#2533. theme.css claimed "removing this block is a rename sweep across the
components, tracked separately" — written in 67a529a, never filed, which made
the comment itself an instance of the survey's presence-without-reference
pattern. This is that sweep.
73 alias declarations deleted; 69 files rewritten; every --color-*-style name
now references its --fs-* token directly. Mechanical by construction: the map
IS the alias block, applied longest-name-first with a boundary guard so
--color-text never matched inside --color-text-muted. Zero survivors outside
theme.css, verified by grep rather than assumed.
One deliberate survivor: --color-shadow stays DECLARED, because it was never
an alias — it is a literal value the design system has no token for. Marked
in place as a recorded gap: promote it to an --fs-* token when a second app
needs it, don't copy the line.
Nothing is lost mode-wise: the aliases' resolve-at-use-time trick (which
absorbed 48 dark-mode overrides) lives one layer down in the --fs-* tokens'
own derivations, which is why the sweep is a pure rename. Both CSS checkers
green.
Why now rather than never: check_snippets_against_design_system reports every
--color-* reference as "unknown — renders as NOTHING", and nine recipe
snippets recorded from components.css carried the deprecated names, making
them prior art pointing the wrong way. With the sweep in, the checker's
report over re-recorded snippets should be EMPTY — the acceptance test that
proves the checker was right all along (#2517's correction).
Refs #2533
76 hardcoded `color: #fff` now resolve to --fs-text-on-action, a new token
that is parchment in BOTH modes.
The design system said they should supersede to --fs-text-primary, on the
recorded reasoning that "there is no 'text on action' colour, there is just the
text colour." That is true on dark and wrong on light. --fs-text-primary
inverts to #14171A; the surfaces underneath it do not invert at all — every one
of these 76 sits on an action colour, a semantic colour, the accent, or the CTA
gradient, all of which hold a single value across modes.
Sweeping as recorded would have put obsidian text on moss green: roughly 2.4:1,
against a house style whose stated floor is WCAG AA. It would have looked
correct to me, because I checked it in the mode where it was correct.
--color-accent-fg had the same defect independently and is repointed too.
The token check now reports zero superseded literals, down from 30 files, and
raw colour literals drop 246 -> 169.
Closes#2275.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs
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