From ea238cf77d4af5c79113982ccccabd08bf3b8d34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Void <void@noreply.eureka.gamecult.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 03:18:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] auth: a blurred, tinted, soft-edged band behind the sign-in
 footer line

The footer links sat on dark terrain in the sky's dark ink (contrast 1.0 to 2.9 at Dusk and
Day). The footer now carries the plate's ink over a backdrop-blur band tinted with the plate's
fill (FOOTER_TINT), faded at its edges; skyTheme.test.ts checks the ink over the darkest and
lightest scene behind it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/app/features/scene/skyPlate.ts      |  8 ++++++++
 src/app/features/scene/skyTheme.test.ts | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 src/app/pages/auth/styles.css.ts        | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/app/features/scene/skyPlate.ts b/src/app/features/scene/skyPlate.ts
index 872e2fd6..54ff13f2 100644
--- a/src/app/features/scene/skyPlate.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/scene/skyPlate.ts
@@ -7,3 +7,11 @@ export const SKY_PLATE_FALLBACK = {
   text: '#b7c7d9',
   link: '#99c7ff',
 } as const;
+
+/**
+ * The sign-in footer's tint: how much of the plate's fill (--sky-bubble) is mixed over the blurred scene behind the
+ * footer line. The footer is a blurred, tinted band with soft edges, not a plate: the scene shows through it. The
+ * footer ink is the plate's, so the tint has to bring the scene behind it to where that ink clears 4.5:1
+ * (skyTheme.test.ts).
+ */
+export const FOOTER_TINT = 0.75;
diff --git a/src/app/features/scene/skyTheme.test.ts b/src/app/features/scene/skyTheme.test.ts
index 53cf2873..dd46117b 100644
--- a/src/app/features/scene/skyTheme.test.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/scene/skyTheme.test.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { PageContent, PageNavContent } from '../../components/page/style.css';
 import { CallStatus } from '../call-status/styles.css';
 import { MembersDrawer } from '../room/MembersDrawer.css';
 import { RoomViewTyping } from '../room/RoomViewTyping.css';
-import { SKY_PLATE_FALLBACK } from './skyPlate';
+import { FOOTER_TINT, SKY_PLATE_FALLBACK } from './skyPlate';
 import { SkyPlate, plateRegions } from './skyPlate.css';
 import { getResolvedSkyState, setSkyClock, skyBackdrop } from './skyState';
 import type { SkyBackdrop } from './skyState';
@@ -160,3 +160,20 @@ describe('regions that sit on the plate', () => {
     expect(plateRegions.some((r) => r.includes(':not(:has('))).toBe(true);
   });
 });
+
+describe('the sign-in footer band', () => {
+  // The footer line is the plate's ink on a band that mixes FOOTER_TINT of the plate's fill over the blurred scene.
+  // The scene behind it is the terrain: as dark as 0, as light as the sky state's lightest backdrop. Ink contrast is
+  // lowest at one of those two ends, so both are checked.
+  const tinted = (fill: string, behind: number) =>
+    FOOTER_TINT * luminance(fill) + (1 - FOOTER_TINT) * behind;
+  it.each(fixed)(
+    '%s: the ink clears AA over the darkest and the lightest scene behind it',
+    (state, id) => {
+      const { Other, OtherText } = SKY[id].bubbles;
+      [0, skyBackdrop(state).lightest].forEach((behind) => {
+        expect(against(OtherText, tinted(Other, behind))).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(AA);
+      });
+    }
+  );
+});
diff --git a/src/app/pages/auth/styles.css.ts b/src/app/pages/auth/styles.css.ts
index b13bf868..c1614a79 100644
--- a/src/app/pages/auth/styles.css.ts
+++ b/src/app/pages/auth/styles.css.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { globalStyle, style } from '@vanilla-extract/css';
 import { DefaultReset, color, config, toRem } from 'folds';
+import { FOOTER_TINT } from '../../features/scene/skyPlate';
 
 export const AuthLayout = style({
   minHeight: '100%',
@@ -88,3 +89,25 @@ globalStyle(`${scene} ${AuthCardContent}`, {
   paddingBottom: config.space.S400,
   gap: config.space.S500,
 });
+
+// The footer line sits on the terrain, which is dark at its foot in every sky (luminance 0.02 to 0.04 at dusk), where
+// the sky's dark ink is unreadable. Over the scene it gets a blurred band tinted with the plate's fill and the plate's
+// ink and link, faded out at its edges so it reads as haze and not as a bar: the scene shows through and round it.
+// The tint (FOOTER_TINT) is checked against the ink in skyTheme.test.ts.
+globalStyle(`${scene} ${AuthFooter}`, {
+  paddingTop: config.space.S500,
+  paddingBottom: config.space.S500,
+  backgroundColor: `color-mix(in srgb, var(--sky-bubble, #0d1a26) ${
+    FOOTER_TINT * 100
+  }%, transparent)`,
+  backdropFilter: 'blur(12px)',
+  WebkitBackdropFilter: 'blur(12px)',
+  maskImage:
+    'linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent, #000 16px, #000 calc(100% - 16px), transparent)',
+  WebkitMaskImage:
+    'linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent, #000 16px, #000 calc(100% - 16px), transparent)',
+  color: 'var(--sky-bubble-text, #b7c7d9)',
+});
+globalStyle(`${scene} ${AuthFooter} a`, {
+  color: 'var(--sky-bubble-text, #b7c7d9)',
+});