For a very dark base color the light palette used the base itself as
link color, which is as dark as body text: #001f3f gave a link at
contrast 1.02 against the text, so links in tables read as plain text.
The dark palette did the same for a very light base (#FFFF00: 1.11).
The lightness the link search starts from is clamped to 0.45..0.55 in
light and 0.70..0.80 in dark mode. #001f3f now yields #37577c in light
mode (2.27 against the text, AA on every surface). Bases inside the
band, #FFA500 among them, produce the same palette as before.
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The palette derives the link color and the four status colors against
all five surfaces (the three surface levels plus their hover and active
states) instead of the two content surfaces, and a status color also
reaches AA on its own subtle tint. The subtle and border tints of the
status colors move from a CSS color-mix into the palette, so both modes
carry them as plain values.
New tokens --design-frame, --design-on-frame, --design-frame-hover and
--design-frame-active give large brand surfaces such as a sidebar a deep
tone with AAA text in light and dark mode. The default focus outline
reads --design-focus and falls back to --design-link, so a frame can
keep its focus indicator visible.
The design lookup exposes the generated icon under urls.favicon_ico,
because a role may declare a slot named favicon. Slot names must be
kebab-case; a violation fails the lookup. resolve_branding returns a
bootstrap flag whose default false lives in web-svc-design.
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web-svc-css becomes web-svc-design and owns the configuration that lived in group_vars/all/13_design.yml. Consumers switch their css service key to design, and sys-front-inj-css becomes sys-front-inj-design. javascript stays an independent key; a role's optional design.js.j2 is injected together with the design and CSP-hashed like the functional script.
An in-repo OKLCH lookup replaces colorscheme_generator. From design.colors.base alone it derives surfaces, text, borders, the primary and status fills with their on-colors, hover and active states and a dedicated dark palette; a unit test proves WCAG AA, and AAA for body text, across six base colors in both modes. Semantic --design-* tokens replace --color-NN-SS in every role stylesheet. The shared element styles sit in the cascade layer infinito-design, so an app's own design system always wins and takes the palette through a variable mapping in its role stylesheet or through its own theming mechanism.
design.logo and design.title resolve globally from web-svc-design or per role from its design entry, and false or 0 disables the replacement. The design_assets action renders the logo lockup per slot as SVG, PNG and ICO, and the legacy title keys move into the design entries.
Three roles carry the design end to end. The dashboard takes logo, favicon and title from the generator and replaces the hard-coded port-ui colors. Gitea maps its theme variables onto the tokens and mounts the generated logo and a branded start page. Nextcloud receives primary color, logo, name and slogan through occ theming and ships no stylesheet.
make design-sync re-renders the static design files of a deployed app, make design-gallery captures before and after screenshots in light, dark, desktop and mobile, and make design-queue orders the roles that are due for a design pass. The i8-designer skill and docs/agents/action/design.md describe that loop.
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