feat(brand): adopt the schoolcompare identity across the site #89
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fix(brand): match the below-average tint to its own hue, and finish the casing
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Three review findings. --status-below-bg carried the raw --coral tuple (249,115,96) instead of the hue it belongs to (#A9481F → 169,72,31), so "below average" chips rendered a coral-pink wash behind terracotta text — the one solid/tint pair in the file whose hues disagreed. Alpha drops 0.15 → 0.12 to match --status-above-bg, so the two chips read as equal weight; left at 0.15 the darker terracotta tint takes the label to 4.45:1 on Warm White, under the 4.5 floor. At 0.12 it is 4.86:1 on cards and 4.67:1 on Warm White. Auditing the whole file for the same class of error turned up one more: --action-bg was also a --coral tint while --action is the darkened #BE3C27. It is unused today and the dark-theme value was already correct, but it is aligned so a future coral ghost button gets a matching label and ground. The five phase pairs also "mismatch" by the same test and are deliberately left alone: those pair a pastel ground (sage, sky, mustard, lavender) with a deeper text hue, which is exactly what the guideline's Chips/Tags show. The lowercase wordmark had only reached the visual chrome. Every user-visible occurrence now matches: page title and template, appleWebApp title, authors, OpenGraph and Twitter titles and siteName, the school page's siteName, the PWA manifest name and short_name, the footer copyright line, the nav's aria-label, the Web Share API strings, and the editorial paragraph. Comments in lib/*.ts and AdmissionsView still say "SchoolCompare"; they describe the codebase rather than the mark, so they are left to keep this diff to the reported problem. The comment explaining why the font classes belong on <html> still described --font-schibsted, which no longer exists. It now names --font-manrope and --font-inter, and records that the e2e typeface assertion is the only guard — this failure mode throws nothing and fails no unit test. Verified: tsc clean, 159/159 tests, build green, and the rendered title is now "School Admissions Guide | schoolcompare". Status and phase labels re-checked on their own composited tints over both light grounds — all clear AA. |
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feat(brand): adopt the schoolcompare identity across the site
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Implements the supplied brand guideline: the pin-and-leaf mark, the lowercase schoolcompare wordmark, Manrope for headings and Inter for everything a person reads a number from, the deep-teal/coral/mustard/sage palette, and the rounder geometry the guideline asks for. The landing hero is rebuilt to the concept: a Sand panel carrying the proposition, the search and a trust line, with the brand landscape bleeding to the panel's right edge, followed by the four value props. Concept vs reality — where the guideline describes something this product does not have, the real feature takes its place and the decision is recorded in a code comment next to it: - The Thriving Score is not implemented. Four of its five sub-scores (pastoral, enrichment, community, facilities) have no source in DfE or Ofsted data, and its band names are Ofsted's own, which would sit beside the real Ofsted grade and be indistinguishable from it. - Guides, About, Favourites and Sign in are not added to the nav — there are no such pages and no accounts system. Rankings and Admissions, which the guideline omits, keep their places because they exist. - The fourth value prop is "Never miss a deadline" rather than "Save & revisit", which would need shortlisting. Two deviations from the supplied swatches, both forced by contrast and both confined to text and fills. Coral #F97360 under a white label measures 2.75:1 against a 4.5 floor, so --action is a darkened #BE3C27 and the original coral survives as --coral for tints, borders and illustration. Mustard #F2C94C is 1.5:1 as text, so --mustard-ink carries labels while --mustard stays exact for fills and rings. Every token clears AA on all three light grounds; Sand is the binding one, so several values sit a step darker than white alone would need. The guideline is light-only, but the site already ships a dark theme, so it is rebuilt from the same tokens rather than dropped. Verified: tsc clean, 159/159 unit tests, production build green, and the generated share card and app icon render from the new mark. The hero and the site chrome were rendered from the compiled CSS and the prerendered markup to confirm Manrope and Inter actually resolve — a font token that silently falls back has shipped here before. |