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Aligns the Mosaic color tokens with the Figma design system: adds the base/gray/* scale and restructures the semantic tokens into Figma's foreground, background, border, brand, and status groups.

Adds --cl-color-neutral (black on light, white on dark) and public --cl-color-<name>-alpha-100|200|300 tokens for neutral, negative, positive, and warning: 6, 8, and 12 percent of the matching solid color over transparent. Every hover, pressed, resting, and focus wash in button, badge, menu, item, avatar, banner, input, and OTP now reads from those tokens instead of an inline color-mix, so they composite the same on any backdrop and retint when the solid color is overridden. Icon frame's filled treatment reads --cl-color-background-subtle.

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Mosaic now defines gray and neutral-alpha token groups and expands semantic color tokens for brand, foreground, background, border, and status states. Components replace legacy primary, card, faded, and inline color-mix values with shared tokens. Stories, architecture references, StyleX guidance, and styling examples use the updated token names. A patch changeset was added.

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This migration may break existing consumer color overrides, reduce light-mode text contrast, and mislead developers about banner styling. These issues should be resolved before merging.

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In @.changeset/mosaic-gray-scale.md:
- Around line 1-2: Update the changeset frontmatter to declare a semver release
for the `@clerk/ui` package, and add a concise summary describing the change so
Changesets versions and publishes the package.

In `@packages/swingset/src/stories/banner.mdx`:
- Line 62: Update the neutral color guidance in the banner documentation to
describe its fill as the 4% neutralAlpha wash derived from --cl-color-neutral,
replacing the incorrect --cl-color-foreground mix description; keep the existing
border-token guidance unchanged.

In `@packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/button/button.styles.ts`:
- Around line 16-19: Shorten the multi-line token-mapping comment in
packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/button/button.styles.ts lines 16-19 to one
terse rationale, or remove it if the token names are self-explanatory; likewise
shorten or remove the badge color explanation in
packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/badge/badge.styles.ts line 13. Preserve the
styling implementation unchanged.

In `@packages/ui/src/mosaic/tokens.stylex.ts`:
- Line 57: Update the token definition near --cl-color-brand to preserve
--cl-color-primary as a deprecated compatibility alias, ensuring existing
overrides continue to affect components that consume the brand token. Retain
equivalent aliases for the other removed public primary tokens, following the
existing token alias conventions.
- Line 68: Update the positive and warning foreground token values in the stylex
token definitions to use a dark color that achieves at least 4.5:1 contrast
against their corresponding fills in both light and dark schemes, replacing the
current white foregrounds while preserving the existing token names and scheme
structure.

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Comment thread .changeset/mosaic-gray-scale.md
| `Banner.Description` | `neutral` \| `warning` \| `negative` |

The fill is a 4% mix of the color's token rather than its `-faded` surface, so a banner tints whatever it sits on instead of painting over it, and it inverts with the token in dark mode. Retheme a color by overriding the token it reads — `--cl-color-negative`, `--cl-color-warning`, or `--cl-color-neutral` (plus `--cl-color-border`, which draws the neutral hairline) — and the fill, border, icon, and copy all move together.
Warning and negative paint the color's `-subtle` surface inside its `-border` hairline and use the saturated token for the icon and copy, so retheme one by overriding `--cl-color-negative-subtle`, `--cl-color-negative-border`, and `--cl-color-negative` (or the `warning` equivalents). Neutral has no subtle surface of its own: its fill is a 4% mix of `--cl-color-foreground` over whatever it sits on, and `--cl-color-border` draws its hairline.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the neutral wash with the correct token source.

The new neutralAlpha scale is derived from --cl-color-neutral, which uses black in light mode and white in dark mode. This paragraph instead describes the neutral fill as a mix of --cl-color-foreground. Consumers following this guidance can produce a different wash and contrast result.

Describe the fill as the 4% neutralAlpha wash derived from --cl-color-neutral.

