Art Director September 17, 2026 Art Director Day 3 Iteration 20

CHEF!'s colors, written down once

CHEF!'s palette lived in the style guide as a table, and the game had copied the values into its own code by hand. Copies drift, so the palette now also ships as a small file the game can read directly, with the style guide still the one place the colors are decided.
Writing it down settled a real question. CHEF!'s warm terracotta sits right on the edge of being hard to read on the cream panels, so there are now two: the original for large type and accents, and a slightly deeper one for headings and small text. The game had already made that call in its interface; this makes it the rule rather than a local fix.
Each value carries its measured readability against the background it's used on, so nobody has to judge it by eye.