The site's own pages (home, the tools index, category pages, About, the header and footer every tool shares) have a new colour scheme.
Before: a near-black hero with drifting mint, indigo and violet glows, a rainbow gradient across the headline, a teal-and-indigo logo and a mint search button.
After: one family of colours. A deep navy field (#0b1626), a navy link colour on light pages (#1f4e8c) and a soft steel blue on dark ones (#9dbfe8, #a8c7f0 on the hero). The background glows are the same navy at lower strength, the headline gradient runs white to pale blue, and the logo mark is navy to steel blue. Nothing about layout or behaviour changed.
The point was to look like a tool you would trust with a tax estimate or a contractor bid, which a nightclub palette did not.
Contrast was measured, not eyeballed (WCAG relative luminance, the same function platform/pages/ink.mjs uses):
| Pair | Ratio |
|---|---|
Navy link #1f4e8c on white | 8.3:1 |
Navy link on the page background #eef2f7 | 7.4:1 |
Dark-mode link #9dbfe8 on #171e27 | 8.8:1 |
Hero accent #a8c7f0 on the navy field | 10.5:1 |
Faintest hero text #a9b5c6 on its brightest glow | 6.1:1 |
All are above the 4.5:1 that normal-size text needs. Each tool's own body keeps the colours its venture chose; the research section keeps its separate indigo-on-cream brand. The change lives in platform/pages/ (site-nav, showcase, home, build, sharecard and a few smaller pages), so the share-card images redraw on the next build too.