The real problem was never the font or the shadows — it was the design LANGUAGE.
Floating white cards on a grey-blue ground is the generic admin-template look,
and no restyle escapes it. This ports the approved mockup: one canvas, sections
set off by hairlines and space, the activity feed as the hero.
- ONE CANVAS. The content ground is white; the sidebar is the only tinted
surface. Panels drop their border, radius and shadow and become plain
sections under their own headings.
- The metric strips (lead + overview) stop being caged tiles and become an
inline stat row between two hairlines — money at display size, the rest
quieter.
- The stage rail loses its card and becomes a slim inline stepper.
- The property rail flattens: Customer / Vehicle / Documents are hairline-
divided groups aligned to the edge, headings at label size — it is
reference, and should not shout over the story.
- "Who holds it" drops from a filled pill to a coloured dot and a line of text.
- Bricolage is gone. Display and body are both Zurich Sans, the brand face;
headings and figures lean on weight and tracking, not a second family. The
palette is the ZK blues throughout.
Same data, same functionality — only the surface. Revertible in one push.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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