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Lucas WintherandClaude Opus 5 d69e896c4c fix(theme): declare the live colour scheme, so Dark Reader stands down
Dark Reader looks for `<meta name="color-scheme">` first. Finding none, it
waits for a stylesheet and then samples text and background colours at
several points of the screen, plus some further heuristics, to decide
whether the page needs darkening. On the dark palette that verdict is
wrong: it inverts an app that is already dark, a second time.

So the tag now states which scheme is actually live. It ships in the markup
as `light dark`, before any script runs; the pre-paint script narrows it to
the one in use, and `applyResolvedTheme` keeps it there when the toggle
moves — the same two-signal write as the `.dark` class, in both places.

`var dark` moved out of the `try` in that script. It has to be readable
after a throwing localStorage in order to set the meta, and false is the
right value there: it is what `readThemePreference` -> "system" ->
`prefersDark` resolves to on the module side, so the two still agree in the
one case that cannot be read.

Both setters create the tag when it is absent rather than skipping the
write. A silent no-op leaves Dark Reader guessing, which is the bug.

The drift guard now runs the real script, lifted out of the HTML, instead
of matching its text — it asserts class and meta together for a stored
dark, a stored light, and no preference at all. Text matching would have
passed a script that declared the tag and never set it.

Not `<meta name="darkreader-lock">`: that switches the extension off
wholesale, including in light mode, where a user who installed it wants it
working. Only the dark palette asks it to stand down.

Verified in Chrome across stored dark, stored light, system-dark and a live
toggle with no reload: one tag, content and computed `color-scheme`
agreeing each time. Whether the extension honours it needs a human with
Dark Reader installed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-02 23:10:09 +02:00
Lucas WintherandClaude Opus 5 bb3c661ef6 feat(ui): design foundation — two themes, shipped type, one card
Sub-project 1 of the redesign. The diagnosis that shaped it: a design system
already existed and was never wired up. src/index.css defined --paper, --ink
and a muted teal with a contract document behind them, while the app painted
itself with shadcn's default white and near-black. Those tokens reached the
screen in exactly two places — the carry meter and the +/- number colours.

TOKENS. Two layers: --budget-* is the app's own vocabulary, defined once per
theme, and shadcn's whole variable set points at it, so every primitive
inherits both themes rather than being fought. Light is cool paper with ink
navy; dark is deep slate, never pure black, because a black ground makes the
hairlines and the carry meter float.

The brand teal is --primary, NOT --accent. That is precisely what the old bug
got wrong: shadcn's --accent is a subtle hover BACKGROUND paired with
--accent-foreground, so a saturated colour there turns every hover into a
coloured slab with unreadable text. src/cssPairs.test.ts now makes the rule
mechanical — redefining either half of a shadcn pair without the other fails
the build, in any block.

CONTRAST was computed, not eyeballed: the weakest text pair is 5.50:1 against
a 4.5:1 requirement, and field borders clear the 3:1 non-text requirement on
both of their backgrounds. Verified afterwards by reading the tokens back out
of the live browser in both themes rather than trusting the arithmetic.

TYPE. Inter and JetBrains Mono, self-hosted (SIL OFL, licences committed
alongside), latin + latin-ext only. Not in index.css: Bun's CSS bundler
resolves every url() from disk and inlines woff2 as base64 — relative or
absolute, and a "file" loader override does not stop it — which made the
stylesheet 303 KB of render-blocking bytes and defeated the unicode-range
subsetting entirely. They are injected at boot from one definition instead,
which is the only arrangement identical in dev and in a subpath build.

THEME TOGGLE cycles system / light / dark, remembers the choice in
localStorage (a per-device display preference does not belong in the exported
budget), keeps following the OS while set to "system", and is applied by a
tiny inline script before first paint so a dark-theme user never sees a white
flash. Every storage access is wrapped: localStorage throws outright in some
configurations, and a theme preference must never stop the app booting.

A REGRESSION I CAUSED AND CAUGHT: renaming --rule to --budget-rule silently
killed the carry meter. An undefined custom property inside linear-gradient()
does not warn, does not throw and does not fall back — the declaration is
invalid, so the element paints nothing. It looked like a missing feature. Only
pixel-sampling a screenshot found it. src/ui/cssTokens.test.ts now fails if any
TypeScript file references a token src/index.css does not define.

Also: one Section/Stat card treatment applied across month, year, summary and
settings; quiet uppercase table headers; row hover; the rule-editing and
purchase-row actions revealed on hover instead of six always-on links; a scroll
fade on the year matrix so it reads as "more to come" rather than clipped; and
"September 2026" instead of "2026-09" as the month heading.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-02 15:11:43 +02:00