Alex Dunmow 1451f06d9f feat(noir): WO-TF-022 Wave A — detective/true-crime dossier rebuild

Re-persona noir from photography to the locked detective/true-crime
direction: case-file panels, typewriter type, redaction bars, evidence
board, film grain. High-key gallery (light) / darkroom black + amber
safelight (dark).

- 49 mandatory builtin overrides (chrome, marketing, primitives,
  commerce, blog family, auth, page-suggestions), re-skinned from the
  frozen builtin defaults with every field/provider/tag/JS preserved;
  legacy button/card field reads reconciled to the new contract.
- 7 page templates (default, full-width, landing, article, blog-index,
  contact, auth) + themed email wrapper.
- 4 persona blocks (case_file, evidence_board, redacted_quote,
  case_dossier); old photography blocks deleted (now overrides).
- 5 dual-mode presets (19 tokens, light+dark tuned).
- Bundled OFL fonts (Source Serif 4, IBM Plex Mono) + licenses;
  RECOMMENDED_FONTS/ICONS updated; required_icon_packs=lucide.
- Master pages + seed demo ("The Cold File": home/about/blog x3/contact
  with case_tips data table + row_inserted email-admins workflow/login).
- noir CSS vocabulary via manifest css.input_css_append; MID motion
  (scroll-reveal + gallery lightbox, reduced-motion honored, no canvas).

Verified: make build exit 0; check-safety 32 checks 19 ok 13 skip -> OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-05 12:48:44 +08:00

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Noir — Build Report

Wave A pass (WO-TF-022): re-persona from a photography/portfolio theme to the LOCKED detective / true-crime dossier direction. Codeless .bnp.

Plugin slug: noir · kind: theme · version: 0.2.0

Identity

Case-file panels, typewriter type, redaction bars, evidence board and film grain. High-key gallery by day (ink type, evidence-red accent); darkroom black by night (bone type, amber safelight accent). Motion tier MID: JS scroll-reveal (reduced-motion honored, static no-JS fallback) plus the builtin gallery lightbox showpiece (no canvas).

What shipped

49 mandatory template overrides in templates/overrides/noir/ + a template_overrides entry per key in manifest.yaml. Each re-skins the frozen builtin default, preserving every content field, provider var, custom tag and <script>/<style> block verbatim; only styling changes. Legacy button/card field reads reconciled to the new builtin contract (link/style/label, text/media).
7 page templates (templates/noir/): default, full-width, landing, article, blog-index, contact, auth.
4 persona blocks (blocks/): case_file, evidence_board, redacted_quote, case_dossier. The old photography blocks (lightbox_gallery, contact_sheet, caption_strip, image_pair, footer, case_study) were deleted — the builtins they duplicated are now overrides.
5 presets (presets.json), all 19 tokens, light + dark intentionally tuned (mode: both): Cold Case (default), Evidence Red, Safelight, Interrogation, Redaction.
Bundled fonts (fonts.json, assets/fonts/, OFL): Source Serif 4 (body) and IBM Plex Mono (typewriter heading/mono). Fallback stacks name Special Elite / Courier Prime first for admins. Licenses in assets/fonts/LICENSES.md.
Themed email wrapper (templates/email/noir.ninjatpl): table-based, inline styles, dossier masthead.
Master pages (master_pages.json) + seed demo (seed/seed.json, seed/workflows.json): "The Cold File" true-crime site — home, about, blog (3 case write-ups), contact (form → case_tips data table → row_inserted → email-admins workflow), login.
noir CSS vocabulary injected via manifest.yaml css.input_css_append: .noir-heading/-body/-mono/-label, .noir-file, .noir-btn/-btn-solid/-link, .noir-rule/-hairline, .noir-stamp, .noir-redact, .noir-pin, .noir-tape, .noir-grain, .noir-spotlight, .noir-reveal. Kebab-case tokens only; all font-family via var(--font-heading|body|mono, <fallback>).

Verification

cd themes/noir && make build → Built noir@0.2.0 (codeless) → noir-0.2.0.bnp, exit 0.
cd check-safety && go run . themes/noir → 32 checks: 19 ok 13 skip -> OK, exit 0.

Visual quality is UNVERIFIED until Wave B screenshots. preview.png is a stale photography-era image and will be regenerated in Wave B.

Known platform limits (per OVERRIDE-CONTRACT §11/§12, not theme bugs)

auth-form, auth-status, password-reset-form, page-suggestions are compiled builtins whose overrides do not yet dispatch — the stock builtin HTML renders until the cms fix lands. Authored faithfully regardless.
Provider-backed overrides (navbar/footer menus, featured/related/popular posts, category-list, breadcrumbs, blog-hero, sidebar-nav, author-bio-hero) render themed chrome but empty live lists under the codeless loader until the cms fix lands. Authored faithfully to the builtin provider var names.