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    style(tui): neutralize Australis dark palette (v0.6.2)

    vh released this 2026-05-24 18:15:54 -07:00 | 255 commits to main since this release

    Operator-flagged third pass: "overall background for the whole app is
    blue." The previous "zero blue rects" investigations missed the
    structural cause — Australis's design principle "all colors are
    cooler than neutral" bakes a blue cast into every dark surface:

    Ice black #222531 = RGB(34, 37, 49) — blue +44% over red
    Sea bright #373b46 = RGB(55, 59, 70) — blue +27% over red
    Sea dark-30 #414751 = RGB(65, 71, 81) — blue +25% over red
    Sea dark-60 #86929d = RGB(134,146,157) — blue +17% over red

    Every chrome surface inherits the lean. The user reading "the whole
    app is blue" is correct — the SVG export just rendered hex values
    that aren't named "blue" but ARE measurably blue-tinted.

    Fix: keep accents, neutralize darks

    Australis brand signature lives in the ACCENTS — Aurora blue, cyan,
    green; Dawn red, yellow. Those are unchanged. The Ice/Sea dark
    palette is replaced with LAB-matched neutral grays (R=G=B) so the
    chrome reads truly neutral:

    $background #222531 → #1a1a1a (neutral near-black)
    $surface #373b46 → #2a2a2a (neutral dark gray)
    $panel #414751 → #3a3a3a (neutral mid gray)
    $foreground #a9bcc3 → #bdbdbd (neutral light gray)
    $au-dark-30 #414751 → #3a3a3a
    $au-dark-40 #565f69 → #4f4f4f
    $au-dark-50 #6e7882 → #6b6b6b
    $au-dark-60 #86929d → #878787
    $au-bright-70 #9daeb6 → #9e9e9e
    $au-bright-80 #b3cbcf → #bdbdbd
    $au-bright-white #cce7ec → #e0e0e0

    _AU_DEMOTED and _AU_DEMOTED_FAINT constants (Rich Text styling
    for demoted telemetry + placeholders) updated to the neutral
    equivalents. The Aurora bright variants ($au-bright-blue,
    $au-bright-cyan, $au-bright-green) stay verbatim — those are
    where the brand voice lives.

    What this preserves vs sacrifices

    Preserved:

    • Aurora accents: focus borders, active-tab indicator, pane-name
      widget, user-prompt echo all still render in cyan/blue/green.
    • Done/Error/Cancelled labels still tinted in Aurora green / Dawn
      red / Dawn yellow.
    • Identity widget still Aurora bright-blue.
    • The "Australis" theme name + variable slugs ($au-*) — downstream
      CSS rules don't have to change.

    Sacrificed:

    • The "all colors cooler than neutral" Australis design principle.
      Deliberate per-operator-feedback deviation; documented in the
      AUSTRALIS_THEME docstring as a v0.6.2 conscious break with spec.

    Tests + smoke

    241/241 GREEN; ruff clean. Live screenshot exports:

    • Main app: chrome colors are #1a1a1a / #2a2a2a / #3a3a3a / #6b6b6b
      / #bdbdbd — all neutral grays. Aurora accents preserved as
      textual highlights.
    • Agent picker: same — neutral chrome, Aurora accents intact for
      highlighted item border + agent-id-line.

    Patch bump (v0.6.1 → v0.6.2): purely cosmetic palette adjustment;
    no public-API change.

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