v0.15.0-beta.1

Cirth v0.15.0-beta.1

The first beta of a pass over the default theme. Almost everything below
repaints an existing page without anyone editing it, which is the reason
this is a beta and not a release: the point of publishing it is to see the
new defaults on real sites before they are settled.

This is a beta

Visual defaults may still change during the beta series.

npm install @cirthcss/cirth@beta

npm install @cirthcss/cirth is unaffected and still resolves to v0.14.1.
Pin the exact version to stay on one beta:

npm install @cirthcss/cirth@0.15.0-beta.1

Breaking changes

None. No custom property was removed or renamed, and no markup that worked
in v0.14.1 stops working. What changes is how the defaults render.

What looks different

Buttons are flat. Every variant loses its gradient and shadow, and
carries colour and one border instead.

A disclosure is a rule, not a box. <details> no longer draws a card;
it is a summary line over a hairline, and an open one owns the gutter under
its last child.

Fields read as recessed, and focus adds a ring. A resting input is
recognisably inset on every surface it can sit on, and a focused one gets a
ring outside its border rather than only a colour change.

Navigation is neutral until it is active. Resting nav links no longer
take the accent; the active item is one registered edge — except inside a
navbar, and in a vertical nav it squares off against its rail. Controls in
a <nav> sit on a 40px band.

A visited link drains to a true grey, and a link wrapped around a card
keeps the card's ink, visited or not.

Card and table borders stay in the neutral family, mixed from the
canvas rather than tinted toward the accent, and
--cirth-card-border-radius now derives from --cirth-border-radius.

One canvas input drives the whole surface hierarchy at runtime: set
--cirth-canvas and the surfaces above it follow.

The shipped presets change the dialect, not just the palette. plain
and playroom now differ in shape as well as colour.

New and changed defaults

• --cirth-ink is new: the page's text colour under a name no
  component can rebind. --cirth-color is a slot — a <button>, a link
  and an <input> each rebind it — so anything meaning "the ink this
  document is set in" had nowhere safe to point. --cirth-color now
  defaults to --cirth-ink, so nothing computes differently.
• --cirth-typography-spacing-vertical derives from --cirth-spacing.
  Setting the spacing knob at the root now moves prose rhythm too, which is
  what it always claimed to do. Control padding and card padding remain
  deliberately off that knob: the first because the 44px WCAG 2.5.5 target
  size is computed from it, the second because a container's padding is
  pinned one step above its controls' on the space scale.
• Buttons and one-line fields share one control-height formula, and
  h1–h6 resolve from the type scale rather than from literals.
• --cirth-container-gutter and --cirth-modal-max-width are new.

Fixed

• A <nav> styles an <ol> like a <ul>. A breadcrumb is an ordered
  sequence, and <ol> was the element left out: it rendered the newlines
  between <li> elements as gaps and had no separators at all. This
  visibly changes every existing <ol> breadcrumb.
• The <summary> marker is centred on its own line instead of sitting high
  by half the line height — 4px at the default scale, 10px at 24px type.
• A vertical nav paints inside its own container, and a plain list inside
  an <aside> keeps its bullets.
• .sr-only-focusable no longer moves the document when it takes focus,
  and the VoiceOver list-semantics workaround is out of flow everywhere.
• <dl>, <dt>, <dd> and <caption> arrive finished rather than
  half-styled.

Known issues

• Table rows scroll horizontally on a phone rather than reflowing.
• The documentation site's own stylesheet is not part of the package and
  is not covered by these notes.

Feedback

The defaults are what this beta is asking about — particularly buttons,
fields, and navigation, which changed most. Please open an issue with a
screenshot and the surface it is on:
https://github.com/cirthcss/cirth/issues.

What's Changed

• fix(deps): take fast-uri to 3.1.7, closing four host-confusion advisories by @ricpastori in #103
• Native baseline aesthetic rework, and the release process for 0.15.0-beta.1 by @ricpastori in #104
• chore(release): prepare v0.15.0-beta.1 by @ricpastori in #105

Full Changelog: v0.14.1...v0.15.0-beta.1