The swatch's padding goes asymmetric and user-tuned — a wider berth at the
sides than above and below, out of the swatch rather than the control's
size — so the colour reads as a bar in the field instead of wall-to-wall.
The field's fill moves to controlColor, the push-button neutral grey, whose
ring stayed legible where controlBackgroundColor's near-black dark-mode
reading drowned it; and the trigger square keeps its own two-point inset,
decoupled from the swatch's padding so the indicator stays a legible
square through any padding tweak the swatch takes.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Four rulings close Redesign Contradiction 3452893f (2026-08-06): the in-app
escape hatch is ratified in full, reversing 2026-07-29's palette-only rule —
the combo's Other… opens the system Colors panel, a pick landing on a palette
color stores the name, anything else the hex. Free-picked colors change no
contrast story: they land on the same runtime ink computation hand-written hex
always got (10 amended to say so; no warning surface is owed). Anchor
ownership: the card sidebar's background story is the combo alone — the well
grid's background half stays with the other anchors (StyleEditorView gains
showsBackground beside showsSymbols; the popover's symbol half already went to
its inline SymbolPicker). Quick-style recents stay palette-vocabulary — a
panel pick never enters them.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
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