/* ========================================================== ht-law / tokens.css Layer 3. The only file in this project that may contain a literal colour, font name or pixel value. Four documented exceptions live outside this file, because none of them can read a custom property. They are written out here in words rather than in placeholder syntax, so that a find and replace fill cannot rewrite this comment. 1. meta theme-color carries the brand colour as a placeholder, in every page head 2. site.webmanifest the same, twice 3. generated brand assets favicon, OG image, icons. Built from src/ masters. Regenerate whenever --accent moves. 4. media query conditions in layout.css. CSS does not allow a custom property inside a media feature, and there is no build step to substitute one. md/README.md carries the full reasoning. ========================================================== */ /* ─ face ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Figtree, wght 300 to 900, served by Google Fonts. The @font-face comes from their stylesheet, which every page head requests with media="print" so it never blocks the first paint, then promotes with js/modules/fonts.js. Nothing about the face is declared here, so this file no longer decides where the font comes from, only what it is called. The name below has to match the family Google serves. Two consequences, both recorded in md/README.md. The CSP in _headers has to allow two Google origins. And Google's Figtree subsets do not carry U+2192, so the button arrows are inline SVG rather than a font glyph. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */ :root { /* ─ colour ─────────────────────────────────────────────── */ --ink: #0A0A0A; --paper: #FFFFFF; --surface: #F7F7F7; --muted: #4A4A4A; --accent: #162737; --accent-ink: #FFFFFF; /* The firm's secondary brand colour. Declared so the value lives with the rest of the palette, and deliberately consumed by nothing: every component reads --accent, and giving one of them a second hue is a composition decision, not a token swap. */ --accent-2: #9E015E; --rule: #E5E5E5; /* extension: three hairline greys and a hover accent. --accent-hover is the firm's secondary colour rather than a lighter --accent. It was derived from --accent in the source, lifting OKLCH lightness and chroma at a fixed hue, and the @supports block that computed it has been removed with it: a relative-colour override would have silently won over this literal in every browser that supports the syntax, which is most of them, and the hover would have stayed the accent. This is now a second hue, so it no longer follows --accent. Changing the accent leaves this untouched. White on #9E015E is 8.0:1, which clears AA for the primary button label and for the prose link and form error colours below. */ --accent-hover: var(--accent-2); --rule-strong: #D4D4D4; --rule-bold: #BFBFBF; --rule-field: #949494; /* The secondary button's outline, so a button looks like a button before anyone hovers it. 3.03:1 on paper, where --rule-bold was 1.84:1 and left the control almost invisible. Kept separate from the hairline greys because a control and a divider should not be forced to change together. */ --btn-line: #949494; /* extension: text on the accent field. Nine alpha steps in the source, consolidated to five. --accent-ink-dim replaces the 0.50 and 0.45 steps, both of which failed AA at 12px. These are alphas, so the contrast they achieve depends on how dark --accent is. They are safe down to a relative luminance of about 0.06, which covers a deep navy, green, red or plum. A mid-tone accent needs them raised. md/README.md carries the table and the ceiling. */ --accent-ink-strong: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.80); --accent-ink-body: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75); --accent-ink-muted: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.65); --accent-ink-soft: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.62); --accent-ink-dim: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.58); /* extension: surfaces and lines on the accent field */ --accent-fill-hover: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.88); --accent-fill-press: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75); --accent-line: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.70); --accent-line-press: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.60); --accent-rule: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.15); --accent-rule-soft: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12); --accent-btn-fill: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.10); /* The nav and drawer shadows are the accent at 35%, so they read as the header's own colour deepening rather than a grey smudge. Derived, so changing --accent alone is enough. On the original navy this resolves to exactly the rgba(2, 47, 119, 0.35) it replaces. */ --accent-shadow: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 35%, transparent); --ink-line-press: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.50); /* placeholder