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<div class="kicker">Turn Document, 2026-05-17 11:23 ET</div>
<h1>Polish Terminal View</h1>
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Refined the Islandflow web terminal shell so the Tape view feels more deliberate, more keyboard-readable, and more stable across desktop and mobile.
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<h2>Summary</h2>
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This was a focused product polish pass on <code>apps/web/app/globals.css</code>. The work stayed inside the established Islandflow terminal design language: dark operational surfaces, scarce amber emphasis, compact controls, and clear evidence-console states.
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<h2>Changes Made</h2>
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<li>Added a shared terminal easing token for consistent, restrained interaction transitions.</li>
<li>Styled scrollbars to match the terminal surface instead of falling back to browser defaults.</li>
<li>Improved nav, button, and active-control hover and pressed states using the existing OKLCH palette.</li>
<li>Refined shell metrics, pane headers, table shells, row focus states, and empty states for clearer hierarchy.</li>
<li>Adjusted mobile metric cards and Tape action controls so they align cleanly without horizontal page overflow.</li>
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<h2>Context</h2>
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Islandflow is a serious market-data terminal for traders and researchers. The polish target was product UI, not brand theater, so the changes prioritize trust, legibility, predictable controls, and stable responsive structure.
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<h2>Important Implementation Details</h2>
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<li>All new color work uses existing OKLCH roles and keeps amber as a scarce signal rather than a decorative wash.</li>
<li>Keyboard focus on table rows and instrument buttons is now visible without introducing layout shift.</li>
<li>Mobile shell metrics now use a two-column grid, and page actions stretch to the viewport width.</li>
<li>The polish is CSS-only, so no data contracts, route behavior, or live-stream logic changed.</li>
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<h2>Expected Impact for End-Users</h2>
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Users should experience a terminal that reads as more finished under pressure: clearer controls, cleaner empty states, better keyboard affordances, and less visual friction on narrow screens.
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<h2>Validation</h2>
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<li><code>bun install</code> completed to restore missing workspace dependencies.</li>
<li><code>bun test apps/web/app/terminal.test.ts apps/web/app/routes.test.ts</code> passed with 69 tests.</li>
<li><code>bun --cwd=apps/web run build</code> passed.</li>
<li>Playwright visual QA checked <code>http://localhost:3000/tape</code> at 1440x1000 and 390x900.</li>
<li>Visual QA confirmed no document-level horizontal overflow after the responsive polish.</li>
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<h2>Issues, Limitations, and Mitigations</h2>
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<li>The local backend WebSocket at <code>localhost:4000</code> was offline during visual QA, so the screen showed disconnected empty states. This was useful for validating the empty-state polish but did not exercise live data density.</li>
<li>Playwright needed a locally cached Chromium executable. The visual check used an existing browser cache path after the default runtime binary was unavailable.</li>
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<h2>Follow-up Work</h2>
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No new Beads follow-up issue was filed. Live-data density should be rechecked naturally when the full local stack is running, but this polish did not reveal a separate actionable defect.
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