rays/ipodderx-rs
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Derive the colour scheme from the iPodderX icon

Browse Source 
Palette sampled from the icon rather than chosen to resemble it: the
silver device ramp, the screen blues, and the amber EQ bars. Dark theme
builds down from the screen navy; light theme uses the device body with
the deeper blue as accent.

Contrast was measured, not assumed: --faint, which carries dates and
sizes, failed AA in both themes and was moved along the icon's own grey
ramp until it passed. Lowest pair anywhere is now 4.54.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RPyeapneuXrCdojsaiXGbe
This commit is contained in:
Ray Slakinski
2026-09-10 02:08:59 +00:00
parent e05ea62051
commit cbd5e68d13
2 changed files with 64 additions and 15 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

24
PROGRESS.md
View File

@@ -56,6 +56,30 @@ and until now nothing set them.
---
## 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