#2277 counted ~150 "raw colour literals bypassing the tokens". Measuring them
told a different story: 184 sat in `var(--token, #fallback)` position, and a
check against theme.css shows every one of those tokens IS declared. So the
fallbacks could not render. Not drift — vestigial.
They were also not this palette. The most common were Tailwind and Flat-UI
defaults — #6366f1 indigo, #22c55e green, #f59e0b amber, #3b82f6 blue,
#e74c3c and #27ae60 — a second, unsanctioned colour scheme sitting in the
codebase looking like the app's colours to anyone reading it.
Removing them is not tidying. #2319's lesson is that a fallback is WORSE than a
missing token: a missing token renders as nothing and someone eventually
notices, while a fallback renders something plausible forever. These 184 were
one token rename away from silently repainting the app in Tailwind. The design
token check would catch the rename — but the fallback is precisely the thing
that would make it invisible if the check were ever bypassed.
Literal count 152 -> 45, which matters beyond the number: a report that is
mostly unreachable noise is one people stop reading, and then it stops working
while still passing. What remains should be genuinely worth looking at.
Done with a paren-aware transform, not a regex — `var(--x, rgba(0,0,0,.5))`
nests parens and `[^)]+` would cut at the first one and leave `))` behind.
Verified after: every changed line is a fallback strip and nothing else, and
every var() reference still resolves.
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Twelve more files onto the shared buttons. What the pass turned up:
DEAD, verified not merely unnamed:
- .btn-reconsolidate (TaskEditorView). A comment eleven hundred lines up in the
same file says the feature was removed in Phase 8. The CSS outlived it.
- .btn-remove-slot (SettingsView), style rules only, no template anywhere.
OFF-PALETTE, the #2319 shape: TrashView's restore and purge hovers used
`var(--color-primary, #6366f1)` and `var(--color-danger, #ef4444)` — Tailwind
indigo and Tailwind red, from no palette in this system. The fallback is what
renders if the token is ever absent, and it renders something plausible
forever. Now the action and destructive colours, no fallback.
A REAL BREAKAGE MY OWN CHECK COULD NOT SEE, worth recording. Deleting a rule
whose selector was part of a comma-separated group left the leading selectors
behind:
.btn-log-edit,
<nothing>
.log-textarea { … }
which silently swallows the next rule. Brace counting passed — there are no
braces in a dangling fragment. Found by scanning for selector lines ending in
`,` not followed by another selector; three instances across two files, one of
them interleaved with comments so the first sweep missed it. The sweep is now
part of the verification, not a one-off.
Kept bespoke, deliberately: .btn-pin/.btn-unpin (pill-shaped history badges),
.btn-add-share and .btn-new-note (gradient CTAs — brand moments, which the
house style does sanction), .btn-icon/.btn-bell (icon buttons, a different
component), .btn-add-system/.btn-add-milestone (dashed "add" affordances).
These are not drift; they are other things wearing a btn- prefix.
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21 buttons filled with --color-primary, which resolves to Scribe's violet
accent: every auth Submit (Login, Register, Invite, Forgot, Reset), plus
Invite, Add, Confirm, Restore, Generate, Log-save, Subtask-confirm,
Toggle-open, the modal primary, the version-restore, the inline-assist button,
the milestone-plan actions, the task-advance hover, and both empty-state CTAs.
The house style is explicit that the accent never appears on an action button:
action colours are universal across the family precisely so a Save button looks
identical in every app, while the accent carries identity. Doing both makes the
accent mean two things and neither clearly.
Operator's call, and the reasoning is worth keeping: the violet-on-Scribe-
actions treatment was a deliberate early choice to give the web UI its own
personality, made when much more of the app was user-facing. That is no longer
true, so consistency is now worth more than the distinction it was buying.
Found in two passes, which is the part worth noting. The first scan looked for
`.btn-*` and found 13. Seven more were the same thing under different names —
.modal-btn-primary, .vh-btn-restore, .inline-assist-btn, .empty-action,
.task-advance-btn — plus .ms-plan-actions .btn-primary, a compound override
flagged in the previous commit. Searching by naming convention finds what was
named consistently, which is never the whole set.
Deliberately NOT changed: progress-bar fills, active tab / page / selection
states, tag-pill hover, the duration badge, the skip link, the assist pulse.
Those are identity and active-state, which is exactly where the accent belongs.
After this the accent appears only there, which is what makes it read as
identity rather than as decoration.
Colour swaps only — 25 lines changed, no geometry, no structure, no templates.
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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.
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Version list rows now render a kind-aware badge: filled circle for
manual pins (with the label inline), half-filled circle for auto-pinned
versions. The right pane gains a control row above the diff:
- Unpinned: 'Pin version' button → label input → Save creates a manual
pin with that label.
- Manual: 'Edit label' + 'Unpin' buttons.
- Auto: 'Pin permanently' (promotes auto → manual with editable label).
Local state is patched from the API response so the UI updates without
reloading the panel.
Per the design rule "italic is for emphasis, not for design", removed
every chrome `font-style: italic` declaration across the frontend.
42 declarations gone across 24 files: empty-state placeholder copy,
loading messages, "no results" hints, ghost text, voice/role labels,
field placeholder text, brand wordmark, et al.
Markdown content emphasis is unaffected — `<em>` and `<i>` tags from
`*emphasis*` markup still render italic via browser default styling
(prose.css doesn't override em behavior). User-typed emphasis in
notes, journal entries, and chat messages keeps its italic.
Specific spots that lost the decorative italic:
- KnowledgeView .filter-label, .empty-narrator
- NoteEditorView .ef-label, link-suggest related
- ChatPanel .empty-msg, .empty-greeting, .role-label
- ChatMessage .role-assistant .role-label (the "Fable" voice tag —
was italic per the doc's Illuminated Transcript spec, but per the
new typography rule the speaker tag stays regular and lets the
border-left + glow do the bubble framing on their own)
- AppHeader .brand-text ("Fabled" wordmark)
- editor-shared.css .title-input::placeholder
- ProjectView .project-title-input::placeholder
- HomeView .urgency-loading
- WorkspaceTaskPanel .empty-group
- WeatherCard .weather-unavailable
- SharedWithMeView .empty-msg
- DiffView empty-state spans
- ToolCallCard .tool-event-more
- SettingsView 7 spots (.you-label, .geo-pending, hint text, etc.)
- + several other empty-state / hint text spots
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NoteEditorView: two-column sidebar layout (project/milestone/tags/assist
always visible), removed assist toggle button, InlineAssistPanel removed.
Writing assist: whole_doc mode rewrites entire document; DiffView.vue
replaces editor during review showing full-document diff. Scope dropdown
in sidebar switches between whole-document and section modes.
Persistent drafts: migration 0022 adds note_drafts (UNIQUE per note+user)
and note_versions (max 20, auto-pruned) tables. Draft saved after generation
completes, restored on editor mount, cleared on accept/reject. Version
snapshot created automatically whenever note body changes on save.
HistoryPanel.vue: version list + DiffView modal, restore button writes
body back to editor.
Config: OLLAMA_NUM_CTX default raised to 65536; assist num_predict now
tracks Config.OLLAMA_NUM_CTX instead of a hardcoded 4096.
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