text sits at 0.76 of --muted. Below that it fails AA against the field. */ --placeholder-alpha: 0.76; /* ─ type ───────────────────────────────────────────────── */ --font-display: 'Figtree', system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif; --font-body: 'Figtree', system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif; --font-utility: 'Figtree', system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif; /* The mark FX/THRESHOLD shows while it holds. Live text set in --font-display, not an image, so it follows the client's monogram and needs nothing regenerated when that changes. The quotes are part of the value: content: var(--mark). */ --mark: "MS"; --step-mark: clamp(40px, 6vw, 72px); /* The progress bar runs the full width of the bottom edge, which is where a browser puts one and so needs no explaining. On the accent field its track and fill are the same white steps the rest of the site uses on that field, so nothing new is invented and it follows --accent for free. */ --bar-height: 2px; /* List marker. The square the offence lists carry in front of each item, in --accent. Small enough to read as punctuation rather than as a bullet, which is what keeps the lists looking like a document and not like a slide. */ --marker-size: 5px; --weight-light: 300; --weight-regular: 400; --weight-medium: 500; /* contract steps */ --step--2: 12px; /* extension: eyebrow, label */ --step--1: 14px; --step-0: 17px; --step-1: 18px; --step-2: 22px; --step-3: clamp(36px, 4.4vw, 64px); --step-4: clamp(56px, 8.4vw, 120px); /* extension: intermediate and role sizes this composition uses */ --step-utility: 15px; --step-icon: 16px; --step-nav: 24px; --step-question: clamp(20px, 2vw, 26px); --step-row: clamp(28px, 3vw, 40px); --step-contact: clamp(28px, 3.2vw, 48px); /* extension: phone-band display sizes */ --step-display-phone: clamp(40px, 12vw, 72px); --step-contact-phone: clamp(40px, 10vw, 72px); --lh-tight: 0.95; --lh-body: 1.5; /* extension: this composition uses seven more */ --lh-heading: 1.05; --lh-title: 1.15; --lh-block: 1.2; --lh-list: 1.4; --lh-prose: 1.55; --lh-address: 1.65; --lh-stack: 1.7; --track-display: -0.01em; /* extension */ --track-heading: -0.005em; --track-body: 0; --track-tight: 0.01em; --track-meta: 0.04em; --track-label: 0.08em; --track-eyebrow: 0.16em; /* ─ space ──────────────────────────────────────────────── */ /* 0.85 tight · 1 default · 1.25 generous. Scales the ramp. */ --density: 1; /* Value-named ramp. The number is the base pixel value at --density: 1. Every rung is used by this composition. md/README.md lists the ones used exactly once. */ --sp-4: calc(4px * var(--density)); --sp-6: calc(6px * var(--density)); --sp-8: calc(8px * var(--density)); --sp-9: calc(9px * var(--density)); --sp-10: calc(10px * var(--density)); --sp-12: calc(12px * var(--density)); --sp-14: calc(14px * var(--density)); --sp-16: calc(16px * var(--density)); --sp-18: calc(18px * var(--density)); --sp-20: calc(20px * var(--density)); --sp-22: calc(22px * var(--density)); --sp-24: calc(24px * var(--density)); --sp-28: calc(28px * var(--density)); --sp-32: calc(32px * var(--density)); --sp-36: calc(36px * var(--density)); --sp-40: calc(40px * var(--density)); --sp-48: calc(48px * var(--density)); --sp-56: calc(56px * var(--density)); --sp-60: calc(60px * var(--density)); --sp-64: calc(64px * var(--density)); --sp-80: calc(80px * var(--density)); --sp-96: calc(96px * var(--density)); --sp-100: calc(100px * var(--density)); --sp-120: calc(120px * var(--density)); --sp-140: calc(140px * var(--density)); --sp-144: calc(144px * var(--density)); --sp-160: calc(160px * var(--density)); --sp-180: calc(180px * var(--density)); --sp-200: calc(200px * var(--density)); --sp-240: calc(240px * var(--density)); --sp-280: calc(280px * var(--density)); /* Contract aliases. A component written against the ht-kit eight-step ramp works here unchanged. */ --space-1: var(--sp-4); --space-2: var(--sp-8); --space-3: var(--sp-12); --space-4: var(--sp-16); --space-5: var(--sp-24); --space-6: var(--sp-32); --space-7: var(--sp-48); --space-8: var(--sp-64); /* Two values per responsive pair, both defined once here. The bands in layout.css choose which one to consume, so no :root is ever redeclared inside a media query. */ --gutter: var(--sp-96); --gutter-wide: var(--sp-64); --gutter-phone: var(--sp-24); --section-y: var(--sp-200); --section-y-phone: var(--sp-120); --max-width: 1440px; --max-width-narrow: 1240px; --measure: 480px; --measure-sm: 380px; --measure-lead: 600px; --measure-wide: 760px; --measure-brand: 280px; /* ─ form ───────────────────────────────────────────────── */ --radius: 0; --radius-sm: 4px; --border: 1px; /* Clears the fixed header, with air. Used by the sticky headings on the services and contact pages. */ --sticky-top: 120px; --tap-min: 44px; --offscreen: -9999px; /* honeypot parking */ /* Composition insets. Viewport-relative, so they belong here rather than on the ramp. */ --cap-offset: 6vw; /* Transform distances, not