todo.md: the design review's list, to do later

A review of the web UI against screenshots of every view in all three
themes. The palette and Classic carry the iPodderX identity; Dark and
Light do not. First three: amber for new (unread badges, dots,
download progress), EQ bars as the playing marker, and toolbar focus
rings that overflow:hidden currently clips. The rest is weights,
sentence-case labels, pane sizes, header lines, wording, system theme,
reduced motion, art, sign-in and the Settings export/import icons.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wi22VSVrkAvqNj61eqHsm9

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+# To do
+
+## Design pass on the web UI
+
+From a review on 2026-09-11, against screenshots of every view in all three themes (desktop, phone,
+dialogs, sign-in) on the browser suite's fixture daemon. Line numbers are `web/index.html` as of
+`2e416f9` and will drift; search for the selector instead.
+
+The palette already comes from the 2004 icon and Classic is the strongest identity in the product, but
+Dark and Light, the themes people actually use, read as a generic dark dashboard: one system font, bold
+everywhere, one pale blue doing every job, the same radius on everything. The first three items below
+are the ones that would make Dark look like iPodderX; the rest are tidying.
+
+- [ ] **Amber means new.** The blue accent is on unread badges, unread dots, the primary Scan button,
+  selection, the playing outline, the slider thumb and links, so a count looks like a button and nothing
+  stands out. Give the icon's EQ-bar amber (`--accent2`) to unread badges, unread dots and download
+  progress; keep blue for selection and the one primary action. `.badge` (:169), `.ep .st` (:280),
+  `.dlbar i` (:308).
+- [ ] **EQ bars as the playing marker.** The strongest image in the brand. Small amber bars on the
+  playing row and in the player bar, standing still under `prefers-reduced-motion`. This is the one
+  memorable detail; keep everything around it quiet.
+- [ ] **Focus you can see.** No `:focus-visible` styles anywhere, and `overflow:hidden` on `.tgroup` (:105)
+  and `#topbar` (:100) clips the focus ring of every toolbar button, so keyboard users cannot see where
+  they are. Add a `:focus-visible` ring and inset it, or drop the overflow clipping.
+- [ ] **Fewer bold weights.** Directory, Popular and All Subscriptions, every feed name and every unread
+  title are 600–700, so nothing leads. Keep bold for headings and unread titles, 500 elsewhere.
+  `font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums` on counts, sizes and durations. Keep `system-ui`: the page fetches
+  nothing from anyone else, on purpose.
+- [ ] **Sentence-case labels.** Drop `text-transform:uppercase` from `.ephead` (:262), `.fhd` (:195),
+  `.chip` (:296) and `.tag` (:157). Classic already writes "Title, File, Size", and it reads better.
+- [ ] **The list gets the room.** With nothing selected, the reading pane takes about 60% of the height to
+  say "Pick an item to read it", and the Files pane keeps 270 px to say "No files". Raise the default
+  `--listh` from 40% to about 60% (:187), and hide `#files` (:192) when nothing is selected or the item
+  has no files.
+- [ ] **Shorter header lines.** "2 items · 1 downloaded · checked 1m ago · every 1 hour · next in 60m"
+  cuts off at "ev…" on a phone, and "every 1 hour · next in 60m" says nothing right after a check. Show
+  "2 items, 1 downloaded · checked 1m ago"; move the schedule into the tooltip (:829, :914).
+- [ ] **One word per thing.**
+  - "1 items" in the sidebar and folder rows (:794, :829, :943).
+  - "saved" in the sidebar (:793–794), "downloaded" in headers and on the Downloaded tab. Use
+    "downloaded".
+  - One feature, three names: the Flagged tab, the "Keep the selected item" tooltip (:537), "Starred
+    items are never touched" in Settings (:1629). Use "Keep", and call the tab "Kept".
+- [ ] **Unsubscribe with the other actions.** "Minus unsubscribes" is the rule from the icon pass and it
+  holds, but in the feed header the minus sits bare at the far right, apart from the round buttons, and
+  reads as a window's minimise control. Give it the same round frame and put it with the others
+  (`.acts .btn.last`, :224).
+- [ ] **Follow the system theme.** A first visit is always Dark: `THEMES` has no "system" (:1846,
+  :1856). When nothing is stored, pick Dark or Light from `prefers-color-scheme`.
+- [ ] **Respect reduced motion.** The drawer slide, the folder chevron and the toast animation should stop
+  under `prefers-reduced-motion`.
+- [ ] **Art.** The player shows the episode title's initials ("SE") even when the feed has art: use the
+  feed's. Initials tiles for feeds without art are all the same grey, and two "TS" sit in a row in the
+  fixtures: tint each from the palette by a hash of the title.
+- [ ] **Sign-in.** A plain centred card. It is the one place the original icon could be shown large.
+- [ ] **Settings export and import.** A floppy disk and a plus, which only make sense with the hint text
+  under them. The one spot where the icon-only rule does not hold up; consider words there.
+
+After any of these: rebuild, `node tests/page-smoke.js`, `npx playwright test`, and look at all three
+themes and a phone width before calling it done.