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+## 2026-09-10 — Colour scheme derived from the icon
+
+Palette sampled from `web/ipodderx-icon.jpg` with ImageMagick rather than eyeballed. The icon gives
+three families: the silver device ramp (`#1A1A1A` `#606060` `#929292` `#ADADAD` `#D6D6D6` `#F5F5F5`),
+the screen blues (`#2D5391` `#5574A9` `#7595CA` `#92B2E6` `#B4CAED`), one amber from the EQ bars
+(`#F49E2C`), and a blue-grey `#95A0B1`.
+
+Dark theme: `--bg` is the screen navy taken right down, `--fg` the device highlight, `--dim` the
+blue-grey verbatim, `--accent` the screen blue, `--accent2` the amber. Light theme flips to the
+device body — white panels, `#D6D6D6` edges, `#1A1A1A` text — with the deeper `#2D5391` as accent,
+since the pale screen blue vanishes on white. Text sitting on an accent fill moved from a hardcoded
+`#0b0e14` to a `--ink` token.
+
+Two calls: the amber doubles as the pending state, being the only warm note in the icon and exactly
+where the eye should go. And since the icon has no green or red, the downloaded/error colours are
+tuned to the palette's saturation and temperature rather than invented from scratch.
+
+**Contrast was checked, not assumed, and it failed first time.** `--faint` — which carries dates,
+durations and file sizes at small size — came out at 3.92 dark and 3.11 light, both under AA. Moved
+along the icon's own grey ramp to `#7a8799` and `#767676`. Every pair in both themes now clears
+WCAG AA; the lowest anywhere is 4.54.
+
+---
+
## 2026-09-10 — The real iPodderX icon
The sidebar mark was an invented `ix` placeholder. The original icon is not in this repo or the
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