KeelrLeek
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Three rounds with Kyle's eyes on it, one rule each:
DETACH. The dropdown's top edge used to ride the exact line where the
content pane begins ("completely lined up with the main window") — and the
first fix, 38px, left the two edges within 4px, a near-miss that read
sloppier than either aligned or apart. 46px, tuned live over the album
page (38/42/46, OS captures), lands the panel ~9px below the pane line
with a 15px seam of bar under the pill.
FROST, not smoke. Plain rgba(0,0,0,0.72) ghosted the page's display-size
heading through razor-sharp; blur(18) blurred it but left it READABLE — a
blur only defeats text once its radius reaches the glyph scale, and page
headings here are ~40px tall. Now blur(40px) saturate(1.3) contrast(0.85)
over 0.55 smoke: the contrast compression is the other half of why real
acrylic is unreadable.
Why backdrop-filter is legal on THIS surface when the bars had to grow
periscopes: the filter black-flattens only the frost fraction of its
backdrop, and this panel is deliberately dark — where page content sits
behind it the content blurs into proper fog, and where bare frost shows
the flatten lands within a couple points of the plain-smoke look it
replaced. The bars failed because they wanted to SHOW the frost; this
panel wants to bury it.
NOISE + SHEEN. Over the hero's dark side the blur had nothing to re-emit
and the panel sat flat dead next to its lively half ("only half of it
seems fine"). Real acrylic never dies over black because blur is only half
its recipe — a 4.5% monochrome turbulence and a faint top sheen finish it,
so both halves read as one brushed material whatever is behind.
Interior chrome joins the glass vocabulary (hover rows, count pill,
chips, hairlines, SAVED tag, cover placeholders), and the old
keep-menus-opaque call is overridden for this menu alone —
Playlists/Playlist keep theirs.