Refactor public/style.css to semantic CSS custom properties under :root
(light palette by default) and add a @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)
override block that flips background/foreground/accent/danger tokens to
a soft near-black palette. The original --black/--white/--gray-*/--red
literal tokens and the lone #fff5f5 floating literal are gone — every
color now derives from a semantic token, so the dark override is the
only place that re-declares them.
Add <meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark"> to the shared
layout <head> so the browser renders its UA backdrop, native scrollbars,
and form-control popups in the user's preferred scheme before the
stylesheet parses — this is what avoids a white flash on initial paint
in dark mode.
No toggle, no JS, no preference persistence — the page follows the OS
setting directly via the media query. The 16px font-size rule on
text-entry inputs is preserved (still asserted by tests/integration
/style.test.ts).
Brendan Chen
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