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v0.86.2: the admin design-refinement arc — one calm visual system, a real phone desk

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@glw907 glw907 released this 16 Jul 01:11

0.86.2

Changed

  • The admin's visual system, re-expressed end to end by the design-refinement arc (2026-07-15).
    The office: an emphasis ladder replaces per-element accents (ink-solid standing openers, violet
    reserved for flow commits and pending act-on states, red only inside destructive confirms, amber
    only on needs-attention), one status-pill family with a shared wash, one-line list rows composed
    at a natural reading measure with tinted frame zones, and a documented proximity spacing scale.
    The type system: the wordmark and every display-face heading drop negative tracking (the rn pair
    kemmed — "Cairn" could read "Caim"), chrome steps to 15px, the manuscript's prose posture opens
    to 1.125rem/1.85, and small labels take tracking bands keyed to optical size and weight. The
    desk: below the sm breakpoint the edit route recomposes for the phone — a 48px band, Save and
    Publish in a thumb-reach bottom action bar padded above the screen edge, one scrollable
    44px-target toolbar row, and the environment strip folded into the overflow — cutting
    keyboard-open chrome from 67% of the viewport to 34%. The toolbar gains Format / Structure /
    Insert group eyebrows and a persistent Markdown-help control at every width. Tidy's review diff
    and settings examples are colorless (weight and strikethrough carry the semantics), and dark
    mode compensates saturation with a lower-chroma primary (contrast measured above the 4.5:1 floor
    throughout). All of this is admin-internal CSS and components; no consumer action.
  • The showcase exemplar moves its custom Signups entry from the Content section to the Site
    section of its declared navLayout (signups are inbound visitor data, not authored content),
    and the organize-your-admin-nav guide's worked example follows. Exemplar and docs only.

Added

  • A resolved engine nav entry now carries dated when it is a content concept, and the admin
    sidebar gives dated concepts (Posts-like) their own glyph so adjacent concepts stop sharing one
    document icon. Additive; no consumer action.

Fixed

  • The admin shell zeroes the browser's default body margin while mounted. On a host site that
    never resets body, the fixed sidebar pinned to the true viewport while the page content
    offset by the UA's 8px margin, opening a visible seam around the brand tile and adding 16px of
    permanent scroll under the full-height drawer. The reset lives and dies with the admin mount,
    so the host's own pages are untouched. Automatic; no consumer action.