Four tones cannot keep a twenty-stop trip's legs apart, which is most of
the point of colour-coding one. A contribution can now carry `#rrggbb`
alongside `tone`, per region or as a shorthand.
The split of control is: the plugin picks the hue, the host picks the
weight. A colour rides the same per-theme, per-region alphas as a tone,
and its OKLCH lightness is clamped into a per-theme band first, so no
contribution can hand a user a day card they can't read. The band
brackets the built-in tones rather than tightening around them, so an
ordinary colour passes through untouched and a hex equal to a tone
renders exactly like that tone. Hue and chroma are never touched - it
bounds a colour, it doesn't boost one, so a near-white grey still lands
as a faint tint.
Only `#rrggbb` survives normalization, and that is a security boundary
rather than tidying: the value ends up inside a `color-mix()` in an
inline `background`, a shorthand that takes a layer list, so a string
closing the paren early could append a `url(...)` and beacon everyone
viewing the trip.
A region gets exactly one paint instruction - what it names beats the
shorthand, a colour beats a tone at the same level - so the client never
has a tie to break. A region naming a colour the host can't use degrades
to `default` like a bogus tone already did.
Lets a plugin colour-code days in the Plan sidebar. trip-segments can
already announce "Kanazawa begins" in the day plan, but it can't make
day 12 look like it belongs to Kanazawa.
dayScheduleProvider can't cover this: it renders a fixed row, and it's
capped at 60 items per provider, so one item per day would tint the
first 60 days of a six-month trip and silently stop. This hook is
bounded by day count instead.
GET /api/day-tints/:tripId returns per-day tones for three regions of a
day card - the number badge (also the mobile day chip), the header row,
and the expanded activity list. `tone` is a shorthand filling every
region a contribution doesn't name; unnamed regions render as they do
today. Tones only, never hex, so the host can pick the alpha per theme
and per region.
One contribution per day, resolved whole: first entry wins within a
provider, first granted provider wins across plugins.
Renzo Beux