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valknarness
41d463873e feat: add comprehensive visual improvements and polished UI
Major visual enhancements for professional look and feel:

**New Components:**
- Skeleton component for loading states
  - Pulse animation
  - Reusable for any content type
  - Consistent styling

**Enhanced Animations:**
- Added 8 new custom animations:
  - fade-in (smoother 0.3s)
  - slide-up/down (enhanced 0.4s)
  - slide-in-right/left (directional)
  - scale-in (zoom effect)
  - bounce-gentle (subtle bounce)
  - shimmer (loading effect)

**Global Visual Improvements:**
- Smooth theme transitions (200ms cubic-bezier)
- Custom scrollbar styling with hover states
- Smooth scroll behavior enabled
- Theme transitioning class to prevent flash
- Better transition timing functions

**Component Enhancements:**

1. Home Page:
   - Staggered fade-in animations (0s, 0.1s, 0.2s-0.4s delays)
   - Scale animations on feature cards
   - Hover effects with shadow and border color change
   - Responsive padding adjustments
   - Enhanced button hover (scale + shadow)

2. ColorSwatch:
   - Improved hover scale (105% → 110%)
   - Added shadow on hover
   - Backdrop blur on overlay
   - Active state scale down (95%)
   - Smoother transitions (200ms)
   - Scale-in animation for copy icon

3. Button Component:
   - Active state scale down effect
   - Shadow on hover for primary/destructive
   - Border color change on outline hover
   - Smoother transitions (200ms)
   - Focus ring offset for better visibility

**Micro-interactions:**
- All buttons have active:scale-95
- Cards lift on hover with shadows
- Smooth color transitions on theme switch
- Icons animate on appearance
- Links scale up on hover

**Visual Consistency:**
- Consistent timing (200ms for interactions)
- Unified hover patterns across components
- Standardized shadow depths
- Better focus indicators
- Smooth scroll throughout

**Performance:**
- No janky transitions
- Optimized animations (transform + opacity)
- Hardware-accelerated properties
- Minimal repaints

The UI now feels polished, professional, and delightful to use!

Build successful - all visual enhancements working.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2025-11-07 12:04:46 +01:00
valknarness
764ac90e60 feat: implement accessibility tools and named colors explorer
Add comprehensive accessibility features and color naming:

**Color Utilities (lib/utils/color.ts):**
- getRelativeLuminance() - WCAG 2.1 luminance calculation
- getContrastRatio() - Contrast ratio between two colors
- hexToRgb() - Convert hex to RGB
- checkWCAGCompliance() - AA/AAA compliance checker
- Full WCAG 2.1 specification implementation

**New UI Component:**
- Badge component - Status indicators
  - Variants: default, success, warning, destructive, outline
  - Used for pass/fail indicators
  - Accessible focus states

**Accessibility Pages:**

1. Contrast Checker (/accessibility/contrast)
   - Dual color pickers (foreground/background)
   - Real-time contrast ratio calculation
   - Live text preview with both colors
   - WCAG 2.1 compliance display:
     - Level AA: Normal text (4.5:1), Large text (3:1), UI (3:1)
     - Level AAA: Normal text (7:1), Large text (4.5:1)
   - Pass/Fail badges for each criterion
   - Swap colors button
   - Visual feedback with color-coded results

2. Accessibility Dashboard (/accessibility)
   - Overview of all accessibility tools
   - Feature cards with icons
   - Educational content about WCAG 2.1
   - Standards explanation (AA vs AAA)
   - Links to each tool

**Named Colors Page (/names):**
- Display all 148 CSS/X11 named colors
- Search by name or hex value
- Sort options (name, hue)
- Responsive grid layout (2-6 columns)
- Click to copy color
- Color name and hex display
- Loading and error states
- Empty state for no results
- Real-time filtering

**Batch Operations Page (/batch):**
- Placeholder "Coming Soon" page
- Feature preview list
- Planned capabilities description
- Professional coming soon message

**Features Implemented:**
- Real WCAG calculations (not approximations)
- Live contrast ratio updates
- Interactive color swapping
- Comprehensive compliance checking
- Educational content
- Named colors from API
- Search and filtering
- Responsive layouts

**Build Status:**
 11 pages successfully rendering
 All TypeScript checks passing
 No build errors

All major sections now have functional or placeholder pages!

