Shift the accent to burnt orange - #48
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extra.css used #d4b07a for link hovers and #d4b07c elsewhere. They are one hex digit apart and visually identical, so this is a typo rather than intent. #d4b07c is the value the website uses for --gold-light.
Moves the accent from gold #c0995e to #d98a45, a burnt orange nearer UT Austin's brand hue (28 deg vs UT's 27, where the old gold sat at 36). Light gold follows to #e2a773. Both keep AA contrast on the dark surface: 5.55:1 and 7.0:1 respectively. This also subsumes the #d4b07a/#d4b07c split from the previous commit, since every light-gold rule now carries the same new value.
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Matches the CSS accent change in #48. favicon.ico was byte-identical to the website's copy, so the already recolored file is copied across rather than converted a second time. Two independent conversions would drift; this keeps them identical. logo.png is two flat colors, remapped by projecting onto the gold-to-gray axis so antialiasing survives. logo-icon.png carries the duller #a39259 gold on a dark ground and gets the same saturation-gated remap as the favicon, leaving the neutral background untouched.
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Moves the docs accent from gold to a burnt orange closer to UT Austin's brand color, matching the same change on the website.
Palette
#c0995e#d98a45#d4b07aand#d4b07c#e2a773Hue moves from 36 degrees to 28; UT's Burnt Orange is 27.
Contrast
Both values clear WCAG AA on the dark surface (
#242627):#d98a45— 5.55:1 (old gold was 5.76:1)#e2a773— 7.0:1UT's actual
#BF5700was not used for the accent: at 3.31:1 on this background it falls below the 4.5:1 floor for body text, and the accent is used throughout as link text. On the website it is used for buttons, where white text on it scores 4.59:1.Also
The first commit collapses
#d4b07aand#d4b07c— the file used both, one hex digit apart, for light gold. That distinction disappears here anyway, but it is split out so the typo fix is visible separately.A header comment records that these values are duplicated from the website's
_sass/SHB_css.scssand must stay in sync, since the two repos cannot share a stylesheet.mkdocs build --strictandmarkdownlint-cli2both pass.