Symptom

Nightly UX audit (typography theme) flagged three consistency violations: (1) RGB channel label text in the Color Trigger editor rendered in saturated red/green/blue against the dark surface — literal hex values not from the color scheme. (2) “Configure: …” description text inside executor/trigger preview cards rendered in italic, a style not defined in DarkBlueGrayTypography. (3) Logic Gate truth table column headers appeared at FontWeight.Bold against normal-weight data rows, with no corresponding named typography role.

Root cause

Three separate inline overrides each bypassed the Material3 token system:

• EditColorTrigger.kt: three Text label calls carried an explicit color = Color(0xFF...) override matching the slider track color. The slider track color is intentionally literal (color picker must show the hue), but the label text carries no semantic color need — it is purely typographic.
• NodeChip.kt PromptSubtitle and EditCalc.kt FormulaDisplay: both used .copy(fontStyle = FontStyle.Italic) on a bodySmall/bodyMedium style. Italic is not a named role in DarkBlueGrayTypography; it was added inline to signal “secondary” status even though bodySmall with its baked-in onSurfaceVariant color already provides that subordination.
• EditLogicGate.kt TruthTableColumn: the header cell used labelSmall.copy(fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold). The selected-column background highlight provides the hierarchy signal; FontWeight.Bold was redundant and unrooted in the type scale.

Fix

• EditColorTrigger.kt: removed color parameter from the three channel label Text calls; changed style from labelMedium to labelSmall (static informational labels for a slider warrant helper-text scale). Slider track colors are unchanged.
• NodeChip.kt: removed .copy(fontStyle = FontStyle.Italic) from PromptSubtitle; bodySmall unmodified provides the same visual subordination via color.
• EditCalc.kt: removed .copy(fontStyle = FontStyle.Italic) from the empty-state label in FormulaDisplay; also aligned to bodySmall (was bodyMedium).
• EditLogicGate.kt: changed truth table header style from labelSmall.copy(fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold) to labelMedium (12sp, no weight override). The size step over data rows’ labelSmall (11sp) and the selected-column background together carry the hierarchy.

Prevention

• Never add a color = Color(...) literal to a typographic Text unless the color is semantically meaningful to the content (e.g., a status indicator). Static label text should inherit from MaterialTheme.colorScheme or the typography role’s baked-in color.
• Never use .copy(fontStyle = FontStyle.Italic) inline. If italic is editorially needed, define a named style in KrillTheme.kt (e.g., bodySmallItalic) and reference it by name.
• Never use .copy(fontWeight = ...) inline on a typography role. If a different weight is needed, define or identify a named role in the type scale (labelMedium is already heavier than labelSmall at the same size family).
• When a new visual emphasis is needed on Text, check MaterialTheme.typography first. If no existing role fits, raise it in the openspec proposal — don’t patch it inline.