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morgmart 972edc6fa6 fix(desktop): deepen the default accent so its white label text is legible
The default accent was #3b82f6, and white label text on it measures WCAG 2
3.68:1 — below the 4.5:1 AA minimum for normal text. That applied to every
primary button and active sidebar row in a fresh install, not to a setting
someone had opted into.

Move it to #2563eb, one step deeper: WCAG 5.17:1 and APCA Lc 80, so it now
passes both standards. Radix, Bootstrap, and Tailwind's blue-600 all sit in this
range, which is where a blue has to be to carry white text.

Darkening the fill is the fix rather than switching the label to black. Black on
the old hue scores WCAG 5.71 and would "pass", but measures APCA Lc 40 —
perceptually unreadable, and visibly worse. This is the documented WCAG 2 flaw
on saturated blue: the formula underweights the blue channel and ignores
polarity. Apple ships white on #0088ff–#3daefc in Messages at WCAG 2.4–3.5 for
the same reason. DESIGN.md now records the position (judge with APCA, report
WCAG, constrain the fill rather than degrade the text) so it is a decision with
evidence rather than a preference.

Retiring a hex is not only cosmetic: it leaves the old value in people's
storage, where it is no longer in ACCENT_COLORS and therefore fails the
community-theme allowlist — parseCommunityThemePreference would return null and
discard the user's syntax theme and follow-system flag along with the accent.
Both storage paths now migrate the retired value instead: the community
preference maps it on parse, and the local accent upgrades on read (all three
read sites go through one helper). A regression test covers the migration and
asserts an arbitrary hex is still rejected, so the migration cannot become a
general escape hatch; removing the mapping fails that test.

The communityThemeSync fixture moves to a current accent — it covers coordinate
logic, and a retired hex there would be rewritten mid-assertion for reasons
unrelated to what it tests.

Verified: 6112 desktop tests pass, tsc clean, biome clean.
Signed-off-by: morgmart <98432065+morgmart@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-03 20:16:58 -07:00
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2026-06-11 15:06:24 +00:00
2026-03-09 13:02:11 -07:00

Buzz

Desktop chat shell with:

  • Tauri + React + TypeScript + Vite
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui-ready shared components
  • Biome (lint/format/check)
  • Feature-driven frontend structure

Scripts

  • pnpm dev - run the web frontend
  • pnpm tauri dev - run the desktop app
  • pnpm build - typecheck and build frontend
  • pnpm typecheck - TypeScript checks
  • pnpm lint - Biome lint
  • pnpm format - Biome format (write)
  • pnpm check - Biome check

Structure

  • src/shared - reusable app-wide code (ui, lib, styles)
  • src/features - feature modules (vertical slices)
  • src/app - top-level app composition