--- title: Wiki log summary: Dated journal of code changes reflected in the wiki, and the list of open threads. sources: [] updated: 2026-09-02 --- # Wiki log Newest entry first. Every `wiki sync` appends an entry here, even when nothing needed updating. Open threads are questions or known gaps waiting on a decision; close them by editing this list and noting the resolution in a dated entry. ## 2026-09-02 - 1.7.0, the halos are gone and the language switch is a switch - The drifting halos left every scene: the hero, the annex page header and the 404. Two blurred discs on long periods, one warm and one cool, are the single most recognisable mark of a page assembled by a machine, and the warm one passed BEHIND the hero title, staining the photograph at the exact place the text has to stay readable. The two house classes that held their palette colours went with them, because a house class that no longer serves anything is an invitation to reuse it. docs/design.md, docs/conventions/tailwind.md, docs/conventions/motion.md and wiki/subsystems/{motion,tokens}.md were corrected in the same change rather than left describing a theme that no longer exists. - The language switcher is an actual switch now. It was two pills side by side, one filled and one not: that imitates a switch without being one, and nothing ever moved. The cursor is a single piece that slides between the two languages. Its position is written by the server as a CSS variable, so it is already on the right side with JavaScript off; the script only moves it BEFORE the page leaves, because changing language reloads the document and the cursor would otherwise jump on arrival instead of sliding at departure. - Two defects were found while rewriting it, and both were invisible in review. The cookie listener bound to the FIRST switcher found on the page, so a click in the footer or in the mobile drawer never recorded the choice; it is a delegated listener now, which also survives view transitions by construction. And a `display` written in a component's scoped style outranks any Tailwind utility, because Astro suffixes the selector with the scope attribute: the switcher then ignored the bar's own request to hide itself and appeared on iPhone, wedged between the wordmark and the buy button. The display is an utility now, and callers correct it with a VARIANT (`max-sm:hidden`, `sm:hidden`), never with a base utility, because a variant is always emitted after the base ones and therefore wins for a readable reason. - The whole family takes the same number, 1.7.0, and Kona joins the shelf at it. Nothing else in this theme changed. ## 2026-08-31 - 1.6.2, the light ground stops being white - The light page ground is tinted in all six themes: the theme's own neutral at 50, with the section band moved to the 100 so the two-beat rhythm is unchanged. A card is filled `#ffffff`, so on a white ground the card and the paper it sat on were the same colour and a hairline was the only thing saying which was on top. `docs/design.md` had recorded this as an open question since the file was written; it is decided there too. - Nothing else changed here. Reef already tinted its paper and its licence is MIT, so this release is the family number and nothing more, which is the point of the family number. ## 2026-08-31 - 1.6.1, the wave under the accent word was cut in half - `@keyframes reveal-up` clipped to exactly the element box, and a display title's accent word paints its wave BELOW that box. The house mark arrived sliced across the middle, on the largest heading of the page and nowhere else, which is why it survived every review. The mask now bleeds on three sides; the top edge, the one that actually reveals, is unchanged. ## 2026-08-31 - 1.6.0, the redirect only robots could see - The demo worker answered `302` toward `/fr/` to any client that sent no `Accept-Language` header. Browsers always send one, so the fallback only ever applied to crawlers: Googlebot was redirected away from the English pages that the hreflang set declares canonical, on every root URL. The fallback is the root language again, which is what Reef had all along. - `docs/design.md` now describes six themes. Nalu joins the family: it is the storefront of a WooCommerce shop, read headless from the public Store API at build time. - The whole family moves to 1.6.0 together, so a buyer of the pass still has one number to remember, now for six archives. ## Open threads - The contact form runs in demo mode by design: contact.astro ships with no `action` and stays that way until a user wires it to an endpoint. Not a bug; recorded so nobody "fixes" it. ## 2026-08-30 - 1.5.4, what the sold archive did not have Second pass of the day. The 1.5.3 archives on the store were built before most of that day's corrections landed, so this release exists to make the file a buyer downloads equal to the repository. - `docs/design.md` was rewritten. The doctrine described four themes in tables that should have held five, refused two typefaces the flagship of the house actually uses, and claimed no theme here ships an animation library while `motion` and `three` sat in Aloha's dependencies. It now names its own exceptions instead of hiding them, and it ends with the list of what the house still owes itself. - `src/js/schema.selfcheck.ts` carried the demo brand of another theme, in all five repositories. A fixture belongs to no theme: the identity is now Example Studio, example.com, Example Author. - `pnpm-lock.yaml` is versioned. The repository pinned pnpm and pinned not a single package version, so a fresh clone resolved whatever the registry served that day. - Verified before shipping, not asserted: `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile`, then `pnpm check` with zero errors, zero warnings and zero hints, then `pnpm build` emitting the 55 pages the README claims. ## 2026-08-30 - audit of the public repository A pass over every claim the repository makes about itself, after an audit found the docs and the code disagreeing in several places. - Reef is free and MIT everywhere it is described. "Commercial theme", "sold by Aloha Pixel", "buyer" and the paid-archive paragraph of DEPLOY.md are gone; the reader of this repo is a user. - One story about the photographs, in LICENSE, PHOTOS.md, THIRD-PARTY.md, README, SPEC and DEPLOY: ten Pexels photographs (one hero, nine covers) under the Pexels licence, redistribution allowed. THIRD-PARTY.md no longer claims a studio archive outside the MIT grant, and no longer counts eleven. - The home video is credited to the file it actually loads: Pexels video 4863640, a wave filmed from underwater at Electric Beach, Hawaii, 9 MB. - Seven article covers got a coverAlt that describes the photograph the build actually fetches. The Pexels pages were re-read one by one; PHOTOS.md was right and the alt texts had drifted. - The accent colour is stated as it is coded: the accent word keeps the heading font, turns the house turquoise and carries a turquoise wave; coral is the second accent, rationed. - ThemeInit falls back to light, and the docs say so. - Counts recounted: 24 Sections, 9 runtime dependencies. 55 pages, 36 UI families, 63 .astro files, 60 icons and 55+3 animations were already right. - The demo studio has three people in the copy, as it has always had three in src/data/authors/. - Removed: .env.example, a leftover from another theme (it pointed at src/actions/ files that do not exist here). Fixed: dead path:line citations in docs/conventions/ and in this wiki, two links pointing at files that do not exist (a conventions page and an islands folder), and the worker's fallback locale, which sent every other language to /fr/ instead of the default. - Two more found by re-reading the pushed tree: src/i18n/config.ts sent a translator to src/i18n/routes.ts, a file that has never existed here, and described the dictionaries as flat files instead of folders. URL segments are not translated at all: they are written once in navData.json.ts and localizePath only prefixes the language. And motion/index.css announced five families in its header while importing six. ## 2026-08-16 - wave accent The accent word of headings dropped its separate font. - The separate accent font is gone (package, import, tokens): the italic-serif accent word is banned across the whole family - it had become the marker of generated sites, not a signature. - The accent word keeps the heading font, turns the house turquoise, and carries a turquoise WAVE underline (`--accent-wave`, the Aloha Pixel brand mark is a wave). One wave per mode: reef-600 stroke in light, reef-400 in dark and in the deep scene, matching the primary. Coral stays as the second accent, rationed. - Blockquote, dropcap and the giant card initials moved from the serif to the display grotesque; `--font-serif`/`--font-script` remain as aliases of `--font-display`. Two fonts load instead of three. - Docs updated: README, AGENTS, SPEC, THIRD-PARTY, the tailwind rule and this wiki. ## 2026-08-16 - art direction redone The theme's look was rebuilt around reading. - Neutral is now a cold blue-night ink (ink-950 `#0a0f17`) on a faintly blue paper; coral stays the house accent; the second accent is a frank aquamarine reef blue (`#3fc0e0`). - Display type is Space Grotesk with Instrument Sans in the body; Instrument Serif keeps the one italic accent word of each big title. - The home leads with a stack of article cards in perspective over a dark, framed scene with drifting halos. - Docs re-anchored to the new palette and type: README, AGENTS, SPEC, THIRD-PARTY, and the wiki (overview, tokens, and every subsystem page). ## 2026-08-15 - inventory - Code state: `pnpm build` green, 55 pages, `astro check` at 0/0/0. Two selfchecks pass: schema (29 assertions) and pagination. - Inventory: 36 primitive families (63 .astro files, 10 with a script tag) in src/components/ui; 24 Sections; 60 original icons in src/components/svg/icons/icons.ts; 55 animate-* utilities in src/styles/motion plus 3 brand animations in tokens.css; 3 content collections (posts, authors, topics). There is no React and no island. - Wiki pages: index, overview, log, and the subsystems tokens, ui-primitives, seo, motion, content, i18n, mobile-app and fluidity.