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# Kitty and Neovim
Both were left alone through the earlier phases, because this is where the
readability problem that shaped the whole design actually lived: wallpaper
derived colours were being written into kitty's sixteen ANSI slots, and nothing
in a wallpaper guarantees that `color4` stays legible against `color0`.
They are now on Catppuccin Macchiato, which is safe for the opposite reason:
the palette is hand tuned, so the ANSI slots have deliberate relationships
rather than accidental ones.
## What changed
- `~/.config/kitty/current-theme.conf` was a symlink into `~/.cache/wal/`. It
is now a real file holding the upstream `catppuccin/kitty` macchiato theme.
- `~/bin/wal.sh` no longer recreates that symlink. It did so on every wallpaper
change, which would have silently reverted the theme.
- Neovim used `colorscheme pywal`, reading the same pywal output. It now uses
the `catppuccin/nvim` plugin at the macchiato flavour.
- vim-airline was on `base16_dracula`, matching nothing. It is now `base16`,
which derives its colours from the active colorscheme. There is no Catppuccin
theme in vim-airline-themes, and adding a second status line plugin was not
worth it.
## Contrast, measured
Against each theme's own background, every ANSI slot clears 4.5:1 in both the
old preset and Macchiato, except `color0`, which is the near background "black"
slot in both and is meant to be low.
The one real regression is `color8`, the bright black slot many colourschemes
use for comments: 3.83:1 before, 2.38:1 now. It does not bite here because the
Catppuccin neovim plugin sets its own comment colour instead of using ANSI 8,
which was verified on screen. It would matter for a terminal program that
insists on ANSI 8 for dim text.
Foreground on background drops from 21:1 (pure white on pure black) to 9.92:1.
Both are well clear of the threshold; Macchiato is softer by design.
## Font
Kitty now uses `Inconsolata Nerd Font Mono`, matching the monospace font used
everywhere else. The setting lives inside the `BEGIN_KITTY_FONTS` block, which
is managed by kitty's own font kitten; a stale commented-out `font_family` line
above it was removed at the same time, since it looked authoritative but did
nothing.
Size is unchanged at 13.0. Inconsolata is a narrower face than CommitMono, so
it reads slightly smaller at the same nominal size; waybar needed a 2px bump
for the same reason.
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