- html { font-size: clamp(14px, 2.4vmin, 22px) } — single sliding scale; everything in rem (sidebar widths, h2 font-size, paddings) scales together. Phone rotation swaps width/height but vmin stays the same → 1rem stays the same → navbar/footer/h2 hold their size between portrait + landscape.
- :root --sidebar-w: 5rem (replaces the locally-scoped $sidebar-w SCSS var that lived inside @media blocks); --h2-col-w: 3rem for the rotated wordmark column in landscape. var(--sidebar-w) + var(--h2-col-w) are the only knobs that move the layout.
- Landscape container: margin-left = calc(var(--sidebar-w) + var(--h2-col-w)); margin-right = var(--sidebar-w). Applets are now clipped INSIDE the h2 column, so the rotated "BILLPOST" / "DASHBOARD" wordmark never has content bleeding behind it (the original complaint).
- h2 markup refactor across 13 templates: <span>BILL</span><span>POST</span> instead of <span>BILL</span>POST. Portrait styling: display: flex; first span flex 0 0 45% + --quaUser colour; second span flex 0 0 55% + --secUser inherited. Per-span text-align: justify + text-justify: inter-character keeps the inter-letter spacing within each span. Landscape resets the flex (single rotated wordmark, not split).
- Drop the four h2 font-size jumps (min-height: 400/500/800px) — single font-size: 3rem now scales fluidly via root rem. Drop the @media (orientation: landscape) and (max-width: 1100px) h1 override (rem-fluid handles cramped widths). Drop the entire @media (orientation: landscape) and (min-width: 1800px) sidebar-doubling block in _base.scss / _applets.scss / _bud.scss — the rem clamp ceiling already caps the size.
- _bud.scss + _applets.scss: bud-btn / bud-panel / bud-suggestions / gear-btn / applet menus all switch to var(--sidebar-w)-based positioning; landscape rules are single (no per-breakpoint duplication).
- Per-spec tradeoff: non-.btn-primary buttons (BYE / NVM / OK / kit-btn / etc.) inherit rem-fluid like everything else and will scale slightly w. viewport. User explicitly OK'd this — they don't need to stay px-fixed.
- 852 ITs + 24 layout/navbar/bud FTs green; existing geometry assertions are relative or categorical (not exact-px) so the rem clamp doesn't surface failures at the 800x1200 FT viewport.
Code architected by Disco DeDisco <discodedisco@outlook.com>
Git commit message Co-Authored-By:
Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
