@kolkrabbi/kol-theme 0.46.1 → 0.48.0

package/kol-theme.css

@@ -93,6 +93,22 @@
   --kol-pad-card-md: 1rem;
   --kol-pad-card-lg: 1.5rem;
 
+  /* WALL gaps (2026-08-15) — the same treatment `--kol-pad-card-*` got, for
+   * the same reason: these two numbers were re-typed as a ternary at every
+   * call site (kol-monitor HomePage ×2, LibraryPage ×2, MediaLibrary,
+   * kol-website Work, both foundry grids, StackLatest) and a value repeated
+   * nine times is a value that has already drifted somewhere.
+   *
+   * PX, not rem — a gap is a layout measure, not type (user ruling
+   * 2026-08-15), so a reader bumping their browser text size must not re-space
+   * every wall in the estate.
+   *
+   * Two rungs because a wall of CARDS and a stack of ROWS want different air:
+   * cards are objects with their own edges and need separating; rows are lines
+   * in a table and 24px between them reads as a broken list. */
+  --kol-gap-wall-grid: 24px;
+  --kol-gap-wall-list: 8px;
+
   /* The house curve (2026-08-15) — the easing the cards actually use; was
    * hardcoded in 5 files before this token existed. Curve only, no duration:
    * it pairs with whatever duration the motion needs.

package/kol-typography.css

@@ -805,23 +805,36 @@
   font-family: var(--kol-font-family-sans-narrow);
   font-size: var(--kol-text-display-01);
   line-height: 100%;
-  font-weight: 600;
+  font-weight: 500;
+  letter-spacing: 0.04em;
 }
 
 .kol-sans-display-02 {
   font-family: var(--kol-font-family-sans-narrow);
   font-size: var(--kol-text-display-02);
   line-height: 100%;
-  font-weight: 600;
+  font-weight: 500;
+  letter-spacing: 0.04em;
 }
 
+/* THE DISPLAY RUNGS ARE 500, NOT 600 (user ruling 2026-08-15). All three sat a
+ * weight above the heading family they open — the narrow grotesk at 600 clogs
+ * at display size, where the counters are already the first thing to close. 500
+ * is the weight every `kol-sans-heading-*` uses, so the two families now read as
+ * one voice at two volumes.
+ *
+ * And 0.04em of TRACKING on all three: a narrow face set large has almost no
+ * sidebearing left, so the letters run together into a wall. The tracking is
+ * what lets a display line be read as words rather than a texture. */
+
 /* display-03 shipped 2026-08-15 — its consumer arrived: ContentText's `work`
  * row title (the ruled size-only step down from display-02). */
 .kol-sans-display-03 {
   font-family: var(--kol-font-family-sans-narrow);
   font-size: var(--kol-text-display-03);
   line-height: 100%;
-  font-weight: 600;
+  font-weight: 500;
+  letter-spacing: 0.04em;
 }
 
 /* =============================================================================

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@kolkrabbi/kol-theme",
-  "version": "0.46.1",
+  "version": "0.48.0",
   "description": "KOL (Kolkrabbi) design-system tokens + base CSS — brand-neutral. The canonical token/cascade layer every other KOL package and consumer builds on.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "type": "module",