Route core backend colours through CSS custom properties - #1541
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Replace the Winter wordmark logos with the new light/dark pair and refresh
the supporting icons. The old names described the brand ("winter-logo"); the
new ones describe where they are used, so a re-brand is a file swap rather
than a rename plus a stylesheet edit.
- winter-logo.svg -> logo-dark.svg (used on light backgrounds)
- winter-logo-white.svg -> logo-light.svg (used on dark backgrounds)
- logo.svg dropped: nothing referenced it
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The fancy form toolbar renders the delete button's title via an :after pseudo-element. The CMS toolbar renders the same button icon-only with no title, where the empty :after still contributed its margin-left as dead space to the right of the icon. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Core had ~717 colour literals spread across 91 LESS files, so dark mode and
theming meant hunting every rule that painted something. This introduces a
single token block and rewrites those literals to read from it.
Every rewrite keeps the original value as the var() fallback:
color: #666666; -> color: var(--wn-text, #666666);
which means compiled output is unchanged if the token block is ever absent,
and the change is exactly reversible.
661 of 717 literals now resolve through 164 tokens in
modules/system/assets/ui/less/tokens.less, imported by storm.less. The
tokens fall into three groups:
- Neutral scale (28) snapped onto the design system's slate/indigo ramps.
These do change colour; the largest shift is body text #666666 -> #445a6b.
- Identity colours (68) named from the LESS variable they already sat on
(flash, callout, chart, file-type icons). Values preserved exactly.
- Inline colours (68) with no variable to borrow a name from, named by source
file and role. Values preserved exactly.
The remainder stay literal: LESS evaluates darken()/mix()/saturate() at
compile time, so a variable feeding one cannot become a var().
Verified by collapsing the tokens back out of the compiled CSS and comparing
to a pristine build: no selector paints a different colour set, and no rule
was dropped, added or malformed. WCAG contrast was measured across every
text/background token pair that co-occurs on an element; nothing that passed
AA now fails.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three problems in the fancy form layout, all visible to keyboard users. Tabs had no usable focus indicator. The visible tab is not the anchor's box: it is span.title plus two pseudo-elements skewed +/-20deg hanging off either end, so the browser's outline drew a rectangle straight through the angled corners. Replaced with an inset bar on the three pieces that form the shape; drawn pre-transform, so it follows the skew. The UA ring is suppressed on :focus rather than :focus-visible, or it reappears on mouse click. Toolbar buttons had no focus styling at all. They are transparent, text-only and have their box-shadow removed, and only opacity changed on :hover, so keyboard focus was indistinguishable from rest. .btn carries a global `outline: none !important`, so the ring is drawn with box-shadow instead. Focus colour is picked by backdrop: white on the dark master strip, and #103141 on the brand strip, where white reaches only 2.8:1 -- below the 3:1 WCAG 1.4.11 asks of a focus indicator. Two related fixes: - Focusing a tab shifted the whole strip up 2px, permanently. A tab is 2-3px taller than the strip and that overhang is what merges the active tab into the panel; the strip is `overflow: hidden`, which still makes it a scroll container, so the browser scrolled the overhang into view and the offset survived blur. A negative scroll-margin shrinks the box the browser tries to reveal. (`overflow: clip` is not available: the strip must stay horizontally scrollable for drag.scroll.js, and clip beside a scrolling axis computes back to hidden.) - The fancy tab strip, inactive tab and active tab sat within ΔE 2.3-4.4 of each other, so the inactive tab was nearly invisible. They now derive from the brand colour via color-mix at ~11 ΔE steps, which also means they track custom branding at runtime rather than baking a darken() at compile time. The derived tokens are declared inside @supports: where color-mix is unsupported the token stays undefined and each use site falls back to its literal, which is the only case a var() fallback covers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughThe change adds CSS custom-property theming across backend controls, form widgets, CMS widgets, and system UI styles. Existing color values remain as fallbacks in most declarations. The change also adds centralized system tokens, imports them through the Storm entrypoint, updates logo references, adds keyboard focus styling for tabs, preserves fixed print colors, and adds dedicated table error tokens. Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The theming migration leaves a few controls and email shadows using fixed colors in specific environments, so affected themes may look inconsistent. The remaining issues are localized and suitable for bounded follow-up. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@modules/backend/assets/less/layout/fancylayout.less`:
- Around line 754-755: Update the delete button hover styles to use dedicated
theme variables for its background and text colors, with `#bc4436` and `#fff`
fallbacks, instead of hard-coded values. Keep the existing default-state tokens
unchanged and ensure the hover state remains consistent with theme overrides.
