The board was on the Australis TERMINAL palette, which is dark-only by design
("Always dark first. No light mode in this system"). Skyfall is the dual-theme
web derivative of the same science, and its bundle turned out to be sitting in
this repo's own git history: a predecessor vendored it on 2026-08-19 and a
later commit deleted it. `git show 45c1995:...` returns colors.css with both
`:root` (dark) and `[data-theme="light"]` (Skyfall Day) intact, plus the
calm-depth layout tokens, the typography scale and Supreme 400/500/700. So the
light ramp is canonical rather than derived, which was the entire objection to
building one.
The visual language moves with the palette. Depth is now the recipe and not a
choice — every elevated surface carries a 1px hairline AND a two-layer shadow,
never one without the other. Radii move to Skyfall's scale, cards at
--radius-lg. Widget stat values move from the display face to mono, because
Skyfall is explicit that numbers and telemetry are always --font-mono. The
full-width aurora ribbon under the tab bar is gone: Skyfall sanctions exactly
two accent expressions, the active rail and hero-only glows, and a decorative
gradient across the chrome is neither — so the colour it carried now lands on
the active tab as a 2px accent bar plus an --accent-soft fill, which is the
rail. Every binding is written against the semantic layer; there are no raw
family tokens and no colour literals left in our own file.
build.py now guards the vendoring instead of advising it. The three token files
are hashed and a mismatch FAILS the build — a vendored file is either
byte-identical to the bundle or it is a fork wearing the bundle's name, and the
theme this one replaces had to be torn out twice for exactly that.
⚠ Homepage's own theme toggle is unreachable, and reaching for it breaks the
dashboard. It renders only when settings.yaml leaves `theme:` unpinned, and
with the key absent the page's data loader throws and its catch branch serves
`initialSettings: {}` — no tab bar, no layout, no i18n. Six force-recreates
over seven minutes all came up empty; restoring `theme: dark` rendered
correctly on the next recreate in 12 seconds, while /api/services returned 200
with fully correct content the whole time. That is the first confirmed cause of
the long-running "tab bar goes missing after a recreate" symptom, and it also
retires the homepage.log-size lead recorded earlier today: rolling the log
aside did nothing during this episode, so that coincidence was intermittency.
So the toggle is ours. conf/custom.js renders it and stores the choice;
build.py re-emits each vendored light block twice, once for an explicit
`data-theme` and once inside a prefers-color-scheme media query scoped to
`html:not([data-theme="dark"]):not([data-theme="light"])` — that :not() pair is
what lets a stored dark choice survive a light-mode OS. Verified against both
OS preferences: load, click, click back, reload, all four correct. `data-theme`
is the control surface; Homepage's own `dark` class stays on <html> and does
not fight, because our rules carry !important on the surfaces Tailwind's
`dark:` variants would otherwise claim.
Two font substitutions, both documented rather than silent: Space Grotesk for
Bespoke Sans and JetBrains Mono for Victor Mono. Only Supreme was ever vendored
here and Skyfall's own notes call Victor Mono user-supplied, so this is a
two-line swap when the real faces arrive.
Dark and light, all four tabs: http://10.100.10.50:8090/b/homepage-skyfall/
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