Next: Polish, testing, and additional enhancements.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2025-11-07 11:42:55 +01:00
valknarness
c3745bd6b7 feat: implement palette generation features
Add complete palette generation system with multiple methods:

**New Components:**
- ColorSwatch component - Individual color display
  - Click to copy to clipboard
  - Hover effects with copy icon
  - Configurable sizes (sm, md, lg)
  - Optional color label display
  - Check icon on successful copy

- PaletteGrid component - Grid display for color palettes
  - Responsive grid layout (3-6 columns)
  - Click handler for color selection
  - Empty state message
  - Flexible and reusable

- Select component - Dropdown selector
  - Consistent styling with other inputs
  - Optional label support
  - Keyboard accessible
  - Focus ring styling

**Palette Pages:**

1. Gradient Creator (/palettes/gradient)
   - Multiple color stop editor (add/remove)
   - Configurable step count (2-1000)
   - Color space selection (RGB, HSL, Lab, LCH, OkLab, OkLCH)
   - Live gradient preview bar
   - Full palette grid display
   - Interactive color pickers for each stop
   - Real-time generation

2. Distinct Colors (/palettes/distinct)
   - Count selector (2-100 colors)
   - Distance metric selection (CIE76, CIEDE2000)
   - Simulated annealing algorithm
   - Statistics display:
     - Minimum distance
     - Average distance
     - Generation time
   - Loading state with progress message
   - Quality metrics for generated palette

3. Palettes Dashboard (/palettes)
   - Overview of all palette generators
   - Feature cards with icons
   - "Coming Soon" badge for harmony palettes
   - Quick navigation to each generator
   - Feature highlights for each method

**Features:**
- All palette generators integrated with Pastel API
- Toast notifications for success/error
- Loading states during generation
- Copy colors to clipboard
- Responsive layouts
- Empty states
- Error handling

**API Integration:**
- useGenerateGradient mutation
- useGenerateDistinct mutation
- Proper error handling and loading states
- Result caching with React Query

Build successful! 3 new palette pages rendering.

Next: Harmony palettes, accessibility tools, and named colors.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2025-11-07 11:38:20 +01:00
valknarness
94ea87ca83 feat: implement color manipulation tools with interactive sliders
Add complete color manipulation interface to playground:

**New Components:**
- Slider component - Customizable range input with label and value display
  - Smooth animations on thumb hover
  - Keyboard accessible
  - Shows current value with optional suffix
  - Tailwind-styled for consistency

- ManipulationPanel component - Full color manipulation controls
  - Lighten/Darken sliders (0-100% range)
  - Saturate/Desaturate sliders (0-100% range)
  - Hue rotation slider (-180° to +180°)
  - Complementary color quick action
  - All operations integrated with Pastel API
  - Toast notifications for success/error
  - Loading states during API calls

**Playground Enhancements:**
- Replaced placeholder quick action buttons with ManipulationPanel
- Full integration with color manipulation mutations
- Real-time color updates after each operation
- User-friendly feedback with toast messages
- Amount controls for precise adjustments

**Features:**
- Live preview of manipulation results
- Configurable amounts before applying
- Success/error handling with helpful messages
- Disabled state during API operations
- Smooth user experience with immediate feedback

**API Integration:**
- useLighten, useDarken mutations
- useSaturate, useDesaturate mutations
- useRotate for hue rotation
- useComplement for complementary colors
- All mutations with proper error handling

Build successful! Color manipulation tools fully functional.

Next: Navigation, theme system, and additional UI components.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2025-11-07 11:28:35 +01:00
valknarness
bd05f109b4 feat: initial Next.js 15 implementation with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS 4
Add complete project structure and foundation:

**Core Setup:**
- Next.js 15.5.6 with App Router and React 19
- TypeScript 5.7 with strict mode
- Tailwind CSS 4.1 with custom theme configuration
- ESLint and Prettier configuration

**Dependencies Installed:**
- @tanstack/react-query - Server state management
- zustand - Client state management
- framer-motion - Animations
- lucide-react - Icon library
- react-colorful - Color picker component
- cmdk - Command palette
- sonner - Toast notifications
- clsx + tailwind-merge - Class name utilities

**Project Structure:**
- app/ - Next.js App Router pages
- components/ - React components (ui, color, tools, layout, providers)
- lib/ - Utilities, API client, hooks, stores, constants
- tests/ - Unit and E2E test directories

**API Integration:**
- Type-safe Pastel API client with all 21 endpoints
- Complete TypeScript type definitions for requests/responses
- Error handling and response types

**UI Components:**
- Button component with variants (default, outline, ghost, destructive)
- Input component with focus states
- Providers wrapper (React Query, Toast)
- Root layout with Inter font and metadata

**Pages:**
- Home page with gradient hero and feature cards
- Links to playground and palette generation (pages pending)

**Configuration:**
- Tailwind with HSL color variables for theming
- Dark/light mode CSS variables
- Custom animations (fade-in, slide-up, slide-down)
- @tailwindcss/forms and @tailwindcss/typography plugins

Build successful: 102 kB First Load JS, static generation working.

Ready for color components and playground implementation.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2025-11-07 10:55:42 +01:00