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Two LekkerWeed reports (checkout field headers invisible, dashboard white-on-white) were symptoms of a half-built theming contract. A tenant sets 8 colours, but tenant-theme-provider mapped only five shadcn tokens (primary, secondary, accent, background, foreground) and left card, popover, muted, border, input, ring and every *-foreground at the light :root defaults. Any dark palette therefore produced white cards with white text-foreground (dashboard, orders), and pages that hardcoded text-gray-* only worked because cards happened to be white. It also ran in a client effect, so every storefront first painted the platform defaults and then flipped.

We are onboarding more operators this week and cannot predict their palettes, so this is the platform fix rather than a per-tenant patch.

What

lib/theme/tenant-tokens.ts (new, pure, unit-tested) — derives the complete token set from designSystem.colors:

  • --tenant-color-* verbatim as before, plus derived surface, border, muted, muted-foreground when unset.
  • shadcn tokens: background/foreground, card, popover, muted, border, input, ring, and primary/secondary/accent with a foreground computed by luminance instead of assuming near-white.
  • Legibility floor: any foreground below 3:1 against the surface it sits on is swapped to black or white. White-on-white can no longer ship even if an operator picks it.
  • buildColorOverrideVars applies the same check to nav / footer / section colour overrides (an inherited white text is re-checked when a section is given a white background).

Provider — tokens are computed in render (useMemo) and applied as the container's inline style, so they are server-rendered (no first-paint flash) and the branding editor preview updates in the same render. Dead helpers removed.

Entry pointsstore/[slug]/layout.tsx (nav/footer) and template-renderer.tsx (nav, sections, footer, per-section <style>) route overrides through the shared builder.

PrimitivesInput, Textarea, Select trigger, Dialog and Sheet content get text-foreground so form text never inherits an unrelated colour.

Sweep — hardcoded text-gray-* / bg-gray-* / bg-white / text-slate-* replaced with semantic tokens in the consultation steps, ID-upload form, settings page (now on tenant tokens instead of the light saas-shell), order detail, register, login and how-it-works. Intentional whites (QR box, buttons on coloured bands, Clerk's own card) left alone.

Branding form — contrast warnings under Brand Colors and each nav / footer / section override (below 4.5:1 warns; below 3:1 says the storefront will substitute).

Verification

  • tests/unit/tenant-tokens.test.ts: LekkerWeed (dark), HealingBuds (light), white-on-white, pale-primary, override re-check cases.
  • Reviewed by reading only (repo rule: nothing runs locally); Railway's next build is the gate.
  • Post-deploy checks: curl https://lekkerweed.co.za/ must show --card:280 35% 14% on the theme container; /contact labels still white once the tenant stylesheet below is corrected.

Visible changes to expect

  • LekkerWeed: dashboard/orders/consultation/settings cards go to the tenant surface (dark purple) with white text; default buttons get black text on the teal primary (white fails AA at 2.5:1; black is 8.3:1).
  • HealingBuds: home page untouched (sections use inline tenant vars). Store-page cards move from pure white / navy to the brand's 155 10% 99% / dark teal (within rounding). Dropdown-item hover highlight (accent) gets black text on mint instead of white (white was 2.5:1).
  • Focus rings follow the tenant primary instead of navy.
  • Muted text and panels (text-muted-foreground, bg-muted) are now derived from each tenant's own surface and text colours instead of one platform grey, so on light tenants they pick up a faint brand tint (HealingBuds: teal-grey rather than blue-grey at the same lightness).
  • The enforced floor is 3:1 (WCAG large-text AA); 4.5:1 is advisory in the branding form. Small muted text on a low-contrast palette is therefore legible but not necessarily AA. Deliberate: substituting at 4.5:1 would override many intentional brand choices.

Follow-up (tenant data, not code)

LekkerWeed's tenant stylesheet in S3 (tenants/bcd1727b-…/templates/lekkerweed/styles.css, patched 2026-04-19) still forces form label { color:#0f172a !important } and main section h2/h3 { color:#0f172a }. Those two rules must be deleted after this deploys (the white-input rules can stay). Corrected file prepared; backup convention styles.css.bak.<date>.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added contrast warnings in branding settings to flag potentially hard-to-read color combinations.
    • Improved tenant theming with broader color customization and automatic readable foreground colors.
    • Navigation, footer, storefront sections, and form controls now apply tenant theme colors more consistently.
  • Style

    • Updated storefront, account, consultation, order, and dialog components to use theme-aware colors.
    • Improved loading states, cards, inputs, buttons, and text areas across light and dark themes.

Tenants set eight colours but the provider mapped only five shadcn tokens,
leaving card, popover, muted, border, input, ring and every *-foreground at
the light root defaults. Dark palettes rendered white text on white cards
(LekkerWeed dashboard/orders) and pages that hardcoded grey text only worked
because cards happened to be white.

