gui: the palette comes from a rule, and the window can show it by donislawdev · Pull Request #124 · donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator

donislawdev · 2026-09-22T21:43:57Z

The palette has been measured, guarded and written about since 2026-08-11. It was not designed. Every colour was picked on its own, against the threshold that applied to it and the neighbour it had that day, and every one passed. Together they were not one system, and that only shows in numbers.

Measured on the palette this replaces:

what	measured
hue of the surfaces	291
hue of the inks	251 to 262
page and main ink	pure neutral, `C* = 0`
rungs between surfaces	5.9, 6.5, 1.4, 0.9, 4.7 `L*`
chroma of the four colours that carry meaning	35.9, 53.8, 55.0, 64.4

The clearest evidence is a sentence that was simply false. The note beside the menu colour says a menu is the lightest surface because it floats over everything. Measured, the menu stood at 30.8 L* and a button's face at 31.7 - added a month later, against different neighbours. Nobody typed a wrong number. Two right numbers were chosen a month apart and nothing compared them.

The rule

One hue for every neutral, surface and ink alike.
Chroma on one curve, Cmax * sin(pi * L / 100).
Lightness in even rungs: 11.3, 17.7, 24.2, 30.8, 37.2, 43.0. A line is not a surface, so the separator takes the rank of the face beside it rather than inventing one - the first cut gave it 29.0 next to a face at 30.8, which is the very crowding this rule ends.
The accent and the three status colours share one lightness and one share of the chroma their hue can reach (0.85), not one chroma. A common chroma is not available: at 70 L* red reaches 49.5 and green 80.1, and asking both for 45 turned the amber to mud.

Three candidates were generated, rendered through the real window and put in front of the owner. This one keeps the window's character and puts its relationships in order: mean dE76 of 1.34 over the whole screen, against 2.04 and 2.96 for the two that move the accent.

No generated file changes. Every threshold the old values met, the new ones meet, checked by the same guards.

What holds it

Two guards, asking different questions. TestThePaletteIsTheOneTheRuleProduces compares every value byte for byte with what the rule produces. TestTheLadderClimbsInEvenSteps asks whether the rungs are even, which the first would pass on a ladder of 2, 9 and 3 as long as the table agreed with itself. Both were made to go red: the panel nudged four bytes, and the menu dropped below a button's face - which reproduces the historical defect exactly.

The first cut of the rule guard read the hue back off each colour and went red on three light values at 295 to 297. They were right: eight bits per channel cannot hold a hue at chroma under about four. The question became the bytes.

And the palette is now something a person can open

tfg --catalogue ends with it: every colour, what it is for, the value it holds, and the measurement that decides whether it works - a contrast ratio for anything read, a distance in lightness for a surface, and for the names the toolkit blends rather than paints, both the raw value and what it comes to over the surface it lands on. Rows are built from the palette itself, so a colour cannot be left off the page. It can only arrive with nothing said about what it is measured against, and TestThePalettePageShowsEveryColourAndHowToReadIt asks about that.

The light palette is on the page too, labelled as computed and not installed. It has been carried, measured and guarded since 2026-08-11 and had never been on a screen.

Found and deliberately not fixed here

The colour for an unspecified outcome has been in docs/UX.md section 8.2 since 2026-08-02 and has never existed in the code. The manifest carries outcome: unspecified and the window has nothing to show it with. A colour with no surface that draws it is a colour with no reader, so that is a question about the window rather than about the palette. It is written down where it was found.

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Visual Updates
- Updated the window’s dark and light palettes for more consistent surfaces, text contrast, and color balance.
New Features
- Added a labeled palette guide to tfg --catalogue, showing color values and contrast or surface-lightness measurements. The light palette is for reference and is not used by the window.

