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morgmart 1dee19d8a1 desktop-new: the palette's step labels describe Buzz, not the scale it came from
Both label sets came with the transcribed values and described a generic scale's
intentions: step 4 as "component hover", step 6 as "subtle border", step 7 as
"border". The product then decided otherwise and nobody updated the comments, so
the file said step 4 was a hover step while it held `border-primary`, the one
border weight, and said steps 6 and 7 were for borders while they had no readers
at all. A designer opening `tokens.css` or `/design/color` was told the wrong
thing by the only documentation to hand.

The neutral ramp's comments now name the roles that actually point at each step,
including the two steps that have no reader — an empty step is worth seeing,
because it is either a gap or a deletion nobody made yet.

`STEP_JOBS` keeps generic wording, because it is shared by all eight hues and a
hue's step 3 is a tinted surface whatever the product does with it. But it now
matches DESIGN.md's step-to-role table exactly, which it did not, and it says so
about itself: general intention here, real use in the neutral ramp's comments.

The reason it drifted is that it was never rendered. Every palette step carried
this text and no page displayed it, so it could only be checked by reading the
source. The colour page now shows each step's job under its swatch, which makes
the next divergence visible by looking rather than by audit.

Signed-off-by: Morgan Martin <morganmartin@squareup.com>
Signed-off-by: morgmart <98432065+morgmart@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-07 16:14:27 -07:00
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