palette: neutralize the last brand roll-call (text-on-color convention)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Paul Bakaus
2026-07-11 18:37:51 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
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@@ -620,9 +620,8 @@ if WCAG says dark technically passes. The Helmholtz-Kohlrausch effect
makes saturated colors appear brighter than their luminance suggests,
and dark text on a warm-or-cool-saturated fill reads as muddy.
Convention: Stripe orange CTAs, McDonald's red, every fintech orange
button, Vercel's filled badges, Linear's status pills — all use white
text on saturated bg fills.
Convention: saturated action fills in the wild, from fast-food reds to
status pills to filled badges, near-universally carry white text.
Dark text is correct only on PALE fills (L > 0.85) or PURE-NEUTRAL fills
(chroma near 0). Everything else: white text.