Sub-project 2 of 4 of the visual redesign. Spec in
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-02-month-view-design.md; the owner chose
each of the three directions from concrete alternatives.
Three problems, all found by looking at the rendered page rather than at
the code:
- The totals block was four peer figures with no relationship between
them, and the income *input* sat in the same visual register as three
numbers derived from it. Nothing answered PRODUCT.md's second question
at the month level: with Transport at -3,200 you had to read down the
Remaining column to find out. It now reads income -> allocation meter
-> spend, with the overspent-post count stated in both directions.
- The carry meter rendered 21px below its own row and 22px above the
next, so it read as a divider rather than as a property of a post. One
tbody per post now holds the figures AND their meter, which is both
what pulls it tight under its own row and the only way to hover the
pair as one block.
- Phone width was broken and nothing recorded it: the 5-column table
overflowed at 390px with Spent and Remaining off-screen, and every
figure wrapped its currency onto a second line. Below sm: each post is
now a two-line block, and the currency is stated once in the legend
because every figure in that table is base currency.
Meter geometry moves to src/ui/meterSegments.ts, pure and tested, with
<Meter> as the only thing that paints it. The allocation meter scales to
max(income, allocated) so over-allocating overflows instead of capping
at a full bar — over-budget is always allowed, so it has to be drawable.
Negatives clamp rather than invert: a segment of negative width puts the
gradient's stops out of order, which paints something arbitrary instead
of failing.
Rejected: one reflowing CSS grid carrying role="table". It deduplicates
the markup, but at 390px the layout genuinely is not a table any more,
and table roles would describe rows and columns to a screen reader that
no longer exist on screen.
Verified: 443 tests, tsc clean, build clean, and read in both themes at
1280px and 390px. Not verified, because it is not verifiable here —
whether it reads better than what it replaced.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