- lib/theme/tenant-tokens.ts derives the full token set from the palette,
  fills unset colours, computes button foregrounds by luminance and swaps
  any foreground below 3:1 for black or white. Unit-tested against the
  LekkerWeed, HealingBuds and white-on-white palettes.
- Provider computes the variables in render and inlines them on the
  container, so they are server-rendered (no first-paint flash) and the
  editor preview matches live.
- Nav, footer and section colour overrides (store layout + template
  renderer) go through the same check, re-validating inherited text when a
  section changes its background.
- Input, Textarea, Select, Dialog and Sheet carry text-foreground.
- Consultation steps, ID upload, settings, order detail, register, login and
  how-it-works use semantic tokens instead of text-gray-*/bg-white.
- Branding form warns below 4.5:1 and says when the storefront will
  substitute.
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The PR centralizes tenant color-token derivation, validates color overrides, adds branding contrast hints, and updates storefront, consultation, and shared UI components to use theme-aware design tokens.

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Tenant theming and contrast

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Tenant token derivation and tests
nextjs_space/lib/theme/tenant-tokens.ts, nextjs_space/tests/unit/tenant-tokens.test.ts
Adds color normalization, WCAG contrast helpers, tenant token derivation, validated overrides, and unit coverage for palettes and legibility rules.
Runtime tenant theme variables
nextjs_space/components/tenant-theme-provider.tsx
Computes tenant CSS variables during render and applies color, typography, and geometry variables through the scoped container style.
Validated storefront overrides
nextjs_space/components/template-renderer.tsx, nextjs_space/app/store/[slug]/layout.tsx
Uses the shared override builder for section, navigation, and footer color variables with tenant palette bases and defaults.
Branding contrast guidance
nextjs_space/app/tenant-admin/branding/tabs/contrast-hint.tsx, nextjs_space/app/tenant-admin/branding/tabs/colours-tab.tsx, nextjs_space/app/tenant-admin/branding/tabs/section-colour-panel.tsx
Adds contrast-pair generation and renders warnings for brand, navigation, footer, and section overrides.
Theme-aware UI styling
nextjs_space/app/store/[slug]/*, nextjs_space/components/consultation/*, nextjs_space/components/ui/*
Replaces fixed gray and legacy styling classes with semantic background, foreground, border, muted, and card tokens.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 770a3

This PR is a broad but low-risk styling and theming refactor. Two small gaps remain: a rarely-used color format (comma-separated hsla with alpha) can fail to parse into theme tokens, and the branding admin's contrast warnings do not yet cover every color that the storefront might auto-substitute for legibility. Neither issue causes crashes or data loss, but both are worth fixing before or shortly after merge.

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  participant TenantThemeProvider
  participant buildTenantThemeVars
  participant deriveTenantTokens
  participant TemplateRenderer
  participant buildColorOverrideVars
  TenantThemeProvider->>buildTenantThemeVars: compute tenant theme variables
  buildTenantThemeVars->>deriveTenantTokens: derive shadcn color tokens
  deriveTenantTokens-->>TenantThemeProvider: return color variables
  TemplateRenderer->>buildColorOverrideVars: build scoped override variables
  buildColorOverrideVars-->>TemplateRenderer: return validated CSS variables
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In `@nextjs_space/app/tenant-admin/branding/tabs/contrast-hint.tsx`:
- Around line 52-53: Update the contrast guidance logic around overridePairs and
the touched check to derive foreground pairs from the storefront’s resolved
values, including primary, accent, secondary, and surface substitutions
alongside background, text, and heading. Ensure low-contrast substituted colors
trigger guidance instead of returning an empty result.

In `@nextjs_space/lib/theme/tenant-tokens.ts`:
- Around line 53-59: The hsla parsing branch in toHslChannels currently retains
comma-separated alpha values, causing CHANNELS validation to reject valid
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const touched = ["background", "text", "heading"].some((key) => overrides[key]);
if (!touched) return [];

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include all substituted foreground colors in the guidance.

overridePairs only activates for background, text, and heading. A low-contrast primary, accent, secondary, or surface value can still make the storefront substitute black or white, but the branding screen shows no warning. Build these pairs from the same resolved foreground values used by the storefront.

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In `@nextjs_space/app/tenant-admin/branding/tabs/contrast-hint.tsx` around lines
52 - 53, Update the contrast guidance logic around overridePairs and the touched
check to derive foreground pairs from the storefront’s resolved values,
including primary, accent, secondary, and surface substitutions alongside
background, text, and heading. Ensure low-contrast substituted colors trigger
guidance instead of returning an empty result.

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