[ishaanko]

Stacked on #34. Merge that first, and GitHub will retarget this one to main.

The UI was full of design slop: a double-ruled "field plate" with corner registration marks, a Plate Nº 003 strip and a daily / 2026-10-29 / easy breadcrumb, ASCII textures inside bordered panels, dividers between every row and section, a translucent blurred nav and modal backdrop, five neutral shades plus opacities, italic lines, tight headline kerning, letter-spaced mono capitals over every section, rarity pills, a numbered how-to list, a heat chart with a ruler, legend and curve, and the behavior map repeated on four pages.

Now the content is plain type on paper, grouped by space:

• Palette: bg, fg, dim and one line color, used only for input edges (3.3:1 on paper, 3.8:1 at night). card, raised, faint, line-strong and the accent shades are gone, and so is every /NN opacity and the blur. Rarity and heat keep their colors because they carry meaning.
• Containers and dividers: no bordered boxes, cards, panels, plates or row rules anywhere. Buttons are square and swap ink and paper on hover. Inputs keep one edge.
• Type: no italics (the italic font file is dropped too), no tracking-tight, no letter-spaced capitals. Section headings are plain serif. Page titles lose the rust full stop, and the headline is one color.
• Numbering and breadcrumbs: no "Plate Nº", "Daily Nº" or "Field guide" lines above headings, and no path strips. The how-to steps are paragraphs. The puzzle keeps its #3, since that's its name in the share text.
• Tags: rarity is a colored word with no dot, and the specimen loses its glitch tag.
• Diagrams: the heat chart is gone. The guess list already shows each heat, and the result card now shows the share grid. The behavior map stays only on the Map page; the Dex, neuron and daily copies are gone. The Map page loses its on-map labels (the legend beside it names the zones) and per-dot colors.
• Modal: a plain full-page sheet with a Close button inside the dialog, instead of a framed box over a dimmed page.
• daily.current no longer looks up map places for each guess, since nothing draws them.
• CONTRIBUTING.md's UI rule now lists these, so they don't creep back.

The zone colors on the map were drawn at 32% opacity, but the legend swatches were full strength, so the two never matched (that's true on main too). Both now use the same solid mix of the zone color and the page color.

This reverses the settled field-plate look (frame, corner marks, mono capitals, ASCII fields). Cream paper stays the default, and dark stays opt-in.

Verification

• bunx tsc -p convex --noEmit, bun run build (bundle 12 KB smaller), bun run lint (20 warnings, same as refactor: group the client by feature and give the backend one source for its rules #34) and bun run test (81) pass.
• Ran it against a copy of the local dev backend and walked every page in Chromium in both themes at 1360 px, and in paper at 390 px, with no page errors. Played practice puzzles to a solve as a guest: the result card, the solved panel and "Why each guess scored" all render.
• e2e/session/run.mjs passes 15/15, with the crypto.randomUUID polyfill described in refactor: group the client by feature and give the backend one source for its rules #34; the join dialog now uses the new modal. e2e/game.mjs wasn't run (it needs a second GPU worker), but I checked the selectors it uses still exist.
• Before and after screenshots are local, not attached.

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So far: Tested 3 flows, found no issues.

What we tested

• Pass · Finish a practice puzzle and share · View ↗
• Pass · Browse the Map and a neuron · View ↗
• Pass · Read pages in paper and night · View ↗

These results are for 89fd7f5. The pull request has newer commits since.

The pull request merged before TREX finished testing 89fd7f5.

[greptile-apps]

Confidence Score: 5/5

[Medium impact] The PR appears safe to merge; no new actionable issues remain.

Summary

Replaces framed panels and repeated diagrams with plain text and spacing.

• Pages use plain type and space instead of framed panels and decorative labels.
• Daily guesses show heat in the list, and results use colored squares.
• The behavior map stays on its page, with solid zone colors and ink-colored dots.
• Dialogs open as plain full-page sheets with a Close button.

No new actionable issues found. The previous-review merge-base check failed, so this review covered the full PR changes. Checks were source-based; builds, tests, and browser captures were not run in this checkout.

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