Phone build spec review

Peregrine · 2 Oct 2026 · spec at docs/plans/2026-10-02-phone-build-spec.md

Contrast: amber on the new surfaces

Late-night surcharge

7.29:1

#E8A33D on #222326

Ground

Late-night surcharge

6.38:1

#E8A33D on #2C2D31

Raised: receipts, Mail

Late-night surcharge

5.42:1

#E8A33D on #37383D

Second surface: Messages draft field

H3 is answerable now. The weakest amber pairing on a surface is 5.42:1 on #37383D, and amber against the hairline is 4.86:1. Every amber pairing clears WCAG AA for text (4.5:1) and for non-text marks (3:1). The old warm palette measured 7.77 and 7.05:1. The threshold remains Sarah's ruling.

Foreground	Background	Ratio
`#E8A33D`	`#222326`	7.29:1
`#E8A33D`	`#2C2D31`	6.38:1
`#E8A33D`	`#37383D`	5.42:1
`#E8A33D`	`#3E3F45`	4.86:1
`#F2EDE3`	`#222326`	13.47:1
`#F2EDE3`	`#2C2D31`	11.79:1
`#F2EDE3`	`#37383D`	10.02:1
`#8E887B`	`#222326`	4.46:1
`#8E887B`	`#2C2D31`	3.90:1
`#8E887B`	`#37383D`	3.32:1
`#E4574C`	`#222326`	4.31:1 (non-text, 3:1 bar)
`#E4574C`	`#2C2D31`	3.78:1 (non-text, 3:1 bar)

Chrome text is the weak pairing: #8E887B falls below 4.5:1 on both card surfaces (A5). The red dot is a non-text mark, and it clears 3:1 on both surfaces it sits on.

Holes

Assigned in the sources

#	Hole	Owner	State
H1	The forger as plot	Sarah	Ruled: yes. Graded spot stays an SAT convention
H2	The 11:31 text as canon	Sarah	Ruled: keep. Stands or falls with H1
H3	Amber pass threshold	Sarah	Ruled: 4.5:1 text, 3:1 marks. Amber passes at 4.86:1
H4	Whether The Missing Hour survives the ping stack	Sarah	Ruled: cut. Phrase stays on the Desk card
H5	Coin value for a correct graded call	Sarah	Ruled: 10 coins, flat
H6	Split Decision easy-tier depth	Game Feel Expert	Ruled: 30 easy / 10 hard; 40 new easy cards
H7	Whether Autotype comma splices return as graded tells	Game Feel Expert	Ruled: no for v1
H8	Rule that keeps the graded predictive-bar spot off one position	Game Feel Expert	Ruled: seeded random, never the previous position
H9	Each Settings row opens content or is cut: Wi-Fi · Screen Time · DAY 7 “up 41%” · Plain instructions	Experience Curator	Ruled: Wi-Fi cut · Screen Time opens evidence · “up 41%” cut · Plain instructions opens the existing setting

Surfaced while writing the spec

No source assigns these. The owner shown for each is a proposal. Rulings received 2 Oct are marked.

#	Item	Owner
A1	Ruled, closed: existing rate card, 2.0 mi / 10 min, $10.00 fare, tip printed $2.50 (25%), total $12.50	Sarahproposed
A2	Ruled, closed: DAY 7’s catch is the tip line	Sarahproposed
A3	Ruled, closed: row reads 10:28 P.M. Solved case has no 10:12 or 10:28, and its missing hour ends 11:50, against the phone’s 12:10	Sarahproposed
A4	Six chrome hexes in the stills have no palette-doc role: #3E5C78 sent bubble, #303136 keys, #5E7D6A call button, #292A2E map thumb, #D9DF70 tern initial, #17181A desk phone	Art Directorproposed
A5	Resolved: chrome text lifted to #A6A196, which clears 4.5:1 on all three surfaces (worst 4.54:1)	Sarah, with H3proposed
A6	Dropped: games live outside the app’s world. Amber ban stays	Art Directorproposed
A7	Dropped: game icons are exempt from the loudness rule	Art Directorproposed

Palette change

Glass.ground moved from #221D14 to #222326. Glass.surface (#2B2519, marked ASSUMED) is replaced by Glass.raised #2C2D31, with its three call sites renamed. Added secondSurface #37383D, hairline #3E3F45, chromeText #8E887B and body #F2EDE3. Desk.chrome stays #221D14.

The simulator renders the ground at #222326 and the cards at #2C2D31, sampled from the screenshot. The build passes, and the Games folder UI test passes.

Screens that change

Screen	File	Change
Phone tab (app list)	`Views/PhoneView.swift`	Ground; both row cards
Six app placeholders	`PhoneView.swift` · `PhoneAppPlaceholder`	Ground; navigation bar
Games folder	`Views/PhoneGames/GamesFolderView.swift`	Ground; navigation bar; folder container

The four game screens, the Desk, the Night Room and Settings are unchanged. The four new tokens have no call sites yet. The views still draw text in Glass.oat, and the bubbles still use oat and case ink.

Phone tab on the new ground — Phone tab: ground #222326, cards #2C2D31

Games folder on the new ground — Games folder (UI test capture). All four icons separate from #2C2D31; Coordinate Drop's stone band comes closest.

Art guards

The existing guards still hold. Coordinate Drop, Red Flag and Split Decision have zero hits. Odd One Out's 69,283 hits are all warm-dark pixels in its portraits and crew plates, the documented skin-tone exemption.
The new surfaces are not covered. The 40-unit band around #221D14 applies only to warm pixels, and the new surfaces are neutral-cool. Every game has art within 40 of all three new surfaces, and Split Decision and Odd One Out have exact matches. The distances 19 and 25 do not carry the guarantee: a pixel 40 from #221D14 can sit 21 from #222326. (A6)

Palette doc §6 art checks

Phone notification icon at 22pt, folder tile at 62pt, at 3x — @3x. The desk-phone icon at 22 pt reads, dial included. The folder tile holds four identifiable icons at 19 pt.

Same render at 1x, enlarged — @1x, enlarged 4× without smoothing. The dial collapses to a speck; the handset silhouette still reads. Red Flag is the brightest tile in the row. (A7)

Also in the spec

All 36 stills, with states, graded flag, copy source and art. The r4 subtitle says 37. Every station's copy is TBD: the corpus has no phone-station family yet.
The games' settled values, cited to the plans and the code.
DAY 7, the three Browser pages with the expanded train row and the pickup dropdown, and the three-dead-link map.
Lock-screen rules and the pass bar. The entertainment criterion needs a new-best screenshot, and personal bests are BEST ---- placeholders that nothing persists.
Token table for every palette-doc hex. Six still hexes have no role yet.