In `@modules/backend/formwidgets/fileupload/assets/css/fileupload.css`:
- Line 44: Update the checkerboard background definitions used by
.fileupload-config-form .file-upload-modal-image-header so every `#CBCBCB` color
stop uses the established theme token, including all vendor-prefixed and
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In `@modules/backend/widgets/table/assets/less/table.less`:
- Line 137: Update the error-row background declaration to use the error-surface
design token, retaining `#fbecec` as its fallback instead of using
--wn-surface-hover.
In `@modules/system/assets/less/framework.extras.less`:
- Line 70: Update the `@color-flash-warning-bg` definition in the framework extras
variables to use the --wn-flash-warning-bg token while retaining `@brand-warning`
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In `@modules/system/assets/less/updates/install.less`:
- Line 254: Remove the overriding border declaration for .tt-dropdown-menu and
retain a single tokenized border declaration using the prior effective color as
the fallback, so --wn-border theme overrides apply in supported browsers.
In `@modules/system/assets/ui/less/flashmessage.less`:
- Line 16: Update the nested close button styling in .flash-message to use
`@color-flash-text` or inherit the parent color instead of a hardcoded white
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| background-color: var(--wn-fancylayout-bg, #a5382c); | ||
| color: var(--wn-text-inverse, #fff); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Tokenize the delete button hover colors.
A theme that overrides --wn-fancylayout-bg or --wn-text-inverse changes the default state, but hovering resets the button to the hard-coded colors at Lines 772-773. Add hover tokens, with #bc4436 and #fff fallbacks, so the destructive action remains consistent with the active theme.
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In `@modules/backend/assets/less/layout/fancylayout.less` around lines 754 - 755,
Update the delete button hover styles to use dedicated theme variables for its
background and text colors, with `#bc4436` and `#fff` fallbacks, instead of
hard-coded values. Keep the existing default-state tokens unchanged and ensure
the hover state remains consistent with theme overrides.
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| @color-flash-error-bg: #cc3300; | ||
| @color-flash-success-bg: var(--wn-framework-flash-success-bg, #8da85e); | ||
| @color-flash-error-bg: var(--wn-framework-flash-error-bg, #cc3300); | ||
| @color-flash-warning-bg: @brand-warning; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Route framework warning flashes through a token.
@color-flash-warning-bg still resolves to @brand-warning, so the compiled framework stylesheet emits a fixed warning color. A --wn-flash-warning-bg override affects Snowboard warnings but not <p> framework warnings. Use the same token with the existing framework warning fallback.
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-@color-flash-warning-bg: `@brand-warning`;
+@color-flash-warning-bg: var(--wn-flash-warning-bg, `#de8754`);📝 Committable suggestion
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| @color-flash-warning-bg: @brand-warning; | |
| @color-flash-warning-bg: var(--wn-flash-warning-bg, #de8754); |
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In `@modules/system/assets/less/framework.extras.less` at line 70, Update the
`@color-flash-warning-bg` definition in the framework extras variables to use the
--wn-flash-warning-bg token while retaining `@brand-warning` as its fallback, so
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| background-color: #fff; | ||
| border: 1px solid #ccc; | ||
| background-color: var(--wn-surface-raised, #fff); | ||
| border: 1px solid var(--wn-border, #ccc); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Remove the overriding dropdown border declaration.
The following rgba() declaration overrides this tokenized border in supported browsers. Theme overrides of --wn-border therefore do not affect .tt-dropdown-menu. Keep one declaration and use the prior effective color as its fallback.
Proposed fix
- border: 1px solid var(--wn-border, `#ccc`);
- border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
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In `@modules/system/assets/less/updates/install.less` at line 254, Remove the
overriding border declaration for .tt-dropdown-menu and retain a single
tokenized border declaration using the prior effective color as the fallback, so
--wn-border theme overrides apply in supported browsers.
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🟡 Changes recommended
Several runtime CSS bundles remain stale, print and iframe contexts cannot safely resolve the tokens, and some multi-color declarations were only partially tokenized.
