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Wayfinding · one token, five surfaces recolor
Wayfinding
01

One token, five surfaces

Set --hero-accent once on a section wrapper. Everything inside that reads it — the glow, the cursive word, the button, the live dot — recolors together. Click a section below; nothing here is hand-recolored, it's one variable read five times.
Live section
Agents

Everything on this page reads one variable. Change the section, not five properties.

Section-identity token

--hero-accent

One custom property, set at the wrapper, read by var() in the glow, the cursive word, the dot, and the button.

Only for sections a reader actually jumps between. A single settings page doesn't need its own identity color.
02

Already here, at a smaller scope

The index page's cards already do a version of this — .a-teal, .a-violet, and the rest set --acc/--acc-bg to drive one card's stripe, tick, and hover border. Wayfinding is that same mechanism, widened from one card to a whole section.
Aa
Light / Base

--acc drives the stripe, the tick, the hover border.

✎
Illustration

Same two variables, different card, different color.

Card-level ancestor

--acc / --acc-bg

The pattern this page generalizes. Same six colors, three surfaces instead of five, scoped to one card instead of one section.

On-brand: don't coin new accent-ink pairs for wayfinding. Route the same six through a wider set of surfaces.
Created for you, with ❤️ by Robert Evans · The AI Design Architect