Direction C — Night Kiln. Night identity for every visitor (GATE-VISUAL amendment 2026-07-28); the daylight scheme stays first-class but is manual-toggle only. Every value below is a token from style.css §1; nothing on this page (or in any template) uses a raw color.
Color scheme
Default clears the stored preference — night, the site default for every visitor (prefers-color-scheme is not consulted; GATE-VISUAL amendment 2026-07-28). Light/Dark persist to localStorage (msite:theme) and are re-applied before first paint by the pre-paint snippet — the top-bar theme toggle (W-7, shipped) is this same plumbing.
Ochre ramp (Tier 1, OKLCH hue 46)
ochre-50
ochre-100
ochre-200
ochre-300
ochre-400
ochre-500
ochre-600
ochre-700
ochre-800
ochre-900
Tinted neutrals (Tier 1)
ink-900
ink-700
ink-500
ground-50
ground-100
ground-200
night-900
night-800
Semantic tokens (Tier 2) — live in the current scheme
The lit page — long-form reading + every core block (03 §F)
Chapter sample (seed content)
The harbour was empty when Mara reached it, which was wrong in three different ways she could name and one she couldn’t.
The boats were gone — all of them, even the Ledabren, which hadn’t left its mooring in six years. The gulls were silent. And the tide was out further than the charts said it could go.
The unnameable wrongness, she decided later, was the smell — iron and cut grass, nothing like the sea.
