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themes: add Akari Dawn / Akari Night Two new theme-common themes based on Shu Kutsuzawa's Akari (https://github.com/cappyzawa/akari-theme, MIT). Alloy adopts these as its default light / dark themes, and they're cross-available to every theme-common consumer (GoingsOn, Balanced Breakfast, audiofiles, makenot.work server). Dawn maps Akari's warm-clay light palette to theme-common's schema: lantern-orange -> action.primary, red -> status.danger, green (life) -> status.success, amber -> status.warning, night-blue -> status.info. surface tiers reinterpret Akari's palette to theme- common's L-ordering convention (raised lighter than page, sunken darker) since Akari's own semantics use "raised" for popup panels (darker than bg). Night follows the same mapping with Akari's bright counterparts. Verified via alloy's tools/wcag_audit.py; failures are Akari-inherent (warning amber on cream chrome fails AA-text at 2.5-3.2 but clears AA-UI for glyph use) and survive Alloy's accent-on-glyph rule.
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Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Author: Max Johnson <me@maxj.phd> · 2026-07-18 16:25 UTC
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Commit: d4b9ef7ac96410f6e07a4df8d771152ed896e9aa
Parent: 453d984
2 files changed, +94 insertions, -0 deletions
A shared/themes/akari-dawn.toml +52
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1 + # Based on Akari by Shu Kutsuzawa (cappyzawa) — MIT License
2 + # https://github.com/cappyzawa/akari-theme
3 + #
4 + # Akari Dawn — inspired by Japanese alleys lit by round lanterns.
5 + # Design principles from the source: light is singular (lantern-orange
6 + # is the only primary accent), blue is air not light (night sky),
7 + # purple stays muted, green is life, black is warm grey. Alloy adopts
8 + # this as its default light theme.
9 + #
10 + # Note on surface tiers: theme-common's convention is that `raised`
11 + # reads as elevated (lighter in light mode) and `sunken` as recessed
12 + # (darker). Akari's own Helix theme uses different semantics (a darker
13 + # "surface" for statusline / cursorline). The tiers below reinterpret
14 + # Akari's palette to theme-common's L-ordering while staying inside
15 + # the source's tonal range — page and sunken take Akari's own values;
16 + # raised and overlay are computed warmer/lighter tones that read as
17 + # "paper caught in more lamp light."
18 +
19 + [meta]
20 + name = "Akari Dawn"
21 + variant = "light"
22 +
23 + [surface]
24 + page = "#e4ded6"
25 + raised = "#ede7de"
26 + sunken = "#cfc4b6"
27 + overlay = "#f0ece4"
28 +
29 + [content]
30 + primary = "#1a1816"
31 + secondary = "#222d38"
32 + muted = "#514b45"
33 +
34 + [action]
35 + primary = "#8a4530"
36 +
37 + [status]
38 + danger = "#6a2828"
39 + success = "#3a5830"
40 + warning = "#b07840"
41 + info = "#304050"
42 +
43 + [line]
44 + border = "#cabeae"
45 +
46 + [category]
47 + one = "#8a4530"
48 + two = "#3a5830"
49 + three = "#304050"
50 + four = "#b07840"
51 + five = "#806080"
52 + six = "#305858"
A shared/themes/akari-night.toml +42
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1 + # Based on Akari by Shu Kutsuzawa (cappyzawa) — MIT License
2 + # https://github.com/cappyzawa/akari-theme
3 + #
4 + # Akari Night — dark counterpart to Akari Dawn. Same design principles:
5 + # lantern-orange is the only primary light source, blue is night sky
6 + # (not accent light), green is life, purple stays quiet. Alloy adopts
7 + # this as its default dark theme.
8 +
9 + [meta]
10 + name = "Akari Night"
11 + variant = "dark"
12 +
13 + [surface]
14 + page = "#25231f"
15 + raised = "#2e2c27"
16 + sunken = "#1c1a17"
17 + overlay = "#35322c"
18 +
19 + [content]
20 + primary = "#e6ded3"
21 + secondary = "#c0b8ad"
22 + muted = "#8e847a"
23 +
24 + [action]
25 + primary = "#e26a3b"
26 +
27 + [status]
28 + danger = "#d25046"
29 + success = "#7faf6a"
30 + warning = "#d4a05a"
31 + info = "#7a8fa2"
32 +
33 + [line]
34 + border = "#3d3a35"
35 +
36 + [category]
37 + one = "#e26a3b"
38 + two = "#7faf6a"
39 + three = "#7a8fa2"
40 + four = "#d4a05a"
41 + five = "#8e7ba0"
42 + six = "#6f8f8a"