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Pull request overview
Centralizes backend colors into CSS custom properties, improves keyboard focus indicators, and refreshes brand assets.
Changes:
- Introduces shared color tokens and applies them across backend, CMS, and system styles.
- Improves fancy-tab and toolbar keyboard focus visibility.
- Refreshes logos and optimizes existing SVG assets.
File summaries
| File group | Description |
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modules/system/assets/ui/{storm.less,storm.css} |
Imports and compiles the token definitions. |
modules/system/assets/ui/less/tokens.less |
Defines the central color-token palette. |
modules/system/assets/ui/less/*.less |
Routes system UI colors through tokens and adds tab focus styling. |
modules/system/assets/less/**/*.less |
Tokenizes system pages, updates, loaders, and flash messages. |
modules/system/assets/css/*.css |
Regenerates system CSS bundles. |
modules/cms/assets/less/*.less |
Tokenizes CMS components and theme selector. |
modules/cms/assets/css/*.css |
Regenerates CMS component styles. |
modules/cms/widgets/assetlist/assets/{less,css} |
Tokenizes asset-list styling. |
modules/backend/assets/less/core/variables.less |
Maps backend variables to shared tokens. |
modules/backend/assets/less/controls/*.less |
Tokenizes backend controls. |
modules/backend/assets/less/layout/*.less |
Tokenizes layouts and adds focus indicators. |
modules/backend/assets/css/winter.css |
Regenerates the main backend stylesheet. |
modules/backend/assets/vendor/sweet-alert/sweet-alert-animations.less |
Tokenizes warning animation colors. |
modules/backend/behaviors/**/assets/less/*.less |
Tokenizes relation and import/export behavior styles. |
modules/backend/formwidgets/**/assets/less/*.less |
Tokenizes form-widget styling. |
modules/backend/formwidgets/**/assets/css/*.css |
Regenerates selected form-widget bundles. |
modules/backend/widgets/**/assets/less/*.less |
Tokenizes table, media, and report widgets. |
modules/backend/widgets/**/assets/css/*.css |
Regenerates widget CSS bundles. |
modules/backend/models/brandsetting/custom.less |
Exposes configured brand colors as CSS properties. |
modules/backend/models/editorsetting/default_styles.less |
Tokenizes rich-editor content styles. |
modules/backend/assets/images/{logo-dark.svg,logo-light.svg,icon.svg} |
Adds refreshed brand assets. |
modules/backend/assets/images/{logo.svg,winter-logo.svg,winter-logo-white.svg} |
Removes superseded logo assets. |
modules/backend/assets/images/{dashboard-icon.svg,media-icon.svg,tab-shape.svg,secondary-tab-shape-content.svg} |
Optimizes existing SVG artwork. |
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| @color-richeditor-toolbar: var(--wn-text-faint, #dddddd); | ||
| @color-richeditor-toolbar-btn-color: var(--wn-text-link, #404040); | ||
| @color-richeditor-toolbar-btn-bg-hover: var(--wn-surface-mid, #999999); | ||
| @color-richeditor-toolbar-btn-bg-active: var(--wn-surface-selected, #404040); | ||
| @color-richeditor-toolbar-btn-color-hover: var(--wn-text-inverse, #ffffff); |
| background: @stripe-loader-color; | ||
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| .box-shadow(~"inset 0 1px 1px -1px #FFF, inset 0 -1px 1px -1px #FFF"); | ||
| .box-shadow(~"inset 0 1px 1px -1px var(--wn-framework-extras-misc, #FFF), inset 0 -1px 1px -1px #FFF"); |
| background: @stripe-loader-color; | ||
| position: absolute; | ||
| .box-shadow(~"inset 0 1px 1px -1px #FFF, inset 0 -1px 1px -1px #FFF"); | ||
| .box-shadow(~"inset 0 1px 1px -1px var(--wn-snowboard-extras-misc, #FFF), inset 0 -1px 1px -1px #FFF"); |
| background: @color-stripe-loader; | ||
| position: absolute; | ||
| .box-shadow(~"inset 0 1px 1px -1px #FFF, inset 0 -1px 1px -1px #FFF"); | ||
| .box-shadow(~"inset 0 1px 1px -1px var(--wn-loader-misc, #FFF), inset 0 -1px 1px -1px #FFF"); |
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| text-shadow: none !important; | ||
| color: #000 !important; // Black prints faster: h5bp.com/s | ||
| color: var(--wn-text-strong, #000) !important; // Black prints faster: h5bp.com/s |
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| // Winter core colour tokens — generated by darkmode-audit/tools/apply.php. | ||
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| // redefine these rather than overriding the rules that use them. | ||
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| // Edit values in tools/tokens-values.json and re-run apply.php. |