spacing. Never density-scaled: a nudge is a nudge at any density. */ --nudge: 5px; --hamburger-shift: 7px; --shadow-nav: 0 2px 24px var(--accent-shadow); --shadow-drawer: 0 8px 24px var(--accent-shadow); /* Select chevron. A mask, so the colour comes from --accent rather than being baked into the data URI as the source did with %23022F77. */ --chevron: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='12' height='7' viewBox='0 0 12 7'%3E%3Cpath d='M1 1l5 5 5-5' stroke='%23000' stroke-width='1.5' fill='none' stroke-linecap='square'/%3E%3C/svg%3E"); --chevron-w: 12px; --chevron-h: 7px; /* ─ motion ─────────────────────────────────────────────── */ /* Was cubic-bezier(.2, .6, .2, 1), which put 60% of the movement into the first 20% of the time. That is a sharp start, and on a large area it lands as a snap followed by a long drift rather than as one movement. This curve eases in as well as out, so a change begins gently, and it is what makes the difference between motion that is merely slow and motion that reads as smooth. */ --ease: cubic-bezier(.4, 0, .2, 1); /* Slowed across the board so the site reads as unhurried rather than snappy. --dur-fast governs hover feedback and is the one to keep short: past about 350ms a button stops feeling connected to the cursor. */ --dur-fast: 240ms; --dur-base: 400ms; --dur-slow: 560ms; --dur-link: 280ms; /* extension: nav and footer link colour */ /* Extension. FX/WIPE on the home page practice rows: the accent sweeps in from the left rather than fading up everywhere at once. The sweep uses its own curve. --ease is an ease-in-out, which is right for something changing in place but wrong for something travelling: it makes the leading edge crawl away from the left margin. This one leaves at speed and settles at the right, so the row reads as being filled rather than as growing. */ --dur-sweep: 400ms; --ease-sweep: cubic-bezier(.2, .5, .2, 1); /* The text inverts on its own, much faster clock. Each column waits for the sweep's leading edge to reach it, so nothing is ever white on white, and then flips quickly rather than cross-fading through grey. The delays are measured, not guessed. The three columns begin at 1.8%, 14.1% and 57.9% of the row's width, and at --dur-sweep the leading edge reaches those points at 0ms, 17ms and 84ms. Retime the sweep and these have to be measured again. */ --dur-invert: 50ms; --delay-invert-1: 0ms; /* number, the edge covers it immediately */ --delay-invert-2: 25ms; /* title, edge crosses it 17ms to 67ms */ --delay-invert-3: 110ms; /* blurb, edge crosses it 84ms to 167ms */ /* FX/RISE. Every stagger in this composition is a whole multiple of --stagger, so effects.css carries multipliers rather than durations. */ --rise-y: 20px; --stagger: 26ms; /* FX/THRESHOLD, the first-load preloader. --dur-preload-in is the mark's entrance and runs inside the hold, so the whole effect is hold plus out, 940ms. --dur-preload-hold and --dur-preload-out are the same two numbers as HOLD and OUT at the top of js/modules/preloader.js. They are the one place in this template where a CSS value and a JS value have to agree. Change them together. */ --ease-preload: cubic-bezier(.16, 1, .3, 1); /* The bar's own curve, and it has to be its own. The site's --ease is front-loaded, which suits a panel arriving but is wrong for progress: it put the bar at 44% after 70ms and 91% by 250ms, so it read as already finished and then stuck. This one tracks close to linear early, 14% at 70ms and 50% at 250ms, then eases into completion so it does not stop dead. */ --ease-bar: cubic-bezier(.3, .2, .5, 1); --dur-preload-in: 300ms; /* mark rises and fades in */ --dur-preload-hold: 500ms; /* panel is up for this long in total */ --dur-preload-out: 440ms; /* panel lifts away */ /* FX/FACET, the home hero's field. Symmetric, and it has to be. --ease above is front-loaded, which is right for something arriving and wrong for something breathing: it would snap to each end of the drift and hang there, which reads as a stutter rather than a float. This one eases equally out of and into both turns, so a pane is never quite still and never quite fast. The eight drift periods live in effects.css rather than here. They are seconds-scale, this contract stops at --dur-slow, and they are per pane rather than a shared value, so a token each would be eight names carrying one idea. Same reasoning as the 3s rise safety reveal. */ --ease-drift: cubic-bezier(.45, 0, .55, 1); /* No page transition on this site. --ease-page and the three --dur-page-* tokens are deliberately absent, and now cannot be added: FX/FACET holds the Signature slot and kit rule 8 forbids a transition alongside another Signature effect. FX/THRESHOLD is unaffected, being Considered rather than Signature, and runs once per session rather than on every navigation. */ } /* The @supports block that derived --accent-hover from --accent lived here. Removed, not disabled: --accent-hover is a literal second hue now, and a relative-colour rule would have overridden it wherever the syntax is supported. */