fix: render light palettes with matching appearance

README.md

@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ error = "#ff5370"
 
 Every color is optional and must be an opaque `#RRGGBB` value. `accent` colors selections, borders, carets, and the primary background glows; `glow` colors the secondary background glow. `keyBackground` colors application-number shortcut badges, and `error` colors errors and destructive actions. Overrides apply throughout the launcher, tools, popups, and Settings wherever those shared colors are used.
 
-Only colors change. Frosted glass, glow positions and sizes, opacity, selection treatment, typography, and layout stay fixed. Native controls, application/emoji icons, and Notes code-syntax highlighting retain their existing styling.
+Only colors are configurable. Frosted glass, glow positions and sizes, selection treatment, typography, and layout keep the same design. Native controls and Notes syntax highlighting follow the palette's light/dark appearance. Light palettes use a denser translucent base, softer glows, and contrast-corrected secondary text so placeholders and muted labels remain readable; the dark rendering is unchanged. Application and emoji icons are not recolored.
 
 ### Follow tint
 
@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ accent = "#82aaff" # Optional personal override
 
 Precedence is personal `[colors]` → tint-generated colors → built-in sunset colors. Omit `[colors]` to follow tint without overrides. Omit `theme`, or set it to `"sunset"` before any table, to ignore the generated palette. tint never overwrites `config.toml`; edit that file, not the generated `theme.json`. Both processes must use the same configuration directory.
 
+The generated palette includes tint's `light`/`dark` variant, which selects the matching native appearance for the launcher, Notes, Settings, popups, and sheets. For manually configured colors or a palette without variant metadata, Conjure infers appearance by comparing background and foreground luminance. There is no separate appearance, opacity, or glow-strength setting. Low-contrast secondary colors are adjusted only in the light-mode presentation; source palette files are not rewritten.
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 Conjure watches `config.toml` and the generated `theme.json` while running. Applying a tint theme, including automatic system light/dark switches, updates existing windows and tools without restarting or clearing searches, notes, selections, or translation results. Personal configuration edits also apply live. In-place saves and atomic file replacements are supported, including configuration directories created after launch. Invalid configuration at startup falls back to sunset and reports a file-specific error in Settings; invalid live edits keep the last valid palette and log the diagnostic, then recover automatically when the file is fixed.
 
 ## System theme
@@ -179,7 +181,7 @@ Commands explicitly declare `Application.Command.presentsView`. The shared dispa
 
 Search for **Conjure Notes**, identified by its centered 📔 icon, or assign it a global shortcut in Settings. Notes starts with a compact 570 × 404 layout inspired by Raycast Notes, with rounded corners and a centered muted note title, while using Conjure’s shared warm gradient background, cream text, and amber list markers and caret. Drag a window edge or corner to resize it; Notes remembers its size across reopening and app restarts, independently of other launcher views. The minimum size is 570 × 260, and restored dimensions fit the current screen’s visible area. The title bar offers Close; the bottom-right action pill offers **Browse Notes** and **Actions**, with **New Note** in Actions and on Command-N. Browse Notes (Command-P) opens Conjure’s styled, scrollable searchable picker upwards from the footer, shared with translation language selection—not a native menu. Fuzzy-search note titles, then select with Up/Down, Control-J/K, and Return or by clicking a note. A checkmark marks the current note, which is selected and scrolled into view on opening. Reopening Notes restores the last selection. Each note’s first nonempty line becomes its title; duplicate titles remain independently selectable.
 
-Notes uses a standard macOS window with system-inherited appearance and only the native Close button visible; minimize and zoom are hidden. The editor uses 15-point monospaced body text, including bold, italic, and code, while retaining Conjure’s warm palette. Heading sizes decrease from H1 through H6 (26, 23, 21, 19, 17, and 15 points); inline emphasis retains the heading’s size, and code-block contents remain literal. Closing still saves first and keeps the window open if saving fails. Other launcher views remain borderless with their existing dark appearance.
+Notes uses a standard macOS window matching Conjure's palette appearance and only the native Close button visible; minimize and zoom are hidden. The editor uses 15-point monospaced body text, including bold, italic, and code, with light/dark syntax highlighting following the selected palette. Heading sizes decrease from H1 through H6 (26, 23, 21, 19, 17, and 15 points); inline emphasis retains the heading's size, and code-block contents remain literal. Closing still saves first and keeps the window open if saving fails. Other launcher views remain borderless and use the same palette appearance.
 
 Actions (Command-K) opens the same searchable popup style used throughout Conjure, with **Browse Notes** (Command-P), **New Note** (Command-N), and **Delete Note**. Delete Note asks for confirmation before permanently deleting the currently selected note and its embedded images. Delete is focused by default: Return confirms and Escape cancels; deletion cannot be undone. After deletion, Notes selects a remaining note or creates a fresh blank note if none remain. Save or deletion failures preserve the current note and editor buffer. Command-N creates a note while the editor or either popup is focused. Command-P toggles Browse Notes even while its title-bar controls are covered. Escape or clicking outside closes an open popup and returns focus to the editor without leaving Notes; another Escape dismisses the launcher. Control-J/K navigates only while a popup is open, preserving normal editor commands when it is closed.