Proposed documentation fix
-Warning and negative paint the color's `-subtle` surface inside its `-border` hairline and use the saturated token for the icon and copy, so retheme one by overriding `--cl-color-negative-subtle`, `--cl-color-negative-border`, and `--cl-color-negative` (or the `warning` equivalents). Neutral has no subtle surface of its own: its fill is a 4% mix of `--cl-color-foreground` over whatever it sits on, and `--cl-color-border` draws its hairline.
+Warning and negative paint the color's `-subtle` surface inside its `-border` hairline and use the saturated token for the icon and copy, so retheme one by overriding `--cl-color-negative-subtle`, `--cl-color-negative-border`, and `--cl-color-negative` (or the `warning` equivalents). Neutral has no subtle surface of its own: its fill is the 4% `neutralAlpha` wash derived from `--cl-color-neutral`, and `--cl-color-border` draws its hairline.
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Warning and negative paint the color's `-subtle` surface inside its `-border` hairline and use the saturated token for the icon and copy, so retheme one by overriding `--cl-color-negative-subtle`, `--cl-color-negative-border`, and `--cl-color-negative` (or the `warning` equivalents). Neutral has no subtle surface of its own: its fill is a 4% mix of `--cl-color-foreground` over whatever it sits on, and `--cl-color-border` draws its hairline.
Warning and negative paint the color's `-subtle` surface inside its `-border` hairline and use the saturated token for the icon and copy, so retheme one by overriding `--cl-color-negative-subtle`, `--cl-color-negative-border`, and `--cl-color-negative` (or the `warning` equivalents). Neutral has no subtle surface of its own: its fill is the 4% `neutralAlpha` wash derived from `--cl-color-neutral`, and `--cl-color-border` draws its hairline.
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In `@packages/swingset/src/stories/banner.mdx` at line 62, Update the neutral
color guidance in the banner documentation to describe its fill as the 4%
neutralAlpha wash derived from --cl-color-neutral, replacing the incorrect
--cl-color-foreground mix description; keep the existing border-token guidance
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this correct? where are we doing mix(--cl-color-foreground, bg_color, 4%) ?

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

ast-grep outline packages/ui/src/mosaic/tokens.stylex.ts --items all
ast-grep outline packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/banner/banner.styles.ts --items all

printf '\n--- neutralAlpha and color token definitions ---\n'
rg -n -C 12 -- '--cl-color-neutral|neutralAlpha|foreground:' packages/ui/src/mosaic/tokens.stylex.ts

printf '\n--- Banner neutral styles and imports ---\n'
rg -n -C 12 -- 'neutral|neutralAlpha|colorMix|backgroundColor' packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/banner/banner.styles.ts

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@maxyinger, the implementation does not mix --cl-color-foreground.

packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/banner/banner.styles.ts Line 48 uses neutralAlpha['4'].

packages/ui/src/mosaic/tokens.stylex.ts Line 90 defines it as:

color-mix(in oklab, var(--cl-color-neutral) 4%, transparent)

The transparent result composites over the banner’s existing background. It is therefore a 4% neutral wash, not a 4% foreground wash. The documentation should reference neutralAlpha and --cl-color-neutral, as the original finding states.

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looks good. curious to test customizing it out on a more saturated theme

| `Banner.Description` | `neutral` \| `warning` \| `negative` |

The fill is a 4% mix of the color's token rather than its `-faded` surface, so a banner tints whatever it sits on instead of painting over it, and it inverts with the token in dark mode. Retheme a color by overriding the token it reads — `--cl-color-negative`, `--cl-color-warning`, or `--cl-color-neutral` (plus `--cl-color-border`, which draws the neutral hairline) — and the fill, border, icon, and copy all move together.
Warning and negative paint the color's `-subtle` surface inside its `-border` hairline and use the saturated token for the icon and copy, so retheme one by overriding `--cl-color-negative-subtle`, `--cl-color-negative-border`, and `--cl-color-negative` (or the `warning` equivalents). Neutral has no subtle surface of its own: its fill is a 4% mix of `--cl-color-foreground` over whatever it sits on, and `--cl-color-border` draws its hairline.

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this correct? where are we doing mix(--cl-color-foreground, bg_color, 4%) ?

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