max / alloy

Make the lock ring say that it is waiting, and count what you type Two complaints, one cause. On Akari Dawn the indicator was a 1.37:1 smudge on a cream field: nothing said a password was wanted, because there was barely anything on screen. The ring is now border.strong, 3.27:1 on dawn and 8.15:1 on night, and ten pixels thick instead of six. swaylock cannot draw a prompt, so this is the only lever available: --show-keyboard-layout is documented "while typing" and there is no text at rest. Keystrokes were already being drawn, one ring segment per keypress, with separator-color dividing them. That was 00000000 in the hand-written original, so the dividers were invisible and consecutive keystrokes merged into one growing arc: the ring showed roughly how much you had typed and never how many. Ink dividers at 13.25:1 against the segments make each keypress a countable notch. The segments themselves had to move off amber. Amber against border.strong is 1.17:1, so raising the ring would have swallowed the feedback whole. Only tokens that invert with polarity can contrast with a border tone that itself inverts, which rules the accents out and leaves surface.page: 3.27:1 to 8.15:1 against the ring, worst case 2.80:1 against any state the ring can take. Caps lock keeps the same segment tone on purpose, since the ring already turns amber and the caps text already appears.