The running dot no longer animates, and the machinery behind it is gone
rather than switched off: the shared refcounted clock, the theme-scheme prop
mapping, and the extra wave color all existed only to drive it.
Four affordances were tried and each failed for its own reason, which is
worth writing down before someone reaches for one of them again. Fading the
dot blends it toward the row's surface rather than toward black, so the
bottom of every cycle was a washed-out blue that read as the success dot one
row up. Dropping chroma holds brightness but turns the low point grey.
Raising chroma has nowhere to go: blue at these lightnesses is already within
11% of the sRGB gamut edge, so the only real headroom is at the hue-250 cusp,
which costs lightness. An expanding ring solved the color problem outright —
motion cannot be confused with another hue — but stayed too subtle at a size
that suits an 8pt dot sitting beside a title.
If the ring is revisited: the project badge shell clips its contents to 12pt,
which is what made the first attempt invisible on exactly the rows most
likely to be on screen. The clip is not what makes the shell read as a
knockout; its fill is.
Mohamed Boudra
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