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The first pass built each palette by rotating ONE colour field's hue, and it
showed: every option was a single tone at several brightnesses, which reads flat
next to any real gradient. A palette is now an ordered ramp of DISTINCT hues.
The 4×4 mesh samples that ramp along the diagonal with a fixed per-cell offset
table, so neighbouring cells land on different parts of it and the colours pool
and swirl instead of banding; the control points' existing drift then moves the
pools around. Violet keeps its explicit sixteen colours, so the default is
untouched.
Twelve of them now, dark first then pale: Violet, Nebula, Abyss, Ember, Moss,
Graphite, then Holo, Sunset, Bloom, Dawn, Mint, Opal. Holo and Sunset are
straight takes on the two reference gradients — foil and poster.
`every_palette_is_multi_tone` measures the hue spread across all sixteen cells
and fails under 45° (20° for Graphite and Opal, which are meant to be
restrained). It caught Ember at 35°, all reds and oranges — the very flatness
this rework exists to remove — and Graphite at 3° despite a comment claiming it
drifted cool to warm. Both were rebuilt until the numbers matched the prose.
The UI follows the palette now, rather than wearing brand violet over whatever
happens to be behind it. Each palette carries an accent and a light flag, and an
Ink derived from those (foreground, accent, on-accent, glass, scrim and its
strength) is published to the whole tree — a thread-local in the console, an
environment value on Apple, a CompositionLocal on Android. Pale palettes flip
the ink: dark text on white frost, with the materials, tray scrims and every
wash that sits under text following suit.
Three things only the renders could have told us:
- Additive blending blows out over a pale ground. Android's blobs and Apple's
legacy field composite with Plus/plusLighter, which over near-white
saturates every blob to white — Holo rendered as a grey wash. Pale palettes
blend normally.
- A white scrim at the dark field's strength BLEACHES the gradient. Mixing
toward black at 0.4 reads as depth; toward white at 0.4 destroys the chroma
it is drawn over. The scrim now carries a per-palette strength.
- White glass over a bright field has far less separating it from its backdrop
than dark glass over a dark one, and needed more body.
Verified: console build + clippy -D warnings + 173 tests, Apple build + 200
tests + an iOS-triple typecheck, Android compile + 62 tests, and eyeball passes
on real renders of both the vivid and the pale ends (console CPU rasters; a new
Roborazzi light-palette scene, which is what exposed the blend-mode bug).