
competed with semantic yellow):
Dark: --color-accent #C97845 (copper)
Light: --color-accent #9D5F32 (deeper copper)
Semantic colours (muted-Material, both modes):
Dark: danger #FF8A8A caution #F2C94C success #79D59B info #8AB4F8
Light: danger #B3261E caution #7A5D00 success #1B6B3A info #2457A6
Light mode work surface (slight paper tone, not pure white):
--color-bg-card #FFFDF8 (was #FFFFFF)
--color-bg-elevated #F6F1EA
Caution fill-only-on-cream rule retires. Ochre #7A5D00 passes AA
as foreground text on cream under the muted palette, so the single-
token-per-role convention applies across all four semantic colours
in both modes.
LumotiaNotice opacity rebalance:
Background tint 10% -> 8%
Outer border neutral subtle -> role at 40%
Icon --color-text -> role colour
Left bar role at 100% (unchanged)
Title / body --color-text (unchanged)
Phase 4e HC rendering contract.
Behavioural tokens published alongside palette:
--grain-opacity 0.06 dark / 0.07 light / 0 in HC
--shadow-strength 1 default / 0 in HC
--border-width-control 1px default / 2px in HC
--focus-ring-width 2px default / 3px in HC
--panel-radius 8px (reserved for future tightening)
--quietware-texture-opacity retained as a legacy alias pointing at
--grain-opacity so Phase 4c slider keeps working through the rename.
HC palette: pure-black or pure-white base, the other for borders,
single strong-focus blue #005FCC replaces accent. Brand atmosphere
steps aside. Selector splits via :not([data-theme="light"]) so
HC-light and HC-dark variants diverge cleanly.
Verified.
- npm run check: 0 errors, 0 warnings across 5706 files.
- Plan doc updated with full before/after tables, behavioural-token
contract table, and Phase 4c / 4d / 4e log sections.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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