The palette has been measured, guarded and written about since 2026-08-11. It was not designed. Every colour was picked on its own, against the threshold that applied to it and the neighbour it had on the day, and every one of them passed. Together they were not one system, and that only shows in numbers. Measured on the palette this replaces: the surfaces stood at hue 291, the inks at 251 to 262, and the page and the main ink were pure neutral - three greys in one window. The rungs between surfaces were 5.9, 6.5, 1.4, 0.9 and 4.7 in L*, so the separator, the menu and a button's face sat within 2.3 of each other and read as one colour under three names. The four colours that carry meaning had chroma 35.9, 53.8, 55.0 and 64.4, which is why the accent was the quietest thing on a screen it is meant to lead. The clearest evidence is a sentence that was simply false. The note beside the menu colour says a menu is the lightest surface because it floats over everything. Measured, the menu stood at 30.8 and a button's face at 31.7 - added a month later, against different neighbours. Nobody typed a wrong number. Two right numbers were chosen a month apart and nothing compared them. So the values now come from a rule: one hue for every neutral, chroma on one curve, lightness in even rungs, and one lightness plus one share of the chroma each hue can actually reach for the accent and the three status colours. A common chroma is not available and that is arithmetic rather than taste - at 70 L* red reaches 49.5 and green 80.1, and asking both for 45 turned the amber to mud. A line is not a surface, so the separator takes the rank of the face beside it instead of inventing one: the first cut gave it 29.0 next to a face at 30.8, which is the very crowding this rule ends. Three candidates were generated, rendered through the real window and put in front of the owner. This is the one that keeps the window's character and puts its relationships in order: mean dE76 of 1.34 over the whole screen against 2.04 and 2.96 for the two that move the accent. What it changes on screen is what was nearly the same colour and is not any more - the list that drops from the format box now stands 13.1 L* clear of the box rather than 7.1, and above a button's face rather than below it. No generated file changes. Every threshold the old values met, the new ones meet, checked by the same guards. Two guards hold the rule, and they ask different questions. One compares every value byte for byte with what the rule produces. The other asks whether the rungs are even, which the first would pass on a ladder of 2, 9 and 3 as long as the table agreed with itself. Both were made to go red: the panel nudged four bytes, and the menu dropped below a button's face, which reproduces the historical defect exactly. The first cut of the rule guard read the hue back off each colour and went red on three light values at 295 to 297. They were right: eight bits per channel cannot hold a hue at chroma under about four, half a step in a* or b* is several degrees there, and the tolerance would have had to grow with the tint until it measured nothing. The question became the bytes. And the palette is now something a person can open. The catalogue of parts ends with it: every colour, what it is for, the value it holds and the measurement that decides whether it works - a contrast ratio for anything read, a distance in lightness for a surface, and for the names the toolkit blends rather than paints, both the raw value and what it comes to over the surface it lands on. The rows are built from the palette itself, so a colour cannot be left off the page. It can only arrive with nothing said about what it is measured against, and a guard asks about that. The light palette is on the page too, labelled as computed and not installed. It has been carried, measured and guarded since 2026-08-11 and had never been on a screen. One thing found and deliberately not fixed here: the colour for an unspecified outcome has been in docs/UX.md section 8.2 since 2026-08-02 and has never existed in the code. The manifest carries outcome: unspecified and the window has nothing to show it with. A colour with no surface that draws it is a colour with no reader, so that is a question about the window, not about the palette. It is written down where it was found. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>

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The dark and light theme palettes were retuned, with guard tests for their color rules and surface lightness. The tfg --catalogue page now shows palette names, values, roles, and measurements. Screen fixtures were updated to use the revised dark palette styling.

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Window palette and catalogue

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Palette values and rule checks `internal/gui/parts/theme.go`, `internal/guard/paletterule_test.go`, `CHANGELOG.md`	The dark and light theme colors were updated. Guard tests compare colors with the specified rules and check surface lightness steps. The changelog describes the palette and notes that generated files are unchanged.
Palette inspection and catalogue page `internal/gui/parts/palette.go`, `internal/gui/parts/tokens.go`, `internal/gui/catalogue/*`, `internal/guard/palettepage_test.go`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Palette helpers expose ordered names, displayed colors, swatches, contrast, and lightness. The catalogue displays dark and light palette values, roles, and measurements. A guard test checks the page content and palette labels.
Screen fixture palette updates `internal/guard/testdata/screens/*`	About, Generate, Preset, and Recipe fixtures use updated panel fills, borders, separators, and label colors. Layout and displayed content are unchanged.

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