The eleven ported themes declared 34 of an 84-token contract. The missing fifty were every surface
(--panel-bg, --card-bg, --glass-bg), every state colour (--success, --warning, --busy, --info), the
header, the scrollbars and the grid — so they fell back to whatever the base stylesheet or the
previously applied theme had left behind. They also carried thirteen tokens nothing in this codebase
reads (--chart-1..5, --sidebar-*), which is the tell: they came from a shadcn template, not from the
contract in the README beside them.
So "highlights mask the content" and "text fades into the background" were not taste. They were
absence, and no amount of re-picking colours would have fixed them.
Generated now, from Omarchy 4's colors.toml, which is genuinely semantic — three background depths,
four foreground weights, accent, selection, muted, mode — and consistent: all 24 keys present in all 22
themes, checked. One mapping in scripts/themes/map.ts means one place to be wrong, one place to fix,
and an Omarchy update becomes a re-run.
Every foreground is driven through ensureContrast against the surface it actually sits on, and the
generator then re-checks sixteen pairs per theme and EXITS NONZERO on a failure. It found four real
bugs in my own mapping, which is the argument for having written it first:
- `on(fill)` picked the better of two palette extremes without checking either passed; rose-pine's
tones are all mid and came out between 2.2:1 and 4.2:1
- ensureContrast chose black or white by a luminance>0.5 test rather than by measuring. rose-pine's
rose sits at 0.25, so it drove toward white and capped at 3.5:1 where black reaches 6:1 easily
- --muted-foreground was derived against the raised surface but renders on the high one; everforest
landed at 4.44:1 and miasma at 4.00 — near-misses that look fine in a screenshot
- borders were held to 3:1, which would ring every panel in a hard line. A panel edge is decoration;
what must be discernible is a form field's boundary, so --input is checked and --border is not
35 failures at first run, 0 now.
The registry and the stylesheet imports are written from the same list, because the old port maintained
them by hand and drifted — catppuccin-mocha sat in THEMES after its stylesheet was gone. That file is
now deleted; Omarchy renamed it to catppuccin.
Eleven new themes arrive with this: ethereal, flexoki-light, hackerman, last-horizon, lumon, lupine,
miasma, retro-82, solitude, vantablack, white. Duck and Plain are Officer's own and are never generated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
