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Fixes BON-13: on a dark-mode OS over a page that keeps a light canvas, bones resolved to white-at-12% and vanished. The prefers-color-scheme media query assumed the page follows the scheme; pages auto.css targets often don't.

--bone-base and --bone-highlight now default to the inherited text color at 12% and 6% opacity, and the media query is gone. Bones contrast with whatever background the page's own text is readable on: light pages get dark bars, dark pages and dark cards get light bars, and pages that never set a color get exactly the old rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12) — existing visual baselines pass unchanged.

The subtle part: bones hide their content through the color property, so the issue's literal color-mix(… currentColor …) reads transparent at every bone and paints nothing (validated in the comparison prototype, which also ruled out fixed translucent grays — they vanish on gray backgrounds). Content is instead hidden by zeroing only the alpha, rgb(from currentColor r g b / 0), so the channels survive into the derivation. The measured overlay's no-stylesheet fallbacks derive the same way.

Costs worth knowing:

  • Requires relative color syntax (Baseline 2024: Chrome 119, Safari 18, Firefox 128) — hence a minor bump.
  • Per-element tints don't survive: a blue link's bone renders in the parent's color, since the hiding declaration wins the cascade on the element itself.
  • Text that relies on its background for contrast (white hero text over an image) still needs a local --bone-base override; now documented in the styling page.

New browser tests pin the derivation for data-bone text and block bones, auto.css leaves and blocks, the alt-text channel survival, and the shadow overlay fallback, plus one back-compat pin for default-color pages. Verified end to end with Playwright colorScheme: "dark" over an undeclared white page — dark, visible bars.

Part of BON-13.

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  • New Features

    • Skeleton and overlay colors now automatically adapt to the surrounding text color.
    • Improved contrast across light and dark themes without requiring separate theme-specific defaults.
    • Content hidden beneath skeletons remains visually concealed while preserving adaptive coloring.
    • Overlay fallback styles now match adaptive color behavior.
  • Documentation

    • Updated styling guidance with adaptive color behavior, theme support, and manual override options.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of white-on-white content and measured overlays.

…(BON-13)

A dark-mode OS over a page that keeps a light canvas painted white bones
on white: the prefers-color-scheme media query assumed the page follows
the scheme. --bone-base and --bone-highlight now default to the
inherited text color at 12% and 6% opacity, so bones contrast with
whatever the page's own text contrasts with, and the media query is
gone.

The subtlety: bones hide their content through the color property, so a
plain color-mix(currentColor) reads transparent at every bone. Content
is now hidden by zeroing only the alpha (rgb(from currentColor r g b /
0)) so the channels survive into the derivation. The measured overlay's
no-stylesheet fallbacks derive the same way. Requires relative color
syntax, Baseline 2024.

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Bone colors now derive from inherited text color instead of fixed light/dark values. Alpha-based hiding replaces transparent. Overlay fallbacks use the same derivation. Browser tests, documentation, sandboxes, and release notes cover the change.

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Adaptive bone colors

Layer / File(s) Summary
CurrentColor-based bone rendering
packages/bones/src/css/bones.css, packages/bones/src/css/auto.css, packages/bones/src/element/overlay.ts
Bone defaults, shimmer colors, reduced-motion styles, and automatic skeleton colors derive from currentColor. Hidden content uses zero alpha.
Adaptive color browser coverage
packages/bones/tests/browser/adaptive-colors.test.ts, packages/bones/tests/browser/overlay-fallback.test.ts, packages/bones/tests/browser/expect-color.ts
Browser tests validate inherited colors, hidden content, fallback colors, overlay rendering, and color parsing assertions.
Theme documentation and release notes
apps/docs/content/docs/styling.mdx, packages/bones/sandbox/*.html, .changeset/adaptive-bone-colors.md
Documentation and sandbox comments describe text-color-relative rendering, theme behavior, overrides, and relative color syntax support.

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The color derivation change is otherwise mergeable, but five CSS declarations still fail the repository’s casing validation and should be corrected or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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In `@packages/bones/src/css/bones.css`:
- Around line 8-9: Replace the `currentColor` keyword with the configured
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--bone-base: color-mix(in srgb, rgb(from currentColor r g b / 1) 12%, transparent);
--bone-highlight: color-mix(in srgb, rgb(from currentColor r g b / 1) 6%, transparent);

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the configured currentcolor keyword spelling.

Stylelint reports value-keyword-case errors at each location. These errors prevent a clean lint result. Replace currentColor with currentcolor.

  • packages/bones/src/css/bones.css#L8-L9: use currentcolor in both custom-property values.
  • packages/bones/src/css/bones.css#L15-L15: use currentcolor in the relative color expression.
  • packages/bones/src/css/bones.css#L74-L74: use currentcolor in the relative color expression.
  • packages/bones/src/css/auto.css#L47-L47: use currentcolor in the relative color expression.
  • packages/bones/src/css/auto.css#L147-L147: use currentcolor in the relative color expression.
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[error] 8-8: Expected "currentColor" to be "currentcolor" (value-keyword-case)

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[error] 9-9: Expected "currentColor" to be "currentcolor" (value-keyword-case)

(value-keyword-case)

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  • packages/bones/src/css/bones.css#L8-L9 (this comment)
  • packages/bones/src/css/bones.css#L15-L15
  • packages/bones/src/css/bones.css#L74-L74
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In `@packages/bones/src/css/bones.css` around lines 8 - 9, Replace the
`currentColor` keyword with the configured lowercase `currentcolor` spelling in
`packages/bones/src/css/bones.css` lines 8-9, 15, and 74, and in
`packages/bones/src/css/auto.css` lines 47 and 147; no other changes are needed.

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