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Controls came off the neutral ladder and stopped shouting. --border-control was --neutral-500: a 1px #737373 box around every field, four times heavier than the hairline beside it, which is what made a form read as a debug overlay rather than a surface. It is now rgb(255 255 255 / .15) — the reference's own --input-border — and --border-focus (.22) and --input follow it onto the alpha ladder, so the whole control surface is one quiet system. --border-selected (.30) names the rung that was missing: the CHOSEN thing. The 3:1 gate that forced the grey is gone from --border-control and kept on --ring, which is the only boundary that earns it. A resting edge is an affordance you can hunt for; a focus ring is a position you navigate by. On the alpha ladder --ring still clears the floor (3.67:1 dark, 3.85:1 light) BECAUSE it composites — on a lifted surface the ring lifts with it, which a fixed grey cannot do. Then the part that was actually missing: light. You cannot cast a shadow onto black, so elevation here is an edge, an inset top HIGHLIGHT and a wide dark drop, composed at the use site. The highlight is the piece that turns a coloured rectangle into a surface. --bloom is where "alive" comes from in a brand with no hue, --sheen-edge dissolves a top hairline before it reaches either corner, and --ease-emphasis lands a panel decided rather than drifting. Surfaces were not surfaces. --surface-card composited to #101010 on a #0a0a0a page — six levels above it — so three cards read as one flat field with rules across it; --surface-overlay was the page at 95% of the page, so nothing floated. Recut from #262626 they land on 14/18/1f, and a panel is a panel. Every state now moves. --secondary-hover resolved to its own resting value, --primary-hover dropped 16% and read as the button going disabled under the cursor, an unfilled button's hover stepped its edge .15 -> .16 and a hovered field did the same — states nobody could see, which is dead code with a stylesheet around it. --destructive was #666666, indistinguishable from a disabled control; it is --state-error now, because "delete everything" and "you cannot click this" must not be the same colour, and the invalid-field state was already spending that token. Verified by looking: the kit rendered in Chromium at 390/768/1280 in both themes, no overflow, tap targets and field sizes hold, and :focus-visible confirmed from a real Tab rather than a programmatic focus(). Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>