Rename Solarized → Solarium Daylight/Moonlight (Besley slab serif)#16
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The Solarized palette was always asking for a serif body face — the muted base1 / base01 olive-grey body and the warm-orange / yellow accents read as "designed document" colors but with SF Pro they sat in generic-modern territory. Swapping in Besley (Owen Earl, Indestructible Type, OFL — slab-serif revival explicitly designed for sustained screen reading) gives the palette the typeface those colors always wanted. Six Besley weights bundled: Regular, Italic, SemiBold, SemiBoldItalic, Bold, BoldItalic (~500 KB total). Registered alongside Alegreya and OpenDyslexic via the existing FontRegistration path. Typography pass tuned for slab-serif body, balancing readability and density (per spec — neither Sevilla-style long-form-reading nor default-density operational): - 16pt body (default — Besley's tall x-height handles it) - 0.40em line spacing (≈1.55× — between sans default 0.30 and Sevilla's 0.55) - 720pt measure (≈80ch — between Sevilla's 620 and the 860 default) - 1.55 / 1.28 / 1.1 heading scale (down from default 1.75/1.4/1.15; slab serifs are visually dense at heading sizes) - Default rhythm — Besley SemiBold + the H1 rule carry section breaks - Strong drops to tier 1 (= body) for Moonlight too — was tier 2 with SF Pro semibold, but Besley SemiBold has the heft to carry mid- paragraph emphasis on its own. Same call Sevilla makes for Alegreya. Solarized values unchanged otherwise. Schoonover's L*-balanced palette already worked; the font was the only thing wrong. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
The Solarized palette has always wanted a serif body face — its muted base1 / base01 olive-grey body and warm orange / yellow accents read as "designed document" but with SF Pro they sat in generic-modern territory. Replace with Besley (Owen Earl, Indestructible Type, OFL — slab-serif revival explicitly designed for sustained screen reading) and rename:
Schoonover's Solarized values are unchanged (base3 / base03 / base01 / base1 / blue / orange / yellow). The font swap is what we wanted; the palette already worked.
What ships
mdv/Fonts/(~500 KB total): Regular, Italic, SemiBold, SemiBoldItalic, Bold, BoldItalic. Registered alongside Alegreya and OpenDyslexic via the existingFontRegistrationpath. SemiBold variants resolve through Besley's typographic-family table (name ID 16) so SwiftUI'sFont.custom("Besley").weight(.semibold)picks them cleanly.MDVTheme.solariumDaylight+solariumMoonlightreplacesolarizedLight+solarizedDarkinMDVTheme.all.TYPOGRAPHY.mdcatalog rows + a Solarium deep-dive section documenting each typography knob.Typography
Tuned for slab-serif body, balancing readability and density (per spec — neither Sevilla-style long-form-reading nor default-density operational):
bodyFontFamily.custom("Besley")baseFontSizeparagraphLineSpacingEmarticleMaxWidthshowH1Rule/showH2Rulestrongcolor#C5CDC2) because SF Pro semibold was too soft on muted base1; Besley SemiBold doesn't need the lift. Same call Sevilla makes for Alegreya.Test plan
swift build -c debug— clean**bold emphasis**picks up SemiBold cleanly;*italic*uses Besley Italic with calligraphic letterforms;***both***uses SemiBoldItalic🤖 Generated with Claude Code