The ruled card it had been reads as a document, a table or a form at the size
it actually renders — six strokes inside a 16x18 box at clamp(23px,6.4vw,32px)
— and nothing in it said score. A tally does, with no box around it to explain
itself, and it is the one score mark that survives being seen from the far side
of the board: upside down it is still a tally.
Three uprights and the slash, not four and the slash. At 23px a fourth upright
closes the gaps and the whole glyph turns into a picket fence; the slash is kept
inside the uprights' span for the same reason, since running it past them made
the icon read wider than the gear and speaker beside it.
Drawn against six alternatives in two passes, judged rendered in the real bar
at both ends of the size clamp rather than described. The passes that lost are
worth a line each, because the reasons were not visible in the geometry: two
stacks of checkers flips to say the other player is ahead when the far player
looks at it, which is worse than merely asymmetric; a bar chart is the stock
analytics glyph and says statistics rather than this match; and a tally inside a
card is smothered by the card, whatever the count.
Screenshots 1 and 5 are redone. Not 2 and 3, where the open sheet covers the bar
and the icon is not in shot at all.
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F-Droid's reviewer measured the score and move lines at 2.1:1 against the
4.5:1 normal text needs. Raising them past 14pt bold puts them under the 3:1
large-text bar instead, which is the only way ink still readable as "muted"
can be conformant on a mid-tone accent: reaching 4.5:1 at the old size would
have taken near-black labels on plum and slate, out-shouting the clock digits
above them. Hence the 19px floor, with a comment saying so — lowering it
breaks the contrast claim silently.
Measuring turned up a second failure nobody had flagged: the active player's
clock digits are white on the accent, and brass sat at 2.46:1 against the same
3:1 bar. Sage and brass are darkened just far enough to clear it, scaled in
linear light so only lightness moves. Slate, teal and plum already passed and
are untouched. Darkening further was tempting and wrong — it would have taken
the headroom the muted labels need.
--accent-mute was doing double duty as the delay bar's background, where it
only ever agreed with the bar by accident. Splitting off --track keeps the bar
pixel-identical: 234px wide, fill and unfilled segments unchanged.
The delay number is right-aligned in a box exactly two digits wide. The bar and
the number together now sit within a pixel of the panel's centre rather than
10px left of it, and the digit that changes every second stays put instead of
sliding when the count drops out of double figures; the gap absorbs it.
The settings sheet's Done button and preset chips are still white on accent at
15px, which needs 4.5:1 and gets 3.2:1. Known, and left alone: fixing them
means 19px floors and visibly taller buttons.
Screenshots come from tools/screenshots.py now instead of being made by hand.
It seeds localStorage and lets the app render its own saved state, so scenes
are reproducible. The traps are in its docstring and RELEASING.md — including
one that cost an afternoon today: snap-confined Chromium cannot write into any
hidden directory, and says only "Permission denied".
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All four listing shots were captured before the sheet-shadow fix, so each
carried the dark band along the bottom. Regenerated against the fixed
build; every one now measures a flat bottom band. The score sheet shot is
byte-identical and unchanged — an open sheet covers the bottom of the
screen, so the closed sheet's shadow was never visible in it.
Adds a fifth shot of the timeout, the most distinctive thing the app does
and the one state that had no picture.
Hans's description credits the design and the Chess.com inspiration.
Checked against F-Droid's documented limits: title 16/50, summary 66/80,
description 1644/4000, changelog 180/500, and <b> is the only markup, on
their allowed list.
.gitignore picks up *.swp and *~ so an editor swap file can't be
committed by accident.
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