Brandon Dail
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Brandon Dail
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Staff Engineer at Discord working on Design Systems, Accessibility, Other Stuff™️ Collage & generative plotter artist 👋
what are you measuring the contrast of? Ash is 9.49:1 for the chat text, which is lower than the others to approximately match the original dark theme (which is 9.36:1)
March 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
ouch, I’ll make sure that gets fixed.
March 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
for example, text-secondary here is defined in terms of a contrast ratio with a background token. This defines the color across all themes; no hand picked colors! that bg token is also defined using a contrast constraint.

If anything in the constraint dep graph changes, it propagates automatically
March 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
did a human right this
February 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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In the meantime, as a reader: don’t trust any articles attributed to “staff,” and don’t trust any articles that don’t include quotes from scientists completely uninvolved in the original publication. Science is a gradual, meandering, back and forth process; sometimes we have to let it play out.
December 27, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Reposted by Brandon Dail
Which brings us to the scicomm point: we gotta get better at distinguishing between “here’s someone’s speculative idea that they just published” and “here’s a new discovery.” This is the former.
December 27, 2024 at 2:52 PM
details pls
December 14, 2024 at 8:43 PM
he knows if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake
December 9, 2024 at 3:43 PM