The header told contributors to edit tokens-values.json and re-run apply.php. Neither exists in this repository -- they live in a separate plugin repo -- so the instruction could not be followed from core. Reworded so the file reads as maintained directly, which is how anyone working in core will treat it. Each entry still records the literal it replaced. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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From CodeRabbit and Copilot review on #1541. Compiled CSS that was never rebuilt. export.less, import.less, relation.less and mediafinder.less are not registered as asset bundles, so `winter:util compile less` never touches them and their committed CSS still carried the pre-token literals -- the LESS changes were inert. Rebuilt through the same CombineAssets path winter:util uses, unminified to match how these four were originally built. This also picks up drift that predates this PR: import.css still had @brand-danger's old #ab2a1c baked in. Rich editor reverted. richeditor.less imports the DRM-gated froala vendor LESS, so its CSS cannot be built here at all, and default_styles.less is the default body of a user-editable setting that Froala renders inside an iframe, where custom properties from the parent document never reach. Tokens there could not take effect, so those four files go back to literals. Print styles detached from the theme. site.print.less is entirely inside @media print and also forces backgrounds transparent, so a dark theme redefining the tokens would print near-white ink onto white paper. All six declarations are literal again, with a note saying why. Table error row. The pink #fbecec error background was routed to --wn-surface-hover (a cool neutral) -- close enough in deltaE to pass the fit guard, wrong semantically. It gets its own --wn-surface-error. Renamed --wn-table-border to --wn-table-error: it holds the error red and is used for a background too, so the old name was misleading. Partially tokenised declarations. The appliers rewrote only the first literal per line, leaving checkerboard gradients and two-sided inset shadows half tokenised, so an override applied to some stops and not others. Filled in 28 across 4 files. Flash close button. `color: white` was hardcoded, so it ignored overrides of --wn-flash-text; it now follows @color-flash-text. Dead border fallback. .tt-dropdown-menu declares border twice, the rgba() unconditionally overriding the tokenised one -- the legacy no-rgba fallback. Tokenising a declaration that can never take effect is worse than leaving it, so it is literal again with a note. Token count 168 -> 164; no undefined references and none unused. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The earlier passes matched hex literals only, so every rgba() in core was
invisible to them -- 185 declarations of shadow, overlay and highlight that a
theme still had to override selector by selector.
106 of the 116 rgba() values in core LESS are pure black or pure white at 37
different alphas. Those are not 37 colours, they are two colours used at many
strengths, so the token holds the CHANNEL TRIPLET and the alpha stays at the
call site:
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15);
-> box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(var(--wn-scrim-dark, 0, 0, 0), .15);
Redefining --wn-scrim-dark then moves all of them at once while each keeps its
own strength, which is what a dark theme actually wants -- shadows there are
rarely pure black.
Verified in-browser before applying: LESS passes the construct through
untouched, rgba() accepts a custom property expanding to "r, g, b", and the
var() fallback still works when the token is absent (everything after the
first comma is the fallback), so the "absent token degrades to the original
value" guarantee holds. No @supports needed -- rgba() and custom properties
are universally supported.
Genuinely coloured rgba values are left alone: they are identity.
rgba declarations in compiled core CSS: 185 -> 52, and 36 of the remainder are
in richeditor.css, the DRM-gated Froala output that cannot be rebuilt here.
Overall token coverage of the colour surface: 44% -> 52%.
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| .button { | ||
| border-radius: 3px; | ||
| box-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.16); | ||
| box-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(var(--wn-scrim-dark, 0, 0, 0), 0.16); |
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Preserve a literal fallback for email clients.
This email stylesheet now uses var() inside box-shadow. Clients that do not support CSS custom properties discard the entire declaration; the fallback inside var() does not help them. Keep the original literal declaration before the themed declaration.
