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"assumed": "every theme-dependent value, including the tint's strength and the grain's opacity, could be written with `light-dark()`, like the colours.",
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"evidence": "duet-sidebar.css lines 75–76 and 84; the preview screenshots before and after in the build notes.",
"fix": "only colours go through `light-dark()`. The tint's strength per theme is written into the colour itself with `color-mix()`, and the grain is one plain number.",
"happened": "in the Next.js app it all worked, because the CSS pipeline Next.js uses rewrote `light-dark()` into variables, whatever was inside. Natively, `light-dark()` accepts colours only, so in UpFork's live preview, built without that step, those declarations were invalid and dropped: the grain showed at full strength and the dock didn't match the app.",
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"publishedAt": "2026-10-26T12:21:05.702Z",
"site": "https://upfork.dev",
"title": "light-dark() takes colours only: numbers inside it worked in Next.js through a polyfill and broke elsewhere",
"type": "lesson-version",
"url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-R162",
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