The composer's input was still a flat 60% white bar (the "clean, even tile"
from the earlier pass) on a panel that had rightly become translucent, so it
read as a white slab - "especially the part where you enter the prompt". It is
now the app's standard frosted tile plus one light veil: measured against the
same backdrop the field sits at 178,212,157 where the panel is 145,183,79 -
clearly a brighter field, still glass.
Translucent glass needs softness rather than opacity, so the shared backdrop
(background-blur.webp, the pre-blurred copy every Aero surface sits on) is
re-baked much softer - a 64x36 upscale - and every panel, card, chip and
button now shows the scene as an even frosted wash instead of white or mud.
?v=5 busts the asset.
Contrast scans stay clean (chat, library, study, settings across all three
themes, 0 findings) and all 15 suites pass. Version 0.6.4, SW v86.
The uniform wash (background-glass) made the rail and the chat chrome nearly
opaque - "why is the sidebar so white and non-translucent... its supposed to
be translucent and blurry!". The rail, the chat header, the welcome card and
the composer now use the same recipe as every other surface in the app
(background-blur under the shared gloss + veil + --glass-bg, exactly what the
deck cards do), and the dedicated wash asset is deleted. Answer bubbles keep a
thin 0.3 veil over the same blurred wallpaper.
Measured: the rail runs 181,229,241 over the sky to 133,174,75 over the grass
(translucent, d166) and the chat/library screens still scan at 0 below-minimum
text-contrast findings in all three themes. The chat suite now pins both the
shared recipe and the translucency, so a future "make it uniform" pass cannot
quietly reintroduce an opaque panel. Phone touch keeps the flat 32% glass.
Version 0.6.3, SW v85.
The header and composer were full-bleed bands (flush to the top/right/bottom
viewport edges, composer corners off-screen) next to a rail that floats with a
12px margin. The new --layout-gutter (12px) spaces the rail, header, empty-state
card and composer identically on every side; --radius-panel/-control/-chip
(-pill) replace the ad-hoc radii across the shared classes, so every panel is
rounded on all four corners and shared controls match in every theme. The
desktop-only ::after hairlines and the left-corner-only radius are gone.
Aero: the rail and the chat chrome (answers included) share one even recipe -
the wallpaper extra-blurred into a hue-free wash (background-glass.webp) under a
uniform ~50% white veil and a whisper of gloss. Measured within ~10 RGB units
across the rail top->bottom and the card/composer left->right; the blue->green
smear and the teal composer are gone. The composer's field is a clean even tile
with no wallpaper gradient inside it.
Chat fixes: send is a filled primary tile shaped exactly like attach (dimmed
while the input is empty), suggestion/context chips use the shared .chip token
(40/44px target, visible rim, full-contrast text, raw model id in the tooltip),
the AI note reads at 12px --text-muted (.ai-disclaimer), the selected sidebar
row carries the accent border + accent icon, the theme toggle is back in Aero
(the moon flips to Dark; Settings brings Aero back), and the empty state is
centered exactly between header and composer.
Outside CSS: the wallpaper's top-left HUD-circle decoration (it peeked through
the 12px gutters on wide windows) was healed out of background.webp and
background-blur.webp; the orbs/bubbles ride one masked .ice-floats layer that
fades them under the chrome bands and the rail strip, so none is sliced by a
panel edge (still parked under reduced motion).
Version 0.6.0, SW -> freezmo-v82. Tests: chat suite pins the new geometry (12px
gutter, 24px corners, even wash on all four panels, send-vs-attach shape,
chips/input radii); mobile pins the phone chrome and the Aero toggle; bubbles
pins the floats layer + its reduced-motion opt-out.
- Aero: blue gradients back on the active segment and every primary
(Review due, the card's Study button, the composer's send button); a
frosted backing behind the page heading and the All decks label; a
bottom-weighted rail tint; chat header/composer/welcome panels; calmer
orbs; stronger card veil + a stronger blur bake.
- Dark/Light: a dedicated --track token makes progress bars read (the
first attempt shifted --surface-sunken and the pixel scan caught the
sheet-contrast regression); brighter dark secondary text; darker light
segmented labels and difficulty tints; stronger light card border and
shadow.
- Chat UI: friendly model chip ("Gemma 4 31B") with the raw name in a
tooltip, larger chips, plain centered disclaimer, vertically centered
welcome panel, distinct chat-plus icon for new chat.
- Chat models: every chat-capable model from the server's /api/tags is
selectable (favourites first, search field when long, live-list
validation in the route); default CHAT_MODEL_DEFAULT or gemma4:31b.
- Reduce motion: Settings toggle (default off) that parks the scene,
collapses CSS animations and drives framer-motion's calm mode.
- Folders hint, "New" badge on fresh decks.
Contrast: 0 findings, axe clean, mobile 126/126, chat 102/102, wizard
95/95, regression 44/44, i18n 13/13, native 33/33.
