The console was a second product. admin-tokens.css held a complete dark set —
its own surfaces, its own orange, its own status triad — so every shared
component had to work in two worlds, and the two halves of the application
drifted apart in ways nobody could see from inside either one. That file now
carries density and nothing else: smaller type, tighter rows, tighter corners.
Colour comes from one place.
The tokens themselves are rebuilt around what the redesign settled on:
- Radii scaled to object size (9/11/16/22) instead of one value everywhere,
which is what made the interface read as a design-system specification
rather than as a product.
- Warm, broad, low shadows. A neutral grey drop shadow belongs to a different
design language and reads as cold on this ground.
- --accent-press, which several rules already referenced and nothing defined.
An undefined var() does not make a browser skip the declaration; it computes
to , and for background-color that is transparent — the accent button
lost its fill on hover and left white text on white.
- No serif. A serif headline is what made every page read as a document, which
is the impression the whole redesign exists to remove. --font-serif now
points at the sans so nothing breaks while call sites are cleaned up.
The two shells are one shell with two configurations, and both finally have a
mobile navigation: the sidebar used to simply disappear below 900px, leaving no
way to move around the application at all on a phone.
The customer dashboard is bound to real records — instance, seats, traffic,
backups, contract — instead of the fixtures it shipped with. Where something is
not measured, storage consumption, it says what was contractually agreed rather
than inventing a figure. This is the sheet a customer forwards to their auditor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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