Thiru-tenext e2fe1b1771 A white page, and cards that still read on it ...

The canvas was #F1F0EC — a warm grey that made every screen look slightly
dull. It is white.

── You cannot have both ──

That canvas was not an accident: it was deepened from #F7F6F4 on 2026-09-23
precisely so a white card would sit *on* something and its 1px edge could go
quiet. A white card on a white page has nothing to sit on.

Measured rather than judged by eye: after the canvas change, a pixel scan
across a card boundary on the Orders golden read #FFFFFF from end to end. The
shadow contributed nothing findable. The cards had not become subtle, they had
disappeared.

So the edge comes back. `DmCard` drew its border only for tones that are not
white — the warm canvas was doing that job for the white ones — and now draws
it for every tone, with the lift still underneath. Border plus a soft shadow is
the iOS and Revolut shape rather than the borderless Airbnb one, and that is
the price of a white page. Paid deliberately.

── What moved with it ──

`surfaceAlt` lifts to #F4F2EF. With a white page it is the only token that
makes a surface read as recessed — filled inputs, tiles, skeletons, the sunken
card — so it can no longer sit within a point of the canvas.

`DmCardTone.sunken` filled itself with the canvas colour, which on a white page
is not sunken but invisible. It takes `surfaceAlt`.

2026-09-30 11:35:30 +05:30

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