Version 0.4.6, SW -> freezmo-v71.
The background "didn't change" because the service worker's asset cache
kept serving the previous wallpaper bytes (stale-while-revalidate returns
the cached copy first, and an old worker can outlive a deploy). Both aero
images carry a ?v=3 query now, so a stale cache cannot answer for them.
"Everything should look like the Ask button" is literal: the rail, the
cards, the chips, the segments and the buttons share one recipe - the
pre-blurred wallpaper under a ~15% veil with the bright rim. The blur
bake is regenerated at 640x400 with a shadow lift (gamma 0.86) and a
saturation nudge, so the scene's colours stay vivid instead of washing
to a milky film. The wizard's phone action bar loses Aero's heavy
water-blue slab for the same glass, and nested chrome inside sheets
keeps its flat fills (the sheet itself is the real glass there).
Contrast: 0 below-minimum findings on every screen and theme, 0 axe
violations. Version 0.3.2, SW -> freezmo-v63.
The white surfaces were reading as a milky white panel (a card top was
~71% white). The frosted recipes now use a 14% base veil plus the gloss
over the pre-blurred wallpaper, small chrome (rows, chips, segments,
buttons) keeps a touch more veil, and nothing nested inside a sheet or
dialog uses the viewport-aligned layer (it showed the raw dark water
under the settings theme labels at 1.5:1 — nested chrome falls back to
the flat fills over the genuinely blurred sheet).
The first-load text bug was the boot script: its dark test was
`s && !a ? s === 'dark' : matchMedia(...)`, which for a stored aero fell
through to the OS preference, so a dark-preferring machine loaded with
both `dark` and `aero` classes and every `.dark` rule painted over the
wallpaper until a theme toggle re-applied the classes. The stored value
now decides alone; a dark-colorScheme check pins it in the mobile suite
(123 checks).
Background: the user's latest Gemini scene (1280x714) re-encoded to
public/aero/background.webp (206 kB) with a fresh pre-blurred sibling.
Contrast: 0 below-minimum findings, 0 axe violations, all three themes.
Version 0.3.1, SW -> freezmo-v62.
The same Gemini scene at 1280x714 (was 1024x572): public/aero/
background.webp is 213 kB, and the pre-blurred glass layer is regenerated
with a proper cover-fit so it still lines up with the sharp wallpaper.
Contrast: 0 below-minimum findings, 0 axe violations. Version 0.2.9,
SW -> freezmo-v61.
The scene is the user's own Frutiger Aero image now: green hills, a river,
an eco-city, bubbles and daisies. Re-encoded to public/aero/background.webp
(152 kB) with a fresh 3 kB pre-blurred variant for the glass, and the
WallpaperSafari credit line, its i18n keys and the README credit are gone
(the image is made by the user with Gemini).
Contrast: 0 below-minimum findings and 0 axe violations, all three themes.
Version 0.2.8, SW -> freezmo-v60.
The white-ish fills are gone: every surface is a thin translucent glass with
the gloss and a bright rim, and the wallpaper reads through all of it.
The blur is a pre-blurred copy of the wallpaper (public/aero/
background-blur.webp, 3 kB) glued to the viewport with
background-attachment: fixed, layered under the tint and the gloss, instead
of a live backdrop-filter. Blurring the live scene measured 66ms per frame
at 2x CPU throttle (115 frames over 34ms) because the bubbles move behind
every surface; with the pre-blurred layer the same scene runs at 33ms and 8
slow frames — the same as the other themes, so the MacBook stays cool.
Sticky chrome, sheets and dropdowns keep a real backdrop-filter (they sit
over scrolling content, and their area is small).
Contrast: 0 below-minimum findings, 0 axe violations, all three themes.
Version 0.2.5, SW -> freezmo-v58.
The wallpaper is the one from the mockup: "The S Aesthetic That You
Definitely Recognize Frutiger Aero" via WallpaperSafari
(https://wallpapersafari.com/w/IlWuz7) — the URL in the request pointed at a
different (teal abstract) wallpaper, this is the grass/sky/water one that
matches the screenshot. Re-encoded to a 237 kB WebP in public/aero/, used as
the scene in aero only (light/dark never download it), and credited in
Settings next to the theme picker.
The drawn CSS scene (rays, reeds, skyline, caustics) is off over the photo;
the ten rising bubbles stay, and the orbs became extra bubbles. Buttons and
segments are liquid glass now — translucent, glossed top half, bright rim,
backdrop blur — instead of the solid aqua fill. Helper lines that sit
straight on the wallpaper (the keyboard tip, the AI note) get a small glass
chip: dark text on grass measured 2.5:1.
Also carries: the underwater scene + bubbles work, the floating cookie
notice, the Czech title (Tvůj mrazák) and the review-suite fix that made the
last deploy fail its gate.
Contrast: 0 below-minimum findings, 0 axe violations across all three
themes. Version 0.2.2, SW -> freezmo-v56.
