Niveus: a tactile, adaptive interface language

Bevelled controls with light falling across them, fields as wells, solid
windows, and glass kept for the chrome that floats over everything else.
Warm graphite in dark, soft paper in light, one brand color driving both.
Ships its own fonts (Instrument Sans, JetBrains Mono; OFL).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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/* ==========================================================================
Niveus — Button
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
.nv-button secondary by default — a raised surface
.nv-button--primary the single affirmative action in a view
.nv-button--ghost low-emphasis, no material until hovered
.nv-button--danger destructive, and only when it is
.nv-button--frosted for use over imagery or frosted chrome
.nv-button--sm | --lg 36px by default
.nv-button--icon square, for a lone icon (needs a label)
.nv-button--block fills its container
A button is a key: a bevelled face with light falling across it, a contact
line where it meets the surface, and a press that sinks it into an inset.
Every variant is defined purely by reassigning the private --_* properties
below. Interaction — the lift on hover, the sink on press, the focus ring —
lives once in the base rule, so a new variant can never drift from the way
the rest of the system responds to a pointer.
========================================================================== */
.nv-button {
/* Variant surface, overridden per modifier. */
--_bg: var(--nv-color-surface-elevated);
--_bg-hover: var(--nv-color-surface-hover);
--_bg-active: var(--nv-color-surface-active);
--_fg: var(--nv-color-text-primary);
--_border: var(--nv-color-border);
--_sheen: var(--nv-sheen-raised);
--_shadow: var(--nv-bevel), var(--nv-outline), var(--nv-elevation-2);
--_shadow-hover: var(--nv-bevel), var(--nv-outline), var(--nv-elevation-3);
--_shadow-active: var(--nv-elevation-inset-sm), var(--nv-outline);
/* Size, overridden per size modifier. */
--_height: var(--nv-control-height-md);
--_padding: var(--nv-control-padding-md);
--_gap: var(--nv-control-gap-md);
--_font-size: var(--nv-font-size-sm);
--_radius: var(--nv-radius-md);
position: relative;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
gap: var(--_gap);
block-size: var(--_height);
padding-inline: var(--_padding);
border: var(--nv-border-width) solid var(--_border);
border-radius: var(--_radius);
background-color: var(--_bg);
background-image: var(--_sheen);
color: var(--_fg);
box-shadow: var(--_shadow);
font-family: var(--nv-font-family-sans);
font-size: var(--_font-size);
font-weight: var(--nv-font-weight-medium);
line-height: var(--nv-line-height-snug);
letter-spacing: var(--nv-letter-spacing-normal);
white-space: nowrap;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
user-select: none;
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;
transition: var(--nv-transition-control);
}
/* A control smaller than the minimum target still gets a full-size hit area:
the pseudo-element grows outward without changing the visual size. */
.nv-button::after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
inset-block-start: 50%;
inset-inline-start: 50%;
translate: -50% -50%;
inline-size: max(100%, var(--nv-target-min));
block-size: max(100%, var(--nv-target-min));
}
@media (hover: hover) {
.nv-button:hover:not(:disabled, [aria-disabled="true"]) {
background-color: var(--_bg-hover);
box-shadow: var(--_shadow-hover);
translate: 0 var(--nv-lift-hover);
}
}
/* Pressed, the face is pushed below the light: the sheen goes and the inset
takes over. */
.nv-button:active:not(:disabled, [aria-disabled="true"]) {
background-color: var(--_bg-active);
background-image: none;
box-shadow: var(--_shadow-active);
translate: 0 var(--nv-press-depth);
transition-duration: var(--nv-duration-instant);
}
.nv-button:focus-visible {
outline: none;
box-shadow: var(--_shadow), var(--nv-focus-ring);
}
.nv-button:disabled,
.nv-button[aria-disabled="true"] {
background-color: var(--nv-color-surface-inset);
background-image: none;
color: var(--nv-color-text-disabled);
border-color: var(--nv-color-border-subtle);
box-shadow: none;
translate: none;
cursor: not-allowed;
}
/* --- Variants --------------------------------------------------------------- */
.nv-button--primary {
--_bg: var(--nv-color-accent);
--_bg-hover: var(--nv-color-accent-hover);
--_bg-active: var(--nv-color-accent-active);
--_fg: var(--nv-color-on-accent);
--_border: transparent;
--_sheen: var(--nv-sheen-filled);
