The catalog work shipped but was unreachable and impoverished:
- **Nav**: the sidebar IA (web/routes/uix/+layout@.svelte) is a manual list;
the new components were never added, so nothing linked to them. Add a
"Text effects" group (TextGradient/Circular/Blur/Focus/Scramble), CountUp
under Utilities, and a "Packs" group (Ambient · backgrounds).
- **Ambient demo → real testbed**: rebuild web/routes/uix/packs/ambient as a
proper interactive page — effect selector (32, grouped Agentic/Tier A/B),
live param controls AUTO-GENERATED from each effect's `defaults`
(number→slider, boolean→toggle, colors→editable token list, string→text),
a stage-background toggle (surface/black/white/transparent), reset, and a
copyable usage snippet. The old page only switched effect, no tuning.
- **fog + mesh painted nothing**: their seeded colors were near-invisible on
the dark base theme — fog used neutral-bg2 (L 0.21) + neutral-element
(L 0.25), mesh used four -element slots (L ~0.26) against surface L 0.18.
Reseed with high-contrast tokens (fog: surface bg + neutral-text; mesh:
-solid stops). Verified in a real browser: aurora/mesh/fog all paint.
- Repoint the six demo ledes from the ephemeral plan to
docs/decisions/design-text-effects.md (matches the READMEs).
check 0 own errors. Verified live (real Chrome): all effects paint, controls
tune params, nav reaches every new page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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