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border-radius: 3px;
+ box-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.16);
- box-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(var(--wn-scrim-dark, 0, 0, 0), 0.16);
+ box-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(var(--wn-scrim-dark, 0, 0, 0), 0.16);
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| box-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(var(--wn-scrim-dark, 0, 0, 0), 0.16); | |
| box-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.16); | |
| box-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(var(--wn-scrim-dark, 0, 0, 0), 0.16); |
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In `@modules/system/models/mailbrandsetting/custom.less` at line 226, In the
box-shadow declaration, restore the original literal shadow immediately before
the themed declaration using var(--wn-scrim-dark, 0, 0, 0). Keep both
declarations so clients without CSS custom-property support retain the literal
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The scrim pass put the channel triplet in a token and left alpha at the call site, so a theme could change a shadow's hue but not its strength. Hue is the axis nobody needs: shifting rgba(0,0,0,.2) to rgba(13,17,23,.2) on a dark surface is visually almost identical. The real dark-mode problem with a shadow is that it is invisible against a dark background, which you fix by raising alpha, swapping to a border, or dropping it -- none of which the token reaches. The same applies to the white highlights: you would want alpha 0, not a different white. So those 106 declarations looked themeable without being themeable. Reverted to literals, which is at least honest about what they are. If shadows should be themed later, the useful shape is a small set of role tokens holding the COMPLETE rgba (--wn-shadow-sm, --wn-overlay-backdrop, ...), which means deciding that .12/.14/.15/.16 are the same shadow -- a design call worth making deliberately, alongside the dark-mode pass, not inferred here. Also from review: - mailbrandsetting/custom.less is rendered into email, where :root custom properties never arrive and a client that does not understand var() discards the whole declaration rather than using the fallback inside it. It should never have been tokenised; reverted with a note. - tokens.less emitted standalone `//` separators, which stylelint flags as scss/comment-no-empty. The header no longer produces them. Original rgba spelling restored occurrence-by-occurrence so the revert leaves no whitespace churn: the only rgba change against develop is the deliberate fancy inactive-tab label alpha (.35 -> .8) from the contrast fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Core had ~717 colour literals spread across 91 LESS files, so dark mode and theming meant hunting down every rule that painted something. This routes them through a single token block, and fixes the accessibility problems that surfaced while reviewing the result.
How the tokenisation works
Every rewrite keeps the original value as the
var()fallback:Compiled output is therefore unchanged if the token block is ever absent, and the change is exactly reversible.
661 of 717 literals now resolve through 164 tokens in
modules/system/assets/ui/less/tokens.less, imported bystorm.less. They fall into three groups:The remaining 56 stay literal: LESS evaluates
darken()/mix()/saturate()at compile time, so a variable feeding one cannot become avar(). Those are concentrated inglobal.variables.lessand the gradient mixins.What actually changes colour
Only the 28 neutral-scale tokens. The backend shifts from neutral grey toward blue-slate; the largest single change is body text
#666666 -> #445a6b. Everything in the other two groups is byte-identical to before.Accessibility fixes
Reviewing the result surfaced three pre-existing problems in the fancy form layout:
span.titleplus two pseudo-elements skewed ±20° hanging off either end, so the browser's outline drew a rectangle through the angled corners. Replaced with an inset bar on the three pieces that form the shape.box-shadowremoved, and only opacity changed on:hover..btncarries a globaloutline: none !important, so the ring is drawn withbox-shadow.overflow: hidden, which still makes it a scroll container, so the browser scrolled the tab's intentional overhang into view and the offset survived blur. Fixed with a negativescroll-margin.Focus colour is chosen by backdrop — white on the dark master strip,
#103141on the brand strip, where white reaches only 2.8:1, below the 3:1 WCAG 1.4.11 asks of a focus indicator.Separately, the fancy tab strip / inactive tab / active tab sat within ΔE 2.3–4.4 of each other, leaving the inactive tab nearly invisible. They now derive from the brand colour via
color-mixat ~11 ΔE steps, which also means they follow custom branding at runtime instead of baking adarken()at compile time. Those tokens are declared inside@supports, so wherecolor-mixis unsupported the token stays undefined and each use site falls back to its literal — the only case avar()fallback actually covers.Verification
var(--wn-*)reference resolves to a definition (no silent fallbacks).Known follow-ups
color-mixor precomputed pairs before dark mode can be a pure token redefinition.tokens.less.Commits
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