font-weight: var(--nv-font-weight-semibold);
}
.nv-button--danger {
--_bg: var(--nv-color-danger);
--_bg-hover: var(--nv-color-danger-hover);
--_bg-active: var(--nv-color-danger-active);
--_fg: var(--nv-color-on-danger);
--_border: transparent;
--_sheen: var(--nv-sheen-filled);
--nv-color-focus-ring: var(--nv-color-danger-border);
font-weight: var(--nv-font-weight-semibold);
}
.nv-button--ghost {
--_bg: transparent;
--_bg-hover: var(--nv-color-surface-hover);
--_bg-active: var(--nv-color-surface-active);
--_fg: var(--nv-color-text-secondary);
--_border: transparent;
--_sheen: none;
--_shadow: none;
--_shadow-hover: none;
--_shadow-active: var(--nv-elevation-inset-sm);
}
@media (hover: hover) {
.nv-button--ghost:hover:not(:disabled, [aria-disabled="true"]) {
color: var(--nv-color-text-primary);
translate: none; /* nothing to lift — a ghost has no material to raise */
}
}
.nv-button--subtle {
--_bg: var(--nv-color-accent-subtle);
--_bg-hover: var(--nv-color-accent-subtle-hover);
--_bg-active: var(--nv-color-accent-subtle-hover);
--_fg: var(--nv-color-accent-text);
--_border: var(--nv-color-accent-border);
--_sheen: none;
--_shadow: none;
--_shadow-hover: var(--nv-elevation-1);
}
.nv-button--frosted {
--_bg: var(--nv-material-glass-bg);
--_bg-hover: var(--nv-material-frosted-bg);
--_bg-active: var(--nv-material-frosted-bg);
--_border: var(--nv-material-glass-border);
--_sheen: none;
backdrop-filter: var(--nv-backdrop-glass);
-webkit-backdrop-filter: var(--nv-backdrop-glass);
}
/* --- Sizes ------------------------------------------------------------------- */
.nv-button--sm {
--_height: var(--nv-control-height-sm);
--_padding: var(--nv-control-padding-sm);
--_gap: var(--nv-control-gap-sm);
--_font-size: var(--nv-font-size-xs);
--_radius: var(--nv-radius-sm);
}
.nv-button--lg {
--_height: var(--nv-control-height-lg);
--_padding: var(--nv-control-padding-lg);
--_gap: var(--nv-control-gap-lg);
--_font-size: var(--nv-font-size-md);
}
.nv-button--icon {
--_padding: 0;
inline-size: var(--_height);
}
.nv-button--pill {
--_radius: var(--nv-radius-full);
}
.nv-button--block {
display: flex;
inline-size: 100%;
}
/* --- Floating ------------------------------------------------------------------
A control that sits *over* content rather than in the flow: a carousel arrow,
a floating action. Two things change.
It is already off the surface, so there is nothing to lift it from — it grows
instead. And it is almost always positioned with `translate`, which the hover
lift would overwrite, throwing the button half its own height down the page
the moment a pointer touched it. --nv-button-offset carries that positioning
through every state. */
.nv-button--float {
--_shadow: var(--nv-bevel), var(--nv-outline), var(--nv-elevation-3);
--_shadow-hover: var(--nv-bevel), var(--nv-outline), var(--nv-elevation-4);
--_shadow-active: var(--nv-bevel), var(--nv-outline), var(--nv-elevation-2);
translate: var(--nv-button-offset, 0 0);
}
@media (hover: hover) {
.nv-button--float:hover:not(:disabled, [aria-disabled="true"]) {
translate: var(--nv-button-offset, 0 0);
scale: 1.06;
}
}
.nv-button--float:active:not(:disabled, [aria-disabled="true"]) {
translate: var(--nv-button-offset, 0 0);
scale: 0.97;
}
/* --- Parts --------------------------------------------------------------------- */
.nv-button__icon {
inline-size: 1em;
block-size: 1em;
font-size: 1.15em;
opacity: 0.9;
}
/* Busy: the label stays in place to keep the button from resizing mid-action,
and the spinner replaces it. */
.nv-button[aria-busy="true"] {
color: transparent;
pointer-events: none;
}
.nv-button[aria-busy="true"]::before {
content: "";
position: absolute;
inline-size: 1em;
block-size: 1em;
border: 2px solid var(--_fg);
border-block-start-color: transparent;
border-radius: var(--nv-radius-full);
animation: nv-spin var(--nv-duration-slower) var(--nv-ease-linear) infinite;
}
@keyframes nv-spin {
to { rotate: 1turn; }
}
/* --- Group ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Segmented controls: buttons share an edge, so only the outer corners round
and the shared border is not drawn twice. */
.nv-button-group {
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
}
.nv-button-group > .nv-button:not(:first-child) {
border-start-start-radius: 0;
border-end-start-radius: 0;
margin-inline-start: calc(var(--nv-border-width) * -1);
}
.nv-button-group > .nv-button:not(:last-child) {
border-start-end-radius: 0;
border-end-end-radius: 0;
}
.nv-button-group > .nv-button:hover,
.nv-button-group > .nv-button:focus-visible {
z-index: 1;
translate: none;
}