The previous version used solid neon-green / neon-cyan blocks for
the "Live Wire" / "On Calendar" labels which read as too aggressive
against the otherwise dark-navy site. Replaced with a real news-wire
look:
- Pulse-dot indicator (animated breathing dot) + small-caps mono
label on the left, separated from the feed by a thin rule.
- Item codes (SONY / MTRX / NAB) become small bordered chips with
subtle neon background tint instead of bare colored text.
- Timestamps are mid-gray monospace; titles are clean Inter at
13px with slight letter-spacing.
- Top + bottom of each bar get a hairline gradient (neon→cyan
on row 1, dimmer cyan-only between rows) instead of a hard
border.
- Items are separated by faint vertical hairlines, padded
consistently.
- Marquee slowed slightly (110s / 170s) so titles are legible.
Same data sources (news + events), same scroll directions, just
better visual integration with the rest of the dark-navy site.
Row 1 (Live Wire, scrolls →): most recent imported + AI-rewritten
articles, neon-green label, monospaced [HH:MM] [SOURCE_CODE] prefix.
Row 2 (On Calendar, scrolls ←, slower): upcoming events from
bb.events (confirmed/tentative, start_date >= today), neon-cyan
label, [Mon DD] [SHORT_NAME] prefix.
Defensive: each query is in its own try/catch so a partial failure
renders an empty row rather than crashing the page — that was the
silent build crash that took down the prior DoubleTicker incarnation.
If BOTH queries return zero rows we render nothing instead of two
blank bars.
CSS tokens added to redesign-tokens.css:
- bb-marquee--reverse + bb-marquee--slow modifiers
- .bb-neon-bar / .bb-neon-label / .bb-neon-time / .bb-neon-code
(scoped class names so this is the ONLY place on the site that
uses the neon palette — rest of the site keeps dark-navy + blue)
User cancelled the wholesale neon redesign; only the dual-ticker
keeps the neon green/cyan styling.
Replace the four accent-family hex codes site-wide with the teal palette
(keeps the dark theme; only swaps the accent family, not the dark base):
#3b82f6 (accent primary CTA) → #5B7C8D (teal) [839×]
#2563eb (accent-dark / hover) → #4A6473 (darker teal) [44×]
#60a5fa (info link, lighter) → #8FB0C3 (mid teal) [68×]
#1e3a5f (accent-muted bg) → #2F4F5F (navy) [44×]
tailwind.config.js tokens updated to match (accent/accent-dark/accent-muted).
Sweep also covers tailwind.css. 108 files touched. The dark base (#0d0d0d,
#111, #161616, #1a1a1a etc.) is intentionally untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Ryan 2026-05-15:
- Removed Vector pass footer (no audience value)
- Removed PHASE 6b comment
- Removed corner brackets + monitoring subtitle + rank prefix
- Top 5 entities now show as Sony +12 / Riedel +8 — entity name
serif + count mono, right-aligned
- Background #F5EFEB (beige; #F5EFFEB had 7 hex chars, interpreted as
#F5EFEB) via new --color-trends-bg token
- Text #2F4F5B (navy) via new --color-trends-text token
- Tokens added to redesign-tokens.css palette section
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
