The app icon is a dark glyph on transparency — invisible on dark launcher
backgrounds. icon-white.png keeps the exact silhouette/alpha with opaque
pixels recolored white; generated by make_icon_white.py. Used by the
desktop entry (launcher/taskbar); in-app artwork unchanged.
First pass was abstract gradient washes; the reference mock is the
synthwave sun/tower illustration itself behind frosted-glass panels.
Now: real artwork (public/archipelago-bg.jpg from the user's reference)
fills .main cover/fixed under a dark scrim, cards + sidebar are
translucent blurred glass with light hairline borders, coral accent and
is-active nav pill kept. Verified computed background stack in browser;
139 frontend tests + build green.
- public/icon.png and src/assets/logo.png were grayscale (mode L): a flat
white field, no alpha, which rendered as a white box/halo on every
non-white surface (window/taskbar icon, sidebar, launchers)
- regenerate both as RGBA: alpha is the ink coverage, RGB forced to 0 so
no white matte can leak through semi-transparent edge pixels
- styles.css: drop the white tile background/border-radius and cover-fit
from .sidebar-logo; the artwork now composites directly (contain-fit)
- originals preserved under deferred/original-icons/
