From 1792c91be215487051b5313734bc84a9fa56bb46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Blakeslee Moore <andrew@blakeslee.me>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 02:15:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] nvrsion: Add: Remove teal accent color in dark mode to
 improve visibility in
 ios/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Assets.xcassets/AccentColor.colorset/Contents.json
 and ios/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/Theme.swift.

Nucleic-Promote: 1
Co-authored-by: Nucleic <nucleic@blakeslee.xyz>
---
 .../AccentColor.colorset/Contents.json           |  5 ++++-
 NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/Theme.swift    | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Assets.xcassets/AccentColor.colorset/Contents.json b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Assets.xcassets/AccentColor.colorset/Contents.json
index 8e37716..948deb1 100644
--- a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Assets.xcassets/AccentColor.colorset/Contents.json
+++ b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Assets.xcassets/AccentColor.colorset/Contents.json
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 {
-  "colors" : [ { "color" : { "color-space" : "srgb", "components" : { "red" : "0.118", "green" : "0.565", "blue" : "0.553", "alpha" : "1.000" } }, "idiom" : "universal" } ],
+  "colors" : [
+    { "color" : { "color-space" : "srgb", "components" : { "red" : "0.118", "green" : "0.565", "blue" : "0.553", "alpha" : "1.000" } }, "idiom" : "universal" },
+    { "appearances" : [ { "appearance" : "luminosity", "value" : "dark" } ], "color" : { "color-space" : "srgb", "components" : { "red" : "0.366", "green" : "0.850", "blue" : "0.834", "alpha" : "1.000" } }, "idiom" : "universal" }
+  ],
   "info" : { "author" : "xcode", "version" : 1 }
 }
diff --git a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/Theme.swift b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/Theme.swift
index 8406b5f..9da8d5b 100644
--- a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/Theme.swift
+++ b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/Theme.swift
@@ -142,7 +142,10 @@ struct ResolvedPalette {
 
     static func make(_ mode: ColorVisionMode) -> ResolvedPalette {
         var p = base(mode)
-        p.accent = Palette.nightSoft(p.accent)
+        // The accent is the interactive tint (buttons, menus, toggles, links), not a calm
+        // status hue — night-softening the already-deep teal made it vanish on dark
+        // backgrounds, so dark mode brightens it instead.
+        p.accent = Palette.nightBright(p.accent)
         p.active = Palette.nightSoft(p.active)
         p.attention = Palette.nightSoft(p.attention)
         p.success = Palette.nightSoft(p.success)
@@ -194,6 +197,17 @@ enum Palette {
         Color(UIColor { traits in traits.userInterfaceStyle == .dark ? dark : light })
     }
 
+    /// The inverse of `nightSoft`, for the interactive accent: light mode keeps `base`; dark
+    /// mode gets a brighter, lightly desaturated variant so the tint stays legible against
+    /// deep backgrounds and glass instead of sinking into them.
+    static func nightBright(_ base: Color) -> Color {
+        let ui = UIColor(base)
+        var h: CGFloat = 0, s: CGFloat = 0, b: CGFloat = 0, a: CGFloat = 0
+        guard ui.getHue(&h, saturation: &s, brightness: &b, alpha: &a) else { return base }
+        let dark = UIColor(hue: h, saturation: s * 0.72, brightness: max(b, 0.85), alpha: a)
+        return dynamic(light: ui, dark: dark)
+    }
+
     /// Light mode keeps `base`; dark mode gets a desaturated, dimmed variant — the same
     /// night-softening curve as the Mac's `AppPalette.nightSoft`.
     static func nightSoft(_ base: Color) -> Color {